Governors adjourn amid Vietnam split at governors conference
The seagoing annual governors conference closed with a political setback for President Johnson as a Vietnam measure failed to gain three fourths. Ohio Gov. Rhodes was the only Republican to back the resolution after California Gov. Reagan revealed a White House message. The vote stood 26 to 18, with Connally defending a nonpartisan stand on the issue.
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ST. Croix
V.S
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Vietnam
Ronald Reagan
California
White House
Reagan
Texas
John E. Connally
Connally
Antiwar Protesters Mass Demonstration at Pentagon
Thousands marched on Washington for a major antiwar rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Organizers predicted up to 100000 participants with plans to block Pentagon entrances, while authorities deployed tens of thousands of troops and police to maintain order during the weekend protest.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
Lincoln Memorial
Memorial
Potomac River
Defense Department
Potomac’ River
Seaboard
District of Columbia
U.S
Jailed Without Bond in Klan Conspiracy Case
Federal judge Harold Cox denounced two Ku Klux Klan defendants as he sentences seven Klansmen convicted of conspiracy in the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia Mississippi. A deputy sheriff and a former nightclub bouncer were accused of threatening intimidation with talk of dynamite as Cox warned against loose talk.
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Meridian
Miss
UPI
Harold Cox
Cox
Federal District Court
Mississippi
Philadelphia
Neshoba County
Cecil Price
Alton Wayne Roberts
Jackson
Samuel H. Bowers
Regional centers plan under challenge in Iowa
Iowa lawmakers question the legality of Gov Harold Hughes executive order to create 16 regional state government centers. Rep Floyd Edgington asked Attorney General Richard Turner for an opinion while Covington outlines centralizing some field offices to bring government closer to residents. Proposed sites include Sioux City Spencer Mason City Decorah Fort Dodge Waterloo Dubuque Carroll Des Moines Marshalltown Cedar Rapids Davenport Council Bluffs Creston Ottumwa and Burlington.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Harold Hughes
Floyd Edgington
Sheffield Republican
Atty
Richard Turner
Hughes
Frank Covington
Covington
Sioux City
Spencer
Mason City
Decorah
Fort Dodge
Waterloo
Dubuque
Carroll
Marshalltown
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Creston
Ottumwa
Burlington
Study possibility of concert series in Washington
A meeting in the YMCA quiet room on Tuesday at p.m. invites all interested in sponsoring a concert series here this winter. Ralph Ledin of Allied Concert Series will discuss plans. Robert Day chairs the committee with Mrs. J. W. Helscher and Mrs. Tom Essex assisting. If interest appears, Minneapolis agents may bring nationally known musicians for a federal case study to consider murder indictments in Philadelphia slayings.
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Washington
YMCA
Quiet Room
Ralph Ledin
Allied Concert Series
Minneapolis
Philadelphia
Johnson
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
James Chaney
Meridian
Goodman
Mississippi
Violence Flare Ups Hit Los Angeles District
In Los Angeles a surge of violence with scattered firebombings and rubbish fires challenged security in a predominantly Negro area. Police, aided by 98 reserves, reported clashes with rock throwing and Mveloto cocktails. Thirty-two arrests on Friday lifted the two day total to 63, including 13 adults and 19 juveniles. Black power advocates addressed about 200 people, criticizing police and the city school board.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Black Power
Los Angeles City School Board
Clash at Oakland induction center stirs protests
In Oakland California police from nine counties contained a surge of about 4 000 Vietnam protesters outside the induction center. Two thousand officers kept order as 21 were arrested and 23 injured, with cars overturned and streets blocked for hours before inductees were moved inside.
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Oakland
Calif
UPI
Oakland Induction Center
Port Chicago
Weather Iowa Turns Warmer With Clear to Partly Cloudy Skies
United Press International reports Iowa will be clear to partly cloudy and warmer today through Sunday. Winds from the south to southwest at about 10 mph this afternoon. Highs 65 to 70, nights down to 35 to 40.
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Iowa
Two Heavy Battles Halt Communist Election Disruption
UPI reports 318 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops killed in three battles that thwarted Communist plans to disrupt South Vietnam's congressional elections. South Vietnamese forces and American bombers killed 197 attackers trapped on an ancient burial ground, with 75 more killed in jungle fighting south of the isolation area.
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Saigon
Vietnam
Mekong Delta
South Vietnam
Carla
U.S
North Vietnam
UPI
Thomas Corpora
South China
U.S. Army
1St Air Cavalry Division
James O. McKenna
Scarsdale
N.Y
Miller attacks Des Moines questionnaire amid poverty debate
U.S. Senator Jack Miller of Iowa accuses anti poverty officials of misusing questionnaires intended for Des Moines city council voters. He questions OEO actions, citing Congress and Hatch Act constraints, while urging caution as the program faces House resistance. The report also covers Vietnam battlefield blows as U.S. forces report multiple engagements near Saigon and along the Mekong Delta.
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Des Moines
UPI
U.S
Jack Miller
Iowa
Miller
Congress
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Shriver
Senate
Appointment of administrator for Mable D Baldwin estate
Minutes of the Washington city council meeting include the appointment of an administrator for the estate of Mable D Baldwin. The quarterly district school report outlines current financials, budget allocations, and upcoming expenditures for the district.
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Mable D. Baldwin
Washington City
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Mack Charles Parker
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