Voting and Health Bills Dominate Senate and House Debates
The Senate opens debate on a historic health plan for 19 million Americans 65 and older with expanded Social Security benefits costing about 6.8 billion annually financed by higher payroll taxes. The House fights over voting rights with a top priority bill to enforce the 15th Amendment, including disputes over poll taxes and literacy tests and possible use of federal registrars.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Kerr-Mills
U.S
John Beckler
Johnson
Capitol Hill
Selma
Ala
Congress
Texas
Alabama
Mississippi
Virginia
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Judiciary Committee
GOP
Record Warmth and Cold Snaps Hit Across Regions
July temperatures plunged in the Great Lakes with Madison 36 degrees and Pellston 28. Severe storms lashed Tampa Bay with 3-4 inches of rain and 60 to 75 mph winds. Kansas floods followed 69 mph gusts in Topeka while Utica and the mid Atlantic faced flooding and heavy rains from a widespread storm line. An American Airlines 707 sustained windshield and radar damage in a Texarkana storm.
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Associated Press
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Madison
Wis
Detroit
Mich
Milwaukee
Pellston
Needles
Calif
Tampa
Fla
Hays
Kan
Kansas
Russell
Topeka
Weather Bureau
North Atlantic
Utica
N.Y
Mid - Atlantic
Minnesota
Texas Panhandle
Texarkana
Texas Heat Levels Press Statewide Comfort
Texas baked under a hot spell with early summer temperatures in the mid to upper 100s. Presidio logged 104 degrees while Brownwood, Mineral Wells, San Angelo reached about 100. Paris saw evening showers in North Texas and Port Arthur reported a minor tornado touch soothes along the coast. Forecasts call for more thunderstorms across the Panhandle and showers in the south.
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Associated Press
Texas
Mercury
Presidio
Brownwood
Mineral Wells
San Angelo
Paris
Red River Valley
Port Arthur
Weather Bureau
Texas Panhandle
Johnson sails back to Washington for Nixon era style talks
President Johnson flew from Bergstrom Air Force Base to Washington for talks with Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies. Viet Nam policy is expected to top the agenda with a White House private meeting to follow a White House dinner including Secretary of State Rusk.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Washington
Robert Menzies
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Viet Nam
George E. Reedy
White House
Menzies
Reedy
Dean Rusk
RAF Transport Plane Crashes in Oxfordshire Field
An RAF four engine transport plane carrying 43 aboard crashed in a field near Dorchester in Oxfordshire. Fire officials said there were no survivors and described the aircraft as having disintegrated. A witness saw a large ball of orange fire in a garden nearby.
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London
Royal Air Force
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire Fire Brigade
RAF Transport Command
Dorchester
Trading Is Quiet On Stock Market
New York AP reports a quiet afternoon as the market advanced only fractionally. Most key issues moved at most a point, with mixed price patterns and Wall Street weighing a NAM data showing June activity growing slower than earlier months.
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New York
Wall Street
National Association of Purchasing Agents
1000 Americans in Combined Operation in South Viet Nam
More than 1,000 American troops joined Vietnamese and Australian forces for a second joint operation against the Viet Cong in Pleiku Province and nearby areas. Casualties included two Americans missing and four Vietnamese killed. 2,500 troops took part, with B52s bombing the D Zone.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Pleiku
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Royal Australian Regiment
D Zone
Strategic Air Command
Guam
Duc Co
Ba Gia
Quang Ngai
Mid Year Bank Deposits Set Local Record in Two Banks
West Texas State Bank shows 9 719 416 45 in deposits and 4 673 505 9 in loans while Snyder National Bank reports 16 582 745 01 deposits and 1 482 901 11 loans as of June 30, 1965. Combined deposits reach 26 2 161 46 nearly a million higher than prior second quarter high.
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Comptroller of the Currency
State Banking Commission
West Texas State Bank
Snyder National Bank
Weather Forecast for Texas Regions
Snyder reports a hot start with high around 96 and low near 70. North Central Texas expected clear to partly cloudy with showers limited to over 20 percent, highs near 93 to 100. Northeast Texas sees thunderstorms up to 30 percent, highs about 90 to 95. Northwest Texas stays fair with cooler Panhandle Wednesday. South Central to Southeast Texas mostly warm with daytime showers over 20 percent, highs 90 to 100. Southwest Texas stays clear to partly cloudy with 92 to 100 for Wednesday.
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Snyder
Texas
Northwest
Panhandle
Britons Drop Peace Effort In Viet Nam Mission
London reports that Britain will not pursue a Commonwealth peace mission on Viet Nam for now due to Communist opposition. Prime Minister Wilson invited UN Secretary General U Thant to London for talks en route to New York. The proposed mission originated from the June Commonwealth leaders conference.
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New York
Geneva
No. 10
Downing St
Wilson
Thant
Missile sites in North Vietnam near completion says State Dept
State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said two missile sites are virtually complete with two more at an advanced stage. He found no evidence missiles are installed at the completed sites but warned installation is a matter of time. Work is centered around Hanoi and Haiphong areas.
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Washington
State Department
North
Viet Nam
Robert J. McCloskey
Hanoi
Haiphong
Churchill's London Home To Be Sold At Auction
The London home of Sir Winston Churchill to be sold at auction likely in October. Knight, Frank and Rutley said Churchill's executors instructed sale of No. 28 Hyde Park Gate where he died in January, with Lady Churchill, now Baroness, owning an apartment at Kensington.
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London
Sir Winston Churchill
Knight
Frank and
Rutley
Churchill
Hyde Park Gate
Winston
Lady Churchill
Kensington
Buses Planned to Austin to Back Junior College Effort
Snyder Jaycees led by Bill Dryden arrange chartered buses for about 20 supporters to travel to Austin next Monday to push for establishing a junior college. The trip includes housing at the Driskill Hotel for as little as four dollars per person and a ten dollar fifty cent fare.
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Snster
Bill Dryden Dryden
Snyder Jaycees
Chamber of Commerce
Austin
Dryden
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