Nelson Urges Plank Pledging End Of Draft
Senator Gaylord Nelson urged the Democratic Platform Committee to adopt a plank calling for ending the military draft. He backed a fully voluntary system by 1967, praised President Johnson for reviewing manpower, and urged pay raises, fewer enlistment barriers, civilian roles to cut manpower needs, and upgrading inductees once in service.
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Washington
Democratic Platform Committee
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Johnson
Nelson
Republican Party
U.S
Canada
Compromise Housing Bill Passes Senate And Moves On
The Senate approved a $1.165 billion housing bill for one more year of core federal programs. Conferees reduced totals to 725 million for urban renewal grants and 37 500 new low rent public housing units, excluding Johnson satellite town proposals. The measure heads to the House for final action and President Johnson’s signature.
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Washington
Senate
House
Johnson
Senate House
Missing eight-foot boat reported in La Crosse
D Duane Garbisch of 1625 Trav ist. reported to La Crosse Police that his eight foot duck green boat was taken from lower Goose Island within the past six weeks. The boat is valued at $35.
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D. Duane Garbisch
Travis St
la Crosse
Lower
Goose Island
New Guinea Airfield and Nearby Terms Define a Clue List
A list of terms appears including New Guinea airfield and several cross referenced clues. Entries span jewelry items numbers languages and everyday objects like canine energy unit and life saving service abbr. The page resembles a crossword style clue compilation with varied definitions.
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New Guinea
Word Find Puzzle Clue List and Answers
A numbered list presents crossword style clues including terms like Eight-sided, Pearl-shaped spheres and Babylonian deity. Entries span hints for words such as deg ree, grant, envoy, loved, and Celtic groups.
Campobello Becomes International Park Amid First Lady Visit
Campobello Island in New Brunswick, once tied to Canada by treaty, is slated to become an international park with the arrival of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson’s wife. The Roosevelt summer home will be preserved for shared public use as tourism grows on the nine by three mile island famed for sardines and scenic walks.
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Campobello
N.B
Lyndon B. Johnson
Canada
United States
Wil‘liam Owen
Owens
Wil‘liam Fitzwilliam Owen
Explosion at Tampa chemical plant drives hundreds from homes
A 55 gallon drum of acrolein exploded at a Tampa chemical plant sending noxious fumes over a 16 square mile area. Hundreds fled as fire crews and police evacuated neighborhoods while more than 100 people were treated for eye nose irritation cramps and nausea. Firefighters in gas masks but not all escaped unharmed as fumes filled stores and rooms.
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Tampa
Fla
Bank Debits Rise in La Crosse in July 1964
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis reports La Crosse bank debits up six percent in July 1964 from July 1963. July 1964 volume reached 83 000 dollars versus 78 000 in 1963, with the first seven months totaling 545 000 dollars, an eight percent rise.
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Minneapolis
la Crosse
Federal Reserve Bank of
Satellite relay would cover world from equatorial position
Syncom 3 would sit equally spaced around the equator to provide global communications coverage. U.S. and Japanese interests have committed about $600,000 to televise the Tokyo Olympics, with Canadian and European broadcasters adding nearly $300,000. The US Communications Satellite Corp directs the project on a nonprofit basis under a State Department finding it is in the national interest.
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Equator
Syncom 3
North America
Asia
Globe
U.S
Tokyo
United States
U.S. Communications Satellite Corp
Congress
State Department
Livestock and Market Quotes From Winona and Chicago
Swift and Company in Winona lists hogs at 15.70 to 16.10 with top butchers, sows 13.75 to 14.00. cattle steady with hi choice beef and fed holsteins and cows. veal prices 25.00 top, 12.00 to 21.00 for lower grades. Chicago Mercantile Exchange shows butter steady or higher, eggs steady, wholesale prices unchanged. US USDA live poultry wholesale prices mostly up, roasters 23-25, White Rock fryers 18-20, heavy hens 18-18.42.
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Swift & Company
Winona
Minn
Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago Poultry Chicago
USDA
State To Get 22 Million For Roads
Washington reports Wisconsin will receive 22,286,793 in federal funds for Interstate highway construction for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1965. The state also gets 24,691,450 for ABC program projects on primary and secondary systems and urban extensions as part of a 3.8 billion national highway apportment to 50 states.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Commerce Department
Wold Nominated to Challenge McGee in Wyoming Senate Race
John Wold 47, a Casper oil geologist and ex GOP state chair, won the Republican nomination to oppose incumbent Gale McGee in November. He defeated Kenny Sailors in a tight primary as precinct returns showed Wold 22,616 to 21,222. McGee beat I W Kinney in the Democratic contest.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
John Wold
Casper
Wyoming
Gale McGee
Wold
GOP
Kenny Sailors
Jackson Hole
Sailors
McGee
I. W. Kinney
U.S. Bureau of Mines Laboratory
Laramie
Johnson
Minnesota's Traffic Toll Rises With New Fatalities
The state's road toll reached 497 after Currie resident Mrs. Herman Zens died in Tracy Minnesota hospital from injuries suffered in an August 12 crash eight miles south of Tracy. The incident also killed Mrs. Lester Pierce of Pocatel lo Idaho, whose husband Pierce remains hospitalized. Earl J. Scott of St Paul, a father of eight, died after being thrown from a car near Hugo.
