State Begins Fiscal Year Without Operating Funds After Budget Rift
Ohio Senate scrambles to salvage the $4.1 billion budget as Gov. Rhodes blocks expanding the Controlling Board. Debate over expanding the board to seven members stalls passage while education funds lapse. Rhodes favors limited board control. Republicans clash and accuse the panel of usurping legislative powers.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Senate
James A. Rhodes
Senate Finance Committee
Rhodes
House
Senate
Ted Gray
Piqua
Treasury
Robin T. Turner
Marion
Turner
Ronald Reagan
Prince Charles Installed as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon
Bomb shock and a royal investiture mark Charles's formal installation as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle. Queen Elizabeth II bestowed coronet, sword, mantle, rod, and ring as crowds of 250000 gathered while security and arrests occurred nearby.
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Caernavon
Wales
Charles
Prince of Wales
Elizabeth II
Britain
Prince Charles
Caernarvon Castle
Caernarvon
Royal Regiment of Wales
Welfare Dining Skimpy for Congress Members
A group of six House and Senate members sit for six days on a welfare food budget averaging 18 cents per person per day to gauge the strain of feeding families on limited funds. Representative Abner Mikva voices hunger as they rely on peanut butter oatmeal and grits while wives assist with meals.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep
Abner J. Mikva
D-Ill
National Welfare Rights Organization
Illegal Expenditures Charged To Pentagon
Senator Gaylord Nelson accuses the Nixon administration of illegally spending 40 million dollars from Sentinel missile funds on the Safeguard program without congressional approval. He says the move violates lawmakers authority and ignores a Department of Defense pledge. Nelson spoke as the Senate gridlock over Safeguard continued.
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Washington
Nixon
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Pentagon
Congress
Defense Department
Nelson
Senate
Save Money Ad Way Promotes Classified Bargains
Daily classifieds showcase hundreds of bargains in furniture appliances homes cars trailers tires and more at a fraction of original cost encouraging readers to browse today for savings.
Tank clash near Tay Ninh tests Saigon defenses
American forces hit North Vietnamese troops around Tay Ninh City with about thirty armored vehicles firing thousands of rounds in a three hour action near Nui Ba Den Mountain. North Vietnamese casualties were reported at 42 killed with one American dead and one wounded.
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Saigon
Tay Ninh
88Th Regiment
U.S. 25Th Division
Nui Ba den
U.S
Khe Sanh
U.S. 5Th Mechanized Infantry
Surtax Extension OK'd By House Moves Toward Senate Fight
The House passed 210 to 205 a bill to extend the 10 percent income surtax after Nixon urged action. Senate action could take three months with continued withholding rates likely for six days. Nixon seeks 10 percent through December then 5 percent to next June.
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Senate
Washington
Nixon
House
Congress
Black Leader Rejects Reparations Move at NAACP Meeting
In Jackson Mississippi Bishop Stephen G Spottswood board chairman of the NAACP rejected a push by black militants to seek reparations from white churches. He said the long crusade never subscribed to reparations and this white generation should not bear the redress alone.
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Jackson
Miss
Stephen G. Spottswood
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Bishop Spottswood
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Washington, D. C
Athens approves city employees pay hike on third reading
Athens City Council passes a raise for city workers on the third reading. The measure covers varied departments and is expected to affect budget allocations for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Athens City Council
Logan Civil Defense Unit
Nelsonville
Ernie Green
Cleveland Browns
Senate panel backs food stamp programs in noncooperating counties
The Senate Agriculture Committee voted to authorize the Department of Agriculture to establish federal food stamp programs in counties that refuse to act, with state governor approval. About 400 counties, many in the rural South, have balked at setting up food stamp or other distribution programs.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Department of Agriculture
Lending Law Takes Effect and Medicaid Cost Cuts Sought
The truth in lending law takes effect to reveal credit costs, aiding shoppers though not lowering rates. Congress moves to curb Medicaid costs, with new regulations on fees to doctors and dentists. Welfare groups push free food stamps but face Senate defeat. Susie Bailey’s signed confession admitted in a West Virginia fire case.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
House
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Parkersburg
W. Va
Susie Bailey
Susie
Rodger
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Cardiff
Abergele
Sentinel Funds
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Clarence E. Miller
White House
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Seca Television Cosveseeee
Ccoese
Bulletin
Welfare Department
George McGovern
D-S. D
Marlow W. Cook
R-Ky
Robert J. Dole
R-Kan
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
James B. Allen
D-Ala
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WRO
Statehouse
Gilbert Fitzhugh
Princeton
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin BE. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
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Calif
California
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