series on recent setbacks in civil rights movement

RIGHTS BILL DIES AS CLOSURE FAILS; Second Senate Move to End Filibuster Loses, 52 to 41 --Housing Key Issue

workers at 15 centers return excess cases; Ginsberg calls move 'disastrous,' orders withholding pay for day; plans immediate hiring of 300 more workers; Mage urges workers be allowed to volunteer to process cases on overtime pay; picketing for allowances resumes; Mobilization for Youth reptdly organized demonstration; orgn repr Prof R Cloward comments

WORK LOAD SPURS WELFARE PROTEST; City Employes Won't Handle More than 60 Clients

Thant concludes N Vietnam has not rejected his peace proposal since there has been no response, news conf; dismisses as 'unrealistic' Asian peace conf proposed by Thailand; diplomats discuss Hanoi rept that N Vietnam will have a positive reaction to US acceptance of Thant proposals

THANT IS WILLING TO KEEP U.N. POST TILL SESSION ENDS; But He Decries Restraints on His Initiative--Jakarta Resuming Membership

US acknowledges US planes may have intruded inadvertently; on Sept 9 and 17; voices regret; stresses Amer pilots are under orders to avoid Chinese airspace; says it has no information on alleged strikes near Munankwan; map

U.S. SHIFTS STAND ON PEKING CHARGE; Says Inadvertent Intrusions by Planes Into China May Have Occurred Twice

Twenty-two American scientists, including seven Nobel laureates, are calling on President Johnson to halt the use of antipersonnel and anticrop chemical weapons in the Vietnam war.

22 Scientists Bid Johnson Bar Chemical Weapons in Vietnam; SCIENTISTS URGE A WEAPONS CURB

Fed grand jury reptdly probes possible illegal insider dealings in co stock

Wolfson Is Indicted In Sales of Stock; Wolfson Is Indicted in Sale of Unregistered Stock

P Loewell and J J Nolan, NYC Housing Auth ex-officials, indicted for accepting $420,000 in bribes to rig painting contracts, '57-65; case revd; J Graham role noted

2 City Aides Indicted In Painting-Bid Plot; 2 City Housing Officials Are Indicted in Paint-Contract Rigging

IS 201 principal Lisser 'voluntarily' asks to be reassigned to appease area residents; Donovan repts settlement, including creation of E Harlem community council with veto power over apptmt of teachers and adm; teachers refuse to work unless Lisser is retained; he comments; parents claim Donovan promised to replace Lisser with Negro; Donovan denies it; appts Negro, Mrs B Banfield acting principal; she rejects apptmt on 'basis of color, not competence'; 600 pupils rept to PS 103 but teachers stay away

TEACHERS REVOLT IN HARLEM SCHOOL AS BOYCOTT ENDS; White Principal's 'Voluntary' Transfer Appeases Parents but Angers the Faculty STAFF REFUSES TO WORK Community Group Also Wins the Right to Veto Future Appointments at I.S. 201

survey of white opposition to racially integrated neighborhoods, St Louis; Mo; problem has intensified anxieties although there is no significant racial trouble

HOUSING EQUALITY HITS A RAW NERVE; In St. Louis, as in Other Big Cities, the Idea of a Negro Neighbor Stirs Anxiety

Pope, in encyclical Christi Matri, appeals to world leaders to end war; says 'We cry to them in God's name to stop'; urges peace settlement now 'even at the expense of some inconvenience or loss'; warns of greater calamity; asks peace prayers during Oct, names Oct 4, anniv of his appeal before UN, as special day of prayer

POPE PAUL DIRECTS A 'CRY' FOR PEACE TO WORLD LEADERS; In an Encyclical, He Appeals for Vietnam Solution and a Halt in Other Strife WARNS OF A 'CALAMITY' Says a Delay in Ending War Could Bring 'Slaughter'-- Sets a Day of Prayer

US pilots fly 177 missions, rept seeing MIGs 3d consecutive day; F-105s fight 3 brief battles with MIG-17s, rept no damage; map

