Chinese Foes Swap Damage In Sea Clash
The Nationalist Chinese navy reports three Communist warships sunk south of Quemoy in a dawn sea battle. Two Nationalist vessels went missing after returning fire. Peking claims the two sunk ships, but names differ from Jane’s Fighting Ships. The incident raises questions if it signals a renewed Formosa Strait crisis.
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Quemoy
Formosa Strait
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Peking Radio
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Chang Chiang
Jane’s
Chang Kiang
U.S
Nampa
Kwantung Province
Tungshan
Fukien
China
New
Lin Piao
Quemoy-Matsu
President Signs Negro Voting Bill
President Johnson signed the Negro voting rights bill in the Capitol Rotunda pledging swift enforcement to open the ballot to millions. The measure removes literacy tests and allows federal voter registration where needed, targeting Southern states and counties including Alabama Georgia Mississippi and Virginia. Attorney General Katzenbach will file a suit challenging Mississippi poll taxes.
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Louisiana
Georgia
Mississippi
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Virginia
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Alaska
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Texas
Capitol Dome
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Jean Slashes Across Japan Typhoon Jean Hits Kyushu
Typhoon Jean churned over the Japan Sea after striking southwestern Japan, killing 26 people and injuring 134. It damaged 3,317 houses and flooded 2,836 homes as it moved toward Sakhalin, northern Honshu, and Iokkaido, with one person reported missing.
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Tokyo
Japan Sea
Japan
Central Meteorological Agency
Sakhalin
Honshu
Iokkaido
Kyushu
Juli-Ann Maples Faces Sixth Birthday Today
Little Juli-Ann Maples celebrates her sixth birthday with a family party. Daughter of Mr and Mrs Bobby Maples of 2003 South Grand Street is ready to start school at Lida Benton Elementary now that she is of age.
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Juli-Ann Maples
Lida Benton Elementary
Juli-Ann
Bobby Maples
South Grand St
Off To Bruin Weekend Plans By Local Teams
The South Side All Stars Baseball Team and Quachita Bank Team planned a weekend of swimming fishing and water skiing at Lake Bruin in Tensas Parish leaving Friday for the favored vacation spot.
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Southside All Stars
Quachita Bank
Tensas Parish
Lake Bruin
Death foretold by fortune teller linked to woman’s death
A woman dies as a fortuneteller once predicted, with the eerie claim rooted in childhood. The report notes the prophecy’s persistence as a local tragedy unfolds amid ongoing wartime headlines.
Bombing Raid Kills 12 in Nha Trang City
A U S Canberra jet bombed by Viet Cong crash landed on Nha Trang main street, killing at least 12 Vietnamese civilians and injuring 71 others. Four buildings damaged. crew survived after bailing out. U S officials say it was an accident amid combat operations and heavy enemy losses reported in July.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Nha Trang
Canberra
Gilbert L. Meyers
U.S. Air Force
Wallace Drives Anti Red Campaign to Ban Communist Speakers
Governor George C. Wallace intensified his anti-Communist push by backing a bill to bar Communist speakers from state funded college campuses. He said he will seek a court action to curb demonstrations and urged legislature support, arguing liberty is defended by action rather than appeasement.
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Ala
George C. Wallace
Wallace
State Senate
House
Alabama
Senate
Senate Education Committee
Ship Slices Lake Bridge in Grosse Ile Accident
A large freighter rammed the Grosse Ile toll bridge, causing a span to drop into the Detroit River. Two cars fell into the 30 foot channel. occupants fled on foot and none were injured. The John T. Hutchinson sustained a six foot bow gash and was towed for repairs.
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Detroit River
Grosse Ile
Mich
John T. Hutchinson
Grosse Ile, Mich
UPI
Michigan
Riverview
Detroit
Hutchinson
American Steamship Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Charles A. Lafayette
Trenton
Island
Ontario
Canada
Coast Guard
Buckthorn
Weekend Outlook Warm With Possible Thundershowers
The Weather Bureau forecasts a fair to warm weekend with partly cloudy skies. In the Twin Cities area temperatures will range from 70s to high 80s and low 90s, with a 30 to 50 percent chance of thundershowers and general rainfall under a quarter inch. Winds will be mostly south at 5 to 15 mph.
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Selmanfield
AEC Conducts Low Yield Nuclear Test in Nevada
The Atomic Energy Commission announced a underground nuclear test conducted Friday at the AEC test site in Nevada. The test produced a blast equivalent to less than 20,000 tons of TNT.
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The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Nevada
Texas UT student charged in coed slayings
James C. Cross, 22, a University of Texas junior from Fort Worth, is charged with slaying two coeds, Susan Rigsby and Shirley Ann Stark, whose bodies were found July 31 in a weed-filled field. Cross admitted the killings and was held in Travis County jail without bond.
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UPI
James C. Cross
University of Texas
Forth Worth
Tex
Travis
Susan Rigsby
Shirley Ann Stark
Dalas
Cross
Miss Stark
DPS
Garrison
Fort Worth
Texas
Austin
K. R. Herbert
Travis County
Herbert
Shirley
Susan
Dallas
Turban Lost Guests Saved After Hotel Collapse
A visiting sheik accuses a guest of stealing his turban at the crumbling Club Hotel in Cairo. An argument sparked, and as about a dozen guests headed to the police to settle the dispute, the three story hotel collapsed, killing the sole employee inside. Police say the turban remains missing, likely buried in rubble.
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Cairo
New Market Service Week In Review Comes To Monroe Morning World
The Monroe Morning World will start a weekly market review this Sunday featuring the Associated Press Weekly Market Review with a New York Stock Exchange table of 500 issues, Ameri can Stock Exchange listings, Dow Jones Averages, and more. It includes A P stories on markets, oil stories, and a host of other features, compiled from daily AP statistics and transmitted for automatic typesetting.
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Monroe Morning World
Associated Press Weekly Market Review
New York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange
Associated Press
IBM
World Newsroom
Viet Cong asks North Vietnam for active help in South
Hanoi radio quoted a Viet Cong statement calling for aid to increase forces and step up resistance tenfold. U S officials note Viet Cong losses and see possible bargaining or new action timing. Washington studies the broadcast as Moscow cites U S troop increase as trying to break Viet Nam will.
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North Viet Nam
Hanoi
U.S
Viet Nam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
South Viet Nam
Saigon
Washington
National Liberation Front For
United States
Red China
Moscow
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