Harris Defends Reapportionment Against One Man One Vote
Pine Bluff Commercial notes that Representative Harris of Arkansas Fourth District favors districting to represent acres and industries rather than individuals. He criticizes the Supreme Court ruling and argues geographic and economic segments deserve representation, contrasting people with cattle and oil refineries.
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On Harris
Little Orphan Annie
Mr. Harris
Supreme Court
Harris
Fourth District
High Court
Pine Bluff
Business Women in U S Now Over Third of Labor Force
The article notes women now comprise over one third of the labor force with a projected 25 percent rise by 1970. It highlights the Hope Arkansas Business and Professional Women’s Club founded in 1924, its officers, and the national scope of the movement with 170,000 members in 3,600 clubs. It also covers government appointments for women, the triple role of wife mother career, and Equal Pay Law of 1963.
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National B & PW
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Hope
B & PW
Etta Champlain
Mary Burgess
Texarkana
Beryl Henry
Benton
Hope B & PW Club
Hazel Prichard
Norma Jean Delaney
Velora Bright
Margie Vieckers
Opal Hervey
Dora Fenwick
Mable Ward
Woman
Wome
Kennedy
National Federation of B & PW Clubs
India Opens Doors to Capitalists Amid Socialism Shift
India’s finance minister T. T. Krishna Machari praised private capital in Parliament as India seeks faster growth. He urged using private foreign investment to boost tech skills and enterprise while maintaining socialist aims. Shastri signaled scope for foreign investors to hold majority control in some financed enterprises, a first.
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New Dealh
India
T. T. Krishnamachari
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Weather Outlook Cloudy With Cool Temperatures
The forecast calls for cloudy skies and cool conditions today and tonight with a possibility of rain.
Dirksen Urges Firm Stand Against Soviet Threats
Senate GOP leader Everett Dirksen urged a firm stance against the Soviet Union saying the U S has delayed too long in retreat. He spoke on a TV radio program with Senator Miller and followed Fulbright’s criticism of a no concession approach. Fulbright defended cautious diplomacy noting past Soviet setbacks and suggesting some U S gains in the cold war.
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Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
United States
Russia
Dirksen
Jack Miller
Rtowa
Midwest
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Soviet Union
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Arkansas
House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Russa
Iran
Berlin
Cuba
Quinn finally becomes American in Oscar nomination
Anthony Quinn, the only American nominee for best actor, says the honor proves his acceptance as an American. He explains his mother was Mexican and father Irish, and recalls his struggle to obtain American citizenship before embracing life in the United States.
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Raymond E. Palmer
London
Anthony Quinn
Quinn
Zorb
Peter Sellers
Rex Harrison
Richard Burton
Peter O'Toole
United States
Los Angeles
Europe
Amerieca
Pine Bluff Girl Drowns in Bayou Brump's Bayou
Elsie Dilsworth, 11, of Pine Bluff was found drowned in Brump's Bayou near Pine Bluff Arkansas. Police Chief Norman Young said she had been missing since Sunday and was the daughter of Mrs Elsie Dilsworth.
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Associated Press
Pine Bluff
Ark
Elsie Dilsworth
Brump’s Bayou
Norman Young
Soldiers to Hike 150 Miles Across Ice to Soviet Border
Twelve soldiers and a dog team from the U S Army intelligence unit Arctic Lemming will trek 150 miles across treeless terrain a frozen river and the Bering Strait ice to a point 35 miles from Soviet soil. They fly to Taylor Alaska then begin the survival hike toward Big Diomede near Wales on Seward Peninsula.
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Alaska
Bering Strait
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Signal Corps
Taylor
Seward Peninsula
Lage
Wales
Big Diomede
Around Clock Picketing of White House
Civil rights demonstrators maintained around the clock picketing of the White House in Washington in support of stronger federal action to register Black voters in Selma Alabama. Police clashed with protesters as 36 were jailed for disorderly conduct. up to 400 pickets joined the march overnight. President Johnson invited Alabama Governor George Wallace to a White House conference, then greeted newsmen before returning to his office.
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Johnson
White House
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Pennsylvania Ave
Executive Mansion
Selma
Ala
Executive Office
Laurance S. Rockefeller
New Rules Require Broader Barbering Training
Kansas House passed a bill by 110 to 6 to tighten barbering course requirements. The measure mandates training on cutting hair for various racial and ethnic groups.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas House
Minister Beaten at Selma Dies
The Rev. James J. Reed, a white Boston minister in Selma for civil rights work, died in University Hospital after a beating by four white men. President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey expressed sympathy. four suspects were jailed on murder charges, later released on bond. Reed, 38, had faced brain surgery and coma since the attack, and his death sparks national mourning and statements from church and civil rights leaders.
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Birmingham
Ala
Boston
Alabama
James J. Reed
United States
University Hospital
Johnson
GOPs Press for Federal Action on Negro Voting Rights in Alabama
Washington AP report says Republican leaders push to translate calls into federal voting rights legislation ahead of the 1966 elections. A task force on human rights will be formed, with Dirksen and Ford briefing on drafts and a GOP bill expected soon. Nixon argues action, not rhetoric, will reshape the party image.
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New Republican Coordinating Committee
National Committee
Johnson
Viet Nam
Cuba
Africa
Near East
Atlantic Alliance
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Dirksen
Nicholas Katzenbach
Ford
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Brancato Seeks Board OK for Wedding Gift to Daughter
State Senator Jasper M. Brancato asks Kansas City Board of Education for approval of a wedding gift to his daughter. The gift would be a package liquor department for the couple’s store near an elementary school, given to groom Joseph Canova.
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Kansas City, Mo
Jasper M. Brancato
Kansas City Board of Education
Joseph Canova
Brancato
Federal Judge Hears Pleas Of Rights Leaders
A federal judge in Montgomery hears civil rights leaders pleas to block interference with a Selma to Montgomery march. FBI agents testifying describe tear gas use as justified in public safety, while notes on the Marion protest include a fatal shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson. The hearing continues Monday before Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.
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Ala
FBI
Selma
Frank M. Johnson Jr
U.S. District Court
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Mobile
Montgomery
Burke
Barko
Asst
U.S. Atty
John Doar
Doar
Civil Rights Division
Justice Department
Barke
Paul Simpson
Marion
James G. Clark
Dallas County
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Resignations at Berkeley Protested
Berkeley protests rallied behind UC President Clark Kerr and acting chancellor Martin Meyerson after their resignations cited obscenity rallies on campus. Gov Brown linked the four letter word to the crisis, while Berkeley faculty and medical school groups urged Kerr and Meyerson to remain in office.
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Calif
University of California
Clark Kerr
Martin Meyerson
Kerr
Edmund G. Brown
Academic Senate
Meyerson
University
Medical School
San Francisco
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