Goodyear URW Workers Walk Out Across 10 States
More than 20 000 United Rubber Workers at 11 Goodyear plants in 10 states joined the strike after bargaining failed to produce a new agreement. Pickets lined plant gates as negotiations recessed with no deal, while General Tire and Rubber workers nearby faced separate actions. The union planned a local ratification vote that could resume production early next week. Police fought riots in Newark injuring a patrolman amid looting and business district damage.
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Akron, Ohio
United Rubber
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Cincinnati
Goodyear
General Tire & Rubber Co
Cleveland
United Rubber Workers
Firestone
B. F. Goodrich
Uniroyal
General Tire & Rubber
URW
Waco
Tex
General Tire
UAW
Weekend forecast shows fair cool conditions
The weather page reports tonight and Saturday will be fair and cool with a low in the 50s and a high around 80 yesterday. The previous night’s low was 51 and today at 11 am the temperature stood at 64.
170 Strikes Flown Over Enemy Land
U S pilots flew 170 missions against North Vietnam Thursday their fourth highest total of the war attacking missile sites around Hanoi and Haiphong oil depots near Haiphong and Communist army barracks Navy fliers reported a SAM missile misfired exploding in a village 12 miles southwest of Haiphong.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Navy
Guan Co
South China Sea
South Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Laos
North
7Th Air Force
Marine Corps
Air Force
Johnson Announces New Strength for Vietnam War Effort
President Johnson on a White House briefing with Westmoreland McNamara and Wheeler signaled commitment to increasing U S forces in Vietnam while keeping exact troop numbers, dates and destinations to be decided with allies. Westmoreland said numbers cannot be fixed now and nations anticipate possible additions.
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Westmoreland
U.S
Vietnam
White House
Johnson
McNamara
Army
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Wheeler
Pentagon
Riots in Newark Barricade City With National Guard
State police and National Guard units were ordered in as rioting spread from a Negro slum district to all areas of Newark New Jersey. More than 122 injured and nearly 200 arrested as gunfire and looting shattered Springfield Avenue despite police and guard actions.
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Newark
N.J
National Guard
Hugh Addonizio
Arthur J. Sills
James Cantwell
Addonizio
City
Springfield Avenue
No advice given here prompts a fee, just chat
A humorous line notes that people prefer professional fees from lawyers or doctors and may ignore casual guidance. It pokes at the idea of paid expertise versus casual conversation.
Suez Canal fighting flares as UN moves on observers
Tank and artillery exchanges along the Suez cease-fire line resume with both sides claiming hits. Egypt says it destroyed an Israeli launch and several boats. Israel reports tanks knocked out and casualties. UN observer Odd Bull travels between Cairo and Tel Aviv to discuss stationing of monitors. Israel also announces tapping Sinai oil wells yielding about 5 million tons yearly.
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Associated Press
Suez Canal
el Qantara
Odd Bull
U.N. Palestine
Cairo
Tel Aviv
U.N
Bull
Israel
Egypt
Sinai Desert
French Show Might, Crowd Unimpressed on Bastille Day
Paris saw a grand Bastille Day parade for President Charles de Gaulle with 67 minutes of armor and jet aircraft. The crowd gave only scattered applause amid discontent over De Gaulle’s Middle East policies as thousands lined the Champs Elysees.
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Paris
France
Charles de Gaulle
Champs Elysses
de Gaulle
Dier
Israel
Middle East
Bastille
Surveyor 4 Moon Mission Posts Strong Start and Magnet Test
NASA reports Surveyor 4 underway on a 62 hour trip to the moon 224730 miles away. The craft carries a magnet and extendible scoop to test soil strength and collect lunar fragments to evaluate crater formation theories.
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Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Surveyor
U.S
Benjamin Milwitsky
NASA
Washington, D.C
Lunar
Rail unions threaten to strike after congressional delay
Six rail unions announce plans to strike after midnight Saturday despite a congressional warning to defer action. They will meet Monday to decide whether to heed lawmakers’ plea to give the stalled conference another chance at settling the shop craft dispute.
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Washington
Senate
House
Harley C. Staggers
D-W.va
Staggers
House Commerce Committee
Conference Panel
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