California Official Recalls 24 Hour Kidnap Night to Congress
California State Finance Director Hale Champion testified before a Senate subcommittee on gun control, recounting being kidnapped for 24 hours by two fugitives wanted for bank robbery and murder. He urged tighter federal gun-sale regulations including interstate bans and licensed dealer controls, citing rifles used during the ordeal. The incident highlighted gaps in gun laws and spurred calls for broader coverage of rifles and shotguns.
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Young Heiress Jailed In Theft From Daddy
Mary Jane Hollingsworth Farrell, 19, jailed in Miami on a South Carolina warrant accusing her of taking part in a 1964 $550,000 cash theft from her father at a Greenville, South Carolina plant. Extradition papers were signed. her mother is also implicated. brother-in-law Geoffrey Farrell pleaded guilty in the case.
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Johnson greets foreign teens at White House reception
President Johnson addresses about 3000 international students at the White House urging peace and mutual understanding. He notes they may have seen flaws in America but encourages viewing the nation as Americans do. Luci Johnson introduces her father amid applause.
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Australia
Navy News Letter Suspended On Shipboard Snafu
The shipboard newsletter on Independence in the South China Sea was suspended after a supply room mix up left the mimeograph paper exhausted. Sailor editor Harvey Cohen said a new supply was requisitioned to resume publication.
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Planted Pines Won’t Dominate Timber Market, UGA Says
Athens Georgia based University of Georgia extension service reports that under current harvesting levels planted pines will contribute less than 25 percent of timber harvests over the next 40 years.
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University of Georgia Extension Service
Jaycees Start Baby Contest at County Fair
The Las Vegas Jaycees will host a Baby of the Year contest at the County Fair in the Convention Center from September 8 to 12. About 200 children ages six months to three years will be photographed by Ullom's Studio at no charge, with images displayed for public voting. Entrants face no obligation. arrangements can be made by calling Ullom's Studio.
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Brezhnev Urges Red Unity Amid Viet Nam Crisis
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev called for unity with China to counter U S aggression as he addressed the Romanian Communist Party congress in Bucharest. He praised broad support from delegates while noting China’s cool reception and stressing solidarity against perceived U S actions in Vietnam the Dominican Republic and Congo.
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UPI
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Senate panel backs Coleman for 5th Circuit court seat
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved James P. Coleman for the 5th Circuit Appeals Court in New Orleans by a 11 to 2 vote. Civil rights groups opposed, citing his segregationist past as Mississippi governor, while Atty. Gen. Katzenbach called him a moderate. Coleman pledged full adherence to federal law and Supreme Court rulings.
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RNY
President Johnson
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New Orleans
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
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D-Miss
Samuel J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Roman L. Hruska
R-Neb
Children’s Murders Probed in New York Case
New York police suspect an inside job in the disappearance and deaths of five year old Edmund Crimmins Jr and four year old Alice Crimmins. Edmund’s body was found on a Queens grassy slope near the World’s Fair site and Alice’s body in a wooded area nearby. The mother Alice Crimmins fainted at the morgue while identifying clothing found with the boy. The children were abducted from their first floor apartment last Wednesday night. Autopsy on the boy showed death days earlier but results were inconclusive due to decomposition.
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Edmund Crimmins Jr
Queens
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Michael J. Clifford
Missy
Eddy
It’s a Boy for the Shrivers in Caesarean Birth
Eu ne Shriver gave birth Tuesday at St Elizabeths Hospital to an eight pound two ounce boy via Caesarean section. R Sargent Shriver flew from Washington to be at his wifes side. The baby is the Kennedy familys 24th living grandchild. Dr Roy T Heffernan delivered the baby, the Shrivers first C section. The couple has three sons and a daughter.
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UPI
Eunice Shriver
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Roy T. Heffernan
Debate Opens on Poverty War and Funding Bill
The House began two days of debate on President Johnsons War on Poverty with Democrats backing the measure and Republicans attacking it as a failure. A vote is planned no earlier than Thursday on 1.9 billion in new anti poverty spending for the current year.
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UPI
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Johnson
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
House Education and Labor Committee
Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen Jr
R-N.j
GOP
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