6 Die, 23 Wounded As G.I.'s Are Hit By American Fire; 6 G.I.'s Killed by Misdirected U.S. Fire

temporary comm exec dir Straetz resigns in clash with Corbin, lr to him; Corbin makes pub earlier Straetz lr which he says is resignation lr; in earlier lr, Straetz charged Corbin created confusion 'and tried to tell him how to conduct research; he claimed job had become 'demeaning' and 'intolerable'; Corbin says Straetz is 'arrogant incompetent who quit for record because he would have been fired for persisting in disruptive action'; charges Straetz tried to inject pol into comm and arrogate 'total authority' to self; other charges and counter charges; new dissension seen making const conv major issue in Gov race

CHARTER OFFICIAL QUITS STATE POST; Charges Interference With Work on Constitution

D Topping Sr resigns as pres; sells 10% interest to CBS, which is now sole owner; CBS vp Burke named pres and chmn; Topping's son offered post

TOPPING RESIGNS AS YANKEE CHIEF; Topping Resigns as President of Yankees and Sells His Holdings to C.B.S.

Lindsay names Bronxchester project (S Bronx), Milbank Center Frawley Circle Development (Harlem), and Fulton Pk project (Bedford-Stuyvesant) as top priority slum renewal areas, TV int; says 10 previously planned projects will be delayed; list

MAYOR PINPOINTS 3 RENEWAL AREAS; Bedford-Stuyvesant, South Bronx and Harlem Named --10 Projects Dropped

Adm Com to 'look into' Powell's handling of finances of com and of his Capitol Hill office; Hays to head probe; Gibbons says he has recd hundreds of messages of support; Dems, Repubs split; Holland opposes action against Powell; McCormack neutral

Powell's Handling Of His Unit's Funds Faces House Study; POWELL IS FACING INQUIRY IN HOUSE

Natl Selective Service Appeals Bd upholds 1-A classification of 6 of 12 Mich U students for role in Oct '65 protest against Vietnam war, Ann Arbor

MICHIGAN STUDENTS LOSE DRAFT APPEAL

Jewish Aide Beaten in Uruguay

Morocco and Senegal Sign 'Associate-Country' Pact

Repub Reprs Ford, Laird and Goodell hold Johnson must bear personal responsibility for turning war into what they claim is becoming an Amer conflict; cite '65 decision to commit large number of US ground forces; seen updating Repub '65 White Paper intended to 'expose' deepening involvement of Dem adms; comment on harsh tone, omission of traditional plea for bipartisan support of Chief Exec

G.O.P. CHIEFS SAY WAR IS JOHNSON'S; 3 House Leaders Assert He Must Bear Responsibility

wounded S Vietnamese civilian describes his escape from mass execution by Vietcong, 50 mi N of Saigon; 2 others describe like incident

Survivor Says Vietcong Shot Down 13 Civilians

Signers of Weapons Plea

Greece and US agree to study feasibility of desalting to aid Athens supply

U.S.-Greek Water Study Set

U.S. Identifies Vietnam Dead

Pres Johnson signs $3.5-billion authorization bill, scores new restrictions

$3.5-BILLION AID BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT

Jewish War Veterans natl comdr Tarlov says Johnson, in Sept 6 conf, urged him to work for 'Jewish evaluation and support' of Amer policy but did not link this to US support for Israel, wire to NY Times; says his 1st rept on meeting was misrepresented

Jewish Veterans' Head Denies Johnson Pressure for Support

Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt is a Portuguese-American guitarist. He became known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme. Bettencourt has recorded a solo album and has founded rock bands including Mourning Widows, DramaGods, and Satellite Party.

September 20, 1966

Headlines from September 20, 1966

RIGHTS BILL DIES AS CLOSURE FAILS; Second Senate Move to End Filibuster Loses, 52 to 41 --Housing Key Issue

WORK LOAD SPURS WELFARE PROTEST; City Employes Won't Handle More than 60 Clients

THANT IS WILLING TO KEEP U.N. POST TILL SESSION ENDS; But He Decries Restraints on His Initiative--Jakarta Resuming Membership

U.S. SHIFTS STAND ON PEKING CHARGE; Says Inadvertent Intrusions by Planes Into China May Have Occurred Twice

22 Scientists Bid Johnson Bar Chemical Weapons in Vietnam; SCIENTISTS URGE A WEAPONS CURB

Billboard 200

Revolver

Doctor Zhivago

What Now My Love

Somewhere My Love

The Sound Of Music

Notable Births

Historical Context for September 20, 1966