Rusk Visits LBJ at Texas Ranch After Rivers Bill Signed
President Johnson hosted Secretary of State Dean Rusk at the LBJ Ranch as the $2 billion rivers and harbors bill was announced signed. The White House said both discussed world affairs. no specifics were released. Also approved was a $22 million payment to Okinawans for wartime damages from 1945 to 1952. Rusk traveled from Dallas after addressing SMU. Moyers apologized for a premature claim of signing.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Lbj Ranch
Texas White House
Rusk
LBJ
Washington
Moyers
Air Force
Senate
House Public Works
Georgia Official Jailed After Fatal Shooting
Decatur AP Wal ters O Brooks 45 a member of the State Pardon and Parole Board was jailed on a murder charge after he fired through an apartment door killing William E Tisdale 41 who had come to kill him Detectives said Brooks said he had been indirectly threatened by Tisdale who accused the board member of dating his ex wife Paula Tisdale executive secretary of the board. Brooks had divorced his wife of 15 years earlier this year.
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Decatur, Ga
Walters O. Brooks
State Pardon and Parole Board
Brooks
William E. Tisdale
B.S. Ivey
Gilbert Radovich
Tisdale
Paula Tisdale
State Judicial Department
Missile Plant Blast Kills Two in Utah
BRIGHAM CITY Utah Two workers were killed and three others were critically burned when rocket propellant at a Minuteman missile plant in northern Utah blew up The company called it a fire not an explosion The dead were Deloy P Christensen 30 and Don B Nelson 35.
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Brigham City
Utah
Minuteman
Thiokol Chemical Corp
Wasatch
Deloy P. Christensen
Don B. Nelson
Rioting in Phoenix Ended by Police Action
About 200 youths white and black rioted near downtown Phoenix, throwing rocks at cars and smashing windshields. Police quelled the disorder after two hours, injuring two officers and blocking roads.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Twin Cities Airman cited for F-101B plate improvement
Sgt. Dwight Lipsey of Monroe was commended by the 444th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in Charleston for his metal plate suggestion on F-101B armament rails. Plates were planned down after finding the thicker plate caused a binding effect and damaged a weapons system evaluation missile. Lipsey is a 1948 Neville High School graduate who entered the Air Force later that year. Mrs. Adah Henry of West Monroe is home after hospitalization for a broken leg and visiting her sister's family in Winnsboro.
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Dwight Lipsey
William J. Lipsey
Harrison St
Monroe
444Th
Charleston
S.C
Lipsey
Neville High School
Air Force
R. B
Adah) Henry
Park Ave
West Monroe
B.S. Landis
Winnsboro
Redistricting Panel Adjourns Amid Plan Impasse
BATON ROUGE UP I reports the Senate redistricting committee adjourned abruptly amid a failure to approve any redistricting plan. Chairman Dudley LeBlanc urged a workable plan or court action, warning courts may force at large Senate elections.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Legislative Committee
Senate
Dudley LeBlanc
Abbeville
Federal push to modernize police and courts
Washington AP reports the Johnson administration will spend 7.249 million dollars to streamline state and local law enforcement, courts and corrections under the Law Enforcement Assistance Act. Courtney Evans, ex FBI, heads funding allocation to create model programs and share lessons nationwide. Demonstration grants of 20 000 to 150 000 dollars expected in January.
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Washington
Courtney A. Evans
FBI
Evans
Brazil Abolishes Political Parties Decree Shuts Congress
In a surprise decree President Humberto Castello Branco abolishes political parties and expands military court powers after Congress balked at his program. The act allows rule by decree up to 180 days and automatic passage of proposed amendments if Congress misses 30 days. Citations note opposition from Social Democratic and Brazilian Labor parties and ongoing probes of previous leaders.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Congress
Humberto Castello Branco
Castello Branco
Supreme Court
Joao Goulart
Juscelino Kubitschek
Goulart
Kubitschek
Social Democratic Party
Brazilian Labor Party
Candido de Oliveira Neto
Judge refuses to lift boycott restraints in Bogalusa case
Federal Judge E Gordon West denied lifting a court order barring civil rights leaders from promoting a Negro school boycott in Bogalusa. He remanded the case to state court, upholding the school board’s request and rejecting constitutional rights claims by the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League.
