Johnson to Convene Top Conference on Viet Nam Policy
President Johnson will host a high level policy conference to review Ambassador Taylor’s recommendations for strengthening U S efforts in Viet Nam. Taylor warned no clear path to talks yet as Hanoi shows no sign of negotiating. Chou Enlai pressed for U S withdrawal while Italy urged negotiated settlement amid nonaligned appeal drafted in Belgrade.
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Washington
Johnson
Maxwell D. Taylor
Viet Nam
United States
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Hanoi
Taylor
State Department
William Warbey
London Times
Warbey
Ho Chi Minh
Chou En-lai
Chou
Algiers
Italy
Amintore Fanfani
Rusk
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
West of Saigon Planes Downed In Ongoing Fighting
In Vietnam 20 miles west of Saigon an American helicopter was downed by Communist fire wounding a crewman. A second helicopter unloaded rangers but its door gunner was hit. both aircraft returned to base. The incident adds to mounting American casualties as nine South Vietnamese troops died with 20 missing and Viet Cong losses estimated over 50. Police said a Viet Cong bomber was arrested at the embassy blast scene and a second bomber killed. Memorials were held for an American secretary and a Navy enlisted man killed in the bombing.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Viet An
U.S
U.S. Navy
Bliss Takes Command as RNC Chief Seeks Broad Appeal
Ohio's Ray Bliss assumed leadership of the Republican National Committee and urged a nationwide drive to build a party with broad appeal to all citizens. Helena Rubinstein, 94, a cosmetics executive, died. She had worked at her Fifth Avenue office Monday before illness. New Haven Railroad agrees to sell assets to a merged Pennsylvania and New York Central system.
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Ohio
Ray C. Bliss
Republican National Committee
United States
NEW York (Ap
Helena Rubinstein
Fifth Avenue
New York Hospital
New Haven, Conn
New Haven Railroad
Pennsylvania and
New York Central
Pilots Strike Cripples Pan American Flights
A nationwide strike by the AFL-CIO Air Line Pilots Association halted Pan American Airways operations. Pan Am, the largest international carrier, shut down Wednesday night grounding thousands of travelers. Some travelers were rebooked on other overseas carriers while government chartered flights to Viet Nam and Germany continued.
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New York
Pan American Airways
Pan Am
South Viet Nam
Germany
United States
Afl-Cio Air Line Pilots Association
Chicago
Dynamite Attacks Hit Negro Homes in Alabama Red Hot Tension
In Camden and Birmingham Alabama racial unrest escalates as dynamite shatters a Negro home in Birmingham while two other bombs are defused at the homes of local officials. A 13 year old boy suffers a minor cut in the blast. Negro leaders vow continued marches for open voter registration.
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Camden
Ala
Alabama
Birmingham
Albert Boutwell
Nina Miglionco
Camden Academy
Frederick D. Reese
Selma
33000 Acres Set For Cotton Planting In Chaves County
John Chappell county agent says 33000 acres in Chaves County will receive about 700000 pounds of cotton seed soon. Planting occurs between April 5 and May 1 with wilt resistant Acala varieties favored where wilt was present. Soil temperatures should average 58 degrees for three days before planting.
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Chaves County
John Chappell
Chappell
Toll on New Mexico Road Reaches 75 This Year
The report shows tolls collected on a New Mexico road number 75 so far this year, compared with the same date last year. The figures indicate current revenue activity and year over year trend for the toll route.
Policeman Arrested For Bank Robbery in El Paso
El Paso police officer Wayne Lee Westfall 30 on day off accused by FBI of robbing the downtown Simms Building branch of Albuquerque National Bank. He was to return to his beat as $18,000 recovered from a suitcase left at an Albuquerque bus depot was traced to El Paso.
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EL Paso
Tex
Wayne Lee Westfall
FBI
Albuquerque
C. J. Horak
Westfall
Simms
Albuquerque National Bank
Phelps Dodge Refining Corp
Air Force
Robert Minnie
Minnie
Horak
LBJ Borrowed $100000 to Pay Taxes Says President
President Johnson disclosed at a White House ceremony on the first day of a Crusade against Cancer stamp issue that he recently borrowed $100,000 to pay his federal income taxes. He recalled his 1955 heart attack and a hospital team fearing he might not survive.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Crusade Against Cancer
Paul Dudley White
Pay Demands Stagger Big Steel Labor Talks
Pittsburgh AP reports union demands for a near one dollar hourly rise over three years. Industry leaders call the package unprecedented and warn settlement before May 1 is unlikely as talks continue with United Steelworkers of America.
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Pittsburgh
R. Conrad Cooper
United Steelworkers of America
Afl-Cio
Elderly man 85 cited for driving without license near Libertyville
Deputies stop Frank Hoyer on Buckley Road and charge him with no driver's license after he admits never having one for about a decade. Hoyer, living in a field cottage, says he drives at most 20 mph in a 1914 Ford Model T and later shows a 1961 safe driver certificate.
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Libertyville, Ill
Frank Hoyer
Buckley Road
Libertyville
Hoyer
James Hession
Frank Wrobel
Pair Held For Fatal Stabbing in Roswell
Roswell police hold two men in connection with the fatal stabbing of Jose Carrillo aged 27 at a party on Tuesday night. Carrillo died on arrival at St. Marys Hospital after being stabbed in the chest and cut in the neck. Both suspects surrendered after learning of the victim's death and may be released later today.
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Roswell
Jose Carrillo
Albuquerque
Carrillo
St. Mary’s Hospital
Kenneth L. Dixon Joins Record Editorial Page
Kenneth L. Dixon, a veteran war correspondent and former editor, joins the Roswell Daily Record Editorial Page. Dixon writes The Changing Scene for United Features Syndicate and has led a career spanning 50 states and many countries, with notable World War II coverage and editor roles in Illinois, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
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Roswell Daily Record
Kenneth L. Dixon
United Features Syndicate
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Louisiana
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International News Service
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