Fifty Years Ago Today, September 16, 1965

Rumors Fly Of Changes In Soviet

Rumors persisted today of impending changes in the Soviet hierarchy, but top Western diplomatic sources discounted reports of a power struggle.

Storm Cleanup

Police and health workers waded through a muddy, polluted 300 square block section of New Orleans today to clear out rats, snakes and hunger-crazed dogs that kept

5,000 families from returning to their homes. The area, east of the industrial canal, was the hardest hit by flood waters that spilled through four breaks in the canal levee and claimed most of the state's 63 dead from Hurricane Betsy.

Religion

Rev. Thomas Bowden, assistant pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church, expressed his opposition to abolition of the death penalty at a Senate study committee's public hearing Wednesday.

This story was originally published September 15, 2015 at 12:14 PM with the headline "Fifty Years Ago Today, September 16, 1965 ."