State Tough on Pollution Targets Hudson River cleanup
Albany officials announce a war on water pollution with hearings this month in Albany Rensselaer Waterford and Troy. The Health Dept will hear from Manning Paper Co Cluett Peabody City of Troy International Paper Co Winthrop Laboratories General Aniline and Film Corp plus eight Rensselaer County industries. Accused violators will get 20 day notices and a broad cleanup program underway to upgrade sewage treatment across the Hudson River Valley.
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City of Troy
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Capital District
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Castleton
International Paper Co
Ticonderoga
North Side Sewer District
Cluett, Peabody Co
Winthrop Laboratories
General Aniline
City of
Village of
Coxsackie
Dustry
State Health Dept
Ingraham
Rensselaer County
Dr. Fleck
Rensselaer County Health Dept
F. C. Huyck & Sons
Fort Orange Paper Co
Loeffel Waste Oil Co
Nassau
Ludlow Valve Co
General Aniline and Film Corp
Pakistan and India clash as Kashmir firefight escalates
Reports from Karachi indicate Pakistani forces swept into Indian held Kashmir sectors and fought a night battle with Indian troops. Both sides claimed air and ground actions with multiple aircraft engaged and at least 3 000 troops involved in the confrontation.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
East Pakistan
West Bengal
Helicopter Crash Kills 4 Americans In Viet Nam
A U S helicopter 25 miles northwest of Saigon was downed under heavy fire. Four Americans and one Vietnamese were killed. A Vietnamese unit recovered the bodies. Separate raids yielded mixed losses on Aug 24 and Aug 28. Military briefings reported 629 Americans killed in action to date and about 700 Viet Cong killed or captured last week.
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Duc Ca
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Union Shop Ban Repeal Clears Senate Labor Panel
The Senate Labor Committee cleared a bill to repeal a Taft Hartley Act provision allowing states to ban union shop agreements by a 12 to 3 vote. A religious conscience amendment would let objectors donate equal dues to charity. The full Senate action is pending with a likely protracted fight.
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Montana
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White House
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Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Jacob K. Javits
N.Y
George Murphy
Calif
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Peter H. Dominick
Colo
Paul J. Fannin
Ariz
Winston L. Prouty
Senate approves bill to mark sunken ships in U S waters
The Senate commerce committee approved a House passed bill to authorize the Coast Guard to mark sunken vessels or other obstructions in navigable waters of the United States.
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U N General Assembly Ends Stalled 19th Session
The United Nations General Assembly wraps its 19th session after settling the U S Soviet dispute over peacekeeping assessments and returning to normal voting. Albania's Halim Budo calls the outcome a defeat for the United States, accusing Johnson of backing down.
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Soviet Union
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France
Halim Budo
Albania
Johnson
Budo
General Assembly
Eisenhowers Denison Speech Links Riots to Moral Decline
Ike, born in Denison in 1890, returns to help dedicate a local auditorium and warns that rioting and racial violence stem from a general disregard for moral and legal law. He notes deterioration since World War I and speaks without notes, framing the issue as shared guilt. He also recalls his birthplace and family heirlooms during the visit.
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Tex
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Texas
United States
Eisenhower
White House
Second British aide killed in South Arabia
Aden AP report states Sir Arthur Charles 55 speaker of the Aden state legislative council was fatally shot as he left a tennis club. Police Superintendent Harry Barrie was killed earlier in similar fashion. Britain reacts with shock and cites recent constitutional talks amid Aden independence tensions and detainee liberation demands.
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Arthur Charles
Middle East
Harry Barrie
Arthur
London
Anthony Greenwood
South Arabia
Ailing Dr Schweitzer Receives LBJ Telegram
President Johnson sent a telegram to Albert Schweitzer in Gabon expressing prayers and hope for a quick, complete recovery. Schweitzer, a medical missionary, is ill in Lambarene on the Africa Congo coast, and Johnson has not met him.
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Schweitzer
Lambarene
Gabon
Rockefeller rejects sales tax repeal and tax relief
Governor Rockefeller said there is no chance of repealing the sales tax next year and doubts any reduction amid increased budget needs. He defended the tax as essential to state expenses while touring New York with stops in Rochester and Syracuse. He criticized Comptroller Levitt’s alternates and emphasized mandated expenditures.
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Rockefeller
Washington, D. C
Rochester
State Farm
State Department of Health
Health Department
Albany
Arthur Levitt
Levitt
St. John Fisher College
John Burns
Betsy Becomes Tempest Aims At Bahamas
Hurricane Betsy moved westward into the Caribbean threatening the Bahamas chain and U S space and defense sites. Air Force alerts were issued for Grand Turk Mayaguana Eleuthera San Salvador and Grand Bahamas while Cape Kennedy faced rocket protec tions and possible launch delays.
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Tempest
Bahamas
Miami
Fla
Grand Turk
Mayaguana
Bahamas Chain
United States
Cape Kennedy
Eleuthera
Cape
Singapore CIA bribery denial and apology letter surfaced
Secretary of State Dean Rusk apologized to Singapore in 1961 over improper U.S. official conduct. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew aired a letter and said Washington offered $3 million to stay quiet about a CIA operative caught buying secrets, tied to a larger $33 million economic aid claim. the State Department had earlier denied the charges but later corrected that denial.
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Singapore
Dean Rusk
U.S
Lee Kuan Yew
State Department
Washington
Lee
Central Intelligence Agency
Joe F. Kennedy
CIA
People’s Action Party
Kennedy
Robert J. McCloskey
Racial unrest grips Plymouth North Carolina mill town
Police ringed the paper mill town to quell two civil rights marches and prevent clashes between Negro residents and Ku Klux Klan factions. A running street fight left a white man wounded and a Negro arrested for the shooting as officials eyed broader demonstrations tied to ML King’s SCLC campaign.
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N.C
UPI
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Martin ‘Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Natchez
Miss
Negotiators Clash on Wages and Pensions in Steel Talks
White House described the bargaining as hard and tough with straightforwad confrontations on wages and pensions. Moyers said no progress was disclosed while reps from Labor and Commerce briefed Johnson on whether the steelworkers’ demand of 49.8 cents over three years can be met against a 40.6 cent industry offer.
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Bill D. Moyers
Moyers
Johnson
Pittsburgh
W. Willard Wirtz
Commerce
John T. Connor
United Steelworkers Union
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