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Herbert W. Koltz quits as assistant secretary of commerce after a tip profit claim of 14600. Texas Gulf Sulphur officers allegedly funded stock gains while hiding an ore fund in 1963 64. IUE probes election results and officials. East German threats over Berlin wall travel to West Berlin. Lodge arrives in Taipei to discuss Viet Nam policy with Nationalists. Pearl Bailey hospitalizes for chest pain after prior heart attacks. Mrs. William H Sullivan Jr elected DAR president general. Alabama AG Flowers urges full Klan investigation with Gov Wallace. Donald S Russell sworn in as South Carolina senator succeeding Olin D Johnson. Williamson restaurant operator Bill Kapourales dies in crash. three injured. Senate confirms Raborn as CIA director.
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Mississippi Flood Swamps Dubuque With Record Depth
The muddy Mississippi rose past Dubuque Iowa in heavy flooding with trucks ferrying sand and gravel for defenses. The river filled factories with water ten feet deep as volunteers bolstered dikes and a Welcome To Iowa sign dripped seepage. Across five Midwest states the flood left at least 14 dead and more than 35,000 displaced with damage over $100 million.
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Weather highlights Beckley area with scattered showers and warm weekend
Scattered showers and thunder showers expected this afternoon and tonight with high near 76 and a low around 56. Saturday looks partly cloudy and warm with highs in the mid 70s. River conditions show Greenbrier and Lake normal and cloudy. new gauge at Hinton reads 3.1 ft. West Virginia temperatures to average above normal this weekend with rainfall of about half to one inch, mainly over the period.
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War costs lives of 6 more Yanks in heavy raids
UPI report from Saigon details a major air assault on North Vietnam with 175 U S and Vietnamese planes targeting bridges and a ferryboat to disrupt Viet Cong supply lines. Six Americans killed today and two earlier this week.
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Florida Wisconsin Michigan and West Virginia win DAR essay prize
Four Grammar School students from Florida Wisconsin Michigan and West Virginia were named winners of the DAR annual essay award for American history. Mrs. Frank R. Mettlach announced the winners at the 74th DAR convention awards evening. The subjects included Mary Jean Brady W Va grade 8 The National Road.
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Michigan
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Vincent Named State Welfare Commissioner
Gov Hulett C Smith named L L Vincent of Fairmont as state welfare commissioner to replace W Bernard Smith, who will step down July 1 after a transition. Vincent has been Bernard Smith s assistant for years and will assume duties with the reorganization underway. The governor also named W Robert Abbot of Fayetteville to replace Arnold M Vickers on the state Board of Education, with Vickers resigning due to business pressures. Smith also reappointed several current posts and noted the total appointments reach 17 since a new law broadened the state’s appointments.
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Lawrence Barker
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Civil Service
Grover T. Davis Jr
Steel shrugs off May 1 strike threat
Pittsburgh dispatch reports that the U S steel industry rejects the May 1 strike threat by the United Steelworkers union. Industry sources say settlements must fit the Johnson Administration's 3.2 percent wage guideline and condemn union demands as out of line. Mediation chief William Simkin met USW leaders to push talks, described as a war of nerves.
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William E. Simkin
David J. McDonald
I.W. Abel
Defense Dept to Curtail Use of Lie Detectors
The Defense Department agreed to study the effectiveness of lie detectors, following a House Government Operations Committee recommendation. A forthcoming directive will limit polygraph use to serious criminal cases and sensitive national security situations, ensure voluntariness, and not penalize refusal except in national security matters. The inquiry began in April 1963, led by Rep. John Moss.
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Dr King Leads Boston March Amid Tight Police Guard
Dr Martin Luther King led a civil rights march in Boston with about 10 000 participants at the start, defying death threats. He walked at the head of a mixed crowd from a Negro slum to Boston Common, then planned to depart mid march for a meeting with Mayor John F Collins as attendance was expected to swell.
