Public Works Bill Is Signed
President Johnson signed a $33 billion Public Works and Economic Development Act urging action to prevent racial unrest in major cities and the District of Columbia. He highlighted job creation through grants and loans aimed at high unemployment areas and noted the bill consolidates features of earlier measures including the Area Redevelopment Administration. The administration plans a federal team to study riots in Los Angeles and to prevent future incidents.
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District of Columbia
White House
East Room
Congress
Los
Area Redevelopment Administration
ARA
Teasure
Mystery Pueblo Patrolman Involves Self In Car Crash
Pueblo authorities report Patrolman James E. Yenko, while issuing a traffic ticket, became part of an accident when the squad car inexplicably shifted into reverse, backing into another vehicle. He was writing the ticket at the time.
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Pueblo
Colo
UPD
James E. Yenko
Yenko
D Zone Hit Again By B 52s In Viet Nam War Raid
Guam based B52 bombers of the U S Strategic Air Command struck a suspected Viet Cong installation 30 miles northeast of Saigon in the D zone jungle. It was the eighth eight engine aircrafts first raid in the D zone and the third strike in the area under new security rules no further details were released.
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Viet Nam
U.S
Strategic Air Command
Itir
D-Zone
South China Sea
Du Pont Blast Toll Rises at Louisville Plant
The Du Pont synthetic rubber plant near the Ohio River remains sealed as missing climb to eleven. Rescue crews avoid the wreckage until safety clearance, while families evacuated to a school-turned refugee center. At least 39 injured, one critically, in what officials call Louisville’s worst industrial disaster.
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Jefferson County
Red Cross
West End
Ohio River
du Pont Chemical Corp
Complex
Plane Crash Claims Lives Of 2 Persons
A single engine Cessna 182 crashed into a field just north of Burlington killing two people. Pilot Glen Smith, 42, of Burlington, and Mrs Mary Richards, 46, of Elkhorn a member of the Elkhorn Board of Education, were identified. The plane departed Burlington airport about 9 30 p m on a local flight and did not return as a thunderstorm moved in about a half hour later. Burlington Flying Club members later found the wreckage near the airport.
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Mary Richards
Elkhorn
Richards
Elkhorn Board of Education
Smith
Burlington Flying Club
Green Lake Auto Driver Crash Victim
Green Lake County reports its fifth highway fatality of 1965, MacClarey Weeks, 24, of Green Lake. His car left the road on a Town of Brooklyn route near Green Lake, hit a tree, and he died a little after 2 AM at Ripon Municipal Hospital. Weeks’ parents run the Dering Inn in summer. funeral plans are pending.
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Otto Dittmer
Ripon Municipal Hospital
Lloyd Schoephoester
Dering
Elmhurst
Butzin Funeral Home
Ripon
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Wisconsin
John Nedeau
University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
Ladysmith
Wis
Immigration Bill Moves Toward Senate Fight
The House approved a sweeping immigration reform by 318 to 95, ending national origins quotas and shifting to a 170000 annual visa limit with a 20,000 cap per nation, favoring relatives of US citizens. A Western Hemisphere cap exemption sparked a GOP bid during the debate. five Wisconsin Republicans and one Democrat sided with the minority, while others opposed the amendment. The Senate posture remains uncertain as leaders discuss next steps with President Johnson urging prompt action.
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Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
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England
Germany
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Gemini 5 sets world space endurance record in victory for US
Space Center Houston reports Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad surpass the Soviet record with a sixth day in Gemini 5. By 8 06 a.m. CDT the crew extended total mission hours, with 75 orbits logged by 8 19 a.m. CDT and more than 124 hours in space anticipated as the voyage neared two million miles.
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United States
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Astronaut Corps
Cooper
Conrad
Most Space Records Now In U.S. Hands
Space Center Houston reports Gemini 5 sets multiple US led space records including longest flight hours 192 hours 27 minutes and total time in space 643 hours 49 minutes. US holds nine manned flights to Soviets eight and aims for 121 orbits in a full mission. Cooper leads hours in space with 34 hours 20 minutes in May 1963, followed by Conrad and Bykovsky.
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Soviet Union
Gemini 5
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Conrad
Valery Bykovsky
Task Force to Explore U S Role in Riot Areas
President Johnson announced a top flight task force led by Deputy Attorney General Ramsey Clark to study a possible federal role in healing Watts after Negro riots. The group will travel to Los Angeles with agency reps from health, housing, OEO and Labor. Clark has prior crisis experience and aims to avoid mere symbolism while coordinating federal aid with local leaders.
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Washington
Los Angeles
Atty
Ramsey Clark
California
Watts
Johnson
Samuel W. Yorty
Sam
Yorty
Knowles Signs Motor Vehicle Equipment Bill
Wisconsin Gov Knowles signed a bill to join an interstate compact for uniform motor vehicle equipment standards affecting about 40 states. Other measures impose a 25 dollar penalty for late withholding tax deposits, set farm tractor width on interstates at nine feet, hold dog owners liable for mink damage, and empower town and village boards to replace school board representatives no longer able to serve.
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Madison
API
Warren P Knowles
Wissonsin
Wisconsin
Two Wisconsin Marines Missing In Plane Crash
The Defense Department lists two Wisconsin Marines among 58 dead or missing after a military transport plane crash near Hong Wong en route to Viet Nam. Gordon H Blexrute of Eau Claire and Pfe Dennis R Martin of Pewaukee were reported missing, with the term used for those not yet identified or truly missing. Also, the Wisconsin Great Lakes Commission will meet Friday in Madison to elect a permanent chairman and consider hosting the 1988 meeting in Milwaukee.
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Defense Department
Wisconsin
Hong Wong
Viet Nam
Gordon H Blexrute
Clarence H Blexrute
Eau Clare
Pfe
Dennis R. Martin
Mathew L Martin
Pewaukee
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