Teachers seek contracts allowing civil disobedience
The American Federation of Teachers ends its Chicago convention with a bold demand for written contracts that defend teachers rights to nonviolent protest. The piece questions the practicality of a disobedience clause in school contracts and notes clergy parallel. Vienna plans fines for horn blowers as safety officials define horn use categories. Laurel Leaders Call reports Memphis police already enforce harsher horn penalties.
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American Federation of Teachers
Chicago
Virginian Pilot
Norfolk
Viena
Vienna
Emerai
Memphis
Toni
Laurel
Kindergarten Offered by Methodists
The Methodist Church offers its building for an interdenominational weekday kindergarten directed by Kathleen Broach with Evelyn Briant as assistant. Opening October 3, the program aims to develop physical, mental, social emotional traits and moral values aligning home and church, for four or five year olds by October 1. Surveyor 2 launch date set for Sept. 19 with aim of soft lunar landing near Center.
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The
Methodist Church
Second Street
Kathleen Broach
Evelyn Briant
Broach
Briant
Surveyor 2
Fulton Man Injured in Highway 67 Wreck
Lee Helton age 53 of Fulton was critically injured this morning when a Fulton Highway Department truck collided with a Coca Cola transport on Highway 67 about 12 miles west of Hope. He suffered a skull fracture a broken hip and possible internal injuries and was taken from Hope to a Little Rock hospital as state police investigate. Damascus Syria Taath Socialist government says it crushed an overthrow plot.
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Lee Helton
Fulton
Hope
Helton
Highway Department
Coca Cola Company
Herndon - Cornelius
Little Rock
Watermelon Grower Aubrey Goodwin Tops Yearly Weigh-ins
Near Rosston Aubrey Goodwin once again features in the big melon rankings with melons weighing up to 133 pounds, while a group of large watermelons includes a 117 pound giant. The grower is noted for regular top entries in the year’s heaviest melons.
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Aubrey Goodwin
Rosston
Goodwin
House Debates Interest Limit to Preserve Home Financing
Washington AP reports the House opens tug of war over interest limiting bills to curb high bank deposit rates. Democrats clash on Patman proposal setting a 40 percent ceiling on bank time deposits up to $100,000, with Treasury-backed alternative. Debate aims to sustain savings and loan funding for home building while inflation pressures persist.
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Edmond LE Breton Washington
House
Savings
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Banking Committee
Treasury
Patman
Verwoerd death cements apartheid policy in South Africa
South Africa's ruling National Party pledges unshakable determination to uphold Verwoerd's policies after his assassination. Parliament caucus meets in Cape Town to condole, with a funeral likely in Pretoria. Acting PM Theo van Donges contemplates successors including Vorster and Schoeman as future leaders.
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South Africa
Hendrik Verwoerd
Verwoerd
Cape Town
Radio South Africa
Pretoria
South African Press Association
Finance
Theophilus Donges
Donges
Transport
Ben Schoeman
House of Assembly
Justice
Balthazar Vorster
Vorster
States Lead Defense Contracts in Fiscal 1966
California leads with 5.8 billion in prime defense contracts, followed by New York at 2.8 billion and Texas at 2.29 billion in the year ended June 30. Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey and Indiana also surpassed 1 billion each amid a near ten billion rise from 1965.
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Bob Horton Washington
California
New York
Texas
Pentagon
Aerospace
District of Columbia
Defense Department
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Ohe
Massachusetts
Missouri
New Jersey
Indiana
Army Corps of Engineers
South Africa PM election still days away
AP News Digest reports no immediate decision on a new South Africa prime minister while police press their probe into Henrik Verswoerd's assassin. In Vietnam, U S pilots attack targets as Hue suffers injuries from a Viet Cong campaign turmoil. Congress fights civil rights bill as tax and inflation loom.
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South Africa
Henrik Verswoerd
Viet Nam
U.S
Hue
Riots in Atlanta After Car Theft Suspect Shot
Police kept a tight patrol in a predominantly Negro area near Atlanta's new stadium as about 500 residents rioted after a car theft suspect, Harold Louis Prather, was shot. At least 63 arrested and 15 injured as tear gas and shotguns were used. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. moved to quell the unrest. Also, in Manila, religious fanatic followers surrendered as government forces report over 1,000 surrendering after a weekend battle leaving six dead.