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Klansmen murder case seeks high profile witnesses
In Birmingham UPI reports attorney Matt H Murphy Jr will subpoena President Johnson and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover for the May 3 trial of three Ku Klux Klan members charged with the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo in Lowndes County Alabama. The defendants Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr William O Eaton and Eugene Thomas face state charges and federal civil rights counts. a fourth man Gary Thomas Rowe Jr is disclosed as an FBI undercover agent.
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Matt H. Murphy Jr
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J. Edgar Hoover
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Lowndes County
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Eugene Thomas
Detroit
Gary Thomas Rowe Jr
Police patrol Bogalusa to head off civil rights violence
About 400 local and state police, sent by Gov. John J. McKeithen, patrolled Bogalusa to prevent possible civil rights violence as tensions rise. The governor said nerves are wearing thin in the racially troubled city.
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Violence Shakes Ole Miss Again
On the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford around 700 shouting students took part in a brief racial clash that left a car owned by white guests from Tougaloo College wrecked and defaced with epithets. Police and officials intervened. no injuries were reported. This marked the first disorder since James Meredith integrated Ole Miss in 1962.
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Federal Spending Passes $100 Billion Mark Today
Washington reports federal spending crossed the $100 billion threshold this week with the administration projecting a year-end total near the $97.5 billion budget target. The piece explains administrative, trust, and cash budget concepts and notes the role of major funds like Social Security and unemployment in overall outlays.
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Mayor to decide on further parade permit for demonstrators
Gas broke up a march in Demopolis Alabama as tear gas and smoke bombs were used to disperse marchers. Mayor Edward D. Bailey said he would decide today whether to grant another parade permit to Negroes who appeared unsure of the reason for their demonstrations.
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Man Dies From Fall Near Matoaka
MATOAKA UP I report: Har man P Saunders 32 of near Matoaka died Thursday afternoon from injuries after falling down steps at his home. Authorities say death caused by a broken neck.
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Tornado Kicks Up In Midwest From Cold Gulf Air Clash
Severe storms and a tornado struck the Midwest as cold air from the north met warm gulf air. The tornado damaged a garage and home east of Marion Indiana, in the same area hit by Palm Sunday twisters that killed 132 and injured 1,200. Winds swept a trailer court demolished 12 days earlier. Rain fell in Chicago suburbs and Davenport Iowa braced for Mississippi River flooding. Snow fell in northern Michigan and Duluth iced. North cool contrasted with hotter southern warmth.
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Johnson weighs sweeping labor package to boost wages
President Johnson plans an omnibus labor message to Congress next week seeking higher minimum wage coverage for millions, overtime double-time penalties, broader picketing rights for construction unions, and abolition of right to work laws. Administration decision on final contents nearing. Humphrey backs wage increase. Wirtz cites overtime concerns. Labor plans anticipate quick approval with White House support.
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Negro Installed As Top Methodist Bishop
Bishop Prince A. Taylor Jr. of Princeton New Jersey became president of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church at a four day meeting in Houston. He succeeds Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of New York to lead 95 bishops. Bishop Richard C. Raines of Indianapolis was named president-designate for 1966 67 and has led the church in Indiana since 1948.
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Iowa
New California Campus Crisis Faces UC Berkeley
Berkeley students threaten a new revolt over disciplinary actions linked to the obscenity crisis. Arthur Goldberg, among the dismissed, has sparked mass demonstrations and a pending reinstate demand by the Free Speech Movement.
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Kanawha Airport To Test Fog Dissipator
United Airlines plans to expand its fog-dissipation program from six Pacific Northwest airports to at least 12 more cities. The move targets airports with frequent fog exposure and seeks FAA permission to begin testing in Detroit Des Moines Columbus Cleveland Washington Charleston Asheville Sacramento Vancouver Salem and Eugene.
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United States denies Soviet atomic mine belt claim
Presstime Bulletin reports the United States delivered a diplomatic note to the Soviet government formally denying Kremlin charges that an atomic mine belt would be created near the West German border.
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