Annexation vote in Columbus areas set for Wednesday
Voters are to decide in a special election whether to annex 4.25 square miles and about 52,000 people into Columbus Georgia. Opponents distribute pamphlets claiming higher taxes while Mayor J R Allen calls the material a lie. In Atlanta Senator Al Holloway is named chair of a tax revision panel to study Georgia education funding.
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Columbus, Ga
Columbus
Georgia
J. R. Allen
Atlanta, Ga
al Holloway
Albany
Holloway
George T. Smith
George L. Smith
Testimony Set For Teachers Gainesville Ga
U S District Judge Albert Henderson hears testimony from two Gainesville teachers who allege racial discrimination after their contracts were not renewed. The suit is one of two brought by the Georgia Teachers and Education Association against Gainesville city and Pike County school boards.
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Gainesville, Ga
U.S
Albert Henderson
Gainesville
Georgia Teachers and Education Association
GTEA
Pike County
Credit Code Not Favored by Georgia Panel
An Atlanta attorney urged a Georgia Uniform Consumer Credit Code study committee to delay action for several years until the federal Truth in Lending Act effects are clearer. Sen Culver Kidd mentioned the next committee meeting set for July 22.
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Atlanta, Ga
Georgia
Atlanta
Joseph L. Abraham
Culver Kidd
Milledgeville
Log change on Clay tap log changed on clay tap
The government admitted the FBI altered a taped wiretap log on Cassius Clay without informing the Justice Department. Documents show a hand written note sum up in memo was omitted from court copies about a Sept. 4 1964 call with Martin Luther King Jr. Clay seeks further hearings while his lawyers pursue the case.
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Washington
FBI
Justice Department
Cassius Clay
Clay
Department
U.S. District Court
Houston
John S. Martin Jr
Michael T. Epstein
Martin Luther King Jr
Epstein
Martin
Robert R. Nichols
Kings
Nichols
Fragmented OCR Comic Snippet Recounts Fraying Thoughts
A garbled OCR passage presents disjointed phrases about punishment, timing, aging, taxes, and car needs. It references a pedestrian, a doctor, older women, a TV night, and a slow night club scene with insulting waiters, forming a collage of stray ideas.
Kennedy foes concede fight on Otepka nomination
Senate Democrats led by Edward Kennedy and allies signal they will oppose Otto Otepka for a Subversive Activities Control Board post. Otepka, a former State Department security evaluator, faces years of controversy over disclosures and a later demotion and reprisal, with a full floor vote expected after a Judiciary Committee report.
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Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Edward M. Kennedy
Senate
Otto F. Otepka
Subversive Activities Control Board
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kennedy
Otepka
John Birch Society
Liberty Lobby
State Department
Tor
Internal Security
Department
Secretary of State
Dean Rusk
Four-Block Swath Destruction After Miami Cargo Crash
A DC4 cargo plane with an engine ablaze crashed into a busy Miami street causing a four block swath of destruction. Ten people died including four crew members and six on the ground with about a dozen injured. The wreck damaged 48 vehicles and destroyed a building while igniting pumps and sparking fires across several structures. Police and Red Cross officials feared more bodies in the rubble as rescue teams searched the debris near Miami International Airport.
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Miami
Miami International Airport
James Reese
Red Cross
Dominicana Air Lines
Maxine Burmester
Charles Knapp
36Th Street
Burmester
Edward
Knapp
Georgia workforce study predicts rising need for training programs
A projected 1975 analysis by Amy Collins of the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station notes displaced workers will increasingly seek new jobs as whole new industries form from new materials and techniques in Georgia.
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Atlanta, Ga
Georgia
Amy
Collins
Georgia Tech
Negro Patrolmen Hiring Urged in Georgia
State Rep. Bobby L. Hill of Savannah urged Col. R. H. Burson to increase hiring of Negro state patrolmen. Hill said Georgia black citizens are uncomfortable due to the lack of Black patrolmen and sent the request in a letter to the Georgia Department of Public Safety.
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Atlanta, Ga
Georgia
Department of Public Safety
Bobby L. Hill
Savannah
R. H. Burson
Talmadge Probes Job Corps Across Georgia
Senator Herman Talmadge tours on the job training plants in Dublin Savannah and Augusta on the second leg of a fact finding trip. He criticizes federal inefficiency and questions the number and direction of federal job training programs.
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Dublin
Herman Talmadge
Savannah
Augusta
Talmadge
Columbus
Senate
Port of Savannah to Add 4.5 Million Berth and Giant Crane
The Georgia Ports Authority announced a new 4.5 million berth and the nation s largest container crane will boost Port of Savannah traffic by more than 50 percent in five years. Executive Director J D Holt said the facilities are major changes in shipping history.
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Savannah, Ga
Savannah
Georgia Ports Authority
J. D.holt
Partly cloudy and hot today through Wednesday
The forecast notes hot temperatures with partly cloudy skies continuing through midweek, extending into Wednesday, as published in page 10.
China Turns Away U S Pacifists Amid Shanghai Standoff
Six American pacifists led by Earle Reynolds sailed from Japan to China on the Phoenix but were refused entry at Shanghai. The group returned to Nagasaki while authorities question their reentry status linking to a prior Japan exit arrest of Reynolds and his wife Akie.
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Tokyo
Japan
China
Shanghai
American Friends Service Committee
Phoenix
Nagasaki
Earle Reynolds
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Brian Victoria
Omaha
Neb
Michael Stafford
Camerillo
Calif
Sharon Willoughby
Philadelphia
Roger Scott
Lub
Reynolds
Demolition Expert Blows Up Family in Oxford
In Oxford England, 39 year old ex commando Michael Molloy a demolition expert and former Royal Marine blew up his family home after a dispute. Police found Molloy dead and his wife and two of seven children seriously injured as neighbors described a loud explosion and a dramatic escape from the house.
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Oxford
England
Michael Molloy
Royal Marine
Molloy
Earey
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