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New Orleans
UPS
Federal
Dist
E. Gordon West
Bogalusa
West
Bogalusa City
Voters League
League
Hydrogen Blast May Be Delayed
Anchorage Alaska AP report says high winds and overcast skies endanger an underground 80 kiloton thermonuclear blast on Amchitka Island as weather drops chance of detonation to two percent. One radio antenna linking the site and Elmendorf AFB near Anchorage was damaged by a gale.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Defense Department
Atomic Support Agency
Amchitka Island
Aleutian
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Over 26 exemption in draft urged as postwar births grow
Washington AP The Selective Service deputy director Col Daniel O Omer says men over 26 face little risk of being drafted due to a flood of postwar births. He notes 150 160 thousand youths turn 19 monthly, about 2 million 18 year olds will be eligible next year, and 40 percent will be excused for school. Enlistments rise with high draft calls and Marine Corps aims to add 30 thousand.
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Washington
The
Selective Service
Col
Daniel O. Omer
Omer
Wallace M. Greene Jr
Marine
Marine Corps
Los Angeles
Greene
Johnson
Defense Department
Associated Press
New Hampshire
Montana
Minnesota
Maryland
Idaho
Connecticut
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Indian Summer Lingers in Twin City Area Weather
The Twin City area enjoys mild sunny days and cool nights with clear to partly cloudy skies through Thursday. Daytime highs reach 74 to 78 degrees, and nights fall to 42 to 48. Tuesday's FAA observation at Selman Field in Monroe recorded a 74 degree high and 39 degree low with no rain for 19 straight days. Winds will be variable from five to 15 mph.
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Twin City
FAA
Selman Field
Monroe
Evacuation Planned as Betsy Barge Lift Looms Over Baton Rouge
An Army hospital train departs Atlanta for Louisiana to evacuate patients from Baton Rouge as engineers prepare to raise a sunken chlorine gas barge from the Mississippi. Officials warn of 24 hours notice before the lift with weather as a factor and Halloween events moved up in Baton Rouge.
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Atlanta, Ga
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Army
Mississippi River
Atlanta
Southern Railway
New Orleans
Alexandria
Atlanta General Depot
W. W. Dumas
Halloween Trick-Or-Treat Moved To Saturday Night
Twin Cities officials Mayor W. L. Howard and Mayor J. Allan Norris jointly announced Halloween trick or treat will occur Saturday night instead of Sunday. They cited Sunday church services and urged children to limit activities to Saturday night to avoid conflicts with church events.
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Twin Cities
W. L
Jack) Howard
J. Allan Norris
Howard
Students Across Nation Organize Blood Drives For Military Support
Thousands of college students volunteer blood under Pentagon approval as Vietnam policy support. Washington State University junior class collects 750 pints in three days. many more donors turned away for health reasons.
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New York
Pentagon
U.S
Viet Nam
Washington State University
Denver Center of
Colorado University
Bill van Pelt
Denver
Steve Cherkoss
Berkeley
Calif
United States
Inter
National Red Cross
Defense Department
American Red Cross
Defense
University of Ilinois
Philip Hinterberger
Alton
Ill
Sicma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
Illinois
Guerrilla attack hits Da Nang air complex in Viet Nam
Communist forces struck the Da Nang east air complex near the city, aimed at Marine helicopters. Explosions and tracer fire were seen as the attack unfolded. In other actions, U.S. cavalry pilots dropped into Plei Me to sweep Viet Cong from the area amid heavy casualties northwest of Saigon.
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Plei Me
Viet Nam
Saigon
DA Nang
API
U.S
South Viet Nam
da Nang East
Marine Corps
U. S. 1St Cavalry
Plei Mei
Commission OKs Hunting Changes In Area Parishes
The Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission approved changes to deer hunting rules in Madison Tensas and East Carroll Parishes after a police jury request. Archery season is closed on East Carroll and all Madison lands except Chicago Mills, while Tensas Ward I remains closed during the gun hunt opening Nov 26 1965.
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Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission
Madison
Tensas
East Carroll
Commission
New Orleans
J. D. Hair Jr
East Carroll Game Management
Madison Parish
Chicago Mills
Tensas Parish
Ward I
The Trouble With Parents Essay
A small girl writes about parents in a humorous essay noting they are old when you get them making it hard to change their habits.
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