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Ben Chester
Atlanta
New Sports Stadium
Harold Louis Prather
Prather
Ivan Allen Jr
Allen
Manila
Philippine Constabulary
Victoriano Sihagan
God
Prisoners Fight at Cummins Prison Farm Strike Ends
Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas saw a major strike that prompted State Police to fire shots and tear gas. Superintendent C E Bishop said the unrest reached a point where things might have spiraled out of control. Two hundred and two inmates, 140 Black and 42 White, staged the work stoppage over grievances on hours food and guard treatment. Nine strikers were whipped on Monday morning and the rest returned to work with one white man in solitary confinement. Bishop pledged food quality improvements and said other complaints likely cannot be fully resolved.
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Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
E. Bishop
Cummins
Bishop
Orval Faubus
Rockefeller Aids Court Test Of School Guidelines
Rockefeller offers to help prepare and file a test case in the courts to challenge federal desegregation guidelines in Arkansas. He denounces the Office of Education and favors court interpretation of the law. Moderate campaign notes follow as Jim Johnson accuses Rockefeller of plagiarizing GOP planks and Rockefeller names Jack Pickens as finance director for a five county region. Mills links Viet Nam to any tax hike while weighing post election needs.
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Associated Press
Winthrop Rockefeller
U.S. Office of Education
Office of Education
Washington
Arkansas
Jim Johnson
Republican Party
Johnson
Gover
Highway Department
Arkansis
Rockeefeller
Jack Pickens
Little Rock
Orval Faubus
Pickens
Pulaski
Faulkner
Saline
Lesnoke
Prairie Counties
Pickens-Bond Construction Co
Viet Nam
Road Projects to Cost State 2.6 Million
A Kansas highway entry feature in Mammoth Spring will be resurfaced. Projects list seven mileage segments across ST. FRANCIS, ARKANSAS, FULTON, HOT SPRING, FAULKNER and SEARCY counties, including Arkansas 306, 130, 63, Interstate 30, Arkansas 107 and Arkansas 14.
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Arkansas
First Creek
Colt
Arkansas County
Almyra
Fulton County
Arkansas 63
Missouri State Line
Hot Spring County
Friendship
Faulkner County
Cadron Creek
Searcy County
Harriett East
Cargo Plane Forced Landing Near Manila Arkansas
A C-47 from Blytheville Air Force Base made a forced landing in a farm field three miles south of Manila Arkansas on Tuesday. Both occupants Captain John Ousley and Major R E George were hospitalized as a precaution though the aircraft sustained limited damage. The Air Force did not disclose a reason for the forced landing.
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Ark
Blytheville Air Force Base
Here
John Ousley
R. E. George
Air Force
Planes Hit Hanoi China Rail Lines in Viet Nam War
U S air and naval forces bombed the Hanoi to China rail corridors. Thunderchiefs struck the northwest line 102 miles from Hanoi and attacked the northeast line near the capital. Ground fighting slowed, while Viet Cong terrorism fears surfaced ahead of elections.
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South Viet Nam
Hanoi
China
U.S
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Air Force
U.S. Air Force
Navy
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North Viet Nam
Red River
Thunderchief
Intrepid
Vinh
Sawyer Wins Third Term in Nevada Nomination
Gov Grant Sawyer of Nevada won the Democratic renomination for a third term after a primary focused on gambling operations. He carried about five opponents with roughly 50 percent of the vote and will face Lt. Gov. Paul Laxalt in November. Walter S. Baring won renomination for an eighth term in Nevada’s House race. In Iowa, Prof E B Smith secured the Democratic nomination to oppose Sen Jack Miller, while William G Murray led in the GOP governor's race with Robert Beck close behind.
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Nevada
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Laxalt
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Robert F. Kennedy
Walter S. Baring
Ralph Denton
Boulder City
Las Vegas
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Steve Kostelac
E. B. Smith
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Miller
Herbert F. Hoover
William G. Murrray
Centerville
Robert K. Beck
Murray
Beck
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Frank McLarty
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Texarkana
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Dennis Ramsey
Ouachita Baptist University
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