GOP Divided Over Open Housing Clause in Rights Bill
Washington AP reports House Republicans remain split over a key open housing provision in a civil rights bill. The GOP Policy Committee delayed a vote to poll all members as opposition grows. Civil rights leaders urge removing the compromise clause and restoring open housing to Johnson’s original form.
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Washington
House
GOP
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Wilkins
Johnson
John J. Rhodes
R-Ariz
Arraignment Set For Speck In Nurses Slayings
Chicago AP reports Richard Speck, 24, indicted on eight counts for the killings of eight student nurses. He faces arraignment Monday as grand jury transcripts led to the indictments. Judge Edward F Healy noted arraignment timing may vary. Speck reportedly rehabbing a chest ailment and self-inflicted wounds. Weather: patchy clouds tonight and Thursday with modest temps and a 40 to 50 percent rain chance.
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Chicago
Richard Speck
Circuit Court
Grand
Healy
Physician Coppolino Arraignment Delayed in Sarasota
Dr. Carl Coppolino, charged with murder using a drug, won a one month postponement of his arraignment in Sarasota circuit court to September 1 due to his Tampa attorney's vacation. The trial date set for November 7. New Jersey seeks a second murder indictment in the Parker killing. Coppolino is jailed after a Florida grand jury indictment following autopsy findings.
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Sarasota
Flavor
Carl Coppolino
New Jersey
Mary
Lynn ‘Silvertooth
Coppoline
James McEwen
Tampa
Coppolinio
Sarasota County
Florida
Coppolino
William ©. Parker
Carmela
Coppilini
Monmouth County
Coppolina
Frank Schaub
FBI Joins In Hunting 3 Robbers
Boston police report they have provided the FBI with substantial physical evidence in a case involving three masked robbers who robbed an armored car and wounded no one. The spree includes a January 1 Brink’s heist totaling $527000 at a Boston renter office and a Mitre Corp. cash heist in Bedford. Three earlier robberies have occurred with gunfire, injuring a guard at the Jamaica Plain hospital switchboard area but not seriously. The FBI’s involvement cites the government property recovery point.
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Boston
FBI
Ata
Veterans
Tien
a_Brink's Inc
Mitre Corp
Bedford
Jamaica Plain Hospital
Indictment Brought Against Richard Speck in Nurse Slaying Case
William Burdette, foreman of a Cook County grand jury, presented six counts against Richard Speck. Edwin Spiro, assistant state's attorney, led the prosecution to the Chicago Circuit Court. The indictment documents detail the charges surrounding the student nurse killings.
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William Burdette
Cook County
Chicago
Richard Speck
Burdette
Edwin Spiro
Vrors
Emergency board to avert air strike faces Senate review
The White House said President Johnson will order a three member emergency board to delay a grounded strike by the Transportation Workers Union against American Airlines for 60 days, with a Senate committee weighing emergency legislation to stop the one week old walkout as witnesses testify. The board would study issues under the National Railway Labor Act and submit recommendations within 30 days to promote a settlement, followed by a further 20 day period for negotiation.
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White House
Johnson
American Airlines
Transport Workers Union
Senaté
Tee
Moyers
Iaid Johnson
National Railway Labor Act
Aplcio International Association of
Defense
Lablor and
Post Office Departments
Senate
Senate Democratic
Mike Mansfield
Smuggling Crackdown Ties Iowa Cigarette Prices to Borders
State Tax Commission orders tighter controls on cigarette smuggling from Missouri and Illinois into Iowa. Reports show cartons cost up to $1 less across the border, prompting enforcement action and border monitoring.
Segregationist Johnson Leads Arkansas Primary Returns
Segregationist Jim Johnson led Arkansas Democratic gubernatorial returns, with a 14,000 vote edge over Frank Holt as counting continued from 300 unreported boxes in urban Pulaski County. Holt, accused by rivals of Faubus backing, trailed. runoff expected against Holt, left uncertain election fate against Winthrop Rockefeller in November. Johnson attacked President Johnson and the Great Society, stressing states rights and private property amid lingering racial tensions in the state.
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Little Rock, Ark
Jim Johnson
Orval Faubus
Johnson
Pulaski County
Little Rock
Frank Holt
Faubus Administration
Halt
Forrmer
Winthrop Rockefeller
Great Society
Arkansas
Holt
Arkansas Supreme Court
Brooks Hays
Dale Alford
Sam Boyce
Raymond Rebsamen
Kerneth Sutcer
Two Car Crash Kills Woman on I 80 West of Tiffin
A two car collision on Interstate 80 five miles west of Tiffin in heavy rain killed Mignon Pease, 22, of Los Angeles. Elizabeth Smith, 23, of Pasadena, was seriously injured. Delmar Meszar, 52, of Slidell, and his son Larry were treated and released. Mrs Jessie Meszar and her son Barry were listed in fair and good condition.
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Tiffin
Here
Mignon Pease
Los Angeles
Calif
California
Elizabeth Smith
Pasadena
Iowa City
Delmar Méssar
Slidell
Larry
Jessie Meszar
Barry
Plan to Ease Credit Approved
The Senate housing subcommittee approved a plan to make 3 billion dollars available to the housing industry to relieve tight credit conditions. Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, the subcommittee chairman, said the funds would be provided through the Federal National Mortgage Association.
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Washington
Senate
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Federal National Mortgage Association
Wirtz urges free bargaining over airline strike bill
Secretary Wirtz told a Senate hearing not to pass a bill forcing settlement in the airline strike. He urged free collective bargaining as a last chance, saying the walkout has not yet created an emergency but prolongation could. Meany supported delaying strike legislation while Morse and Dirksen push competing end proposals.
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Washington
W. Willard Wirtz
Congress
Wirtz
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
Montana
P. J. Siemiler
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Legislative Branch
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Everett M. Dirksen
Link Sought Between Two Iowa Blasts
Authorities in Atlantic and Mason City pursued an investigation to uncover links between recent explosions at Henningen Steel Products plants. Wayne Leroy Adams of rural Mason City, 32, was accused of triggering a dynamite blast that damaged about one third of the Atlantic plant shortly after 12:45 a.m. Tuesday.
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Atlantic (Af
Mason City
Henningsen Steel Products Co
Wayne “Leroy Adams
Atlantic
Warning Signs Raised Senate Weighs Foreign Military Aid
The Senate debated foreign aid showing strong misgivings about the Viet Nam era program and a West German steel mill deal with Red China. It approved a military aid authorization of 892 million while signaling shifts in economic assistance policy and urging caution against deep American involvement.
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Washington
U.S
Red
China
Vietnam
John C. Pastore
D-R.i
Fulbright
Senate’ Foreign Relations Committee
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