Police Bolster Forces as Brooklyn Riots Threat Grow
New York police prepared for a volatile weekend with 1000 officers deployed in East New York after 11 year old Eric Dean was killed by a .25 caliber shell. Mayor Lindsay urged calm and a halt to violent demonstrations while tensions between Italian American and Black residents flared amid arson, bottle and brick attacks, and racial chants.
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NEW York
Brooklyn
John V. Lindsay
Leary
Eric Dean
Lindsay
East New York
Dean
Warm day ahead with upper 80s and clouds
Collins Weather Station records a Friday high of 86 and a low of 51. By 7 45 p m Friday evening in the Morris business district observers read 81 degrees as skies turn partly sunny and cooler for Sunday.
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Collins
Morris Business
Captain Stubby to Appear At Gardner Festival
Captain Stubby and his Buccaneers from WLS Chicago will appear at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. next Saturday July 30 for Gardner Firemen's Festival Carnival and Homecoming. Water fights with surrounding towns take place Thursday Friday evenings and Sunday July 31 at 2 p.m. A parade is moved to 6 p.m. Sunday and Main Street hosts concession stands rides. A horseshoe pitching contest is scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
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Gardner
Stubby
WLS
Chicago
Gardner Firemen
Main St
Truce Holds After Gang Leaders Publicly Pledge Change
On Chicago's South Side a burst of shootings by teens followed a truce pledge by leaders of the Blackstone Rangers and East Side Disciples. Five youths were wounded in Ranger territory amid blame redirected to the Englewood Disciples. Police credited a city commander with brokering the pause and planning cleanup efforts and softball teams.
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Chicago
South Side
Blackstone Rangers
East Side Disciples
Englewood
Rangers
Lamar Bell
Ninja Shead
O. W. Wilson
Wilson
Bell
Shead
William Griffin
Grand Crossing
Plan for government takeover of airlines sparks dispute in Senate
In Washington the Senate discusses Morse bill to order strikers back to work as 66,000 workers remain idle. Machinists union president P L Siemiller denounces compulsory arbitration as servitude, saying it delays genuine bargaining. Airlines cite profit share disputes amid stalled talks and ongoing losses.
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Washington
Senate
Machinists
P. Loy Siemiller
Wayne Morse
Dore
Sen. Morse
Siemiller
William J. Curtin
Morse
Eastern
National
Northwest
Trans World
United
Asst
Secretary of
James J. Reynolds
Congress
President Johnson
Food Shortage Revealed in V C Broadcast
Viet Cong propaganda acknowledges food shortages due to intensified war. Central Viet Nam and Gia Dinh Province are hit, with mobilization of old people women and children to boost rice and crop production. Calls to thriftiness and urgent production rise amid U S military pressure.
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Viet Nam
Saigon
Gia Dinh
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
U.S
Liberation Radio
Voice
Ocean bottom drilling program announced by Scripps and NSF
Oceanographers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Science Foundation announce a four year drilling and research program on the ocean bottom. The initial phase will be funded by a 5.4 million dollar contract.
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San Diego
Calif
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
National Science Foundation
Fair Grounds Readied for Grundy County 4-H Show
The eighth annual Grundy County 4-H Show unfolds next Wednesday and Thursday at Mazon with 750-plus participants. Registration starts Tuesday, public viewing Wednesday, with judging across swine sheep dairy garden poultry rabbits and home economics.
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Mazon
Grundy County
Shirley Drechsel
Dale Burkhart
Goodfarm
Driver Ticketed After Accident at Illinois 47 and U S 6
A 39 year old Morris driver was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions after a two car crash at 9 30 p m near the Illinois 47 and U S 6 intersection. Kenneth E Peterson 39 was cited after his north bound 1959 Pontiac hit a stopped Volkswagen. Arthur Gunderson 5 and an unidentified woman were treated at Morris Hospital. Victoria A Ness drove the front car which pulled away then returned to the scene.
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Morris
Illinois 47
Morris Hospital
Kenneth E. Peterson
James Gretencord
Arthur Gunderson
Rte. 2
Victoria A. Ness
Miami Surface Miami scientists return from Gulf inflated chamber
Havana radio reported two scientists who spent three days living in an inflated chamber at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico have safely resurfaced.
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Miami, Fla
Havana
Gulf of Mexico
Eight Indian engineers train in Morris for Dresden nuclear program
A group of eight Indian engineers arrived May 9 in Morris for a three month training at Commonwealth Edison's Dresden nuclear plant. They will help operate two new 180 000 kilowatt reactors planned for Tarapur near Bombay. The trainees include Kulkarni Anand Karla Vastava Raghu Ram Rao and Murthy plus others from Suryanarayanamurthy Srinivasaraghavan. They will take their Illinois driving tests and study under GE and Commonwealth Edison engineers with a final exam in August.
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Nancy Holler
Morris
Commonwealth Edison
Dresden
General Electric
Tarapu
Bombay
Indian Ocean
John H. M. Miller
G.E
San Jose
Calif
Vallecitos
Division St
P. C. Kulkarni
P. V. Sadanandan
K. Satyanarayana
Kul
India Institute of Technology
Anand
Kerala University
Karla
Andhrea University
E. Washington St
N. P. Srivastava
Vastava
K. Suryanarayanamurthy
Murthy
M. S. Srinivasaraghavan
Raghu
R. Rajaram
Ram
G. G. Gururajarao
Rao
Agra University
India
Madras University
Mysore University
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Ing
M. Kuzushima
Chucu Electric Co
Japan
Kuzushima
Nobuko
Wauponsee St
Oyster Creek
N.J
Jersey Central
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Nagoya City
Illinois
Miller
Herald
Tarapur
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