Johnson vows to exhaust all peace efforts before hard steps
President Johnson in a San Francisco AFL-CIO speech defends U S efforts for peace in Viet Nam and says every peaceful option will be exhausted before any harder actions. He cites negative replies from Hanoi and Peking and plans consultations with top advisers at the Texas ranch.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
Johnson
Viet Nam
Moscow
Hanoi
United States
Britain
U.S
Texas
San Francisco
Peking
Marines Seek to Trap Viet Cong in Rice Plain Fight
U S Marines join Vietnamese troops in a three day push to encircle a Viet Cong force between Da Nang and Chu Lai. Fresh units from the carrier Valley Forge fly in by helicopter and on the ground, and air support continues with 206 sorties over the area. Casualties reported light, with a mortar attack injuring one.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Bettween
da Nang
Chu Lai
Valley Forge
South China Sea
Leon Utter
Miami
Okla
Voice of America
Hue
Saikgon
Philippines
Viet Nam
7Th Fleet
Duc Pho
Quang Ngai City
Rice Plain
Fire Levels Waukon High School
About 1,700 Waukon students are sent home on an enforced vacation after a 3:30 a.m. fire destroyed the main high school building. Firefighters from nearby towns battled the blaze, damaging the junior high wing and gym while stressing the central heating system. Superintendent E Paul Rehr estimated damages up to 700000 dollars with no clear plan to house all students before new schools open in 1966 67. The school board will meet soon to decide next steps.
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Waukon
Iowa
Industrial Arts Department
Decorah
Postville
E. Paul Rehr
Allamakee
Decker
Supt
Rehr
Board of Education
Wisconsin Gov Signs Open Housing Bill
Gov. Knowles signed a new Wisconsin open housing law prohibiting racial or religious discrimination in rental or financing of private housing. The act excludes owner occupied dwellings of four units or less but covers about 35 percent of housing. It aims to stop discrimination based on race color creed or national origin with enforcement by the Industrial Commission Equal Opportunities Division and broader powers under the Governor’s Commission on Human Rights.
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Madison
Warren P. Knowles
Wisconsin
Knowles
Industrial Commission
Equal Opportunities Division
Governor
Commission On Human Rights
Morgan Park steelworker killed by falling rail fragment
Carl A. Jensen, 62, a 22 year veteran at U.S. Steel Corp Morgan Park plant in Duluth, was struck by a steel fragment when a wheel broke on an ingot buggy on a narrow gauge track. He died at the scene.
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Duluth, Minn
U.S. Steel Corp
Morgan Park
Carl A. Jensen
Duluth
Jensen
Soviet Cuba price accord nudges sugar ties rework
The Soviet Union agrees to cut prices for Cuba on manufactured goods if Cuba proves cheaper sources exist elsewhere. Signed in Moscow earlier this year, the deal was made public in Cuba but details were kept from the press. It aims to address Cuban protests that Russia inflated prices to offset high Cuban sugar costs.
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Havana
Soviet Union
Cuba
Moscow
Russia
Council backs fight to keep caucuses closed
La Crosse Common Council authorized City Attorney John Flanagan to pursue a Supreme Court challenge if needed against news outlets seeking open caucuses for nominating aldermen and school board members. A temporary injunction blocks closed-door caucuses. the city must answer by Dec 23.
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la Crosse Common Council
John K. Flanagan
Supreme Court
la Crosse Tribune
Wkbt-Tv
WKBH
WLCX
WKTY
Flanagan
Circuit Court
City redistricted as 19th Ward moves to South Side
La Crosse officials reapportioned the city drawing the 19th Ward from North to South Side to balance representation. Alderman Murphy decried the move as a crime while South Side aldermen argued it ensures one man one vote. The plan, approved by the Council and County Board committees, increases South Side representation and creates a 22 member board until Murphy’s term ends in 1967. An acting South Side 19th Ward alderman will be elected to fill the seat.
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South Side
la Crosse Common
la Crosse Tribune
John Murphy
Council
County Board
Wisconsin Legislature
Supreme Court
North Side
Harold Otto
10Th Ward
Bernard F. Maney
16Th Ward
Otto
Legislative
Curtis Storck
14Th Ward
Storck
7Th Ward
Johnson
Murphy
Loren C. Wardwell
John K. Flanagan
Politicians tour Vietnam battle zones to see the war
In Saigon and near An Khe the visit of 45 congressmen 11 governors and other officials becomes a major event amid helicopters and Marine units. They seek to witness combat conditions meet troops and observe the war firsthand while military hosts try to manage crowds and safety.
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Hugh A. Mulligan
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Congress
Seymour Halpern
R-N.y
Labor Assures President of Viet Support
AFL-CIO leader George Meany assured President Johnson of organized labor support in Viet Nam and in seeking a richer life for Americans. Meany avoided pledging to curb wage demands, noting the union seeks a bigger share of national wealth while aiding low paid workers. Johnson spoke by phone from his Texas ranch to nearly 1,000 delegates, pledging exhaustively peaceful options and economic stability. Vice President Humphrey praised labor support in Congress as Johnson urged price and cost stability.
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San Francisco
Johnson
Organized Labor
Viet Nam
America
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Aflcio
Aflcio Executive Council
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Johnson City
Tex
Hubert H. Humphrey
Congress
Purchase Gets Council Okay
The La Crosse Common Council approved buying a Graphotype for punching addressograph plates at $1,890.75 from Ad dressograph Multigraph Corp. to update voter records for new ward boundaries. The council also raised snow removal truck rental rates from $4.50 to $5.50 per hour and authorized the airport manager to transfer $700 to replenish the salary account due to flood overtime and reclassifications.
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la Crosse
Baby Flo dies world’s largest woman Flora Jackson
Flora Mae Jackson known as Baby Flo and billed as the world’s largest woman died in Jacksonville at 35. Born Flora King in Sugar Lake Mississippi she weighed 840 pounds shortly before her death after beginning life at ten pounds.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Flora Mae Jackson
Flo
Flora Mae (King) Jackson
Sugar Lake
Miss
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