Block Party Fight Fatal To Officer
In McKinney Texas Patrolman Milligan Ray Burk and Officer Tommy Lee Ashley were involved in a block party disturbance. Burk died and Ashley was seriously wounded after armed confrontation with Herman Calvin Red Smith and a held witness. Smith was wounded in the exchange and Smith later faced murder in vestigation. A large police response followed as investigators pieced together the shooting sequence.
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Mckinney
Tex
Otho Nicholas
Milligan
Ray Burk
Tommy Lee Ashley
Burk
Ashley
Tom
Ryan
Herman Calvin
Red” Smith
Justice of the Peace
Robert Ramsey
Smith
Ray
Melvines
Dallas
McKinney Poliee
Sherman
Melxinney
Britain eases stance on chemical weapons amid UN talks
Britain plans to adhere to the Geneva protocol while reserving tear gas CS and similar agents for nonlethal use in war. The move follows Cabinet debates and mirrors a U.S. stance but stops short of UN Secretary General U Thant push for a blanket ban.
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Harold Wilson
Michael Stewart
Britain
U.S
U.N
U Thant
Episcopal Diocese approves budget cuts for missionary funds
In Galveston the Episcopal Diocese of Texas okayed a plan to trim its national church contributions from an $887,117 missionary budget, directing 25 percent cuts to the $309,610 national church allotment. The council backed bishop J Milton Richardson's push for final say over local grants and urged tighter controls on grant spending while maintaining support for chaplain training and WWII and Vietnam era prisoner relief efforts. It also approved a diocesan budget of $87,196 with a $100 increase for St Luke's Hospital in Houston and endorsed a fact finding program on grant disbursements.
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Galveston
Episcopal Diocese of
Partierea Os
Couned
Bh Amd
Ta Spport
St Luke's Hospital
Houston
Couerd
Ithich
Comcil
Vietnam
Dixie jurist may calm South stateside
Morton said Nixon’s Supreme Court nomination of G Harrold Carswell would help end segregation and prejudice in the South. He warned the region faces near disaster without action and noted deep emotions and traditions complicate compliance with desegregation directives.
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South
New York
Rogers Co
B. Morton
Republican National
Nixon
U.S. Supreme Court
Appeals Court
G. Harrold Carswell
Florida
Morton
Morten
South Carolina
Russians Warn Against Kissing Amid Influenza Outbreak
Izvestia urged Soviets to avoid kissing in greetings to slow the flu spread. The government paper said Moscow and Leningrad were at peak and other cities were affected. Citizens should stay home and report illness to local physicians. kisses should be dispensed with for the time being.
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Moscow
UPI
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Javestia
Leningrad
Kiev
Miuromansk
Donetsk
Senate debate on $100 minimum Social Security proposed
Washington Democrats push to raise the minimum Social Security payment to $100 a month, a 56 percent increase, funded by raising the taxable wage base from 7800 to 12000. The plan, led by Senator Mansfield and Senator Byrd, faces GOP opposition and Nixon administration concerns over cost.
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Senate
Washington
Mikel Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Senate House
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Long
U.S
Nixon
Edward M. Nennedy
D-Mass
Treasury
Byrd
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