Senate approves sweeping auto safety bill 76 to 0
The Senate passed a landmark auto safety bill 76 to 0 and a companion highway safety measure costing 465 million by voice vote. President Johnson urged swift House action, while the House Commerce Committee divided over penalties and jurisdiction, delaying final action on tougher safety standards.
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UPI
Senate
House
Johnson
House Commerce Committee
House Committee
John S. Bugar
Ford Motor Co
House Public Works Committee
Commerce Secretary
Rumors Ripple Over Castro Fate Amid Silence
UPI reports a wave of unconfirmed rumors about Fidel Castro including death, confinement, cancer, medical treatment, or replacement by Raul Castro or Osvaldo Dorticos. Skeptics cite Cuba's silence and May Day address as triggers for the chatter, with reactions even in Tokyo and Havana media.
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Castro
Cuba
Raul
Osvaldo Dorticos
Tokyo
State Department
Robert McCloskey
Department
Ten Inches Rain Triggers Flood Talk and Aid in Center
In Center North Dakota residents recount 10 inches of rain in half an hour. People stay up late watching flood waters swirl away and open their doors to neighbors in distress. Center, a town of about 500 near the Missouri River, begins wheat harvest sentiment.
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Center
N.D
UPI
Missouri River
Stanton
Ed Viedt
Mercer County
Record rainfall devastates Center and surrounding areas
The Center region faced unprecedented rain with 10 inch totals and floodwaters up to eight feet. Half the town flooded, three quarters of homes in basements, power outages persisted, and 20 homes on the town’s south edge were abandoned as waters neared their doors.
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Eldon Weaver
Elizabeth Hagel
AMA Convention Faces Picket Lines Over Discrimination
Chicago hosts the 115th annual American Medical Association gathering as doctors plan to picket the delegates meeting over alleged discrimination in organized medicine and chapters. The five day event also faces protests against Medicare expansion and ethics of human research, with Dr Henry Beecher cited on questionable practices. The AMA may adopt the Helsinki declaration as a coding ethics guideline.
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Chicago
API
American Medical Association
AMA
House of Delegates
Henry Beecher
Harvard
Drafting Decision Due For Men 26 34
Pentagon draft chief Hershey said a decision on expanding the draft pool to include men aged 26 to 34 without children could come soon. He noted could be via presidential order, and urged training to raise eligible draftees by 500,000 annually while warning about rising rejection rates.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
House
Armed Services Committee
Hershey
Farm Day Workers Excluded From Wage Bill
A Senate labor subcommittee rejected extending federal minimum wage coverage to 202000 farm workers. In a 5 to 4 vote the panel excluded commuting day workers on piecework and kept the 500 minimum annual man days requirement for eligibility.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Ruby Ruling In Fall On Ruby's Oswald Killing Appeal
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals heard 41/2 hours of testimony and 41/2 rooms worth of records and newsreels in Jack Ruby's appeal from his death sentence for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. The defense says television exposure tainted jurors. the court adjourned for summer vacation.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Ruby
Oswald
Dallas County Dist
Atty
James Williamson
Ohio employment hits peak in May 1965 with 4 031 000 workers
Ohio total employment rose 1 8 percent to a record 4 031 000 in May. Unemployment rate fell from 3 1 percent in 1965 to 2 9 percent this May. Workforce gains came from non agricultural wage earners led by schools, services, retail, and machinery and motor vehicle manufacturing. Manufacturing production workers averaged 131 43 dollars for a 42 5 hour week.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
Willard P. Dudley
State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Dudley
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