Medicare Bill Signed Into Law at Truman ceremony
President Johnson signed his 6.5 billion Medicare bill in Independence after a cross country trip to share triumph with former President Harry S. Truman. Johnson said the program will bring dignity and hope to millions of elderly Americans while Truman watched and received one of the pens used to sign.
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Independence, Mo
Johnson
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Truman Library
Independence
Lady Bird Johnson
Hubert Humphrey
Bess Truman
Johnson Signs Medicare Bill With Truman at Truman Library
President Johnson and former President Truman met at the Harry S. Truman Library where Johnson signed the Medicare legislation. The event drew lawmakers including Wilbur Mills and Mike Mansfield, with remarks on civil rights and medical insurance.
Viet Cong Offensive Hits Tan An Bridge Destruction
Viet Cong guerrillas attacked a militia training center at Tan An 75 miles southwest of Saigon, with heavy government casualties reported. The same day a Viet Cong shelling hit Nghia Hanh district headquarters 85 miles south of Da Nang, with very light government losses.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Tan An
U.S
Nghia
Hanh
da Nang
Cao Lanh
Airborne
Okinawa
Guam
U.S. Offers Unconditional Security Council Peace Search
The United States proposes bringing the Vietnam crisis before the Security Council to seek an honorable and durable peace in Southeast Asia. President Johnson outlines continued support for South Vietnam and cooperation with the council to find an acceptable peace formula.
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UPI
United States
Security Council
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Johnson
Washington
Council
Platon D. Morozov
Southeast Asia
Mem
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U.N
San Francisco
Goldberg
Thant
Cities Might Get Voice In Cabinet
The Senate Government Operations Committee backed a plan to transform the Housing and Home Finance Agency into a Department of Housing and Urban Development. The move aims to give cities a stronger urban affairs role while preserving the current FHA status, with Robert C. Weaver as head of the housing nucleus.
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Washington
Senate Government Operations Committee
House
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Federal Housing Administration
John L. McClellan
Dark
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate
Ribicoff
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Robert C. Weaver
New York
Weaver
Kennedy
Pakistan to discuss Kutch with India in New Delhi
Pakistan agrees to send its foreign minister to New Delhi on Aug 20 to meet India's foreign minister. The talks aim to discuss the dispute over the Rann of Kutch area and seek a diplomatic path forward.
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Karachi
Pakistan
India
New Delhi
Rann of Kutch
Steel Union Threatens Nationwide Strike On Sept 1
The United Steelworkers union告告宣布若谈判破裂将于9月1日对全国钢厂发动罢工 记者称双方仅仅在每小时9分与18分之间僵持 工会称行业固执且不切实际 并对行业迟缓让步表示不满
Two Bodies Found Co Eds Identified
In Austin Texas two missing University of Texas sorority sisters 21 year old Shirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby were identified as the bodies found in a weed grown vacant lot. Dentists and the justice of the peace noted no outward signs of violence but early findings suggested possible strangulation, with autopsy results pending.
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Austin, Tex
Dallas
Shirley Ann Stark
Austin
Susan Rigsby
Texas Department of Public Safety Laboratories
Justice of the Peace
Jerry Dellana
Dellana
Miss Stark
Miss Rigsby
Neill Kinrad
Kinard
Bob Miles
Texas
University of Texas
County Nurse Killed In Schuylerville Area
Frieda B. Richmond a 58 year old Saratoga County Health Department nurse from Porter Corners died after the 1965 sedan she drove left Route 29 between Schuylerville and Grangerville struck a tree near 9 15 p m and she died at Saratoga Hospital at 10 07 p m authorities said Coroner Harold Hail and state troopers investigated with BCI investigators noting she was alone in the vehicle and injuries were extensive.
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Route
Schuylerville
Grangerville
Frieda B. Richmond
Porter Corners
Saratoga Hospital
Saratoga Station
Saratoga Springs
Saratoga County
Harold Hail
Greenfield Center
P. F. LaPoint
BCI
R. T. Wayand
Mob attacks U.S. consulate in Medan Indonesia
About 1,000 Communist led youths smashed the gate, entered the grounds, and stoned the U S consulate in Medan briefly. They shouted anti American slogans and plastered signs reading Go Home Yankee and Go Home Green. The siege followed Marshall Green presenting credentials in Jakarta.
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Indonesia
U. S
Medan
Theodore C. Heavner
North Sumatra
Marshall Green
U. S. Ambassar
Sukarno
Green
Heavner
Palm Beach magnate agrees to ransom DeLong Ruby
John D. MacArthur confirmed he would pay 21000 dollars to recover the 100 carat DeLong Ruby taken in the 410000 burglary at New York's American Museum of Natural History. The plan collapsed when Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan withdrew at the last moment.
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Miami, Fla
Palm Beach
John D. MacArthur
New York
American Museum of Natural History
Manhattan
Frank S. Hogan
Social Security Benefits Rise Under Medicare Bill
The article explains rising Social Security family benefits and the new Medicare Bill provisions. It notes potential monthly payments for widows and children, disability, and retirement scenarios with estimated estate values and returns. It mentions future increases in 1967 and adds hospital bill coverage and care support.
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Social Security
Negro Mothers Urged to Bar Sons from Draft Effort
In Jackson Mississippi a predominantly Black political group urges Negro mothers to keep their sons from complying with the draft. The piece notes Black servicemen are involved in the broader draft protest and outlines aims within the community.
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Jackson
Miss
Bogalusa Police Face One-Week Civil Rights Ultimatum
A federal judge ordered Bogalusa officials Chief Claxton Knight and Safety Commissioner Arnold Spiers to implement firm civil rights protection measures within seven days or face $100 daily fines. Patrolman Donald Penton faces a $25 daily penalty if he does not follow enforced plans. The action follows contempt findings against the officials for inadequate protection of demonstrators. The Freedom Democrats pushed the appeal linking Mississippi congressmen’s seating to Black registration levels. Congressman Charles Diggs criticized the move as irresponsible.
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Bogalusa
Claxton Knight
Public Safety
Arnold Spiers
U.S. Dist
Herbert W. Christenberry
Knight
Spiers
U. S. Asst. Atty
John Doar
Doar
Justice Department
Justice Department's Civil Rights Division
Congress of Racial Equality
Louisiana
Christenberry
Donald Penton
Charles Horwitz
Freedom Democrats
McComb
Freedom Democratic Party
FDP
Joe Martin
Clint Hopson
New Jersey
Mississippi
Deep South
Georgia Negroes Plan Tuallies Fact Vigil
In Americus Georgia Negro leaders call for another night vigil at the courthouse after a peaceful street march under heavy police guard. A white youth was shot to death nearby during a previous vigil as protests over voting access persisted. Two Negroes remain jailed on murder charges. A federal judge in Macon ruled there would be no more regressed elections in the county.
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Americus
Andrew A. Whalley Jr
Benjamin van Clarke
Whatley
Marine Corps
Macon
Dist
W. A. Bootle
Justice of the Peace
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D-N.m
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Wisconsin
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Jacob R. Javits
Naha
Tokyo
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Eisaku Sato
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United Steelworkers Union
Basic Steel Industry
R. Conrad Cooper
Cooper
International Executive Board
Steelworkers
I. W. Abel
Abel
Earl F. Rose
Beau
DeLong
Ruby
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