Historic Senate cloture vote ends tense night debate
The Senate invoked cloture after a long, emotional session led by Majority Leader Mansfield and opposition leader Russell. Senators Edmond, Byrd, Engle, and others weighed ending unlimited debate as the chamber, crowded and tense, reached 67 Ayes to advance the bill amid dramatic appeals and a late amendment defeat.
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Tory
Washington
Clair Engle
Senate
Sel-Jertheless
Dom
J. Howard Edmond
D-Okla
Sen
Robert Byrd
Engle
Russell
Sen. iSam Ervine
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Rights Measure Vote Nears in Senate Clash
The Senate prepared to tackle about 550 amendments to a civil rights bill after a dramatic filibuster by opponents. Senator Robert Byrd set a 14 hour 13 minute record, delaying final action as Republican and Southern bloc leaders urged either cloture or continued debate. Final enactment is expected before Congress recesses for the Republican convention.
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Woodrow Wilson
Senate
U.S
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Byrd
House
West Virginia
Russell
Everett M.” Dirksen
George D. Aiken
Aiken
Wallace Bennett
Utah
Delaware
Willisms
Dirksen
John W. McCormack
Congress
San Francisco
John F. Kennedy
South
Johnson
Goldwater
Hospital names Jamelhs Bell as assistant administrator
Jamelhs M. Bell, director of nursing services at South Bay Hospital, is named assistant administrator, replacing Robert E. Ernst who recently became chief administrator at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster.
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Jamelhs M. Bell
South Bay Hospital
Robert E. Ernst
Antelope Valley Hospital
Lancaster
Goldwater Defies Party Over Civil Rights Debate
The text shows Goldwater opposing the civil rights bill as written, while many Republican senators from large industrial states push for the measure. The rift within the GOP widens from the Cleveland Governors Conference toward the Senate floor and upcoming San Francisco platform sessions.
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Goldwater
Cleveland
Senate
GOP
platform _ fashioners
San Francisco
Assembly Unit Tours Ports Today
The State Assembly interim Committee on Agriculture will inspect export facilities at Long Beach Los Angeles Harbors today. The 10 member panel led by John C Williamson will tour after a Los Angeles hearing with Dr Dorothy Jacobson and Jack Rockahr listed as USDA officials.
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State Assembly
Long Beach-Las Geles
John C. William‘son
D-Bakersfield
Los Angeles
Ithe
Dorothy Jacobson
Jas Affairs
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Jack Rockahr
Johnson hails Senate rights vote as historic act
Washington United Press International reports President Johnson calling the Senate vote to halt the filibuster a historic event. He praised the action during an East Room address to the Presidential Scholars Group, urging peaceful, constructive change following President Kennedy's call for reforms.
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