Saigon Election Eve Amid Coup Fears and Viet Cong Threats
South Vietnam braces for Sunday's vote as a coup plot looms over Col Pham Van Lieu's house arrest while Viet Cong violence escalates with grenade and bus blasts. Thieu and Ky lead in polls as 24 nations monitor the election with 5.8 million registered voters at 8,808 polling places.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Pham van Lieu
Rted
Johnson
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Tran van Huong
Pan Khae Suu
Constituent Assembly
Ha Thue Ky
Lieu
National Police
Suu
Thieu
Price Rise In Steel Bars Seen Standing
NEW YORK AP reports a steel bars price hike appears almost certain to stand as major producers join the increase despite a Johnson administration plea for restraint. President Johnson, at a Washington news conference, regretted the decision but did not indicate any action.
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New York
Johnson
Washington
Evangelical Baptist leader to speak at Calvary Church
Rev. Abraham Brake, director of the Evangelical Baptist Orphanage in Lebanon, will be guest speaker at Calvary Baptist Church this Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. He will report on the Middle East war and its impact.
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Abraham Brake
Evangelical Baptist Orphanage
Lebanon
Calvary Baptist Church
More Trouble In China In Canton Hong Kong
Canton to Hong Kong rail traffic halted raising doubts about Maoist claim of control. Canton Radio spoke of a revolutionary committee amid battles with Mao foes, while Peking reports contradicted the takeover. Observers cite a possible compromise among waring factions and Chou En-lai’s mediation aims before the September China Export Commodity Fair.
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Hong Kong
Red China
Canton
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Canton Radio
Revolutionary Committee
Red
Peking
Chou En-lai
Wich
Reunion Set For A B O Bomb Workers
Oak Ridge Tenn AP 70th birthday celebration marks 25 years since the wartime project born the city that built the atomic bomb. Lt Gen Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, returns for a tour of unclassified plant areas as the town recalls its origins and its evolving role in peaceful atomic research and radioisotopes.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Oak Ridge
Leslie R. Groves
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Treasury Department
Oak Ridges
Herald Office Closed for Labor Day Observance
The Herald will not publish on Monday in observance of Labor Day. No city or rural delivery will be made by the post office, and window service will be unavailable. Special delivery and regular lock box service will continue as usual.
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Post Office Department
Weather Snapshot With Temperatures And Precipitation
The report shows a high of 69 and a low of 59 for today, with figures from a year ago of 85 and 68. Record highs were 105 in 1939 and record lows 44 in 1949, precipitation for the last 24 hours was a trace, and hourly temps run from 58 at 9 am to 69 by 4 pm with a barometer at 30.26 inches.
Army Proves It Likes The M 16 Rifle Approval Rise
The Army ordered another 25 million dollars of M 16 rifles from Colt, adding 245 716 weapons to an ongoing production run. The service had faced criticism over jams in Vietnam but cites better cleaning, maintenance, training, and a redesigned chamber as making the M 16 satisfactory.
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Washington
Vietnam
Army
Colt Co
Aleady
Defense Department
OU Student Is Indicted for Girlfriend Murder
Bruce McConnell 21 of North Adams Mass faces murder charges after a grand jury indicted him in the August 20 death of 19 year old Bonnie Pearson. Pearson, daughter of a New Hampshire textile executive, was found beaten to death in a Williamstown garage.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Ottawa University
Bruce McConnell
North Adams
Trail
Bonnie Pearson
Pearson
New Hampshire
Williamstown
Milwaukee clash ends in tear gas and arrests
Police swept a Roman Catholic school yard in Milwaukee after cracking down on a banned civil rights march. The clash left 13 injured and 14 arrests as tear gas drifted into St Boniface parish buildings. A spectator died of natural causes. Father Groppi, a white assistant pastor, was among those arrested.
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Milwaukee
Wis
St. Boniface Parish
Clits
James E. Groppt
St. Boniface
Amost
Father Groppi
St. Bonieface
Milwauckee
Henery Maier
Youth Council
Martin Luther King
Dick Gregory
Floyd McKissick
Congress of Racial Equality
H. Rap Brown
South Side
Sweden Ends Left Driving With Fatal Early Switch
Stockholm reports a cyclist was killed as Sweden begins the shift from left to right side driving. Officials stress a nationwide plan with 7,000 police and a $120 million cost aims to reduce accidents and aid foreigners, though initial public opinion is split. Road changes start at 6 am with staged traffic, 290,000 signs being replaced.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Hoeger
Charles XII
Five Children Return Lost Bank Funds in Woods Find
In Chamblee Georgia five children recovered nineteen thousand six hundred thirty five dollars and fifty one cents from a suitcase hidden under leaves. They carried the money to their home shouting they were rich. The FBI confirms the money is part of twenty three thousand dollars stolen July twenty seven from the Bank of Cray Georgia by four men fleeing with the fool in two pillow cases.
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Chamblee
Larry Ledbetter
Treasury
FBI
Bank of Cray, Ga
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