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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1965
Page
7
Police halted a Natchez march as 106 demonstrators faced arrests raising tensions near a Negro church. NAACP leaders Charles Evers and Rudy Shields urged restraint while a handgun confiscation and mass detentions continued.
Washington AP Dixie Democrats and Republicans form a 25 member bloc to filibuster the repeal of Section 14B Taft Hartley. Sen Sam J Ervin Jr leads the Southern coalition as they aim to block floor action on the union shop repeal bill amid White House support.
Advertisement for a crochet jacket pattern 7433 with shell stitch border and sizes 32 to 46. Includes mailing details to Alice Brooks at Winchester Evening Star and pricing 35 cents plus 15 cents mailing. also promotes the 1966 Needle Craft Catalog with patterns, books, and free samples.
In New York the Pope received a small gold world globe inscribed to His Holiness from President Lyndon B. Johnson dated October 4, 1965. In return the Pope gave Johnson a painting by Filocamo titled The Resurrected Christ and presented religious miniatures to Mrs. Johnson and her daughter Luci 18, a new Catholic convert.
Cold weather stretched from the Midwest to New England with hard freezes and 20s in Michigan. Winds up to 40 mph added a biting edge as snow dusted New England mountains and reached Pennsylvania. Charleston West Virginia hit a record low for Oct 5 at 35 while readings ranged in the 30s from New England to Kentucky and Wisconsin. Early lows included 22 at Pellston and Marquette Michigan and 85 in Thermal California.
South African scientists announce a major breakthrough with a trachoma vaccine that passed lab tests and is now being given to hundreds of schoolchildren in Transvaal Province. The program targets ages 5 to 7 with a series of three injections, amid ongoing international research by the United States and Italy.
Dirksen warned time is on his side as supporters confess they lack votes. Congress members are fatigued and want to go home. His staff has 3,000 editorials on the subject, and he jokes he may need to read them all.
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