Titan missile silo blast harms workers at Arkansas site
Two workmen escaped through searing heat and smoke after an explosion at a twelve story Titan I intercontinental missile silo in central Arkansas. Maj. Gen. A J Beck oversaw maintenance and safety efforts as the fire and toxic fumes filled the site. Peter Kiewit Sons Co. is performing a $4.5 million modification project at the Omaha firm’s Arkansas locations.
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Strategic Air
Abwinundh
Charles
Strang
Little Rock
Fores
Cate
Arkansas
Peter Kiewit ' Sons, Co
Es “of
Omaha
Neb
Ukiah Trustees Name Breland As Assistant Superintendent
Ukiah Unified School District selects Breland to lead educational services after a board recommendation by Dr. Don Halvorson. Breland, a USC graduate with a doctorate in curriculum administration, previously directed West Covina Unified curriculum and will oversee K through 12 curriculum and special education staffing. He will arrive in Ukiah within a week as the board completes its action.
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Dale
Bielland
West- Covina Unified School
Ukiah Unified School District
Don Halvorson
Breland
Bjelland
Ukiah
University of Southern California
USC
Los Angeles
West Covina Unified School District
Board Deliberates School Boundaries and Associations
The meeting considered the Longhurst family request for Virginia to attend Pomolita rather than Hopland as a final year move to Africa looms. Boundary changes to balance overcrowding and the coming year’s professional association memberships were hot topics with decisions deferred and concerns raised by Lima District parents about returning pupils to Hopland. The plan aims to spread loads, unify curricula, and avoid duplicative memberships.
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Longhurst
Virginia
Hopland
Africa
Ukiah
Halvorson
Jack Simpson
Bill Murphy
Lima
Pomolita
Welfare Fraud Guilty Pleas By Ukiah Woman
A 20 year old Ukiah woman Inez Smith pled guilty to 12 counts of welfare fraud involving 1262 dollars. Judge Hale McCowen set bail at 1100 cash or 2200 bond and she was remanded when unable to meet bail. Time for sentence scheduled for Wednesday at 4 30. Investigation by Don Scotto and complaint by the district attorney's office.
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Ukiah
Ukiah Justice Court
Hale McCowen
Inez Smith
Ukiah Rancheria
McCowen
Don Scotto
Suits challenge poll taxes in Alabama Texas Virginia
The UPI report notes Justice Department filed federal suits in Montgomery Austin and Richmond seeking to abolish $1.50 poll taxes in Alabama Texas and Virginia. A Mississippi suit had been filed Saturday under a voting rights law directing challenges to all remaining poll taxes.
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Washington
UPI
Alabama
Texas
Virginia
Justice Department
Montgomery
Ala
Austin
Tex
Richmond
Mississippi
Atty
Nicholas Déb. Katzenbach
Deep South
Johnson
Tragic Drowning Aboard Sinatra Yacht Near Vineyard Haven
Third mate Robert Goldfarb 23 of New Rochelle reportedly drowned after he gave the only life jacket to a non swimmer during a dingy capsize near Vineyard Haven. James Grimes of Ireland, two waitresses, and Goldfarb left the Vine yard Haven club around 2:30 am. two girls swam to safety as the dingy overturned in one foot waves. Coast Guard air sea search launched for Goldfarb and the dingy.
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Mass
UPI
Frank Sinatra
Coast Guard
Robert Goldfarb
New Rochelle
N.Y
Goldfarb
James O. Grimes
Ireland
Sinatra
Grimes
Cheryl Nevin
University of Nebraska
Margaret Whitteman
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Public Defender Pleads For Budget Boost To Handle Misdemeanors
A. B. Broaddus, Mendocino County public defender, urged the board of supervisors to raise the annual budget from 6000 to 12000. He argued the new state law requiring misdemeanors to be handled will double his workload come September and suggested hiring an assistant funded from the budget. He cited county comparisons and noted Ukiah Justice Court will appoint him for misdemeanors when the law takes effect. Supervisor Ernie Banker spoke on the matter.
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Public Defender
Board of Supervisors
Broaddus
Eigg
Broaddust
Lic
Mendocino County
el Dorado County
Sonoma
Humboldt
Humboldt County
Ukiah Justice Court
Ernie Banker
Senate Okes Abe Fortas for Supreme Court Nomination
The Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Abe Fortas for the Supreme Court in a brief closed session a week after hearings. President Johnson’s first high court nominee, Fortas is a longtime ally and adviser.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Judiciary Committee
Abe Fortas
Supreme Court
Johnson
High Court
Fortas
Johnson’s
Judiciary Committee
Thurgood Marshall
U.S
United States
Senate Republican
Everett M. Dirksen
Marshall
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Orin Harris
D-Ark
Arkansas
Harris
House Commerce Committee
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
United Nations
Medicare Enrollment To Begin
Washington officials announce the start of voluntary enrollment for the Medicare program. About 14 million people over 65 on Social Security will receive information kits and sign up cards from mid August to early December. Enrollment mailings will proceed at about one million cards per week to avoid overwhelming the Christmas mail rush.
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Washington
UPI
Nee
Social Security Administration
Social Security
Post Office Department
Post Office
Drive to Break Siege At Duc Co Near Pleiku
Vietnamese forces backed by U S air support push toward the besieged Special Forces camp at Duc Co in the central highlands. At least 219 Viet Cong killed and six captured as columns advance along Highway 19. American planes strike targets in North and South Viet Nam with heavy sorties and barge damage reported.
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Michael T. Malloy
Saigon
UPS
U.S
Duc Co
Pleiku
Central Highlands
North
Viet Nam
South
Orleck
Johnson Signs $7.5 Billion Housing Bill
President Johnson signed a $7.5 billion housing bill calling it the most valuable housing legislation in history. The act expands federal aid to help needy families pay rent, with a focus on elderly and low income households living in blighted neighborhoods.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
White House
Rose Garden
America
Weather: Northwestern California Light Showers Likely
Northwestern California forecasts show a chance of light showers through Wednesday. Highs near 95 in Ukiah and 92 in Santa Rosa, lows around 60 and 52, with coastal winds NW 10-20 knots and variable 5-15 knots in the far north.
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California
Ukiah
Santa Rosa
Space rocket Centeur postpones crucial moonshot rehearsal
The Federal Space Agency says the Centaur development rocket schedule is pushed back one day to 9:31 a.m. EST. The mission, costing about half a billion dollars so far, aims to test a 2,100-pound Surveyor dummy during a 58-minute launch window. The rocket has reached orbit twice in five attempts, with a March pad explosion marking its past setbacks.
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Atari
Focket
Federal Space Agency
Centaur
Surveyor
Cuban seaman confesses mutiny linked ship killings
Roberto Ramirez, a Cuban seaman, confessed to shooting the captain Rogelio Diaz, first mate Aldrick Hinds, and three crew members aboard the freighter Seven Seas during a heated argument over Cuba. Ramirez said he fled in a lifeboat after the shootings, while a hidden crewman and a witness tie him to the murders before the ship drifted adrift.
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APS
Seven Seas
Cuba
Roberto Ramirez
Here
Ramirez
Tampa
Fidel Castro
Gelio Diaz
Aldrick Hinds
Cata
Ybor City
Ei Ler
Federal
Locke
Elvin Saine
Slaer
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