Ribicoff and Yorty clash over city powers and leadership
Sen Antonio Ribicoff criticizes Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty for waiving authority on education welfare housing and more while Yorty says a reformed city needs new powers. Detroit Mayor Cavanagh pushes a 10 year urban revival plan costing up to 250 billion dollars and urges a national city development fund.
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Connecticut
Yorty
Senate
Los Angeles
Watts
Ribicoff
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Kennedy
Sam
Detroit
Jerome P. Cavanagh
Cavanagh
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Southeast Asia
Troy Firms To Extend Courthouse
Officials discuss delaying completion of a Troy courthouse project as 175th Rensselaer County celebration plans lag due to lack of funding. Budget stands at 53000 with only 7500 raised. parade cost estimated 4000 to 5000 and could stretch from three to five hours on celebration day.
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Thomas F. Branen
Troy
Rensselaer County
Branen
Newspaper Ads Up One Billion in Three Years
Dr. Leo Bogart of the American Newspaper Publishers Association Bureau of Advertising says newspaper advertising revenues have risen by over a billion dollars in three years. He cites affluence, better editorial products, and more aggressive selling as factors, with newspapers offering real solutions to advertisers in a growing market. Some advertisers who favored television are returning to newspapers to explore creative opportunities in copy design and marketing strategy.
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Fort Worth
Tex
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Bureau of Advertising
Leo Bogart
Bogart
Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Rains Flood Southern Plains Causing Flooding Evacuations
Heavy rains deluged the Southern Plains with eight inches in four days at Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico lifting the Pecos River. Dell City near the Mexican border was marooned as floods disrupted roads and missing person was presumed drowned. Tornado damaged homes in Sanford Florida and showers were reported in New England and the northern Great Lakes.
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Carlsbad Caverns
New Mexico
Pecos
Dell City
Carlsbad
Gulf Coast
Sanford
Fla
Orlando
New England
Great Lakes
Trooper Survives Rifle Threat During Glen Erie Break‑in
State Trooper Gary Forshee of Kingston faced immediate danger when a 14 year old, armed with a .22 rifle, fired at him during a Glen Erie Lake Park break‑in probe. Forshee ordered surrender and the youth complied after warning he would miss next time.
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Glenerie
UPI
Gary Forshee
Kingston
Forshee
Glenerie Lake Park
Ulster County
Joke circulating in East Germany mocks Ulbricht
West Berlin’s Morgenpost reports a joke told in the East about Walter Ulbricht visiting an asylum. In the gag a patient praises Ulbricht while another man explains he is not crazy but the keeper.
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Ulbricht
US Plans Sink Red PT Boat in Vietnam War Action
U S planes sunk a Red PT boat while gun crews andSouth Vietnamese troops watched for guerrillas in mangrove swamps. A salvage ship and four tugs tried to refloat a freighter and transship war supplies as thousands of allied troops pressed ground operations with limited contact.
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U.S. Marine
Saigon
da Nang
U.S
Chu Lai
Nixon foresees Johnson Kennedy ticket for 1968
Former vice president Nixon predicted Johnson could drop Humphrey and pick Robert F. Kennedy as running mate if faced with a tough GOP challenge. He noted Kennedy as the most popular Democrat among party rank and file but said Kennedy could not win a Democratic nomination against an incumbent.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert F. Kennedy
Nixon
Kennedy
State Police Receive Traffic Supervision Award
Albany New York State police were one of seven state agencies honored for traffic supervision in 1965. Superintendent Arthur Cornelius Jr announced the Certificate of Achievement Award in Police Traffic Supervision from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The award reflects programs in training accident investigation hazardous convictions and drunken driving enforcement.
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Albany
UPI
New York State Police
Arthur Cornelius Jr
International Association of Chiefs of Police
GE Pittsfield workers walk off over pay and incentives
Five hundred GE tank shop employees in Pittsfield Massachusetts left their jobs yesterday to protest premium pay and incentive rates. Thomas Connelly shop steward said Local 255 members would return to work this morning as union and company reps prepare for a meeting today.
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General Electric Co
Pittsfield
Mass
Thomas Connelly
International Union of Electrical Workers
Afl-Cio
Priests Convicted Of 79 Robberies in Paris Churches
In Paris two priests were convicted of robbing 79 churches of gold objects and other treasures over four years. Father Michael Demissy 35 received two years in prison while Father Pierre Breux 36 got 18 months. Aline Bergeron 24 Breux’s girlfriend was fined 60 dollars for receiving stolen goods.
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Paris
UPI
Michael Demissy
Pierre Breux
Aline Bergeron
Breux
Old Sea Captain Rescued Arrives for Medical Treatment
Capt. William Willis, 73, who sailed from New York in an 11 foot boat bound for England, was rescued 850 miles at sea after a strangulated hernia. He arrived in Argentia for medical care aboard Monday after being picked up Sunday night by the Coast Guard cutter Ingham.
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Argentia
Mld
UPI
William Willis
Willis
New York
Little One
England
Coast Guard
Ingham
New Pool Rule Bans Close Contact for Couples
In Bloemfontein South Africa couples at city pools must stay 12 inches apart. Hand holding and mutual application of sun tan lotion between the sexes are forbidden under the new regulation.
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Bloemfontein
South Africa
Writ Could Free Dr Coppolino in Murder Case
Sarasota Florida. Circuit Court Judge John Justice grants a writ of habeas corpus allowing possible bail or release for Dr Carl Coppolino an anesthesiologist charged with two murders. Indictments allege overdose death of his former wife Carmela in 1965 and the death of William Farber in New Jersey both listed as heart attacks by officials.
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Sarasota
Fla
John Justice
Carl Coppolino
Ross Boyer
Coppolino
Florida
Justice
F. Lee Bailey
Boston
James Russ
Orlando
James McEwen
Tampa
Lynn Silvertooth
Cappolino
Sarasota County
Monmouth County
N.J
Carmela
New Jersey
William E. Farber
Cappolino’s
Middletown
Farber
New Disease Resistant Potato Seed Unveiled by Cornell
Lake Placid New York Gov Rockefeller announced early next year seed growers statewide will receive the new potato seed Peconic. The seed is highly resistant to the golden nematode disease and results from 20 years of research at the State College of Agriculture at Cornell. Rockefeller praised the Cornell Uihlein Foundation seed potato farm as a model of government and citizen collaboration.
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New York State
Cornell-Uihlein Foundation
Rockefeller
State College of Agriculture
Cornell
TV High To Start Mexico City Enrollment
AP reports enrollment began for TV High in Mexico City. An Education Ministry spokesman says by 1969 any child in Mexico can complete high school through the government project. Classes start September 1.
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Mexico City
TV High
Education Ministry
Mexico
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