Congress Battles Two Hurdles This Week
Congress races to adjourn in about three weeks with two major hurdles ahead. The House prioritizes a $962 million antipoverty program and the Senate tackles the foreign aid authorization bill. Leaders aim for a quick finish before the Democratic National Convention opens August 24 in Atlantic City.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Armed Services
Atlantic City
N.J
Johnson
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Morse
Winchester Softball Assn Plans Meeting Tonight
The Winchester Softball Association calls for volunteers at 7 30 p m at the War Memorial Building with Ed Burch to assist with the upcoming State Softball Tournament this weekend. Mrs Pat Copenhaver of Nain catches a 20 lb carp in the Shenandoah River using dough balls from the Outdoor Page in the Star. Rainfall totals rise with .41 inch at the Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory, while Berryville reports .18 inch. July rainfall at the lab reaches 2.76 inches, the driest July since 1957.
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Winchester Softball Assn
War Memorial
Ed Burch
Pat Copenhaver
Nain
South Fork
Shenandoah River
The
Star
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Winchester
Berryville
Riots Sweep Jersey City Leaving Streets Patrolled
Helmeted police patrolled glass strewn streets after a night of rioting in Jersey City’s Negro district. Twenty three people, including 10 officers, were injured and 13 arrests made as crowds hurled missiles and a car charged police. A 17 year old girl was detained for delinquency as adults faced disorderly conduct charges.
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Jersey City
N.J
New Jersey
Manhattan
Hudson River
Thomas J. Whelan
Lafayette
New York City
Rochester
Grand Street
Hearing Opens in Bus Shooting Case in Clarke County
A preliminary hearing began today in Clarke County Court for four men charged with firing at a bus carrying a group of Negroes on June 28. The defendants Neville Huff Thomas Shepherd Gary Ludwig Lloyd and Donald Lee Ash were each released on $1,000 bond. Nine witnesses were scheduled to testify in the hearing held at 10 a.m. near Berryville.
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Berryville
Clarke County Court
Neville Huff
Washington, D.C
Thomas William Shepherd
Millwood
Gary Ludwig Lloyd
Donald Lee Ashby
Bluemont
Annual Winchester Days Event Tops Last Year
Sales during the Winchester Days event held Thursday through Saturday rose over last year. Grand prize went to J W Kelly for a combination stereo hi fi phonograph and color TV. Co chair Paul Strawderman and Irvine Shendon praised participating merchants and noted heavy Saturday sales with free bus rides and parking offered.
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J. W. Kelly
W. Clifford St
Irvine Shendon
Retail Merchants Association
Winchester
Shendon
Paul Strawderman
U S Planes Bomb North Vietnam Pointed by Hanoi Claim
North Vietnam charged four U S fighter bombers from Laos attacked a border village about 50 miles northeast of Plaine des Jarres injuring one villager and causing heavy property damage. U S officials denied evidence and noted Laos uses U S planes for raids while Saigon sees more fighting in Saigon where seven U S soldiers were wounded and two Vietnamese killed in a bar bombing.
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Tokyo
North Viet Nam
U.S
Laos
United States
Washington
Democratic Republic of
Viet Nam
Sup
Souvanna Phouma
Pathet Lao
Gentral
Prince Souvanna
North
Plaine Des Jarres
Virginia Lawmaker Seeks Auto Tax Increase Reversals
Del. George C. Rawlings Jr. urged cancellation of 1964 auto license tax increases after Virginia closed the 1962 64 biennium with a 57.3 million dollar surplus.
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Fredericksburg
George C. Rawlings, Jr
Virginia
Two PT Boats Limp After Tonkin Attack
The Maddox, on routine patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin, repelled an unprovoked attack by three North Vietnamese PT boats. The PT boats were driven off with torpedoes and 37 mm gunfire, while two were seen limping away and a third was stopped. no casualties or Maddox damage were reported. Four F8U Crusader jets added rockets and strafing in defense.
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Pearl Harbor
U.S
Maddox
Gulf of Tonkin
Navy
North
Viet Nam
Adm
U.S. Grant Sharp
U.S. Pacific
Ticonderoga
Johnn. Herrick
Garden Grove
Calif
7Th Fleet
Destroyer Division
Herbert L. Ogier Jr
Sharp
Congolese Army Claims One Rebel Band Routed
The Congolese army says it routed a rebel band 150 miles northeast of Leopoldville, forcing fighters across the Congo River into the Congo Republic. Rebels still operate in about a sixth of the country as Tshombe seeks to unite the nation.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Leopoldville
Congo River
Congo Republic
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Kolo
Bolos Bo
French Congo
Joseph Kasavubu
Aerialist Captain Eddie Knipschield Falls to Death
Detroit witnesses watched 55 year old Edward Henry Knipschield of New Britain fall 85 feet from a swaying 100 foot high pole at Tiger Stadium during a flood lighted field day. He died at a hospital. No safety ankle rope was present. The tragedy follows the Flying Wallendas accident in 1962.
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Detroit
Edward Henry Knipschield
New Britain, Conn
Cibao
Eddie
Knipschield
Faire Grounds Coliseum
Herbert M. Boldt
Detroit News
William Sheedy
Tiger Stadium
Boldt
Coliseum
Small Peaches Now Receiving at Old Mill Storage
Small peaches are now being accepted for storage at Old Mill Storage. Call 662 6646 for details and availability.
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Old Mill
Johnson orders intensified naval action after Tonkin Gulf attack
President Johnson announced intensified US naval measures in the Tonkin Gulf area off North Vietnam. He ordered destroyers and aircraft to respond to any attack in international waters, after the Maddox came under fire from three North Vietnamese PT boats. The defense included adding a destroyer, patrols, and a combat air patrol. U.S. officials noted no immediate plan to widen the war beyond South Vietnam.
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Washington
Johnson
Tonkin Gulf
Viet Nam
U.S
Maddox
Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
North Viet Nam
Loff
Ticonderoga
Dean Rusky
United States
South Viet Nam
China
Laos
Weather outlook brings showers from Norfolk to Front Royal
A low pressure system is expected to develop in the Chesapeake Bay area today with a cold front by late afternoon triggering showers and thunderstorms along and north of the Norfolk to Front Royal line. Isolated thundershowers may occur elsewhere.
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Richmond
Chesapeake Bay
Norfolk
Front Royal
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Ralph Saville
Fairmont Ave
Ann
Handley
Longwood College
Farmville
August
Margaret L. Hodgson
H. W. Butler & Bro., Inc
Wyck St
Dom
Rt. 50
Shenandoah River Bridge
Blue Ridge Mountain
Bo Wheeler
U.S. Naval
John S. Herrick
Cmdr
Herbert L. Ogier, Jr
St. Petersburg
Fla
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