Hurricanes batter St Augustine as Dora slams northeast Florida
Monster hurricane Dora struck St Augustine with 100 mph winds and 25 ft waves. Thousands homeless, power lines down, water supply cut, and emergency crews assessed damage as the storm moved inland toward the Carolinas.
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St, Augustine
Fla
UPI
Florida
Dora
Miami Weather Bureau
Jacksonville
South Carolina
St. Augustine
Civil Defense
Goldwater Heads East as Campaign Attacks Policy
Early campaign moves send Republican Barry Goldwater eastward from the Northwest where he accuses the Kennedy Johnson administration of using foreign policy for politics. Meantime in Washington debate over reapportionment, health care for the aged, and Social Security benefits stirs partisan tension as officials seek possible compromises. The first lady Lady Bird Johnson and daughter Lynda visit New York for shopping and theater while in Pittsburgh a man obtains a divorce over a disputed diet caused by his wife’s dog.
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Washington
UPI
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House
New York
Lady Bird Johnson
Lynda Bird
Carlyle Hotel
WEATHER FORECAST AND MARRIAGE LICENSES
Weather hot and cloudy with a late thunder shower, cooler tomorrow. Low tonight 64 to 70, high Friday 80 to 85. Marriage license applications: Crow and Hutchins of Norwalk, Putt and Kissel of Shiloh and Greenwich. Births: Sabin, Slessman, Smith, Winslow, Music, Gemmel, Tuttle, children born in Willard and Greenwich.
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Jack C. Crow
Norwalk
Margaret V. Hutchins
Timothy A. Putt
Shiloh
Betty J. Kissel
Greenwich
Duane Slessman
Willard
Alfred Smith
David Winslow
Ivan Music
Charles Gemmel
Berlin Tuttle
Plymouth
Workers Strike At GM Mansfield
UPI reports UAW Local 549 set up picket lines at General Motors Fisher Body Plant in Mansfield. The wildcat walkout idled 900 to 1,000 workers as 12 to 15 pickets blocked shifts, while company officials cited contract violations and possible lack of union contact. Police noted quiet lines with no disturbances.
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Mansfield
UPI
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Fisher Body
UAW
Taylor Returns From Viet Nam Review With Cautious Outlook
General Maxwell D. Taylor’s five day review of South Viet Nam yields view that military victory is unlikely in the near term. Officials consider renewed efforts to clear Communist insurgents around Saigon while maintaining current strategy and avoiding a major shift. Taylor briefed Congress before departing Washington for Saigon.
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Washington
UPI
Maxwell D. Taylor
South Viet Nam
U. S
Taylor
Congress
Saigon
U.S
House Foreign Affairs
Far East
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
East German smuggler ferries children to West Berlin
An East German truck driver hid his brother in law and two couples with 1 to 11 year old children under a cold meat cargo to West Berlin. The children were given sleeping pills to keep them quiet during the smuggling.
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Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
Rackham’s display vents propriety with wedding rings
Rackham's Department Store in Birmingham adorned wax mannequins in negligees with wedding rings on the left ring finger and engagement rings on other underwear models after a shopper questioned the propriety of the display. The store manager Frank Smith framed the gesture as a public moral welfare act.
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Birmingham
England
UPI
Frank Smith
Rackham’s
Smith
LBJ Campaigning In Pennsylvania For 1964 Election
President Johnson travels to Harrisburg to launch Democratic campaign in Pennsylvania. A $100-a-plate dinner at Farm Show Arena is to draw about 6000 attendees for his second major political address since nomination. He aims to win the state’s 29 electoral votes and aid Genevieve Blatt in the Senate race against Hugh Scott. He departs the White House around 7:55 p.m. and returns late tonight. Pennsylvania voted for Kennedy in 1960.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Pennsylvania
Farm Show Arena
Harrisburg
Genevieve Blatt
Senate
Hugh Scott
White House
John F. Kennedy
Barry Goldwater Wife Clarifies Exhaustion Comment
Mrs. Barry Goldwater said on CBS that her remark about two nervous breakdowns was to mean exhaustion from overwork not breakdowns. She spoke from their Phoenix home during a telecast and expressed a preferring stance.
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New York
UPI
Barry Goldwater
CBS
Phoenix
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