Mills Reminds Public Who Is Capitol Boss
Washington AP report notes Rep Wilbur Mills chairing the House Ways and Means Committee asserts congressional chairs hold power over presidents. He blocked two Johnson administration proposals including a trade bill and reshaped unemployment policy. Rep Adam Clayton Powell similarly resisted an Education and Labor bill on onsite union picketing, illustrating chair influence and clashes with the Speaker.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
Capitol Hill
Wilbur D. Mills
Mills
Arkansas
House
Ways and Means Committee
Adam Clayton Powell
Den.y
Education and Labor Committee
Ways and Means
Powell
Fallout cloud nears eastern coast from Chinese blast
Public Health Service and weather experts described the Red Chinese nuclear test as a small-yield, single-shot event with a barely measurable fallout cloud moving east. Milk safety and nationwide sampling were intensified while officials noted spotty, short-lived fallout and potential future thermonuclear progress.
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Washington
United States
China
Public Health Service
Dwindling Few Keep Vigil In Chicago Sit-In
AP reports a dwindling force remains in Chicago at the University of Chicago administration building as about 25 students continue a 24 hour sit in protesting draft information policy. Fresh groups planned to rotate in while they communicate with faculty and reassess their aims.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Fred Egan
Alpena
Mich
George W.W. Beadle
Beadle
University
City College sit-in protests draft board cooperation
Two hundred CCNY students staged a Friday sit-in to oppose cooperation with local draft boards. They chanted Education not induction and demanded action over releasing class standings and grades to Selective Service. Dean Willard Blaesser said the demands would be considered.
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NEW York
City College of New York
Willard W. Blaesser
Bombing Toll Updates Viet Nam War Losses
The U S Command reports 243 American planes shot down over North Vietnam since early attacks and 104 planes lost in South Vietnam since January 1961. North Vietnam losses mainly from ground fire. few from MiGs. Meanwhile B 52 bombers hit a Viet Cong area near the Cambodian border in Phuoc Long, aiding paratroopers of the 101st Airborne during Operation Austin Six. Viet Cong casualties since May 1 total 69 killed and four captured, with 37 weapons seized.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Command
North Viet Nam
U.S
United States
Viet Nam
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Phuoc Long
Austin
Astronauts Have Final Checkup Before Gemini 9 Flight
Gemini 9 crewmates Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan undergo a four hour medical exam at Cape Kennedy to confirm fitness for the three day mission. They will meet Gemini officials after the checkup to review flight phases ahead of the Atlas Agena launch and Titan 2 liftoff. Cernan faces a demanding 2 hour 25 minute space walk with a rocket backpack on a 150-foot tether.
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Cape Kannedy
Fla
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cerenan
Stafford
Air Force
Cernan
Navy
Atlas
Agena
Apollo
Moon
Air crash reveal drivers heart disease of pilot and officer
Federal officials testified to the House Commerce Committee that Reed Pigman the pilot of the American Flyers chartered plane that crashed near Ardmore Oklahoma on April 22 and killed 83 people had a long treated heart condition not reported to the FAA and arteriosclerosis found in the post mortem The first officer Wilbur Marr also showed arteriosclerotic changes There were 77 soldiers among the dead and 6 crew members with 15 survivors The plane was en route from Monterrey California to Fort Benning Georgia with refueling at Ardmore
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Washington
Ardmore
Okla
Federal Aviation Agency
House Commerce Committee
Reed Pigman
American Flyers
Pigman
FAA
Wilbur A. Marr
Als
Monterrey
Calif
Ft. Benning
County Forecast: Zones 7 and 8 Parily Cloudy and Mild
Parcels show a parily cloudy and mild night with Sunday. Occasional showers or thunderstorms likely late tonight continuing Sunday. High Sunday 75 to 80. Low tonight in the lower 50s. Friday high 63, today’s low 41. Year ago highs 82, lows 62. Record high 90 in 1941, record low this date.
Plans Studied For 15th Street Development
Preliminary plans for the 1.6 mile Federal Aid Secondary project on Fifteenth Street east from Cedar Street to I-35 were reviewed by County Engineer Bob Lister. A May 17 field check involves consultant Cook Flatt and Strobel, City Engineer Steve James, and utility representatives to plan grading drainage a new Rock Creek bridge and resurfacing.
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Fifteenth Street
Cesdar Street
Bob Lister
Cook, Flatt and Strobel
Topeka
Lister
Steve James
Don Hameilton
City Water and Light Plant
The
Gas Service Co
Rock Creek
Cedar Street
Mulberry
Rock Creek Bridge
Highland Cemetery
Bureau of Public Roads
BPR
State Highway Department
Franklin County
Lisater
Regents Ponder Fee Proposal
The Kansas Board of Regents delayed action on proposals to raise undergraduate student fees and to implement year round operation for state colleges and universities. Fees would rise by 40 to 50 dollars annually, with current amounts listed for Kansas and Kansas State, Wichita State, and state colleges. The board also approved a separate philosophy department at Kansas State and designated the State Environmental Research Laboratory as the Institute for Environmental Research. Fort Hays State was authorized to seek a 1.85 million federal loan for a men's dormitory, while plans for a major in journalism were tabled. Salary increases were approved for Wichita head coach Gary Thompson and assistants Verlyn Anderson and Ron Heller.
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Kansas City, Kan
Kansas Board of Regents
Kansas
Kansas State
Wichita State
Hays
Emporia
Pittsburg
Ate Department of Philosophy
Kansas State University
Environmental Research Laboratory
Institute For Environmental Research
Regents
Fort Hays
Gary Thompson
Wichita
Verlyn Anderson
Ron Heller
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Bill D. Moyers
Fure
John W. McCoremack
DeMass
Sitlls
Bob Latimer
Cheryl Todd
Ottawa
National Guard
Weather Bureau
Eastern Seae Board
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Joint
House Committee On Atomic Energy
Peking
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Albert Gore
D.tenn
George Lee
H. D. Lee Co
15Th Street
A. H. Cromb
Mission Hills
Henry Bubb
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