Senate cloture fight shapes civil rights bill timeline
Senate leaders, Dirksen and Mansfield, pushed to file a cloture petition Monday to end debate on the civil rights bill. They aim for a June 18 passage with 67 votes, counting on GOP support and revisions to win the two thirds needed, amid a broad but unsettled mood among Republicans and Democrats.
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Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
House
Mike Mansfield
GOP
Associated Press
Mansfield
Hubert H. Humphrey
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Hickenhooper
Senate Republican Policy Committee
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Junior Rodeo At Posse Arena Set For Weekend
Grant County Sheriff's Posse hosts a two day junior rodeo at Posse Arena on June 6 and 7. Events include calf riding pole bending barrel races and roping for three age groups 12 and under 13 to 15 and 16 to 19 with entries opening Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning. Posse committee members listed include Ashley Duncan James B Turner and Bob Cooke.
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Sheriff's Posse
Grant County Sheriff's Posse
Shheriff's Posse
Ashley Duncan
James B. Turner
Bob’Cooke
Self-Service Auto Laundry Opens Four-Bay Wash Facility
Randy Gose, operator of American Laundry, announced start of construction for a four-bay self service car wash behind the laundry facing Grant Street. The plant will handle four cars at once and open in about three weeks for customers to wash their own cars for a quarter with light assistance.
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Randy Gose
American Laundry
Grant Street
Randy
New Police Hire Investigates Child Fall Incident
Silver City police Sgt Elias Garcia said Patrolman Byron Brown investigated a Sunday mishap in which a child Eddie Joe Garcia fell from a tar and was hurt. Yesterday's paper credited Sgt Garcia with taking the investigation.
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Silver City
Elias Garcia
Byron Brown
Eddie Joe Garcia
Garcia
Johnson defines Honolulu talks as pushing Asia campaign efficiency
Washington AP report quotes President Johnson saying Honolulu discussions aim to boost efficiency of US moves to stem Communism in Southeast Asia. He warns Laos and South Vietnam affect fate of the region, pledges U S to help South Vietnam while peace remains policy aim. He cites Eisenhower letter and defends only general outlines pending Honolulu talks. He notes ongoing aerial surveillance of Cuba, discusses Kennedy nomination prospects, tax cut effects, civil rights, and balance of payments improvements.
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Johnson
Honolulu
Southeast Asia
Asia
Laos
Viet Nam
Seportes
United States
South Viet Nam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Melvin RB. Laird
R-Wis
Cuba
Robert F. Kennedy
Senate
New York
Kennedy
Congress
Wilderness Bill Compromise OK'd By House Group
The House Public Lands subcommittee backed a wilderness bill with concessions for conservation groups and mining interests. It would create a permanent national wilderness system covering about 9 million acres now listed as wild, wilderness and canoe areas. Prospecting would continue for 25 years, with mining allowed until ore bodies are exhausted. The Senate bill envisions 14.5 million acres and bans mining of newly discovered ore bodies. The lands are primarily in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.
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House Public Lands Subcommittee
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Montana
Idaho
Colorado
Arizona
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Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Indian Congress Names Lal Bahadur Shastri Prime Minister
In New Delhi the Congress party chose Lal Bahadur Shastri by acclamation to succeed Nehru. He pledged a united socialist India and praised Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi as a potential foreign minister candidate. Shastri, 55, recalled Nehru’s death, welcomed support from Morarji Desai, and predicted renewed national confidence with Indira Gandhi's continued association.
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India
Congress Party
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Nehru
Shastri
Indira Gandhi
Vacation With A Purpose Offered To Local Women
Grant County women are invited to attend Homemakers College at New Mexico State University in June. Mrs Mae Latif, county home agent, says the program offers field options in art home furnishings clothing and textiles family health and safety money management garden and landscaping home decor outdoor recreation and personal development with daily classes or mixed lectures. The layout includes guest speakers convocations dinners recreation a bell choir Indians lecture and a tuberculosis clinic. Registration forms and schedules are at the county extension office with limited daily registration from 8 am to 3 pm in Millon Center at NMSU.
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Grant County
Homermakers College
New Mexico State University
Mae Latif
Nmsa Cooperative Extension Service
Homemakers College
New Mexico
Millon Center
NMSU
School Teachers Exempt From Nepotism Law
Santa Fe AP reports that New Mexico nepotism law does not apply to public school teachers, even if a spouse sits on the school board. Assistant Attorney General Oliver Payne advised the Cobre Board of Education Bayard that teachers are exempt under a 1963 statute. Additional opinions note a superintendent’s contract limits and the state agency liability insurance need for damages cases.
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Santa FE
Oliver Payne
Cobre Board of Education
Bayard
New Mexico
Payne
Cobre
Asst. Atty
Jerry Wertheim
Water at Glen Canyon Dam hits new high level
The Reclamation Bureau reports Glen Canyon's Lake Powell has reached 3,320,000 acre feet, about 2.3 million acre feet below the power generation minimum. Inflow is about 40,000 cubic feet per second. Storage resumed May 12 on orders from Interior Secretary Udall to maintain Lake Mead levels for Hoover Dam power generation.
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Lake Powell
Bureau
the, Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Lake Mead
Hoover Dam
Ex-Mayor George Pennington Dies in Colorado
George W. Pennington 78 formerly of Silver City died in Colorado Springs after recent strokes. He moved from Kentucky in 1929 and founded Pennington Wholesale Grocery, later selling it in 1957. He served as mayor of Silver City from 1943 to 1949 and was survived by his widow Nannie, three daughters, and six sons. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Colorado
George W. Pennington
Kentucky
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Colo
Pennington
Pennington Wholesale Grocery
Alfred Lewis
Nannie
W. E. Johnson
Curtis Maxwell
Glenwood
May Dyche
Los Angeles
C. F
Abe Pennington
George, Jr
Eugene
Bloomfield
N. M
Robert
Phoenix
Herman
Tucson
C. K. Pennington
Sidney Curtis
Curtis Mortuary
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