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Associated Press
A Currie
Minn
Minnesota
Herman Zens
Ln Tracy
Zens
Tracy
Lester Pierce
Pocatello
Idaho
Pierce
Earl J. Scott
St. Paul
Hugo
Dali Announces New Dollar Themed Painting
Salvador Dali reveals a new work titled Deification of the Dollar. He says the canvas will be just dollars and more dollars and Logos predicts it will be his most expensive piece yet.
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Barcelona
Spain
Salvador Dali
United States
Dali
Logos
Congo aid workers killed by mob near Bukavu
A U.N. driver said two French officials, Jean Plicque and Francois Preziosi, were hacked with machetes and shot by a crowd of Watusi and Congolese rebels while attempting to reach a refugee encampment north of Bukavu on Lake Kivu. The incident followed warnings of rebel support from Communist allies.
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U.N
Jean Plicque
Bukavu
International Labor Organization
Plicque
Francois Preziosi
U.N. High Commission For Refugees
Preziosi
Lake Kivu
Congo
Rwanda
George Yogolero
Watusis
Yogolero
Arab Nations Consider Banning Sophia Loren Film Judith
Sophia Loren says she is an artist not a politician and questions reports that Arab embassies in Italy are considering banning her film Judith, which is being filmed in Israel. Loren doubts Arab states will boycott her.
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Haifa
Israel
Sophia Loren
Damascus
Italy
Judith
Miss Loren
Johnson to stage musical salute for 1964 Congress
President Johnson prepared a lavish in yard salute in Washington inviting about 900 members of Congress and top officials to a Broadway style show. The White House event aimed to thank Congress for backing his programs.
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Washington
White House
Johnson
Congress
Stock Quotations From Shearson Hamill August 19 1964
The page lists extensive stock quotations from firms including RCA Phillips American Can Royal Dutch Chrysler General Motors and others with percentages up to 120 percent. It also notes industry groups Dow Jones averages and commodities with values for Sept wheat soybeans eggs corn and currencies. A narrative mentions a presidential event with a Broadway style show at the executive mansion featuring the 88th Congress.
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Phillips Pete
Bell & Farrell
RCA
Aileen, Inc
Allis-Chalmers
Republic Steel
Rexall Drug
Central
Reynolds Metals
Clark Oil
American Motors
Royal Dutch
First
Bk. Std. 37-39% ;American Smélting 50% Spartans Ind. 18% Frantz Mfg
Amer. Tel. & Tel
G. D. Searle
Gateway Trans
Anaconda
Sears Roebuck
Godfrey Co
Avco
Sinclair
Standard Oil
Ind
la X Rubber
Columbia Gas
la Crosse Tele
Consolidated Foods
Studebaker
Curtiss Wright
Sunray
McQuay, Inc
DuPont
Swift
Mtg. Guar. Ins
Eastman Kodak
Texaco
Nekoosa
Financial Fed
Trane Co
Plastics
Ford
Union Tank Car
Pyroll Co
Fruehaus Trailer
U.S. Rubber
Rap Industries
Gamble Skogmo
U.S. Steel
Rockwell Mfg
Gulf Oil
City Bank
Tausch
Illinois Central Ind
Law Cooler
Mutual
Harvester
Boston Fund
Interstate Power
Wallace Business Chem. Fund
Jones & Laughlin
Eaton & Howard Lockheed
Dow Jones
Eaton & Howard
Magnavox
Minn
Fidelity Fund
Montgomery Ward
Incorp. Invest
Monsanto Chemical
Northern Pacific
Banc
William S&j
Olin Mathieson
Pepsi-Cola
Wisconsin
Johnson snubs meeting with Democratic governors
Gov Paul B Johnson of Mississippi rejects President Johnsons invite to the White House and to the Democratic National Convention. Governors John McKeithen Orval Faubus also decline the White House gathering while Bryant and Wallace join a secret strategy meeting in New Orleans last Friday.
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Jackson
Miss
Paul B. Johnson
Johnson
White House
Louisiana
John McKeithen
Arkansas
Orval E. Faubus
New Orleans
Florida
Farris Bryant
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Dry Weather Lifts Grain Markets Across Midwest
Dry weather in Midwest grain belts boosts prices with export demand. winter wheat up 1–2 cents, spring wheat 5–6. Bread prices rise as farmers withhold grain awaiting higher values. USDA subsidies shift from 65 to 14 cents, while exports and milk cow counts show declines and stable milk output.
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Midwest
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
U.S
Compromise Meat Import Bill Passes In House Vote
The House approved a compromise meat import bill 232 to 149 keeping imports 15 percent below last year’s record. Democrats and Republicans criticized higher hamburger prices while cattle interests supported the measure amid a price slump in the U.S. market.
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Washington
U.S
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Herbert Friedman
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