Washington primary tests Kennedy Humphrey split in DC delegate race
In Washington DC, the first major primary test unfolds with 21 Democratic delegate seats at stake. Kennedy led by Channing Phillips and Flaxie Pinkett faces a mixed McCarthy-Humphrey influence, while the Republican contest features three factions backing Reagan Nixon and Rockefeller.
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Washington
Indiana
District of Columbia
Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert F. Kennedy
Humphrey
Voring Humphrey
Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Channing E. Phillips
Flaxie M. Pinkett
National Comimon
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
Kennedy-McCarthy
Johnson
McCarthy
E. Franklin Jackson
Harriet Cipriani
Raith
Jackson
Cipriani
Tilford E. Dudley
Democratic Central
John F. Satterlee
California
Ronald Reagan
Nixon
Rockefeller
Carl L. Shipley
GOP
National
Satterlee
Philip A. Guarino
Breuninger
Fifty Year Pins Awarded to Three Area Masons
Three area Masons received 50 year pins in recent lodge ceremonies. Knox S. Piplin and Rev. Preston Florence were honored at Lodge 1222 Seagraves. James Arthur Elliott of Slaton received his pin from Sam Wilson, district deputy grand master.
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Knox S. Piplin
Preston Florence
Seagraves
James Arthur Elliott
Sam Wilson
Seagraves Lodge
Pipkin
Masonic Order
Turkey
Texas
Ryler
Florence
Elkhart
Tex
O'Dell
Elliott
Slaton
Rotary Club
Warning on Color Gap Raises Alarm in Wales
Roy Jenkins warned Labor supporters in Swansea against letting a gap form between white Britons and colored immigrants. He said it would create future trouble affecting children in both communities. He also addressed the government race relations bill and denied it grants privileged status to immigrants.
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Swansea
Wales
Roy Jenkins
Britain
Labor Party
Jenkins
Drive for Private Funds to Aid Negro Public Colleges
The National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges urged corporations and philanthropists to boost private support for predominantly Negro public colleges. They said private funding currently totals under one percent of income, with enrollment near 90,000 across 35 schools. An Atlanta advancement office will open next July led by Dr. Herman B. Smith Jr. to push efforts over two years.
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Washington
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
Association
Public Negro Colleges
United Negro College Fund
United States
Atlanta
Herman B. Smith Jr
Southern Education Foundation
Atlanita
Grapevine Wins $6180 Planning Grant in HUD Awards
Grapevine Texas will receive a $6180 grant as part of a federal housing program announced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The funding aims to support planning efforts for local development and urban renewal.
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Washington
UPI
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Grapevine
Tex
Adm Moorer Possible Chairman Of 1969 Joint Chiefs Of Staff
Washington sources say Admiral Thomas H. Moorer may be groomed to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1969, potentially making a Navy chief the top uniformed military figure for the first time since 1949. Gene Wheeler could be retained for a fifth year if Congress approves an exception, a move met with mixed reaction and debate over authority and precedent.
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Washington
Pentagon
Thomas H. Moorer
Naval Operations
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mount Willing
Ala
Johnson
Earle G. Wheeler
Wheeler
Congress
Moorer
Harold K. Johnson
Army
JCS
William ‘C. Westmoreland
Vietnam
Westmoreland
Joint Chiefs
Secretary of Defense
Clark M. Clifford
John W. McCormack
House
Hubert H. Humphrey
Senate
Clifford
Omar N. Bradley
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Navy
Air Force
Nathan F. Twining
Lyman J.lemnitzer
Maxwell D. Taylor
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Pa. Pol. Adv
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Baylor University College of Medicine
Everett Claire Thomas
Robert E. Bloodwell
Denton Cooley
Crady I. Hallman Jr
Grant Okaye
God
Christian Science Reading Room
Broadway
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Adm. Moorer
Bob Horton
Ler
Capitol Hill
Clarence E. Scott
Sears
PTTS
Spacemaster
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