President Johnson Urges Calm Over Selma March
President Johnson deplored police brutality against Negroes in Selma Alabama and directed the Justice Department to aid lawful rights. An order banning the march was issued by U.S. Judge Frank M Johnson Jr. He promised a special message to Congress to expand voting rights while protesters demand federal protection and troops or marshals if needed.
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Washington
Johnson
Selma
Ala
George E. Reedy
Montgomery
U.S. Dist
Frank
M. Johnson Jr
Congress
Alabama
Reedy
Nicholas) Katzenbach
Katzenbach
Justice Department
Roy E. Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
Wilkins
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
President Signs Appalachia Bill
President Johnson signed into law a bill authorizing 1.1 billion dollars in federal aid for the 11 state Appalachian region. He called the measure the end of partisan cynicism and praised the joint effort of states Congress and the executive branch in enacting the program noting it will not work miracles overnight and that success rests with state and local governments.
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Washington
Johnson
Appalachia
Congress
Executive Branch
Belmont County
Ohio
U.S. 23
Appalachian Way highway plan eyed by Ohio counties
Ohio's 28 Appalachia counties consider a four lane super highway from near Cincinnati to Bridgeport through the region. Officials note funding and route details are undecided while SEORC and county engineers seek input from each locality.
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Athens
Ohio
Appalachia
Ohio University
Steubenville
B. B. Mills
Ironton
Carl H. Rush
Clermont County
Robert Satterfield
West Union
Adams County
Southeast Ohio Regional Council
SEORC
Mills
Cincinnati
SW Schools Delay Vote On Wo Ed Plan
The Starr Washington school board delayed action on the joint vocational school district plan after discussions last night. Executive head Fred Good announced the measure is tabled pending public opinion, and he received a new five year contract.
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Starr - Washington
Fred Good
Good
Lowell Cole
Nationwide Insurance Co
Jury Returns Guilty Verdict In DWI Case
A Lancaster man Calvin C. Carnes, 48, was found guilty by a common pleas court petit jury after more than four hours of deliberation. He was arrested by the state highway patrol on December 14 along Route 33. Sentence was withheld pending further record review.
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Common Pleas Court
Lancaster
Calvin C. Carnes
Grand
State Highway Patrol
Carnes
Edwin Johnston
Leland L. Conner
Carrie L. Brooks
Wilma B. Howdyshell
Betty McGlothlin
Wilbur Bray
Hazel A. Bray
Martha Donahey
Gerald H. Baird
Clara Mathias
Lloyd Nixon
Floyd Goodlive
John Myers Jr
Weather forecast for Hocking Valley turns colder
The Hocking Valley faces cloudy skies and cooler temperatures with a chance of light snow on Wednesday. Some snow earlier today melted, with 11:30 a.m. reading at 40 degrees after a low of 34 last night. Monday peaked at 45.
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Hocking Valley
Viet Cong Attack Smashed at Kannak Outpost
About 800 Viet Cong recruits attacked the Kannak mountain outpost, overrunning two smaller posts. Government reports say at least 100 enemy dead, with 76 counted by a newsman. 400 irregulars and nine American Special Forces men were among the defenders.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Kannak
China
Viet Nam
Mang Yang Pass
Daylight Time Standardization Bill Introduced in Senate
The Senate debates a bill by Sens. Gale McGee and Norris Cotton to standardize daylight saving dates nationwide. The plan would set DST from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, applying to all states without forcing them to adopt or reject daylight time.
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Washington
Senate
Gale McGee
D-Wyo
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
City Service Director backs sewer water and street upgrades
Logan city service director Ed Rutgers urged City Council to fund two new storm sewers on W Front Street and Hunter Street to relieve frequent flooding. He also proposed a South Logan water main to serve South Logan and Bowers additions and called for a sanitary landfill and a federal survey of the sewer system. He urged testing near the current wells and potential land acquisition for future wells ahead of a Route 33 bypass.
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Ed Rutgers
Rutgers
W. Front St
Kroger
Coffman Stair Co
Hunter St
Goose Creek
Walnut
Hunter
Orchard
Logan
South Logan
Bowers
Rt. 33
Clergymen Join Negroes In Selma March Banned
Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr orders Negroes to refrain from marching from Selma to Montgomery and sets a hearing. Troopers pour into Selma dispersing about 500 officers with clubs and tear gas as ministers and supporters arrive and condemn the violence.
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Selma
Selma, Ala
Johnson
National Guard
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
Wallace
John Wesley Lord
Washington, D.C
Browns Chapel
Martin Luther King
Montgomery
Paul Douglas
Illinois
Charles Tobey
New Hampshire
Clark
Washington
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
President Johnson
Ohioans Rally in Sympathy for Selma Marches
Civil rights groups and students in Ohio stage vigils and prayers in Columbus Springfield and Cincinnati to support Negro marches in Selma Alabama. A day long vigil at the old post office in Columbus and a noon interdenominational prayer service accompany plans for a sympathy march. In Cincinnati a voter registration march is organized to culminate in a non prayer vigil at the county courthouse.
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Ohio
Selma
Ala
Columbus
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Old Post Office
Johnson
Congress
Alabama
U. S
Samuel Devine
Springfield
Wittenberg College
Cincinnati
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Hamilton County
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D-Mass
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