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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1964
Page
2
Police seized four suspects in Saigon after an explosion at a hangar near a Boeing 707. Two soldiers were lightly wounded, a plane unloaded and searched, and nearby planes were damaged by debris. In a separate report, Viet Cong clashes near Tay Ninh left up to 100 enemy dead as armored carriers battled for six hours.
Former CIA chief W. Allen Dulles urged President Johnson and Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. to expand the FBI force in Mississippi to combat terroristic activity linked to clandestine groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. He urged closer White House-Governor contact and proposed church and civil rights group talks with CORE to curb violence during voter registration efforts.
Spottswood announced NAACP plans to send a seven man team to Mississippi to review state and federal search procedures for three missing civil rights workers and to examine citizen protection. The resolution calls for federal takeover of Mississippi under Article IV, Section 4, with a complete operation across state agencies. The committee includes H Hudson, C Lewis, S Jackson, K Kaplan, E Reed, J Davis, and A Baker Lewis.
Governor Paul Johnson urged farmers in Neshoba County to volunteer in the five day search for three civil rights workers missing since Sunday night. State and federal officers, aided by 100 sailors, faced dead ends as the missing trio remained unaccounted for. the governor expressed cautious optimism but warned the search could last a long time. The charred vehicle tied to the case was found in a swamp northeast of Philadelphia Mississippi, raising further concern.
Rene Trubaut, a toxicology and industrial hygiene professor at Paris Faculty of Sciences, told a European air pollution conference that evidence links lung cancer to air pollution. He urged reducing heavy traffic fumes in cities as a corrective measure.
The Senate debates reapportionment with two evenly populated districts of 29 senators each and considers a one house legislature. Critics urge court action as the Judiciary Committee recommends intervention, while leaders downplay trouble and discuss constitutional remedies.
The FBI arrested Merritt Ely Randle James E Hodges and Lawrence Neal McGraw all Mississippi delta residents on charges of conspiring to injure oppress threaten or intimidate citizens involved in voter registration activities. They allegedly warned two white youths Roy Bernard Forkington born 24 Berkeley California and John Lyon Paul 21 Ossining New York that if they spoke in Itta Bena Mississippi that night they would leave town.
A weekend sale advertised near Edwards Furniture promises larger discounts on furniture and appliances. The notice, appearing in a Friday edition dated July 3, invites customers to the PARKING LOT event for substantial price reductions on a range of items.
Police report a gunman wearing a fake beard robbed a clerk at Mayfair Market on Lincoln Avenue in Anaheim around 4 10 am. Miller described the suspect, took $250 from a bag and warned the clerk with a paper note reading this is a stickup.
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