Two Coast Guardsmen Die In Air Strike Mistake
In a dawn attack near Hue a U S Coast Guard cutter Point Welcome was hit by Air Force planes mistaking it for a North Vietnamese trawler. Two guardsmen were killed and five wounded including English photographer Tim Page.
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Saigon
Coast Guard
Coast
Cua Viet River
Hue
U.S
Point Welcome
Tim Page
Orpington
Kent
England
Viet Nam
NASA Sets Pioneer VII Sun Probe Launch Date
NASA plans to launch Pioneer VII, a 140 pound drum shaped spacecraft, by Delta rocket from Cape Kennedy next Wednesday to orbit the sun and study atomic particles and magnetic fields. The probe will trail Earth in solar orbit, arriving about 38 days after launch and potentially detecting the sun earth magnetosphere tail as solar activity is monitored through October.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mt Ae Heete
Nazaras
Delta Rocket
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Pioneer
Earth
NASA
Pioneer 7
Marines Battle Near Da Nang Presses Fleeing North Viet Nam Force
Marines pursued an estimated 6000 North Vietnamese troops after a night battle near Da Nang. About 121 enemy fighters were killed while U S casualties were described as moderate. Air support from B52s and other planes hit the Pleiku area as U S forces aimed to block a monsoon season push.
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Saigon
da Nang
South Viet Nam
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast
Air Force
Pleiku
U.S
North Viet Nam
Haiphong Hanoi
Navy
Marine
Panhandle
Richland Man Killed In Crash Near Vicksburg
In a pre dawn crash east of Vicksburg two people died and four were hurt. The dead include an unidentified woman and David Lee Jackson of Rayville Louisiana. Injured were Percy Thomas Jr his wife their son Herman and Mattie Brown of Jackson. The car failed to turn from a single lane into a four lane section of Interstate at the Flowers community and struck a poultry truck whose driver was only slightly hurt.
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David Lee Jackson
Rayville
Percy Thomas Jr
Herman
Mattie Brown
Jackson
Flowers
French Atomic Workers Missing After Tahiti Plane Crash
Three French engineers including two from the CEA and three military personnel are missing after a light plane crashed into the sea near Fangataufa atoll in the Pacific nuclear test zone. The aircraft went down about 800 yards off the atoll while approaching to land.
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Papeete, Tahiti
UPI
Franc Atomic Energy Commission
France
Pacific
Fangataufa
Median U S family income up 5 percent in 1965
Census Bureau reports median family income rose 5 percent to 6900 dollars for 1965, with real purchasing power up about 8 percent after price increases. 49 percent of families earned 7000 dollars or more, 17 percent under 5000. Whites and nonwhites show wide gaps in low and high income brackets.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Bureau
Dirksen Key To Breaking Senate Stall
Senate debate on the House civil rights bill will start September 6, with Democratic Leader Mansfield saying Dirksen must back cloture to break a southern filibuster. The House bill passed 259 to 157 and narrows open housing coverage to about 40 percent of housing units.
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Washington
House
Senate
Mansfield
Judiciary
Dirksen
Pickup
Johnson
Judiciary Committee
Twin Cities CHIT CHAT about Monroe in Southern travels
Virginia Jane Ford, a freelance Southern fiction writer and speech therapy teacher from Biloxi Mississippi, praises Monroe as one of the prettiest towns she has seen. She notes the Ouachita River, charming homes, and friendly people enhancing her visit while she works on a children’s book.
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Virginia Jane Ford
Monroe
Hattiesburg
Miss
Miss Ford
Biloxi
Ouachita
Orbiter Seeks Level Land Spot for Moon Mission
Lunar Orbiter, an 850 pound camera-equipped spacecraft, launched from Cape Kennedy on an Atlas Agena rocket, heads to the moon to photograph landing sites and measure radiation and micrometeorite density. If gravity capture occurs, it will orbit the moon and return 352 photos including the limb. The mission follows struggles by U S and compares to Soviet probes.
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Pasadena
Calif
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Spaee Agency
Earth
Russia
Bridge Collapse in Ottawa Kills Several Workers
In Ottawa a bridge under construction over the Rideau River collapsed sending hundreds of tons of concrete into the gorge. Seven dead are listed with more bodies feared. 53 injured, 18 critically, as rescue teams battle rain and mud. Mayor Don Reid pledges thorough investigation.
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Ottawa
Heron Road
Rideau River
Niagara Falls
Leonard Baird
Clarence Beattie
Cornwall
Jean-Paul Guerin
Hawkesbury
Ont
Omar Lamadeleine
Embrun
Edmund Raymond Tremblay
Jon
Co Romano
Raymond Tremblay
Jonquiere
Que
Don Reid
Mike Graham
London
Black Power Placards Found Across Baton Rouge Area
Police investigate distribution of black power placards bearing the Black Muslim symbol in Baton Rouge. Placards appeared Wednesday, some thrown into yards and others tacked to utility poles. Negro leaders deny knowledge of them.
