Water Crisis Triggers Johnson White House Meeting
President Johnson called leaders from New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania to a White House meeting Wednesday to address a drought driven water impasse. Udall warned the Upper Delaware Basin may run dry this fall and urged coordinated federal state and local planning to avoid a regional water disaster.
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Frank Cormier
Washington
Johnson
New York
Pennsylvana
New Jersey
White House
Antynson
Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Delaware River
Udall
Water Resources Council
Grup
Unall
Delaware River Nast Commission
New York City
Commission
Delaware
Chess
Delaware River Basin Commission
Wates
Johnenn
House
Robert F. Wagner
James Tait
Philadelphia
Hugh Addanizia
Newark
Alfred Pierce
Camden
Thomas Whalen
Jersey City
Voting Rights Law Gains Immediate SC Impact
In Columbia and across South Carolina the new voting rights act halted literacy tests and opened registration books in Richland and Newberry counties. Civil rights leaders protest delays as registration surges, with sit-ins at Allendale and Orangeburg courthouses and county book openings varying by locality.
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South Carolina
Columbia
Richland
Newberry
Daniel McLeod
Presiden Johnson
Aacine
Georgia
Mississippi
Virginia
Touisaina
North Carolina
Couintins
Satirday
Sothern Christian Leadership Conference
Allendale
Orangeburg
Masa
Durin
Diotinn Sears
Johnson moves to end Mississippi poll tax suit filed
The Justice Department under President Johnson filed a federal suit in Jackson to strike down Mississippi's $2 annual poll tax for state elections. Federal elections are exempt. Attorney General Katzenbach said the tax targets Black and poor white voters. The suit seeks to enjoin Mississippi and major parties from enforcing the tax and to move quickly through the courts.
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Bupley Lehr Jackson
Miss
Justice Department
Johnson
Mississippi
Ady
Nicholas Katzenback
Washington
Tnoe
Alabama
Texas
Virginia
Nagroes
INA
Katenbach
Visiting Bear Rough On House In Gurta Mickman’s Garden
A large brown Himalayan bear escaped Hawthorne Piggeries in Doreen Moortoney and roamed Gurta Mickman’s garden. It smashed rear windows and pushed through doors before three constables and a police servant cornered it and led it home without injuries.
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Biggin Hill
Angland
Gurta Mickman
Hawthorne
Doreen Moortoney
Puggeries
Unknown Two Boys Found Dead On Parkway in Baltimore
FBI circulated photographs Saturday hoping to identify two youths found dead on the Washington Parkway near Ballingive. Police believe they were struck and dragged by a large vehicle but cannot confirm origin or cause. No identification found on bodies or in bags. signs at the scene suggest possible Miami area connection.
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FBE
Hanielle
Polier
Kenvin Re 'Volly
Agenit
FBT
Miami
Solion
Debbie
Wally
Pim Jones
Marty Rooke
Rooke
Lynne Feaver
Nancy Carroll a longtime star dies at 23 Hollywood debut to Abie's Irish Rose
Nancy Carroll, a red haired Irish born actress who rose from a Hollywood gate crush to a Broadway and film career, died at 23 after missing a performance of Never Too Late in Nyack. Autopsy failed to reveal cause of death. further tests will follow. Survived by four grandchildren.
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New York
API
Paramount Studios
Hollywood
Anne Nichols
Abie
Nic Cals
Anne Veronica LaHiff
Nancy Carroll
Miss Carrall
Berli Labr
Nyack
Misa Carroll
Donald J. Bovan
Patricia Kirkland
John F. Devlin
Miss Carroll
Kaw ‘York
Miss Carenll
Soy Fivat
Jack Kirkmhen
Aubher
Dranta Hod Besklee
Cali. Gronn
William Bendix
Mother Aldrich
United States Steel
Tallulah Bankhead
Twidilon
Medicare hill passage sparks mixed reactions in Gastonia
In Gastonia indigent residents cheer a new pigment provision for medical care amid doubts about intent. Officials and police express cautious support as the community adapts to the Imw program. Slave Baily reports from page SA.
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Gastonia
Phy
Imw
Baily
Monkey romance at Memphis Zoo draws nightly cheers
At Memphis Zoo on Monkey Island a female rhesus primps for a date with a Barbary ape across the moat each night. After a moonlit rendezvous, the pair returns to their cages as keepers watch, with director Robert Matlin saying there is no intention to interfere.
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Memphis
Tenn
Monkey Island
Evere
Forse Cis
Robert Mathin
Matlin
Two Cars Get Away In Kansas City
Report from Kansas City Mo describes two cars fleeing a parking lot incident. One vehicle crashed into a stone retaining wall while the other sustained front damage. Owner Rob Crites 18 sought help as responders arrived.
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Kansas City
Sap
Rob Crites
Weis
Vinny
Criles
Weiler
Fort Worth executive held in two murder cases
Cross Jr, a Fort Worth chain store executive, is held without bond in Travis County jail after voluntarily admitting involvement in the July 18 killings of Shirley Stark and Susan Rigsby, two 21 year olds from Dallas. The case details describe staged bodies found 12 days later and indicate possible rape, with investigators tying Cross to Miss Stark prior to the girls’ disappearance.
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Anurder Fm
Rhamed Hines
Cross Jr
Shirley Ayre Stark
Susan Rigsby
Cross
Fort Worth
Travis
Braverie Lxstuties
Dallas
Teasone
Crosa
Nishett
Uniersity
Texas
Vss
Miss Stark
Wit
George Phifer
Phifer
Texas Department of Public Safety
Justice of the
Praca
Frank Meee
Warner
Col
Homer Grieison
Department of Tubhe
Garrison
Cody
Cruse
Clint Penples
Shoul Aim
Miss Stark Wes
Anil
Divine Cress
Miss Rigsby
Cress
J. Weill
Cissy
Shiley
Newt
Joe College
Alty
Tom Blackwell
State Troopers Target Weekend Highway Death Toll
The North Carolina Highway Patrol deployed all troopers this weekend to curb highway fatalities. Through Sunday two deaths were confirmed, raising the August toll and echoing the prior year’s deaths during a historically deadly month for roads. Names and locations include Marin Jonior Carter near Sparta, Ryumiley north of Sparta, Robby Wayne Peery of Raleigh, and K. Smith of Wake Forest in Wake County.
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Assoctater
Tatval
Rouda
Patiod
Patro
Marin Jonior Carter
Sparta
Nalual Ryumiley
Spada
Robby Wayne Peery
Raleigh
K. 1 Smith
Wake Forest
Wake County
Two Die In Westbound Beach Crash Near Wrightsville Beach
Daisy Bartinger, 49, and her daughter Martha, 14, were killed when their car was rear–rammed by Ronald Pridegen, 38, at the Wrightsville Beach area intersection of Highways 74 and 76. James C. Barringer, 37, and Pridegen’s driver were hospitalized but not believed to be seriously hurt.
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N.C
Vo Concord
Satuxlay
Ead
Daisy Bartinger
Martha
Nore
James C. Barringer
Ronald L. Pridegen
Wrtes
Pride Sen
Tito
Wrightaville Beach
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Molly Pi
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Hatiqop
Wonsan
McBee
Aebee
Cross JT
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