STATE GOP AGAINST
Senate kills rights bill
Surveyor 2 robot races toward moon
CAPE KENNEDY—(UPI)—The United States rocketed its second Surveyor lunar landing robot on a picture-taking expedition toward the moon to scout the center of the Apollo astronaut landing zone.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The Senate administered the coup de grace to the controversial "open housing" rights measure yesterday when it refused for the second time to end a two-week filibuster inspired by GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, Ill., against the bill.
Surveyor 2, nearly identical to its widely acclaimed predecessor, raced into the early morning sky at 6:32 a.m. on the nose of an Atlas-Centaur rocket.
he definitely was in favor of the housing bill."
The vote for cloture, or halting debate, was 52 to 41-10 votes short of the required two-thirds majority.
After nine years of legislating major civil rights advances for the American Negro, the Senate balked at a bill that would have banned discrimination in the sale or rental of large apartment buildings and homes in new subdivisions—about 40 per cent of the nation's housing.
Kansas Sens, Frank Carlson and James B. Pearson, both Republicans, voted Monday against ending debate on the civil rights bill
Charles R. Roquemore of Wellington, state president of the Kansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said yesterday he was particularly disappointed in the vote of Sen. James B. Pearson (R-Kan.), candidate for re-election.
"Sen. Pearson voted against civil rights after he told me late in July
PARIS — (UPI) — Communist China is trying to prevent the North Vietnamese government from arranging peace talks with the United States, it was learned today.
Redsthwart Viet talks
Sources close to French President Charles de Gaulle said the Hanoi government informed the United States as long as 15 months ago it would not insist that U.S.
withdrawal take place before any peace talks, but that Washington must set a date for a military pullout in advance and make a firm pledge of its intentions. But the Peking government, informants said, has vetoed peace talks under any circumstances.
G.I. bill gains $101 million
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The House passed and sent to the Senate yesterday legislation that would boost non-service connected veterans pension costs by $101 million a year against administration wishes.
The bill would, for the first time, waive all test of disability for men 65 or over. They would be presumed to be disabled and could qualify for pensions if unemployed and below income limits of $1,800 if single and $3,000 if married.
Cost-of-living increases averaging 5.4 per cent would also be provided for 1,830,411 war veterans, widows and children whose total benefit checks last year ran to $1.9 billion.
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