Anti-Viet Nam Protests Call for Firm Federal Punishment
An editorial urges swift action against anti Viet Nam protestors and draft dodgers. It cites the SDS in Chicago under FBI scrutiny and a new law with up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for aiding draft dodgers, plus arrests for draft card burnings in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.S
Students For A Democratic Society
Paul Booth
SDS
FBI
David J. Miller
New York City
Court may let Texas legislate redistricting changes
Three-judge Federal Court considering Texas redistricting hints it may leave boundary decisions to the Legislature. House Speaker Ben Barnes urges the Court to decline drawing districts and notes a special session could be called. Judges questioned whether the present reapportionment passes constitutional muster amid gerrymandering charges.
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Texas
House
Ben Barnes
Congressional
Texas Senate
Attorney General's
U.S. Circuit
John R. Brown
Court may push reshaping of House districts
The piece argues the Court may order redrawing of House districts and suggests a special session to let the Legislature act. It notes a special session could fix clerical errors in the Criminal Code and pass a voter registration law if the courts strike down the poll tax law. The session appears increasingly likely.
Supreme Court Justice Douglas Criticizes Viet Nam Policy
A weekend speech by Justice William C. Douglas at an Eastern college denounces U.S. military actions in South Viet Nam. He argues that the issue must be resolved politically and warns against military solutions, prompting calls to respect executive and legislative prerogatives.
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Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
An Eastern College
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
United States
Justice Douglas
Eisenhower flips on term limits and ponders longer service
The former president Dwight D. Eisenhower now says the two term limit is generally good though he once doubted it. He adds a new idea suggesting a personal cap for members of the House, perhaps 12 to 16 years. The piece notes Ike’s past friction with Congress and hints at similar questions in the Senate.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
House
Ike
Congress
Senate
Lindsay
Buckley
Beame
Ike Beame
Days Of Childhood Like A Rosy Mist Through Time
A humorist notes people recall childhood days with rosy glow yet few would relive them. He suggests imagined heartaches and worries once felt seem minor now, and that past and future always seem more alluring than the present. Distance lends enchantment to the view, a poet’s observation.
Johnnie Cash Arrested in El Paso Dope Smuggling Probe
Country singer Johnnie Cash was arrested at El Paso International Airport and charged with smuggling dope into the United States. Investigators say informers and cross border cooperation led to preemptive警警 surveillance at four airports.
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Johnnie Cash
Houston
el Paso
International
United States Customs
Miami
New Orleans
Memphis
Chanter
Draft dodging plot spurs SDS action and risks
In a Bloomington SDS workshop the plan to jam draft boards with conscientious objector appeals is outlined as a means to cripple the draft. The scheme faces federal penalties and would require broad student support, with officials warning of potential prosecutions and heightened scrutiny of draft processes nationwide.
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Washington
Radical Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
Bloomington
Ind
New Left
C. O
Asia
California
Selective Service Headquarters
Selective Service
Beame Lindsay Buckley Vie For New York City Mayoral Race
Three candidates Abe Beame John Lindsay and William Buckley contend for New York mayor. Buckley disrupts the race by drawing voters from both parties while Beame touts Jewish support and mayoral pedigree amid a city seen as ungovernable.
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New York
New York City
Abe Beame
John Lindsay
Bill Buckley
War Prevents Army Navy Merger Urged by Marshall
Gen George C Marshall urged Congress to unite the Army and Navy into one force backed by a single businesslike intelligence service to match world powers and track international plans. A 24 000 word Nazi war crimes dossier was filed in Berlin for the Nürnberg trials. FBI and peace officers plan Texas conferences to curb post war gangsterism with Salvation Army rally in Lubbock.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Congress
Army
Navy
Berlin
Nuernberg
International War Crimes Court
Nuerenberg
San Antonio
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Peace Officers
Texas
M. W. Acers
Home League
Women’s Service Organization of the
Salvation Army
Lubbock
17Th St
Vineel Larsen
Farmer Seeks Farm Aid Mocking the 4 Billion Bill
A Virginia farmer-critic questions the four year four billion farm bill after noting no crops, only sumac and rocks, and mocks subsidies for cotton while apple trees rot. He argues he is socially and economically incompetent yet seeks a cash handout as he laments market failures and government aid bias.
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Department of Agriculture
Tom Heflin
Ed Smith
Committee
Senate
Sumac
U.S
Blowing Sand Threatens Thousand Palms Destruction
A guest editorial notes topsoil loss in Thousand Palms California as sand storms force families to relocate. Winds erode soil after a four year process begun with a road cut and ongoing development. The county seeks federal action to control the adverse natural condition and reclaim the affected area.
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Thousand Palms
Calif
Palm Springs
County Board of Supervisors
Fort Worth
Fear Of Hoppers Threatens Southeastern New Mexico
The New Mexico Department of Agriculture reports a potential grasshopper infestation in 1966 across 335000 acres in Southeast New Mexico. A USDA NM Grasshopper Control Board survey found an average of seven adults per square yard this year, signaling possible forage loss and erosion next summer if conditions favor hoppers. aerial spraying is cited as a control option.
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NEW Mexico Department of Agriculture
New Mexico
USDA
New Mexico Grasshopper Control Board
Hobbs News-Sun
Dear Turnrow Turnrow McBride on Money and Theories
The column pokes at farmers using computers to track profits, preferring banker judgments over machines. It shifts to cosmology, weighing oscillating, steady state, and big bang theories as views within relativity, favoring the oscillating universe.
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Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
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Andrew Tully
Beanie
Democrat Beame
Rosemary Gunning
Wagner
Paul Screvane
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Rockahominy County
Virginia
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Barry Goldwater
O. C. McBride
Turnrow Tunker
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