Roosevelt Declines NYC Mayoral Run in Favor of Civil Rights Post
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. will not enter the Democratic primary for New York mayor citing a superior obligation as chairman of the new federal Commission on Employment Opportunity. He says his role enforcing Civil Rights Act provisions takes precedence over a sixth voice in a divided party.
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Perior
Federal Commission
Robert F. Wagner
John V. Lindsay
RN. Y
GOP
Roosevelt
New York City Council
Paul R. Screvane
Abraham D. Beame
Paul O
New York
Employment Opportunity Commission
Family Courts Get Weekend Jail Whip
Gov. Rockefeller signed a law allowing family court judges to jail noncompliant fathers part of each day or on weekends for failing to support families. The measure, effective Sept. 1, aims to pressure neglectful dads while preserving time to work.
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Albany
Rockefeller
New York State
New York City
Richard J. Bartlett
Glens Falls
Bartlett
Father Donates Kidney To Daughter In New Orleans Doctor Surgery
In New Orleans a Tulane School of Medicine team transplanted a kidney from 48 year old John Henry Honeycutt of Anniston Alabama to his 13 year old daughter Jonnie Gail Honeycutt. The operation lasted four hours and both are reported in satisfactory condition.
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New Orleans
Alabama
Tulane School of Medicine
Jonnie Gail Honeycutt
John Henry Honeycutt
Anniston
Ala
FEPC Launches Federal Civil Rights Job Bias Ban
Washington upi Starting today it becomes illegal to publish help wanted ads excluding Negroes and to segregate unions. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act goes into effect enforcing hiring, promotion, pay, and firing on merit regardless of race color sex religion or national origin. EEOC head Franklin D Roosevelt Jr says the agency is ready to begin and will seek guidelines for business and labor and plans a national conference on enforcement.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Johnson
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Franklin D. Roosvelt Jr
Roosevelt
Congress
Busic Mess
Indian student groups burn LBJ effigy in New Delhi
About 50 members of the All-India Youth Federation and the All-India Students Federation staged a protest in front of the U S Information Service offices. They observed July 1 as a protest day against United States aggression in Viet Nam. Both groups are fronts of the Communist party.
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New Delhi
YPI
Viet Nam
Johnson
U. S. Information Service
All- India Youth Federation
All-India Students Federation
United States
Communist Party
Da Nang Prisoner Quizzed On Viet Cong Attack
Do Xuan Hien, 29, from Thanh Hoa province, identified by U S authorities as a wounded North Vietnamese soldier captured after the Da Nang airbase attack. The raid destroyed two C130 transports and an F102 jet, with four Americans dead and two Marines wounded.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
da Nang
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Qui Nhon
Highlands
Chu Lai
Phu Bai
Slo
U.S. Navy
Air Force
Viet Nam
Hanoi Line
Son la
Thuan Chau
Ban Phaieng Hay
U.S
Do Xuan Hien
Thanh Hoa
North Viet Nam
Borman and Lovell Named Primary Crew for Gemini 7 Flight
Air Force Maj. Frank Borman and Navy Lt. Cmdr. James A. Lovell were named as primary pilots for Gemini 7 scheduled for early next year. They were the backup crew for the just completed Gemini 4 mission.
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Houston, Tex
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell
Edward H. White II
Michael Collins
Collins
Manned Spacecraft Center
James A. McDivitt
Leroy Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Neil A. Armstrong
Elliott M. Lee Jr
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Wirephoto
Cmdr
J. A. Lovell
Maj
U S Rockets Into Orbit Its 10th Tyros Weather Satellite
The 10th Tiros weather observatory satellite launched from Cape Kennedy to study tropical storms. A three stage Delta rocket placed Tiros 10 in a north south orbit over 400 miles up. Ground stations will adjust its cameras to begin cloud cover photos by weekend.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Tiros Weather Observatory
Electronic Weatherman
Cape Kennedy
Florida
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Weather Bureau
Space Agency
Space
NASA
Tiros
Earth
Stierer Outlines Six Year Troy Improvement Plan
City Manager Robert A. Stierer presented a six year capital improvement program totaling about 15 million dollars for 1965 to 1970. The plan calls for a new 750000 city hall and multiple park, street, utility and public safety projects including fire station consolidations and a 10000000 sewage treatment project.
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Troy
Robert A. Stierer
Fire Dept
Troy Police Dept
Stierer
State
Third Street
Thornhill, Piano Great, Dies At 55
Band leader Claude Thornhill died at his Caldwell New Jersey home at age 55 after two heart attacks within an hour. The pianist and arranger, born in Terre Haute Indiana, played with Artie Shaw Benny Goodman Glenn Miller and Paul Whiteman before forming his own band in 1939.
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Golden Pheasant
Cleveland
Austin Wiley
Thornhill
Shaw
New York
Benny Goodman
Ray Noble
Glen Miller
Andre Kostelanitz
Paul Whitman
Drug Shortage Sparks Panic in New York
Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Martin said a crash program to curb drug addiction in New York led to drug shortages and panic among addicts. He noted the AHT7-dope program, backed by Mayor Wagner and former Police Commissioner Murphy, peaked last September with heroin marijuana and cocaine seizures up almost 100 percent and a rise in arrests.
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New York
Joseph Martin
Gamble Benedict Weds State Trooper in Ireland Honeymoon
Heir ess Gamble Benedict married Thomas F. Gallagher, an $11,500-a-year state police investigator, in a quiet Clinton church ceremony. The couple, who planned a three week Ireland honeymoon, will live in the New Hartford area. Benedict’s previous marriage to Andre Porumbeanu ended in an annulment. her grandmother left an estimated $50 million inheritance.
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Clinton
N.Y
Gamble Benedict
Thomas F. Gallagher
Gallagher
St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church
Ireland
New
Hartford, N.Y
Gamble
Andre Porumbeanu
Europe
Miss Benedict
Syracuse
Katherine Geddes Benedict
New York City
Henry H. Benedict
Lull Steadies Market After Three Turbulent Days
The New York stock market held near the center in light trading after three days of turbulence. Brokers called the lull a breathing spell and said investors were avoiding commitments before the long Fourth of July weekend.
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New York
Week's Viet Nam Casualties Update From Pentagon
The Defense Department reports 15 American servicemen killed in hostile action in the week ending last Monday in Vietnam, raising total deaths to 446 since Jan 1 1961. The week saw 51 wounded, bringing the total wounded to 2,506, with 44 missing and 14 held prisoner.
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Washington
Viet Nam
Defense Dept
Supersonic Airliner Project Delayed By 18 Months
President Johnson ordered at least 18 more months of research before starting construction of the U S first SST. He invited Boeing Lockheed General Electric and Pratt Whitney to continue design and testing. Congress is to be asked for 140 million dollars to fund FAA contracts with the four companies.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
United States
William F. McKee
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Najeeb E. Halaby
White House
Boeing
Lockheed
General Electric
Pratt & Whitney
Congress
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