Jersey City Riots Prompt 13 Arrests As Police Fire Warning
Helmeted officers patrolled glass strewn streets after a four hour riot in Jersey City's Negro district. Thirteen Black youths were arrested. 23 people, including ten police, were injured. A white family was attacked on Grand Street as windows and cars were damaged and stores looted. Several youths formed a crowd, a car nearly struck officers, and a 17 year old girl was taken into custody.
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Charles Kk. Sergis
Jersey City
N.J
New Jersey
Manhattan
Hudson River
Thomas J. Whelan
Lafayette Housing Project
New York City
Rochester
Grand Street
John Hudak Jr
Dorothy
Hudak
Jersey City Medical Center
John Sr
Walter Mays
Astronaut Cooper Links Faith to Space Program
Houston AP The space program and the heavens inspire faith says Gordon Cooper the final Project Mercury flyer who holds a 34 hour orbit record. Speaking at First Methodist Church Seabrook he recalled praying on 150 miles up above the Indian Ocean and said prayer came naturally during the flight.
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Cooper
AID Reports Record Low Backlog in Foreign Aid Funds
The Agency for International Development announces a record low backlog of unused funds for overseas programs. New figures show only 22 million uncommitted from prior appropriations and 213 million to be recovered this year, totaling about 235 million for the coming fiscal year alongside 3.5 billion in new funds.
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Lewis Gulick Washington
Agency For International Development
Senate
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
Masked Men Rob Esquire Theater in Dallas Heist
Two bandits wearing gray handkerchiefs taped six employees at the Esquire Theater in Dallas Oaklawn area. They forced workers to a basement, bound them, and escaped with about $3,000 in currency after the manager tried to intervene and was struck.
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Dallas
Esquire Theater
Oaklawn
J. A. Cain
Frank Barrett
Cain
No Official Word On Johnson VP Prospects
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey and Mayor Robert F. Wagner say President Johnson has not discussed the vice presidency with them. Wagner, in New York, and Humphrey, on CBS, stress no formal talks. Kennedy urges a vice presidential bid amid Johnson speculation as Miller criticizes party machines for urban unrest.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Robert F. Wagner
New York
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Humphrey
Senate
Eugene J. McCarthy
Robert F. Kennedy
Wagner
White House
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CBS
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Atty
Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
Rusk says Cold War must be won to preserve freedom
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a New York audience that the struggle between freedom and Communist imperialism is for keeps and must be won without a great war if possible. He spoke at a dinner marking the American Field Service’s 50th anniversary, noting the group’s exchange program links U S students with 41 countries.
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U. S
Dean Rusk
Washington
Rusk
United States
New York
Barry Goldwater
American Field Service
Johnson orders expanded Tonkin Gulf naval patrols
President Johnson ordered U S naval forces bolstered in the Tonkin Gulf off North Vietnam and instructed them to attack any force that attacks them in international waters. The move follows the Maddox assault by three North Vietnamese PT boats, with one boat damaged and two crippled, and four jets sent from the carrier Ticonderoga. The administration emphasized continued patrols and a stronger naval presence without widening the war.
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Johnson
U.S
Tonkin Gulf
Viet Nam
Maddox
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Gulf of Tonkin
North Viet Nam
Ticonderoga
Dean Rusk
United States
Red
South
China
Price tag on Ranger 7 raises moon mission debate
Washington senators debate the value of the Ranger moon program with a $260 million total and Ranger 7 at $280 million. Magnuson argues advances in photography and possible military uses justify funding. Case remains skeptical, while Symington says the national product can bear the cost. The lawmakers agree Ranger 7 was a magnificent achievement.
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Washington
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Air Force
Warren Magnuson
Senate
Clifford P. Case
R-N.j
Magnuson
Riot Erupts After Traffic Accident In Kansas City
A two hour riot followed a minor traffic collision in Kansas City Kansas injuring five policemen and a Black man. About 1 500 residents battled officers with bricks bottles and guns until 40 officers aided by police dogs dispersed the crowd. The trouble began when patrolman Harold McDaniel and his dog Stormy tried to clear a path for emergency vehicles and someone struck McDaniel with a brick.
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Kansas City
Kan
Harold McDaniel
McDaniel
July Water Use Sets Record in Snyder
The Snyder city water department reports record July consumption at 137.455 million gallons, surpassing last July's 133.524 million. The peak single day was July 9 with 5.087 million gallons.
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Snyder City
Snyder
Moon Cameras Aimed At Clouds
NASA plans to launch Nimbus A from Vandenberg to photograph clouds for weather study. The satellite will use advanced television cameras with five times the resolution of Tiros and infrared radiometers for night pictures. It will orbit near north to provide global coverage daily. General Electric built Nimbus A at Valley Forge, cost estimated at 140 million dollars. Weather Bureau delayed by costs and delays but may reconsider Nimbus.
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Washington
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nimbus A
Moe I. Schneebaum
Nimbus
NASA
Goddard’ Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
Ranger 7
Tiros
Tivos
Cal
General Electric Missile and Space Department
Valley Forge
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Weather Bureau
Schneebaum
Weather Translation for Texas Regions
Readable forecast notes for North Central Northeast and surrounding Texas regions. Temperature highs reach mid to upper nineties with overnight lows in the seventies, winds 10 to 20 knots near the coast, and scattered showers mainly along the coast.
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