Johnson urges governors to take civil rights action
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson urged governors to make the racial issue a top priority. He rejected claims Kennedy failed to rally state leaders, as Democratic and GOP voices clashed over civil rights strategy during a stormy conference in Miami Beach. CORE pickets protested outside the hotel.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Kennedy
Miami
The
Congress On Racial Equality
CORE
Washington Cambridge Pact Ends Race Tensions
Washington talks yielded a nine hour agreement to integrate Dorchester County schools by fall and halt Cambridge protests. The pact includes a biracial committee, swift processing of a low rent housing application, and hiring a Black staffer in Cambridge. New York police arrested 139 demonstrators at construction sites and Chicago CORE leader Sam Riley offered to resign.
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Washington
Kennedy
Burke Marshall
Justice Department
Birmingham
Ala
Gloria H. Richardson
Chesapeake Bay
Here
Dorchester County
Maryland
Department of Security
New York City
Chicago
Sam Riley
The
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Partialn Test Ban Thaws Cold War
United States British and Soviet negotiators sealed a partial nuclear test ban accord Tuesday that ended five years of negotiations and calls for restraint in atmospheric testing. The pact marks a step toward reducing fallout risks and easing Cold War tensions between the three powers.
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Henry Shapiro
United Press International Moscow
UPD
United States
Blind Man Rescues Daughter From Pool Tragedy
William Schmidt a 29 year old blind father recounts saving his three year old daughter Peggy after she began to drown in their pool in San Gabriel Meta his wife assisted by instructing him on rescue Schmidt retrieved Peggy from the water performed mouth to mouth resuscitation and the child began crying confirming she was alive.
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San Gabriel
Calif
William Schmidt
Peggy
Schmidt
Mark
Meta
Gibson gets one to three years for breaking and entering
Gibson 20 of Duncan Oklahoma sentenced to not less than one year nor more than three years in state prison for breaking and entering with two men caught in the act at Farr's Drive In Grocery on May 1. Other district court actions include pleas of guilty or not guilty for Ortiz Glenn Harrell and Dickerson with various sentencing dates and juvenile probation.
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Duncan
Oklahoma
State
Kermit Nash
Gibson
Lovington
Farr
Ismael Ortiz
Plains
Texas
William Willis Glenn
Hobbs
Glenn
Otis Lee Harrell
Mattie Gaines Dickerson
Washington
Dean Rusk
Moscow
China
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Andrei Gromyko
Lord Hailsham
Fairbanks Linked To Scandal In Morals Trial
London report flags Douglas Fairbanks Jr as one of Mandy Rice-Davies claimed lovers in Dr. Stephen Ward trial. Mandy, 18, testified she knew the American star and noted his prominence among guests at British royal events. Defense notes she seeks memoir leverage. Proceedings shift to broader sensational questions as prosecutors press the foreign-born witness.
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Robert Musel
United Press International
London
UPD
Marilyn
Mandy) Rice-Davies
Stephen Ward
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Mandy
Viscount Astor
Peter
Peter Rachman
James Burge
Miss Rice-Davies
Fairbanks
Doug Fairbanks
Milkionatre
United States
Rice-Davies
Io Fairbanks
Queen Elizabeth
Duke of Edinburgh
Dr. Ward
Miss
Ward
Mervyn Griffith
Pro Government Demonstrations Rally Outside Saigon Pagoda
In Saigon hundreds of pro government demonstrators including war veterans and militia members gathered outside a Buddhist pagoda while inside a 67 year old nun Dieu Hue announced plans to burn herself to death to press five government demands. The government denied involvement and a ministerial committee voiced concern over the act as clashes occurred between priests and veterans.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
UPD
Phan van Tao
Ngo Dinh Diem
Self Defense Corps
Dieu Hue
Moon test at White Sands delayed to August
NASA announced the first moon landing equipment test at White Sands Missile Range is postponed to about the third week of August due to minor technical difficulties. The test uses a boilerplate Apollo model launched to 5 000 feet, with parachutes simulating three astronauts and about 300 participants on site.
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UPD
White Sands Missile Range
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
North American Aviation Corp
Downey
Calif
NASA
U.S
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N,m
Funeral Today for Accident Victim In Lovington
Funeral services for Gamesindo Acosta 49 of Lovington are set for 9 a m at St Thomas Catholic Church following a Monday night crash east of Eunice that killed him instantly. The ceremony will be followed by burial in Lovington Cemetery. Acosta dies in a collision with a 1954 Mercury driven by 16 year old Joe Wayne Wilkinson of Eunice at the intersection of State Roads 18 and 176. Wilkinson and Acosta's 13 year old daughter Braulia were hospitalized with minor injuries. Acosta is survived by his wife Encarnacion seven sons and nine daughters, plus his father Jose Acosta and four brothers.
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St. Thomas Catholic Church
Gamesindo Acosta
Lovington
Eunice
Lucian Harkins
Acosta
Joe Wayne Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Braulia
Encarnacion
Apolinar
McCamey
Tex
Hilario
Castellan
Oscar
Ricardo
Jesus
Jose Luis
Severiano
Levington
Clarita Gonzales
Imperial
Ambrosia Aresco
Carmen Molinar
Aurelia Espinoza
Reyes Arenivas
Braulia Acosta
Jose Acosta
Flying saucer or meteorites split crops puzzle in England
In Charlton England Roy Blanchard argues a mystery crater in his barley field was made by a flying saucer. British Interplanetary Society official Leonard Carter calls extraterrestrial ships nonsense and suggests meteorite showers. Australian physicist Dr Robert Randall supports a saucer theory linking nearby field marks to a forced landing.
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Charlton
England
Roy Blanchard
Blanchard
Outer Space
Leonard Carter
British Interplanetary Society
Robert Randall
Temperatures Yesterday Reported High and Low
Yesterday recorded a low of 71 degrees at 4 a.m and a high of 99 degrees at 2 p.m, with no other notable conditions reported.
National Guarders Begin Summer Camp at Ft Bliss
New Mexico National Guard Task Force I travels to Ft Bliss in 103 degree heat to start summer training. The force includes units from Farmington to Las Cruces, totaling about 1,300 soldiers.
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Ft, Bliss
Tex
UPI
New Mexico National Guard
Ft. Bliss
Farmington
Las Cruces
Population explosion at Alamogordo worm ranch
In Alamogordo two couples run the Romance Worm Ranch starting with 20 000 red wigglers from Tennessee. The worm beds grew to an estimated four to five and a half million worms in back yards and a low building with 60 cubic foot beds. The operation plans national advertising and uses 20 beds with controlled humidity, feeding every bed one pound of milo cottonseed hull and meal. The artificial homes are three feet deep with straw peanut hulls manure silage peat moss and soil.
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Alamogordo
UPD
Max
Rose Busch
Tennessee
Arid Alamogordo
Peggy
Julian Pierce
New Mexico
Lovington Photographer Captures Partial Solar Eclipse
Lovington photographer Jerry Wright used special filters to photograph a partial solar eclipse last Saturday afternoon. The event spanned from about 1 30 to 3 37 with the sun visibly moon blotting across the sky.
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Lovington
Jerry Wright
Lovington picks Werhan as low bidder for water project
Glen Werhan of Werhan Construction Company Lovington submitted the lowest bid among six for 3 1/2 million gallons of extra water storage and other water system improvements. The Lovington City Commission approved the bid after removing two items from his alternate bid to meet available funds. The total with deletions came to 240 783.45 dollars.
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Gen Werhan
Werhan Construction Company
Lovington
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