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Baton Rouge
Timothy O Shea Dies In Wreck At Fort Polk Louisiana
Tim O Shea, 20, of the 567th Ordinance Company at Fort Polk, was killed in a one car crash in Kisatchie Louisiana. Passenger Marion Cemke, 25, also of the 567th at Fort Polk, was injured with condition not known.
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Kisatchie, la
Timothy F. O'Shea
567Th Ordinance Company
Fort Polk
O’shea
Marion Cemke
567Th
Cemke
Alarm Clock Purchase Goads Young Worker
The column jokes that after securing employment a young person should buy an alarm clock even if it means mortgaging their car. The quip suggests priorities in early work life with a humorous edge.
Rains and Flooding Sweep Southeast Texas Towns
Severe rains and flooding drenched far southeast Texas with near six inch totals in Port Arthur Groves and the Jefferson County airport. The heavy rain began early morning, swamping underpasses and taxing drainage systems as pumps worked to remove water and runoff entered homes and businesses.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Texas
Jefferson County
Groves
Weather Bureau
Beaumont
Nederland
Showers Forecast for Twin Cities and Northeast Louisiana
The U S Weather Bureau predicts scattered thundershowers for the afternoons and evenings in the Northeast Louisiana area today and Friday. Partly cloudy conditions with high readings of 88 to 94 and lows of 70 to 74. Southerly winds 8 to 16 mph.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Monroe
Selman Field
House Group Approves Bill In Air Strike
The House Commerce Committee backed the essentials of a back-to-work bill for striking airline mechanics amid a five-week dispute involving 35 000 workers at five airlines. The measure could be reversed and may involve government seizure of the major carriers if talks fail. The bill allows a 30 day return to work with a possible 150 day extension, and an added provision extends coverage to other airlines in similar deadlocks within 180 days.
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Washington
House Commerce Committee
House
Senate
House Committee
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Harley O. Staggers
West Virginia Democrat
William J. Curtin
P.L. (Roy) Siemiller
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Siemiller
White House
Most Unusual Find in Mrs Williams Rose Garden
In Leicester England Mrs Mary Williams found a three footlong South American alligator among her roses. The alligator caused a flurry as she fled indoors. Herbert Hawksworth of the Royal SPCA lassoed the reptile and Osborne, a local expert, treated it after it bit him.
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Leicester
England
UPI
Mary Williams
Rose Garden
Mrs. Williams
Herbert Hawksworth
The
Royal Spca
Robert Osborne
Osborne
Hawkworth
Reapportion Committee Sets Meeting
Gov McKeithen appoints a 17 member panel to draft an acceptable Louisiana reapportionment plan. Lt. Gov Aycock says the group will convene Monday to elect a chairman and begin work amid a court-ordered deadline. East Baton Rouge proposes district groupings to limit deviation and shares seats among several parishes.
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Baton Rouge
UPS
John J. McKeithen
Louisiana
C. C. Aycock
McKeithen
New Orleans
Jefferson
St. Bernard
Heat records as Palm Springs tops nation at 114
New York AP reports Palm Springs California reached 114 degrees the nation’s hottest spot on Wednesday while Stampede Pass Washington logged an overnight low of 40 degrees.
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New York
Palm Springs
Calif
Stampede Pass
Wash
Air Conditioner Noise Sparks Court Order in Hartford
Dr. Benjamin D. Thaw must keep his unusually powerful air conditioner off from 10 p m to 8 a m after a Superior Court ruling. Eva Nair and her husband Harry sought damages and a zoning challenge, with Thaw ordered to install mufflers and pay 3500 for disturbance from May 1964 to July 28, 1964.
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Hartford, Conn
Benjamin D. Thaw
West Hartford
Eva Nair
Harry L. Nair
Superior Court
Leo Parskey
Parskey
Nair
Charges Filed Against Jefferson Parish Sheriff Cronvich
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Alwynn Cronvich his executive assistant Clement Lartigue III and others face defamation malfeasance and conspiracy claims in a suit filed by Dist Atty investigator Hubert Badeaux and Metairie physician Dr Sidney Knight. The complaint accuses Cronvich of defaming Badeaux and alleges involvement in a conspiracy to commit abortion and related charges.
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Metairie, la
UPI
Jefferson Parish
Alwynn Cronvich
Metairie
Hubert H. Badeaux
Dist. Atty
Frank Langridge
Cronvich
Clement Lartigue III
Badeaux
Sidney Knight
Knight
Capt
William Warner
Shirley Guagliardo
Frank Cefalu
New Orleans
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