Ky Rival Hold Secret Talks Amid Southeast Asia Tensions
Washington reports up to six North Vietnamese regiments may have massed in Cambodia to strike toward South Vietnam as Premier Ky and rival General Thi met secretly at Chu Lai under U.S. auspices. Ky defended Da Nang action and pledged to meet any time to resolve the crisis.
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Bulletin Washington
Viet Nam
Cambodia
South Viet Nam
Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
U.S
Nguyen Chanh Thi
Chu Lai
Hue
Army
1St Corps
U.S. 1St Marine Division
Thi
da Nang
Traffic Alert Extends For Memorial Day Weekend
A Condition Red traffic alert starts noon today for the Memorial Day weekend, longer hours and extended patrols planned by District 13 State Police at Du Quoin. Through the period ends at midnight Monday with intensified highway patrols and 67 traffic deaths this year, up from 48 a year ago.
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District 13
du Quoin
Man Killed As Washed Out Georgia Bridge Collapses
Torrential rains flood northeast Georgia with a 60 acre lake water surge washing away a bridge. A car crashed into a creek killing one man. two others escaped as their cars were swept away. One man rescued from a tree. Athens records nine inches of rain in eight hours with city streets washed out. Authorities say no houses were in the deluge path.
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Georgia
Athens
Weather Bureau
Danielsville
Seagraves Mill
Lad Killed By Donkey
Two year old Troy Edwards died from injuries after a donkey seized him in a Holland Michigan farm pasture. The animal carried him about 200 yards before he was released when his mother shouted. The Holland hospital attributed the death to extensive internal injuries and the donkey was ordered to be stabled for 10 days to check for rabies. The incident occurred while Troy was visiting a farm with his mother Mrs Morgan Edwards of nearby Douglas.
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Troy Edwards
Holland
Troy
Morgan Edwards
Douglas
Caution Slows Stock Trading Ahead of Memorial Day Weekend
The New York market traded irregularly lower in light volume ahead of a three day Memorial Day weekend. The Associated Press index fell 1.2 to 323.1 while the Dow dropped 83 to 890.92 as blue chips and industrials weakened. Copper stocks gained modestly and overall trading signaled possible consolidation.
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Associated Press
Dow Jones
Emphasis Criticized Graham's London Crusade as Anachronism
London critics deride Billy Graham's London crusade as a redundant anachronism. The Anglican Church Times calls the emphasis on personal salvation a debasement of biblical central concerns and warns of a packaged evangelism lacking substance. The Archbishop of York counters that Graham is sincere and courageous, though methods may be controversial.
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London
Anglican Church Times Today
Billy Graham
W. Cecil Northcott
Lutterworth Press
Christian Century
Chicago
Graham
Northcott
God
Christ
Manchester
England
York
Donald Coggan
Britain
United States
Baptist Slap At Moyers Is Overruled
Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention overruled a floor resolution attacking Bill Moyers for dancing. President Wayne Dehoney ruled the motion germane to the convention was not. Moyers, a White House aide and ordained minister, faced criticism after photos of him dancing surfaced.
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Detroit
Southern Baptist Convention
White House
Bill D. Moyers
Hugo T. Lindquist
Oklahoma City
Moyers
Wayne Dehoney
Lindquist
Lord Jesus Christ
Oklahoma
Texas
Washington
Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission
Johnson
TV Radio Commission
Guantanamo Clash Leaves No Wounds Among Cuban Soldiers
Six Cuban soldiers slipped through Guantanamo base perimeter and exchanged gunfire with sentries while fleeing without injuries. The incident follows a Marine sentry fatally shooting a Cuban earlier, and Pentagon records list eleven such incidents this year.
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Guantanamo Naval Base
Defense Department
Pentagon
Gemini 9 space flight postponed to next Wednesday
Gemini 9 rendezvous and space walk delayed a day to allow Atlas target rocket prep. Stafford and Cernan remain the crew with the mission now set for 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday and 11 39 p m for the space walk, while Surveyor moon mission looms toward a late month lift off.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
Atlas
Gemini
Cernan
Surveyor
Space Agency
Project
U S Space Effort Faces Momentum Gap Says NASA Chief
Dr. George E. Mueller, head of NASA's manned space flight, told the Aviation Space Writers Association that the United States has fallen behind the Soviet Union in manned space flight and risks losing momentum unless new goals are set. He noted the 1961 program aimed for space superiority by 1970 and warned of a waning Apollo engineering effort beyond the moon landing.
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New York
United States
Soviet Union
Aviation Space Writer’s Association
George E. Mueller
Mueller
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U.S
John Birch Society Membership Question for NY Police
The New York Corporation Counsel ruled policemen may join the John Birch Society, saying it is not a political organization. The police union cites estimates of 75 to 500 members in New York, amid broader controversy over the group’s ties to anti Semitism and civil rights activity.
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New York Times
New York
Lindsay
John Birch Society
J. Les Rankin
Eisenhower
Howard R. Leary
Corporation Counsel
The
Birch Society
Philadelphia
Weekend Weather Outlook With Changing Temperatures
Weather summary notes cloudy skies and cooler temperatures tonight and Saturday. Lows near 60, highs around 80 on Saturday. Sunday shows partly cloudy conditions with little temperature change. Weather details, map on page 8.
Germer CIO Pioneer Dies at 84 in Rockford
Adolph F. Germer an 84 year old labor leader and early CIO organizer died today. He rose from coal mine work in Southern Illinois to lead the Belleville district of the United Mine Workers and later aided CIO setup in Detroit guiding Walter Reuther into organizing work. He faced espionage law conviction in 1918, later overturned on appeal.
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Rockford
Adolph F. Germer
CIO
Germer
Germany
Illinois
United Mine Workers
Belleville
UMW
John L. Lewis
Detroit
Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Unified Auto Workers
Reuther
Firemen Vote to Resign If City Ignores Demands
More than 1 000 St Louis firemen voted to resign today unless the city acts on demands for better working conditions and higher pay.
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St. Louis
Troops disperse Buddhist protest in Saigon mobs
Vietnamese Marines used tear gas and live fire to break up a large antigovernment demonstration at the Buddhist Institute in Saigon. About 10,000 people gathered to condemn Ky regime. security had opened fences at the temple earlier in the week. Allied forces pursued Viet Cong in slow jungle fighting as Operation Crazy Horse claimed 311 Viet Cong killed and 29 captured in 11 days.
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Saigon
Buddhist Institute
Nguyen Cao Ky
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry
Highlands
Warren man kills wife and four children then dies
A former mental patient named Michael Collins killed his wife Minnie and their four children in Warren Ohio before taking his own life. Coroner Dr Joseph Suchmack ruled murder death by own action. The four children ages 6 and under were shot multiple times.
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Warren
Ohio
Trumbull County
Joseph Sucimack
Suchmack
Michael Collins
Minnie
David
Andy
Silas
Controversy Over Jefferson County Black Bear Killing
Public outrage in Southern Illinois followed the Jefferson County bear kill ordered by officials and condoned by a state conservation official. Sightings near Devil's Kitchen Lake suggest another bear may still be alive within Crab Orchard Refuge while advocates push for protection of black bears across Illinois.
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Art Reid
Illinois
Jefferson County
Ilinois Department of Conservation
Devil’s Kitchen Lake
Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge
Pete Brown
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
SIU
Brown
Court House
Big Muddy River
Waltonville
M. A. Shirley
Carterville
Shawnee National Forest
State Conservation Department
Art Hanseman
Hanseman
Springfield
Larry Withrow
Office
Withrow
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