LBJ To Hear Viet Crisis Report Today At White House
President Lyndon Johnson, Secretary Rusk and Secretary McNamara will hear a report at 3:30 p.m. CST, after a White House luncheon with Harriman. The session covers Southeast Asia and other areas including the Dominican Republic while discussions note Moscow may favor a conference under unspecified conditions. The Defense Department seeks more troops for Vietnam as buildup continues.
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Rusk
Harriman
White House
McNamara
Southeast Asia
Africa
Latin America
Dominican Republic
Alexei N. Kosygin
Moscow
Defense Department
Third Day Forest Fires Flare Anew On Riviera
Fires raged along the French Riviera for a third day as a mistral wind threatened more blazes. In Le Lavandou area woods and tents burned. two dead and several injured reported as fire crews struggled.
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Riviera
Toulon
France
Jean Gallian
St. Clair
le Lavandou
Here
Rhone
Mediterranean
St. Tropez
China to Expand Economic Aid to Pakistan
Communist China pledged further aid to Pakistan with long term loans totaling sixty million dollars in credits while the United States debates aid levels. Soviet Union considers projects worth two hundred million dollars, and protests in Hyderabad target the US information center over delaying the aid consortium meeting.
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Rawalpindi
Pakistan
Tuseday Peking
World Bank
U.S
Soviet Union
Pakistan Times
A. E. Nesterenko
Moscow
Ting Kou You
Pakistan Press Association
China
United States
Congress
Hyderabad
Karchi
U.S. Information Center
Johnson
Greek Parliament Heads Toward Confidence Vote
The Greek Parliament moved toward a confidence vote seen as likely to support the day-old government of Prime Minister George Athan Novas. Tempers ran high as the bitter debate stretched into the evening amid heated exchanges between lawmakers.
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Greece
Athens
UPI
George Athans Novas
Wage Hike Would Expand Coverage to More Workers
President Roosevelt said a proposed wage bill would bring 2.5 million more workers under minimum pay rules by lowering establishment and unit cutoff thresholds. It would expand protections to hotel and restaurant workers, hospital staff, auto sales, motion picture workers, laundries, dry cleaners, logging, seafood processing, cotton gins, and grain elevator operators. The House Education and Labor Committee plans to take up the measure next week with swift approval anticipated by month end.
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Roosevelt
House Education and Labor Committee
Goods found on truck tied to missing women case
Detective Lt. Burt Garding links a suitcase and lamp found among 30 goodwill boxes to the missing young women case. Police study household items at headquarters while awaiting lab results on strangulation and possible rape, with two weeks for final reports.
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Burt Garding
Garding
Herbert
L. L. Morgan
Justice of the Peace
Jerry Dellana
Labor disputes and wage debate dominate Texas AFL‑CIO convention
Yarborough accuses governor of delaying $1.25 wage projects in 11 Texas towns including Groveton Austin Beaumont San Antonio and Marfa to kill the poverty program. Humphrey pledges repeal of Taft-Hartley Section 14B to promote stronger unions while El Paso delegates protest alien labor conditions and demand a fair wage for American workers.
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Yarborough
Groveton
Austin
Beaumont
San Antonio
Coldspring
Angleton
Palestine
Spur
Jasper
Alpine
Marfa
Miami
Fla
Humphrey
Johnson
America
Afl-Cio
Hank Brown
el Paso
Mexico
Charles Donahue
U.S. Department of Labor
House Approves Pension Increase In Civil Service
The House approved a measure by 394 to 0 to boost pensions for retired civil servants and survivors. It adds cost-of-living raises and higher basic annuities for about 700,000 retirees, with initial annual cost around 148.4 million dollars and varied percentage increases based on retirement dates. The bill also raises special widows’ annuities by 5 percent for 43,000 cases and accelerates future COLA calculations based on a three month period, effective three months after enactment.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Egypt Seizes Arms Caches and Arrests 100 Brotherhood Members
Cairo reports say Egyptian authorities seized secret caches of arms and explosives and arrested about 100 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood Movement. Interrogations suggest a plot to assassinate President Gamal Nasser, though no official confirmation was given.
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Cairo
Gamal Nasser
Connally Reports Mail Favoring Re-Election Bid
Texas Governor John Connally said his mail shows strong support for a second term and he plans to decide by mid September. He noted some letters urging a U S Senate run and stated he has not been drafted to seek any particular office.
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Austin
Tex
John Connally
Executive
Sev
Eral Weeks
U. S. Senate
Texas
Connally
College Coordinating Board
Japan
South Viet ‘Nam
Area Families Welcome Newborns Across Lubbock County
Multiple births announced in local hospitals including West Texas Hospital Methodist Hospital Reese AFB Hospital and Latif Clinic. Parents named with addresses occupations and baby weights and times showing births from Tuesday through Friday in Lubbock Texas.
