Negro Vigil Reaches 100 Mile Point
Milwaukee marchers push beyond the 100 mile mark in a daylong protest for open housing. Led by Rev. James Groppi and Dick Gregory, youths urged to join the march instead of school, as city council history repeats with Vel Phillips voting in support only once.
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Milwaukee
Wis
James E. Groppi
Dick Gregory
Chicago
Prentice McKinney
Gregory
Common Council
Vel Phillips
Father Groppi
Abortion Kit Foreseen For US Women
Washington AP reports Princeton religion professor Dr. Ramsey predicts a future where safe do it yourself abortion medications let women decide privately. He says abortion will be a personal choice beyond state laws, discussed in magazines and private practice. The conference gathers 70 experts and 1,500 attendees.
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Washington
R. Paul Ramsey
Princeton University
Harvard Divinity School
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation
Ramsey
Czech Airliner Crash Survivors In Serious Condition
Forty six people were aboard, 31 died, and 36 survivors remained critically ill in hospitals in Gander Montreal and Halifax after a Soviet Ilyushin 18 crash. The winged wreckage tore through marshland and left jet fuel ignited, while investigators searched for causes.
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Gander
Nhd. Ee
Montreal
Halifax
Canadian National Railway
Prague
Havana
Ireland
Ends Rumor About Bobby Richardson Political Plans
Former New York Yankee second baseman Bobby Richardson says he has no plans whatever for a political career. The statement ends circulating rumor reports in Columbia, South Carolina via AP.
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Columbia
New York Yankee
Bobby Richardson
Federal Uranium Trading Faces Congressional Scrutiny
President Nixon era barter deals drew fire as comptroller Elmer Staats told Congress that swapping surplus foods for 27 million in diamonds and uranium worsened dollar drain. The 1965 arrangements involved agencies from Agriculture to Defense amid broader debates over strategic materials and foreign policy.
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Washington
U.S
Comptroller
Congress
Elmer B. Staats
Congo
Atomic Energy Commission
Agriculture, State, Treasury, Justice and Defense Departments
Comptroller General
South Africa
Commodity Credit Corporation
U. S
Rat Bill Threatens Health Aid Delay in Congress
Washington AP reporting that a controversial federal rat extermination plan, once rejected by the House, could delay a $1 billion health aid bill. Two lawmakers seek to attach $20 million for rat extermination to the Partnership for Health measure, while HUD maintains the plan should run under housing programs.
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Washington
House
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Henry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Aiberal
Banking Committee
Reuss
Richard L. Roudebush
Indiana
Department of the Interior
Office of Economic Opportunity
Charles Mathias
Maryland
Work In Projects Clean Up Riot Areas
On July 23 and 24 East 103rd Street was a battlefield with police sweeping the street as Puerto Rican youths threw bottles from tenements. By Sept 9, 500 white volunteers are set to move in to help Negro and Spanish speaking residents clean up East Harlem, part of the Summer in the City program run by the Archdiocese of New York and the U S Office of Economic Opportunity. Msgr Robert J Fox coordinates Spanish community action and sees the effort as empowering, aiming to reduce polarization and foster relate between middle class and residents.
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New York
East 103Rd Street
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
The
U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity
New York City
Ottawa Herald item highlights and notices
A compact page note from the Ottawa Herald dated September 6 1967 summarizes local items on page 8. The brief entries cover community notices and brief reports with names and places reflecting the period’s civic and social updates.
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Ottawa Herald
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Kentucky
Wisconsin
Kansas
Debra Barnes
Ronnee Brunk
Federal
United States
Kansasland Packing CO
E. Dundee
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Heinz
Boston Butt
Sunshine Hydrox
Jonathan
West Pac
Kansas City
Swope Park Zoo
Labor Day
Mser
Robert J. Fox
Msgr. Fox
el Barrio
East Harlem
Negro Harlem
East River
Manhattan
Upper East Side
Mer. Fox
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