Johnson Seeks Conservation Push to Beautify America
President Johnson will ask Congress to back a broad conservation and anti pollution drive. He proposes vast expansion of parks seashores and open spaces plus a White House summit on natural beauty. Actions include delaying highway landscaping requirements and new water pollution powers.
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Ington
Johnson
Congress
America
White House
State of the Union
Potomac
Washington
Ginger Rogers Reflects On Colorful Career And Choice
Ginger Rogers describes her varied career spanning stage television and plans for a Jamaica based film venture. She declined offers to star in Hello Dolly citing not wanting long runs and not fitting Dolly while noting Hollywood has not kept her in films for years.
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London
Dolly
David Merrick
Ginger
Hollywood
Dhem
Gincé
Tovarich
William Marshall
Jamaica
Ray Milland
Italy
All Networks Cover Crisis All Networks Cover Crisis
Television networks led by CBS and NBC interrupted programs with Viet Nam crisis bulletins and live McNamara briefings. NBC aired an instant news special, CBS pre empted Lassie, and CBS displayed Pleiku wreckage with a Mauldin interview. Gordon MacRae variety shows drew criticism for weak content amid broader coverage.
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Cynthia Lowry
AP TV
NEW York
CBS
NBC
Robert S.mcnamara
McNamara
Pleiku
Bill Mauldin
ABC
Gordon
Sheila MacRae
Gordon MacRae
Miami
Ben Casey
Roddy McDowall
Europe
Cause Found For Blast Killed Five In KC Transformer Explosion
Kansas City AP reports experts found a fault in network protectors sparked last week's electrical transformer explosion that killed five men. The destruction of evidence in the blast left experts unable to determine the exact nature of the failure.
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Kansas City
Chris Kenis
Lester Maddox Prefers Sale Over Integration Showdown
Atlanta, AP report: Lester A Maddox, 49, a segregationist, locked his restaurant and offered it for sale after losing a civil contempt ruling under the Civil Rights Act. He had just announced serving Negroes, then closed doors again amid a federal injunction and sharp protest.
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Atlanta
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Atlanta, Ga
Lester A. Maddox
U.S
Frank A. Hooper
Maddox Suns
Jack Googeer
Congress
Johnson
Exec Won't Go South
Wesley H. Sowers resigns as president of Frontier Chemical Co. in Wichita a division of Vulcan Materials Co. He will leave effective Feb. 28 after choosing to remain in Birmingham Alabama rather than transfer. Sowers has been a Wichita civic booster and serves on the Kansas Economic Development Commission and the Wichita State University Board of Trustees.
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Wichita
Wesley H. Sowers
Frontier Chemical Co
Vulcan Materals Co
Vulcan
Sowers
Birmingham
Ala
Kansas
Kansas Economic Development Commission
Wichita State University
Trus Tees
Frontier Chemical
Vulcan Materials Co
Fronetier Chemical
Norwegians Lead World in Cheese Consumption
Norwegians are probably the world's champion cheese consumers they eat nearly 20 pounds per person per year.
House Weighs Change on Ban on UAR Farm Shipments
Washington AP The House can reverse a two week old setback by voting to restore the ban on surplus farm goods to the United Arab Republic. Senate modification would give the President a free hand. If GOP efforts fail, conferees may accept Senate language.
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Washington
House
Johnson
United Arab Republic
Senate
UAR
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Israel
Nasser
U.S
Bobby Baker
Federal Reserve System
Wheat Leads Kansas Counties In 1964 Grain Corn
Brown County produced 2.8 million bushels to top Kansas grain corn output in 1964, with Doniphan 3.1 million and Shawnee 1.6 million. Counties above one million included Nemaha, Republic, Johnson, Linn, Miami, and others. state average yield was 44 bushels per acre, down from 1963.
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Topeka
Brown County
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Nemaha
Republic
Johnson, Linn
Miami
Allen
Anderson
Douglas
Franklin
Leavenworth
Atcchison
Crawford
Western
Kansas
Doniphan
Wyanedotte
Johnson
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