Connally defends Texas anti poverty program delays and veto
Gov Connally argues Washington approves Neighborhood Youth Corps projects in 55 days on average, while Texas clears in three. He cites Community Action programs at 14 days versus 65 days in D C. He vetoed one NYC grant worth 381 480 to the Texas Farmers Union for rural school districts in eight South Central Texas counties as two of 33 districts declined to join.
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Texas
Connally
Washington
NYC
Texas Farmers ‘Union
Department of Labor
Lubbock Avalanche - Journal
Leslie Carpenter
Sen. Yarborough
Gov. Connally
Senate
Carpenter
Tax Board Deliberations Continue Across-Board Hearings
The Tax Board pressed on with four weeks of hearings on real estate and personal property. Diekemper said small panel meetings would continue this week to wrap up work, with bearers ending as the board nears completion. Marlon Sanford Henry Holmes Gene Anderson and Robert Fletcher joined Diekemper on today’s panel in the shopping center session.
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Diekemper
Marlon Sanford
Henry Holmes
Gene Anderson
Robert Fletcher
Wilson Boosts Channel Tunnel Plan for Finance Steps
London reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson declared readiness to act on financing the long debated Channel Tunnel. He said both nations had settled the bridge versus tunnel dispute and would pursue an underground rail link for passengers and cars under the Dover Straits.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
English Channel
Britain
France
Channel
Straits of Dover
Wilson
Mother Seeks Controversial Chicken Pox Exposure for Child
A mother, after trying every prescribed pill and injection since discovering Joy's condition last January, says her daughter is a little better today after a new injection but she would not hesitate to expose Joy to chicken pox, calling it their only real hope.
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Joy
Sharon Evans
Vetyrtura
Calif
Joy Ann
Experimental chicken pox exposure considered for leukemia patient
Mrs Evans contemplates a risky experimental treatment after a physician notes possible leukemia remission from chicken pox exposure. Joy, 6, has acute lymphocytic leukemia with severe anemia and limited marrow treatment options. The doctor cautions this approach could harm many leukemic children and stresses no cure is claimed. Mrs Evans, separated from husband, lives with her parents and other child Patti Ann while awaiting decisions.
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Joy
Lucial Johnson
Texas to Call 19-Year-Olds in October Draft
Texas Selective Service director Col. Morris S. Schwartz said if calls stay high, many 19-year-olds will be drafted by fall. He noted August will induct mostly 21-year-olds and September will screen 20-year-olds. October could see substantial 19-year-old inductions. Pentagon raised September 17 000 to 27 400 and October 33 600. Texas quotas 1 459 and 1 780 respectively.
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Navy
Johnson
White House
United States
South Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
North Viet Nam
Earle C. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Honolulu
U.S
Viet Nam
International Platform Association
Austin
Tex
Selective Service
Texas
Morris S. Schwartz
Pentagon
Schwartz
Dallas Center funds get tentative conferees approval
Washington sources report Senate and House conferees tentatively agreed on 21 million dollars to finance the Dallas Center federal facility. Senator Gordon Allott said House and Senate members backed the Dallas Center item though final approval could still be reconsidered.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
House
Dallas
Gordon Allot
R-Cole
Senate House
Allott
Dallas Center
West Berlin Police Crack Down on Lords Thieves
West Berlin police charged seven youths aged 17 to 20 with banding as the Lords Club and committing at least 12 robberies. They allegedly stole record players clothing and other items worth about 5000 marks, breaking in at night to shops and houses until a father turned in his 17 year old son after finding materials in the boy's room.
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Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
Lords
Ested Pond Benson
War chest for boll weevil fight outlined in Texas plan
Regional committee approves 1965 diapause program refinements to start spraying earlier and extend to about one million acres. The plan aims to kill weevils before winter hibernation, reduce overwintering populations, and shift costs with federal and state funding.
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G. B. Morris
Crosby County
Caprock
High Plains
Perry Adkisson
Texas A&m
Adkisson
Rogram
Sson
U.S
Afton
W. L. Owen
South Plains Research and Extension Center
Owen
M. Rummel
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Rummel
Duane Russell
U.S. Department of Agriculture
PPC
Dickens
Kent
Motley
Floyd
Crosby, Garza
Briscoe
Hall
Texas Department of Agriculture
Ared
Anderson
Fregke
Johnson to Send 50,000 More U S Troops to Vietnam
At a news conference Johnson announced 50,000 additional Americans would be sent to South Vietnam and monthly draft calls would double from 17,000 to 35,000. The Pentagon confirmed the upturn aligns with the president’s plan to build active armed forces in Southeast Asia. The Army and Navy outlined manpower needs and import provisions to meet the expanded quotas.
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Johnson
South Viet Nam
Pentagon
Asia
Navy
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