Skyhawks evade two MIGs in North Vietnam train attack
Four Navy Skyhawks from the Oriskany attacked a North Vietnamese train about 70 miles south of Hanoi. The jets came under 37mm cannon fire from two MIG fighters but escaped damage, and they damaged four boxcars before leaving. The report notes broader air strikes over North Vietnam and a Westmoreland order to minimize civilian casualties.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Hanoi
U.S
Oriskany
North
Viet Nam
Navy
Air Force
Marine
Haiphong
Panhandle
Thanh Hoa
Tuc Tranh
Rights Leaders To Expand Open Housing Marches
Civil rights leaders say marches into white Chicago neighborhoods will be expanded and continue until Negroes can move into housing of their choice. Albert A. Raby announced eight marching groups to Jefferson Park and downtown locations, with plans for a housing summit midweek. The period also features court rulings on trial jury fairness in New Orleans and political sea changes around desegregation and Viet Nam policy debates.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Albert A. Raby
Coordinating Council of Community Organizations
Jefferson Park
Northwest Side
Chicago Real Estate Board
James W. Montgomery
Episcopal Diocese of
New Orleans
Appeals
Guidlines
Labat
Peret
Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Olent Coordinating Committee
United States
Viet Nam
Bertrand Russell
France
Protest disrupts House antiwar hearings in Capitol
In Washington a House Committee on Un American Activities hearing was disrupted as eight people were carried from the room after shouting at witness Philip A. Luce. Congressman Joe R. Pool ordered removals while protests outside the chamber grew and a court fight over the proceedings continued.
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Washington
House Committee On UN
U.S
Fink
Jeffrey Gordon
Progressive Labor Party
Federal
American Civil Liberties Union
Capitol
Asst
Joseph M. Hannon
Joe R. Pool
Dtex
Pool
Hillview Union Files Unfair Labor Charges
Cab driver Darrell Wayt testified after a late Monday call from a woman with luggage to pick up. Entering a vacant house he was tied by a man with a gun in the basement and freed himself before calling police. Police search for the pair and the cab.
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Brainerd, Minn
Darrell Wayt
Wayt
Firemen Seek $50 Month Pay Hike And 40 Hour Week
La Crosse firemen and municipal employees unions pressed for wage and benefit gains in a council finance committee meeting. Local 180 seeks $80 monthly for salaried staff or 50 cents hourly for hourly workers, and Local 127 calls for a 40 hour week, overtime pay, and a four step pay scale plus cost of living adjustments. The discussion also covers holidays, sick leave, clothing allowance, and medical benefits though details span many proposed changes. Local 127 pushes for wider benefits including two added holidays, double time for call ins, extended vacation, and union dues check off. Major figures include Councilman L. Peter Groves and Aldermen Storck Lemke, with Local 127 led by President Aelrud Stellpflug.
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la Crosse Tribune
Council
L. Peter Groves
13Th Ward
la Crosse
Curtis Storck
William R. Lemke
Storck
la Crosse 127
Aelrud Stellpflug
Stelpflug
LaVerne F. Stankey
Local
Policemen’s Association
Local 127
Arthur R. Schmidt
Board Rejects Renewed Talks
Local 750 filed unfair labor practice charges with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Board in Madison. The La Crosse County Board, in a special session, killed a proposal to resume negotiations with Hillview Hospital employees by a 17 to 15 vote.
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Jerome R. Rosso
la Crosse Tribune
Hillview Home
Local 750
la Crosse County Board
Madison
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Mary Vauk
David Loeffler
Labor Relations Board
Esther Domke
Hillview
John Thomas
Dist
Wilbert Ipsen
Merritt Gibson
Thomas
Gibson
Ipsen
Machinists Seek Airline Pact Details Across Nation
Washington AP reports Machinists receive a three year package worth about 90 million dollars aimed at ending the five airline strike. The agreement covers Eastern National Northwest Trans World and United with a 1 per hour raise over three years plus benefits and a cost of living escalator. Ratification by 35 400 members could end the strike and restore service by early next week.
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Washington
P. L. (Roy) Siemiller
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Siemiller
Eastern
National
Northwest
Trans World
United
White House
Senate weighs reserve call power amid defense bill
The Senate debates authorizing the president to call up Ready Reserve members for up to 18 consecutive months. Senators Russell and Saltonstall push an amendment to the defense appropriation bill, estimated to cover over 500,000 reservists, while McNamara and Johnson oppose civilian reserve calls for Vietnam. The Appropriations Committee backs broader reserve use in Southeast Asia.
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Siemiller
Congress
House Rules Committee
Senate
Washington
Johnson
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Leverett Saltonstall
R-Mass
Russell
Armed Services Committee
Saltonstall
Viet Nam
Robert S. McNamara
Man thanks doctor with billboard. faces ethics clash
In Plainfield New Jersey Harry Michels, restored hearing after 45 years, bought a billboard to thank Dr Floyd M Gusack. Doctors called the ad unethical and ordered its removal, prompting Michels to insist his message was personal.
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Plainfield
N.J
Harry Michels
Michels
County Medical Society
Floyd M. Gusack
Floyd Gusack
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Navy Skyhawks
By Robert Tuckman
William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland
U. S
U. S. Air Force
U. S. Coast Guard
U.S. Command
U.S. Air Force
North Viet Nam
Vinh
U.S. 7Th Cavalry
Cavalry
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Edgar Labat
Clifton A. Peret
New York
Stokely Carmichael
Black Power
Nonvi
Herbert W. Christenberry
Leander Perez
Perez
Plaquemines Parish
Christenberry
House
By Carl P. Leubsdorf
Hillview Union
By Donald W. Affolter
Robert Peterson
21St Dist
Peterson
John Bosshard
Ray Sunder
Bosshard
Donald Harman
Harman
NEW York Herald Tribune
The
World Telegram and Sun
Herald Tribune
UPI
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