Biggest Battles Still Ahead for Congress
AP reports Congress faces major domestic fights after six months, with voting rights, health care for the aged, urban affairs, housing, and higher education bills in play. Viet Nam policy debates grow as Johnson proposals meet resistance. potential filibuster looms over one man one vote reform.
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Washington
Congress
U.S
White House
Capitol Hill
Johnson
Appalachia
House
Senate
Robert S. McNamara
Senate House
Supreme Court
Rubirosa Killed In Paris Car Crash
Porfirio Rubirosa a former Dominican diplomat and international playboy died from injuries after a car collision in Bois de Boulogne Paris. His Ferrari left the road hit a tree after hitting a parked car. He was transported to a hospital where he died. He was a known polo devotee and former husband of Flor de Oro Trujillo and Barbara Hutton.
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Paris
Porfirio Rubirosa
Rubirosa
Bois de Boulogne
Hippodrome Way
Boulogne
Bagatelle Polo Grounds
Flor de Oro Trujillo
Trujillo
Woolworth
Barbara Hutton
Doris Duke
Danielle Darrieux
Odile Rodin
Riot and arrests as Ozark vacation revelers charged
Police report a Fourth of July disturbance in Ozark with liquor possession disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. Many pleaded guilty before Magistrate Clifford Crouch, fines ranged 15 to 60 dollars, and release followed. Witnesses argued about youth behavior and parental presence amid a riot scene with dozens of youths and several nude disclosures.
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Clifford Crouch
Eddie van Horn
van Horn
Pletcher Rogers
Missouri
Lawrence youths join Midwest Camp at Kansas University
About 250 junior high students began the junior high music camp as part of the 28th Annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp at Kansas University. The session runs through July 17. A July 4 flag raising at Alford Clarke Post 852 Veterans of Foreign Wars drew a good turnout, with James Schutte leading, Mrs Burgstahler on organ, Dick Shanafelt directing the pledge, Dick Wright singing Grand Old Flag, and Arden Booth giving the invocation.
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Kansas University
Alford-Clarke Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ala
James Schutte
Albert Burgstahler
Dick Shanafelt
Dick Wright
Arden Booth
Gemini 5 Delayed Week to Aug 17
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP space officials postpone the eight day Gemini 5 flight a week to August 17 due to time constraints and training needs.Crew is Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad with Neil Armstrong and Elliott Lee as backups. Both teams work 12 hours daily six days a week preparing for a manned rendezvous with a satellite.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Neil Armstrong
Elliott Lee
Community backs care for Vickie in Kansas City program
Otis Hyde and a local group praise the program supporting Vickie as she prepares for tests in St. Louis. Gross notes the high quality medical care available at major hospitals, funded by events such as the East West football and basketball games and local shows like the Abdallah Rodeo in Kansas City.
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Vickie
Vickie Birch
Ward St
Lawrence
St. Louis
Shriner’s Hospital For
LeRoy Gross
W. 2Nd St
Terr
Crippled Children's
Lawrence Shrine Club
Otis Hyde
Journal-World Photo
Abdallah
Kansas City
Downtown parking lot expansion eyed in Lawrence plan
City Manager Ray Wells announced expansions tied to two downtown Lawrence parcels. Bids for removal of buildings at 705 and 709 N H will be opened Tuesday, part of linking Vermont and New Hampshire lots by Sept. 1. A 120 foot sedimentation basin with clarifier is planned for the water treatment area.
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Lawrence
Ray Wells
N. H
Ray Barland
Mass. St
John Estes
St. Estes
Wells
Estes
Vermont
New Hampshire
Ill
No US Aid For Alabama Official In Klans Inquiry
Justice Department says it will not provide information to Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers while a parallel House inquiry on the Ku Klux Klan proceeds. Flowers has sought material from the department. Rep. Willis of Louisiana heads the Un American Activities Committee, which plans Klan hearings.
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Justice Department
Alabama
Richmond
House of Representatives
House
Flowers
Department
Edwin E. Willis
D-La
House Committee On Un-American Activities
George C. Wallace
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
State GOP Leader Dies in Wichita at 84
Fred C. Clarke, 84, former Oklahoma state Republican party chairman, died Sunday in a Wichita hospital. He apparently collapsed while visiting three daughters in the Wichita area. the cause of death was not released.
