Worst Yet to Come in Midwest Flood Crisis
The Mississippi River floods devastate Minnesota and neighboring states with thousands homeless and dozens dead. President Johnson declares disaster areas, enabling federal aid as Ohio Indiana Michigan Illinois Wisconsin face tornado and flood threats with rivers cresting to record levels.
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Minnesota Tocay
The
Red Cross
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
Illinois
Wisconsin
President Johnson
Midwest
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
White House
Ilinois
Sunnyside
Charles Keck
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Mississippi
Steelworkers set to extend May deadline in wage gesture
The United Steelworkers announce a possible May 1 extension in exchange for a token wage or benefit increase. Talks have stalled over proposed raises beyond a dollar an hour over three years. Union seeks uninterrupted bargaining and cites two prior industry proposals offering extensions.
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Pittsburgh, Pa
United Steelworkers Union
Union of
Weather Update Rain Stays Through Night Then Clears
Rain, wind and thunder showers persist into the night but will end by late tonight. Tomorrow looks cloudy and cooler following a high near 57 yesterday and a low around 64 today. By 8 a.m. nearly half an inch of rain had fallen.
Mercy Slaying Woman Kills Friend and Ends Own Life
In Philadelphia a 61 year old nursing home resident Mary Happer was shot to death in a mercy killing. Dorothy Butts 49 of Bethesda Maryland was found dead by a bullet in a car outside Bethesda police station. Police recovered a 22 caliber pistol in the car and two notes beside Miss Butts body.
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Philadelphia
Mary
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S
Viet Nam
Mary Happer
Dorothy Butts
Bethesda
Méd
Miss Butts
Miss Happer
High Oaks
Ger
Miss Barrett
Kenneth Gehret
Gehret
Miss Hopper
Bethesie
Humphrey Praises Health-Care Plan At Editors Meeting
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told 450 editors that Congress will pass 13 more major measures this session, extending Johnson's program. He cited health care for the elderly, voting rights, aid to education, tax cuts, pollution controls, and the omnibus farm bill as upcoming actions.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Congress
Johnson
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Humphrey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rhodes Cancels Calendar Amid Sore Throat
Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes stayed home with a sore throat and voice loss and canceled all appointments on his Thursday calendar.
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Columbus, Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Acknowledging Kind Deeds Among Remembered People
The remark notes that many individuals never forget a kind deed they experienced or witnessed. It emphasizes lasting gratitude and the impact of generosity on memory and relationships.
McNamara Policy Criticized by Newspaper Editors Group
The Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors accused Secretary McNamara and his information chief of confusing public information policy with a Ford Motor Co style public relations drive. The group criticized a 162 memorandum demanding a monitor at Pentagon interviews as poorly enforced and noted a spread of a one voice approach to military installations in Viet Nam.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Defense Department
Ford Motor Co
Freedom of Information Committee
American Society of Newspaper Editors
McNamara
Ford
Tee Said
Arthur Sylvester
Department
Pentagon
Viet Nam
Youths Aid Others On Easter Vacation
Twenty eight boys and girls from Arcadia Presbyterian church returned from a week at the Gila Indian Reservation in Arizona. They painted and repaired buildings, built a fence, cleared weeds, and remodeled Crossing Presbyterian church for use as a school. The girls held daily Bible classes for Pima preschoolers. they cooked, slept on church floors, and kept devotions from 6 30 a m to 10 30 p m. They gave $40 toward trip expenses and highlighted a similar outing to Waits near Los Angeles famed for Simon Rodia’s towers built from discarded objects.
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Arcadia Presbyterian Church
Gila
Waits
Los Angeles
Simon Rodia
Rodia
British Minister Confers With LBJ
Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrives in Washington to meet President Johnson for the second time in four months. They will discuss financial and economic problems with George Thomson handling foreign policy and lunch at the White House followed by talks with Henry Fowler and John Connor at the British Embassy.
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Washington
Harold Wilson
Britain
Johnson
Wilson
George Thomson
Foreign Office
White House
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Secreary of Commerce
John T. Connor
United States
Massive air raid targets jungle stronghold near Cambodia border
An armada of 230 U.S. and South Vietnamese aircraft bombed a tangled jungle region in Tay Ninh Province near the Cambodian border. Navy planes joined the assault marking their first action inside South Vietnam, with dawn to dusk bombing and several secondary explosions reported. Westmoreland ordered a maximum effort against the target in the Communist C zone.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Air Force
Viet Nam
Midway
North Viet Nam
U.S
Tay Ninh
William C. Westmoreland
Viet Cong terrorism and U S military raids in Vietnam
Reports describe a U S led strike over North Vietnam with melee air support and a heavy bombing of a Muong Sen boat landing. In Da Nang a Viet Cong terrorist was publicly executed while two other suspects face pressure and potential retaliation. High tension surrounds Saigon and Hanoi with military warnings.
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US. Army
U.S. Air Force
North Viet Nam
Muong Sen
Hanoi
da Nang
Saigon
Nguyen van Hai
U.S
Hanoi Radio
Viet Cong
Gustav C. Hertz
Hai
le Dau
Grand
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