Disaster Is California's Nick-name Disaster Is California's Nick-Name
Los Angeles residents faced a string of disasters from December storms to wind and mudslides. The Baldwin Hills Reservoir broke spilling 300 million gallons and causing $13 million in damage. In a separate windstorm 11,600 acres burned and 20 homes were destroyed. Amid the destruction, a week of drought persisted. The rain proved beneficial for some dry-farmed crops like barley and wheat.
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Los Angeles
California
Baldwin Hills
Mojave Desert
Glendale-Burbank
Ralph Johnson
14 Arkansas Counties Declared Flood Aid Eligible
President Johnson designated 14 Arkansas counties for federal flood aid totaling 250000 dollars to clear debris rebuild highways and repair public services. Names listed include Clay Con way Craighead Faulkner Fulton Independence Izard Pope Sharp St. Francis Stone Van Buren White and Woodruff. Governor Faubus had sought Madison Boone Marion and Baxter counties but were not approved.
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Washington
Johnson
Arkansas
Clay
Conway
Craighead
Faulkner
Fulton
Independence
Izard
Pope
Sharp
St. Francis
Stone
van Buren
White
Woodruff
Orval E. Faubus
Madison
Boone
Marion
Baxter
Denies Right to Convert U S Bases
Rep Arthur Winstead of Mississippi blasted Secretary McNamara for offering inactive bases to the Job Corps. He argued the Defense Secretary lacks statutory authority to transfer military facilities to another agency or to an unapproved program. Ft Chaffee near Fort Smith will be reduced to standby by summer 1965.
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Washington
Arthur Winstead
D - Miss
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Conress
Ft. Chaffee
Fort Smith
Winstead
House Armed Forces Committee
Coffee Time Flats Pecan Petal Tarts
Recipe for Coffee Time Flats Pecan Petal Tarts yields 12 muffins with pastry cups shaped from divided dough, a filling of brown sugar instant coffee egg butter vanilla and pecans, baked until set and topped with whipped cream.
Kennedy V2 Dollars Circulate Nationwide Coin Rollout
Washington AP Kennedy half dollars bearing John F. Kennedy’s likeness enter circulation today through the Treasury and banks nationwide. Twenty six million coins are ready with about 65 million more to coin before year’s end unless Congress changes the law. The 50 cent piece replaces the Benjamin Franklin half dollar minted from 1948 to last year. First coins were struck February 11 at Denver and Philadelphia mints under a Dec 30 law. The coin features Kennedy’s likeness on the obverse and an eagle with olive branch and arrows on the reverse.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Treasury
Congress
Denver
Philadelphia
Kennedy
Tough Talk Urges Poor Nations to Reform Economies
U S Undersecretary George Ball urged developing countries at a U N conference to shed fears of foreign capital, pursue private investment, and reorganize backward economies. He called for self help, regional groupings, and continued aid for long term projects while stressing full employment in the world economy.
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Lawrence Malkin
Geneva
United States
George Ball
U.N. Trade and Development Conference
GATT
Ball
Want More Chicken in Chicken Soup
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen urged the Agriculture Department to require chicken or turkey soup to contain at least 2 percent poultry on a ready to serve basis. They protested dehydrated soups often have less than 1 percent poultry, saying housewives should not have to search for meat.
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Washington
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
Afl-Cio Union
Agriculture Department
Integration Expands for Little Rock
The Little Rock School Board moved to integrate the remaining four grades amid protests in the rain. Pickets labeled the move tokenism and planned a class boycott for April 6, with four meetings to organize actions on March 26, 30 and April 3, 5.
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J. C. Tillman
Litle Rock
Little Rock
Wesley Chapel Church
Council On Community Affairs
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Clifford Waughs
Boston
Council
School Board
Vaughs
All-Out War Talk Bedevils Johnson and Khrushchev
AP analysis notes that both President Johnson and Premier Khrushchev publicly reject all-out war yet disagree on methods to prevent it. The exchange, from New Year into January 1964, sees proposals for peace, nuclear limits, and a shared belief that general war is now unthinkable, but no firm agreement on enforcement.
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James Marlow
Associated Press
Washington
Johnson
Khrushchev
Adlai B. Stevenson
United Nations
Soviet Union
State Department
Formosa
Red China
United States
Chiang Kai-shek
Stevenson
Princeton
John
Afl-Cio
Bizarre cafes shut as zoning targets Greenwich Village
In Manhattan Greenwich Village authorities ordered 11 coffeehouses and four open-front stores to discontinue operations for violating a new zoning rule aimed at curbing a honky tonk atmosphere. The four-block zone spans Macdougal West Third Sullivan and nearby streets. Absent are venues named Four Winds Club Bizarre Feenjon Feasts and others cited for the zoning breach.
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New York
The
Four Winds
Feenjon
Greenwich Village
City Buildings Department
Macdougal
West Third
Sullivan
Korean Students Rally at Park Mansion Protest
About 2,000 Han Yang University students gathered near President Chung Hee Park’s hillside residence to demand concessions in Tokyo talks. Troops used tear gas to block the crowd as helmeted soldiers confronted protesters, with injuries reported among a lieutenant and several soldiers.
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Seoul
Chung Hee Park
Japan
Tokyo
Park
Han
City zoning bans coffee houses in limited retail districts
Buildings Commissioner Harold Birds said the area is zoned for limited local retail use and coffee houses offering entertainment are not permitted in such districts. This closes another clash in the city’s ongoing dispute over coffee houses, which have drawn neighbor complaints.
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Bleecker
Harold ‘Birds
Defiant Students Plan Second Cuba Trip
SAN FRANCISCO AP Defiant students announced by the Student Committee for Travel to Cuba plan a second trip to Cuba in defiance of State Department regulations. The group vows to proceed despite official restrictions and renewed warnings from authorities.
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San Francisco
Claris
Cuba
State Department
Students pressure Park as protests spread across Korea
About 10 000 students marched on the capital and two representatives questioned Premier Koi Doo sun about Tokyo talks. Riot police blocked thousands near Park’s residence as Um Min yung escorted two students to see Lee Hurak, who promised a meeting with student leaders this week. Protests also took place in Pusan and Taegu demanding suspension of Tokyo talks.
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Park
Koi Doo-sun
Tokyo
Um Min - Yung
Lee Hurak
Lee
Pusan
Taegu
Korea
National Council of Agricultural Employers Formed
Washington AP A new organization named the National Council of Agricultural Employers is being formed to address farm labor shortages for harvesting cotton fruit vegetables and other crops. J B Kirklin of Pecos Texas chairs the National Farm Labor Users Committee which authorized the council's creation and headquarters in Washington. The formal inauguration is planned for a nationwide mid May meeting of farm workers.
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Washington
National Council of Agricultural Employers
National Farm Labor Users Committee
J. B. Kirklin
Pecos
Tex
San Francisco Students Consider Cuba Trip Funded by Federation
Chris Raisner a San Francisco State College senior and area committee chairman said the Cuban Federation of University Students offers to cover all expenses for about 500 Americans on a July trip. He noted roughly 40 San Francisco area students have signed up.
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Chris Raisner
San Francisco
Why Picket Prompts Negro Drive To Open Integrated Schools
A protest from Little Rock families declares that their children are excluded from integrated schooling benefits. The statement vows continued demonstrations until all schools are opened to their children. The school board says only two grades would auto integrate next term and no requests have been received from Negroes for other grades.
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Zens of
Little Rock
Neproes
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