Early Bird satellite success marks Comsat first space venture
The United States led Comsat announces a successful three stage rocket launch for the Early Bird commercial satellite. It will pass through nine orbital shifts to reach a stationary 22 300 mile orbit above the Atlantic shaping a global communications network by 1967. West Berlin also reports Soviet MIG19 flights over Congress Hall and air corridors as Parliament met.
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Cape Kennedy
Fila
Communications Satellite Corp
Comsat
United States
Berlin
West Germany
Congress Hall
Action Quickens In Steel Talks
In Pittsburgh with 24 days to a possible United Steelworkers strike the steel industry braces for rapid developments. Top negotiators meet after a recess as unions and companies weigh next steps while plant level talks focus on factory concerns.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
Roosevelt Loses Reelection Bid to Yorty in Los Angeles
In a high turnout Los Angeles municipal primary, Samuel W. Yorty defeated James Roosevelt and six others to secure more than 50 percent and win reelection as mayor. With 4,622 of 5,055 precincts reporting, Yorty held 196,342 votes to Roosevelt's 113,509 amid cloudy weather and a reported 5 percent voter turnout.
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Muel W. Yorty
James Roosevelt
Yorty
Roosevelt
Indictment Ties 3 Whites to Liuzzo Slaying by Klan Link
Three Birmingham white men linked to the Ku Klux Klan surrendered after a federal grand jury indicted them in Montgomery for conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Detroit housewife Viola Liuzzo, shot in Lowndes County after a voter rights march. The defendants are Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., Eugene Thomas, and William Orville Faston. A fourth man, Gary Rowe Jr., was not named in the indictment.
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Birmingham
Ala
Montgomery
Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr
Fairfield
Eugene Thomas
William Orville Faston
Bes
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Detroit
Gary Thomas Rowe Jr
Lowndes County
Liuzzo
Selma
Chuckle In Marriage Money Isn’t Everything
A light item notes humor in marriage where wealth is not abundant and the couple finds meaning beyond money. The piece playfully contrasts finances with companionship and shared life.
Middletown Fine Arts Center appoints new home and director notes
Richard J. Boyle resigns as art director effective Aug. 15 after serving since February 1963. He becomes assistant curator to the Cincinnati Art Museum director, touring, lecturing, and overseeing exhibitions while seeking a new center home and continuing community support.
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Richard J. Boyle
Middletown
Middletown Fine Arts Center
Boyle
Philip Adams
Cincinnati Art Museum
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts
Oxford University
England
United States
Adelphi College
London
Art Students League
New York
City Center
North Shore Art Center
Long Island
Hecksher Museum
Huntington
Rhode Island
Cincinnati
Cimcinnati Art Museum
Eric
Friendship symbol renewed through cherry tree gift
Japanese ambassador announced a new donation of thousands of cherry trees to Washington to mark friendship, with 3 000 to 4 000 trees planned around the Washington Monument grounds. Mrs. Johnson and Ambassador Takeuchi planted trees at the Tidal Basin during the 1965 Cherry Blossom Festival opening ceremony.
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William Howard Taft
Tokyo
City of
Washington
Tidal Basin
Potomac Park
Lyndon B Johnson
Washington Monument
National Park Service
Ryuji Takeuchi
Johnson
Tidal
Major Victory Claimed In Mekong Delta Battle
South Vietnamese and U S forces report a major victory after a battle in the Mekong delta south of Saigon. They say 309 Viet Cong killed or captured and note air and naval strikes from Coral Sea aircraft. Reports also detail troop and civilian casualties and mined convoys in surrounding provinces.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Mekong
Viet Nam
South
Quang Ngai
U.S
Quang Nam
Quang Hugat
Drought to flood crisis hits Midwest states
The AP report notes heavy spring floods across eight Iowa Minnesota and Illinois counties with the Little Sioux River cresting at 27 feet funds for the flood control experts warn of higher crests. Mayor Dale Goldie declared an emergency as 350 residents were evacuated aided by National Guardsmen and Red Cross shelters housed 650 people for Cherokee Waterloo Marshalltown.
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Iowa
Little Sioux
Dale Goldie
Sioux Rapids
Cherokee
Spencer
Red Cross
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Minnesota
Theilman
Weather outlook cool tonight and sunny tomorrow
The area will see a cool night with a low in the 50s and clearing skies for a sunny day tomorrow. Daytime temperatures will reach the 70s with no rain expected today or tomorrow. Yesterday’s high was 75 and today’s low was 52. a funnel cloud that formed over Richmond Indiana damaged Piqua.
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Richmond
Ind
Piqua
Health Care and Education Bills Head to House and Senate
The House opens debate on a $6 billion package expanding Social Security benefits for some 20 million seniors and funding hospital care and low cost medical insurance while increasing taxes for workers. Senate considers Johnson backed aid to deprived children with $1.3 billion for K-12 schools as floor battles loom and parochial school access remains shielded by public-school administration rules.
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Washington
House
Senate
Johnson
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Mike Mansfield
Viet Nam Weekly Action Summary Shows Slump in Viet Cong Incidents
The U.S. military weekly Viet Nam report for the week ending April 3 notes a sharp decline in Viet Cong incidents and a corresponding rise in casualties on both sides.
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U.S
Viet Nam
Viet Cong threaten to execute American civilian in Saigon stand-off
The Viet Cong issued a declaration stating they will execute Gustav C. Hertz, 46, of Leesburg Virginia, chief of the U.S. Aid Mission Public Administration Division in Saigon, if Saigon hangs a Viet Cong sabotage team leader arrested in Da Nang. Hertz had disappeared during a motorbike trip two months earlier.
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Tokyo
Saigon
da Nang
Gustav C. Hertz
Leesburg
U.S. Aid Mission
Public Administration
Johnson to address Vietnam policy on peace track tonight
President Johnson will speak at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore outlining a peace oriented Vietnam policy. The address aims to reassure critics abroad and at home while signaling possible negotiations with major nonaligned powers.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
South Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
White House
United States
India
Yugoslavia
United Arab Republic
Michael Stewart
House of Commons
London
Dean Rusk
Stewart
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