Racial March Sanctioned. King Hails Court Action
Civil rights workers welcomed a federal judge's sanction of a 30 mile Selma to Montgomery march and new ground rules for parades in Montgomery. Dr Martin Luther King Jr urged Governor Wallace to comply with the court order as a delegation from across the state prepared to join the end of the pilgrimage. President Johnson sent the voting rights bill to Congress as Selma police arrested 36.
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Montgomery
Ala
Selma
Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr
King
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Willie Ricks
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Tuskegee Institute
George Wallace
Johnson
Congress
Cars and Buses Collide Near Interstate Interchange
A crash involving two chartered buses and two cars at the I 90 94 interchange sent six people to Tomah hospital after one bus tipped over. Police believe the buses were bound for the state basketball tournament in Madison. Three wreckers and three ambulances responded and the state patrol cut through with torches as passengers were trapped.
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Madison
Tomah Hospital
Milwaukee Welfare Dept Finds Failing Father After Four Years
Milwaukee County Welfare Department located Willie Page aged 47 after a four year search for failure to support his wife and daughter. Page works as a janitor for the welfare department.
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Milwaukee. Wis
UPI
Milwaukee County Welfare Department
Willie Page
Wisconsin plans $90 million highway loan to speed rural progress
G H Bakke chair of the State Highway Commission outlined a plan to borrow about 90 million dollars to accelerate Wisconsin highway construction. The scheme would speed completion dates, notably rural interstate work, by roughly one year and skip Milwaukee County’s expressway system, using a highway building authority to borrow funds.
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Wisconsin
Butte Des Morts
G. H. Bakke
State Highway Commission
Bakke
Wisconsin Road Builders’ Association
Warren P. Knowles
Attorney General's
Knowles
John W. Reynolds
Highway Commission
Soviet Cosmonaut Leonsov Leaves Ship In Space Walk
Tass reported Lt Col Alexei Leonov 30 exited Voskhod 2 for a 10 minute space walk after spending 20 minutes in outer space including an airless chamber. Col Pavel Belyayev 39 remained aboard as the craft entered its first Earth orbit.
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Soviet Union
Alexei Leonov
Pavel Belyayev
Moscow
Tass
Outer Space
Voskhod 2
Leonov
Col
Restraint Sought Over Cyprus Crisis
The State Department urged Greek and Turkish Cypriots to show utmost restraint amid rising Cyprus tensions. A spokesman supported the United Nations plan to ease the crisis and pursue a peaceful solution.
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Washington
UPS
State Department
Cyprus
United States
United Nations
Six Deaths Attributed To Storm in Wisconsin
Wisconsin weathering a brutal storm with up to 18 inches of snow. Six deaths were attributed to heart attacks while shoveling snow at home, plus hazardous roads and widespread school and factory closures.
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Wisconsin
Associated Press
Richard Hager
West Allis
Lewis Perkins
Beloit
Thomas Cleary
Madison
Edgar Perrone
Sheboygan
Heinrich Gaertner
New Holstein High School
Wilhelm M. Figg
New Glarus
Dane County
Mount Horeb
State
Platteville
Wisconsin Rapids
Superior
Milwaukee
Weather Bureau
Wausau
Eau Claire
Green Bay
la Crosse
Park Falls
Burlington
Racine
Lone Rock
New Voting Rights Act urged to end disenfranchisement
Atty. Gen. Katzenbach urged rapid congressional action on a Voting Rights Act designed to strike down tests and devices denying Negroes the vote. He testified before a House subcommittee, outlining federal registration, court enforcement in DC, and outlawing discriminatory practices in noted states and counties. Continued on Page 10, Col. 1.
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Washington
Nicholas Katzenbach
Seadoff
Katzenbach
House Judiciary
Rayburn House
Congress
District of Columbia
Dallas County
Ala
Selma
Cardinal Meyer Receives Second Blood Transfusion
CHICAGO AP Cardinal Meyer remains in serious and unchanged condition after his second blood transfusion following brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumor on February 25. Mercy Hospital said the cardinal’s red blood cell count drop prompted the transfusion. His diet has shifted from liquids to soft foods as he regains swallowing, and he leads about two million Catholics in the Chicago archdiocese.
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Chicago
Albert Cardinal Meyer
Mercy Hospital
Fail to Agree On Viet Nam Crisis
Britain and the Soviet Union failed in secret talks to agree on joint action to halt the Vietnam War. The British Foreign Office released draft messages from both sides, saying the exchanges aimed to find a basis for initiating negotiations.
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London
Britain
Soviet Union
British Foreign Office
Foreign Office
Hope to Save Burned Woman Hope to Save Burned Woman
Detroit doctors fight to save Alice Herz a 2 year old emigre widow who doused herself with cleaning fluid and set clothes on fire in protest of the arms race Her burns cover neck face and head and she remains semiconscious in critical condition but doctors hope she may live
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Detroit
Alice Herz
Nazi Germany
Herz
Vietnam forces claim 64 Viet Cong killed and 16 captured
Vietnamese authorities reported three actions in the Da Nang area with 64 Viet Cong killed and 16 captured. Government losses were 16 wounded, none killed. The Black Panther unit killed 28 Viet Cong and captured two, while other engagements near Da Nang, Quang Tri and Quang Ngai produced further Viet Cong casualties and weapons seizures.
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DA Nang
South Viet Nam
1St Army Corps
Black Panther Company
Quang Tri
Quang Ngai
Commmunists
Vihagzers
Drem Oo
Sampans
Farouk Dies in Rome After Midnight Dining Incident
Exiled Egyptian king Farouk I collapsed in a Rome restaurant and died en route to San Camillo Hospital at age 45. The former monarch, famed as a lavish bon vivant, left Egypt after a 1952 revolution that brought Nasser to power, with a royal yacht returned to the new regime. He was married twice and had several children, with the throne passing from the monarchy as exiled Farouk and his family settled abroad.
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Rome
Farouk
Egypt
San Camillo
Gamel Abdel Nasser
Mahroussa
Farida Zulfikar
Narriman Saeki
Zaki Hashem
United Nations
Narriman
Fuad HH
Eayot
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