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Wichita, Kan
Fred C. Clarke
Oklahoma
Republican Party
Wichita
Service for overs faith. usseys Funeral Houm
Obituary notice announces a funeral service for overs faith held at Usseys Funeral Home with details of date time and burial plans.
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Usseys Funeral
No Bad Wrecks Mark Douglas County Fourth of July Weekend
Douglas County reports a quiet Fourth of July period with no serious traffic, boating, or fireworks accidents. Only two minor injuries from a two car collision at 9 25 p m Sunday near 15th and I Sts, with vehicle damage estimated at 650. County officials vow continued vigilance amid national rise in traffic deaths.
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Douglas County
15Th
R. I. Sts
Spectacular July Fourth Sky Show Draws Praise
Alan Fisher, former commander of the American Legion Post, praised a vivid display at Campanile Hill. He said the show and weather made the stadium setting exceptional and expected visitors from across the region.
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Alan Fisher
American Legion
Dirksen Back at Walter Reed for Stomach Disorder
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois is back in Walter Reed Army Hospital for treatment of a recurring stomach disorder. The 69 year old senator is undergoing tests to determine the likely length of his hospital stay and his condition is described as satisfactory.
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Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Dirksen
Blast injures seven scientists at Harvard MIT lab in Cambridge
Seven young researchers were badly burned when an explosion tore through a building on Oxford Street housing an electron accelerator run by Harvard and MIT. The blast caused a two alarm fire, with hydrogen tests cited as the likely cause as the roof blew off and windows shattered.
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Cambridge, Mass
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oxford Street
Arthur C. Reid
Avon
Massachusetts General Hospital
Timothy O'Donnell
O’donnell
Joseph Szymanski
Szymanski
Arlington
Frank Feinberg
Louis Hand
Cambridge
Denniss Ehm
New York Taxi Strike Ends After Arbitration Settlement
Fleet taxi drivers return to work as 60 percent of the city's 12 000 cabs operate after a seven day strike. Acting Mayor Screvane announces binding arbitration by a czar to settle disputes, ending the stoppage that began June 28 after a city ballot dispute.
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New York
Afl-Cio
Paul R. Screvane
Screvane
Taxi Drivers Organizing Committee
Officer Is Shot And Wife Killed In Ottawa Affair
An off duty policeman Fred Espinosa was shot as he gathered clothes in his home after a divorce filing. His estranged wife Marjorie Espinosa died by self inflicted gunshot after police used tear gas at the Ottawa Kansas residence. The couple had been married five years with no children.
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Ottawa
Kan
L. N. Speer
Marjorie Espinosa
Fred Espinosa
Eugene Flaherty
Espinosa
Adrian Espinosa
New York
Flaherty
Pathologist William McKee Germain Dies in England
American pathologist Prof. William McKee Germain of San tana Florida collapsed and died at the wheel of his car on a Britain tour. He was 73. His wife Helen halted the vehicle and a passing motorist took them to Pershore Cottage Hospital where Germain was pronounced dead on arrival.
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Worcester
England
William McKee Germain
Santana
Fla
Britain
Helen
Pershore Cottage Hospital
Germain
Firework Burn Sent 19 Year Old to Hospital
Stan Hayden 19 of Route 2 was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Sunday night for a firecracker burn to his left little finger. He was released after dressing. He was the only LMH patient from the July 4 holiday fireworks injuries.
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Stan Hayden
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Ellis R. Hayden
Hayden
LMH
Riots and Closures Across Lakes as Police Tackle Weekend Disturbances
Edicts ordered closing beer and wine sales as crowds sparked incidents at Geneva on the Lake and Lake George. About 350 arrested at Lake George with injuries to officers and a policeman. 15,000 youths reportedly attended a riotous weekend, while Bass Lake inmates behaved after a motor club invasion. Fort Worth units conducted an amphibious raid to quell Goat Island celebrations.
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Russells Point
Lake George
N.Y
Lake Resort
Robert Caldwell
Bass Lake
Calif
Sierra Resort
Fort Worth
Tex
Goat Island
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