Viet Cong Viet Nam battle duco heavy fighting looms
Bloodied Viet Cong and government battalions regroup for fresh fighting at Duc Co in a battle shaping as the war's heaviest of the summer. U S planes pound targets north and south of the border as a Thunderchief is reported shot down but the pilot is rescued. Orleck fires 290 shells off Thanh Hoa coast with spotters calling results excellent.
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AIGON
Duc Co
U. S
Vin Tuy
Hanoi
U.S
Orleck
Thanh Hoa Province
Lagion
Viet Cong Toll in Duc Co Ambush and Siege
Report on a Viet Cong ambush and siege near Duc Co in the central highlands 220 miles northeast of Saigon. Army and Vietnamese forces exchange fire as 219 Viet Cong are reported killed. U.S. casualties described as moderate.
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Duc Co
Saigon
U.S
Pleiku
2Nd Corps
Quang Ngai
Housing bill signed expanding rent subsidies and elderly aid
President Johnson signed a four year 7.5 billion omnibus housing bill promising new rent subsidies and expanded low rent housing including 240 000 additional units and 100 000 via purchase or lease. The measure includes up to 1500 grants for property repairs and a monthly 45 subsidy for qualifying public housing families with incomes under 3000. Endorsed as landmark for elderly and low income housing.
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Ashington
Johnson
White House
House Passes Draft Card Destruction Bill
The House approved a measure making it a five year prison term and a ten thousand dollar fine for knowingly destroying or mutilating draft cards. The bill, aimed at pacifist card burnings, was sent to the Senate by a 393 to 1 vote, with Rep. Henry P. Smith the sole opponent. The Armed Services Committee sponsored the bill, aligning penalties with draft card forgery.
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Washington
House
Senate
Henry P. Smith
House Armed Services Committee
Cuban Lobsterman Says He Shot Captain and Crew
In a Gulf Stream rescue, 35 year old Robert Ramirez told federal agents he fired on the captain Rogelio Diaz and four crewmen aboard the banana boat Seven Seas near Miami to defend the Castro regime. He wounded the captain’s first mate and three other crew, sparing one cook who is missing, while an eighth crewman hid. Ramirez fled in a 14 foot skiff with ammunition after abandoning the derelict vessel en route to Tampa for repairs.
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Associated Press
Iami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Robert Ramirez
Gulf Stream
Miami
Ramirez
Rogelio Diaz
Tampa
Burgwise Elvin
Diaz
Fire Destroys Valuable Art Works At UT Main Building
Flames and heavy smoke engulfed four upper floors of the UT main building in a Tuesday blaze. Firefighters fought for 244 hours to contain the fire as galleries and collections including Houdini items and the Robert Downing collection suffered damage. Authorities noted limited insurance and that most materials were boxed or wrapped for protection during construction.
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Associated Press
University of Texas
University
J. G. Mitchell
Frederick J. Hunter
Hoblitzelle Theater Arts
Robert Downing
Broadway
Norman Bel Geddes
New York
Houdini
Regent
W. W W. Heath
Hunter
Harry Houdini
P. T. Barnum
Herschel Manel
Harold Lundgren
Charles Taylor
Pat Morrison
UT Pace
Grand Jury Action Set In Coed Deaths
Travis County deputy district attorney announced the grand jury will consider murder charges against James C. Cross Jr. on Thursday. Cross is charged with strangling Shirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby in July. The state will seek the death penalty if indicted.
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Associated Press
Travis County Grand Jury
James C. Cross Jr
University of Texas
Cross
Shirley Ann Stark
Susan Rigsby
Dallas
Dist. Atty
Tom Blackwell
Blackwell
Roy Q. Minton
Travis County
Prayer Poem Gratitude Verse
A short anonymous prayer thanks Thee for food and nature. It expresses gratitude for trees bees forests and parents and commits to loving others.
Daughter of Little Gus Aims for Texas Tech Education
Panayiota Dallis, 17, Greek immigrant and granddaughter of Gust Kallas, seeks architecture studies at Texas Tech after arriving from Greece two weeks ago. An honor graduate who faced language barriers, she follows her father’s path and will live with the Kallas family in Lubbock while pursuing higher education.
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George Pharr
Avalanche-Journal
Gus Dallis
Texas Tech
Tech
Panayiota
Miss Dallis
U. S
Kato Klitoria
Greece
Panayota
Texas
Tit
Lubbock
Dallis
Gust Kallas
36Th St
Kallas
Wll
Panaglota
Gus
Page
Hundreds Turn Out To Register As Justice Fights Poll Taxes
Negro voters pack federal regis trars offices in Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while the Justice Department moves to abolish poll taxes in Texas Virginia and Alabama. In Selma Greensboro Canton and other sites50 turnout at dawn as examiners including Negroes test constitutionality and enforcement. Antecedent warnings on posters cite crimes against rights duties while Anita Strong recounts repeated registration attempts in a hinge moment of civil rights push.
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Associated Press
Department of Justice
Johnson
Texas
Selma
Alabama
Greensboro
Canton
Miss
Justice Department
Mississippi
Louisiana
Virginia
Austin
Department
U.S
Richmond
Montgomery
Ala
Congress
Attorney General
Dallas County
James Clark
Anita Strong
Indictments Far Reach In Local Grand Jury Session
Rand jurors of 72nd District Court returned 56 indictments including one murder with malice for the pistol slaying of Sarah Vargas at a night club last month. The panel planned 71 cases, with 16 defendants previously indicted by a 99th District Court grand jury.
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Dave Knapp
Avalanche-Journal
RAND
Dist. Atty
Alton R. Griffin
Victor H. Lindsey
99Th District Court
Albino Paz Jr
Main St
Sarah Ruis Vargas
N. Ave
E. 19Th St
Joe Lawrence Bunton
29Th St
Bunton
Elvis E. Fant
Walt
19Th St
Fant
Cruz Tijerina
Ave. H
Grand Jury
Showers Spread Across Plains with Texas Storms
Wet weather hit the Plains with scattered showers from Lubbock to Amarillo and a cool front dampening Central and South Texas. A George West tornado formed briefly, while another spun near Three Rivers. San Leon reports its first measurable rain in 62 days.
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Abbock
South Plains
Texas
U.S
Gulf Coast States
Lubbock
Central
South
Hillsboro
Longview
Department of Public Safety
DPS
George West
San Antonio
San Lee
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Singapore
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Trieste
Italy
Cristoforo Colombo
Adriatic
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Eugene
Ore
McMartin
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UPI
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Minton
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Drouth
Three Rivers
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Albu
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