Bodies Of Civil Rights Trio Found In Graves
The FBI reports three bodies found in graves near Philadelphia Mississippi, six weeks after civil rights workers Andrew Goodman James Earl Chaney and Michael Schwerner disappeared. The victims, from New York and Mississippi, were last seen June 21 and the station wagon found burned June 16 near Route 21.
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Washington
FBI
Philadelphia
Miss
Andrew Goodman
James Earl Chaney
Michael Henry Schwerner
Route 21
Jackson
J. Edgar Hoover
Meshoba County
Chaney
Meridan
Meridian
Schwerner
Goodman
64 State Platform To Be Presented Friday
Harrisburg AP reports a crash program in education to tackle racial discrimination and poverty may join a 1964 Pennsylvania Republican platform. A. James Reichley says a human relations plank will appear, with focus on employment housing and education to address race and poverty.
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Harrisburg
James Reichley
Scranton
Reichley
Craig Truax
U.S
Barry Goldwater
Duluth Grain Strike Halts Flow Of Crops
A month-long strike by grain handlers at Duluth Superior stops grain from the Dakotas and western Minnesota reaching Duluth-Superior. Talks among terminals and the grain millers stalled at an impasse after five days with no resolution.
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Duluth
Duluth, Minn
Duluth Superior
Dakotas
Minnesota
Great Lakes
American Federation of Grain Millers
Duluth-Superior
North Dakota
W. J. Thoreson
York, N.D
North Dakota Grain Dealers Association
Weather Outlook for Western Pennsylvania
Mostly sunny Wednesday with little temperature change. Highs reach the 70s north and lower 80s south. Fair Wednesday night and Thursday with a cooler night in the 50s. Little additional change in temperature Thursday.
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Pennsylvania
Pay Raise Passed for Federal Workers and Congress
Congress quickly approved a bill granting annual pay raises from 100 to 10000 dollars for about 1.7 million federal workers. Cabinet members gain 10000, top officials 10000, and Congress members 7500, with the speaker and vice president also boosted. The measure, totaling about 556 million dollars yearly, goes to President Johnson for signature.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Johnson
House
Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
Barry Goldwater
Senate
Jailed Ministers Work Off Fines
Nine clergy members, both Negro and white, chose jail over fines for a 1961 sit in conviction. They stacked brick and cut grass under armed guard in Tallahassee with Rev. Robert J. Stone wearing a clerical collar. The groups worked separately on city property in pale blue uniforms.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Robert J. Stone
New York City
Boy Dies Retrieving Tube in Clearfield Dam Incident
In Clearfield Pennsylvania a 15 year old boy Joseph Zumstein drowned Tuesday after being swept over a six foot dam on the Susquehanna River while attempting to retrieve an inner tube. Police said heavy rains on Monday swollen the current and pushed him over the dam.
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Clearfield
Susquehanna River
Joseph Zumstein
Nine French Miners Rescued From Deep Mine Shaft
In Champagne near the Swiss border nine miners were lifted from a limestone mine 270 feet deep after eight days trapped. They exited in good condition though some needed ambulances. Foreman Andre Martinez led the group as residents cheered and a celebratory toast followed. Five other miners remained missing as rescue teams pressed on with drilling and tapping sounds detected in another section.
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Champagnole
France
Andre Martinez
Mt. River
Senate Delaying Bill for Reapportionment Stays Move
Senate committee approves a bill to delay court-ordered legislative reapportionments and moves it to President Johnson's desk. Dirksen says he will attach it to the foreign aid bill, arguing time is needed for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court one man one vote ruling.
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Washington
Senate Committee
Johnson
Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Dirksen
Judiciary
Supreme Court
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Quentin N. Burdick
D-N.d
Frank Lausche
Ohio
U.S
Congo Rebels Move Into Stanleyville Target Area
Stanleyville faces intensified rebel assault as East Congo fighters push toward the city. U N withdraws civilian staff and dependents, while U S consulate reports gunfire near the airport and a tense airlift decision looms.
Salinger Named to U S Senate by California Governor
Pierre Salinger, chosen by Gov. Edmund G Brown, will serve the remaining five months of Sen. Clair Engle's term. The former White House press secretary won the Democratic nomination over Alan Cranston and faces George Murphy in November. Brown leads a 160 person delegation to witness the induction.
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Morrie Landsberg
Sacramento
Calif
Pierre Salinger
California
Johnson
U.S. Senate
Edmund G. Brown
White House
Clair Engle
Salinger
Senate
Alan Cranston
Brown
Engle
George Murphy
San Francisco
Washington
Sen. Engle
Red Bluff
Johnson orders air strikes on North Vietnam bases and ships
President Johnson announced U.S. air strikes against Communist supply facilities in North Vietnam with McNamara noting a Southeast Asia buildup. He warned against wider war while seeking an urgent U.N. Security Council briefing over torpedo boat attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
Viet Nam
Robert S. McNamara
Pentagon
MoeNamara
Southeast Asia
U. N
Adlai Stevenson
U.N. Security Council
Gulf of Tonkin
New York
United States
Security Council
Council
Saigon
McNamara
Hanoi
Western Pacific
America
Gas Bombs Hit Jersey City in Racially Tense Night
Two gasoline bombs were hurled in Jersey City as authorities feared a third night of rioting. A bomb set fire to a vacant building while another exploded near Grand Street. Police confronted a tense crowd as NAACP leaders urged restraint.
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Jersey City
N.J
Fairmount
Grand Streets
John Bell
The
Congress of Racial Equality
Bell
Raymond Brown
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Cuban Crisis Role Revealed by American Newsman
American newsman John Scali recalled his secret back channel with a Soviet officer during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He said President Kennedy asked him to keep the talks confidential as Scali relayed terms that helped avert nuclear war.
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Washington
John Scali
Scali
ABC
John’ . Kennedy
Mr. X
Seali
State Department
Dean Rusk
U. S
Khrushchev
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Eugene McCarthy
Mississippi Highway Patrol
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Martinet
Congo
By Robin P. Mannock
Leopoldville
the Congo
East Congo
Stanleyville
Congo River
Here
United Nations
U.N
Michael D. Hoyt
Hoyt
Consulate
Wanie Rukula
Stevenson Directed
Jersey
By Austin Scott
Lifetime
John Sceali
Roger Hilsman
Look Magazine
Hilman
Soviet Union
Cuba
Washington-Moscow
Kremlin
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