Division of Powers and Johnson Veto Over Pacific Northwest Flood Bill
The article discusses a clash between the White House and Congress over lawmaking powers. President Johnson vetoes a 70 million flood relief bill citing required committee approval, noting political horseplay in project funding and preferring presidential administration of the Act. It contrasts constitutional roles and warns of chaotic executive-legislative interference.
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White House
Congress
Ore
Johnson
Pacific Northwest
House
Senate
Mittee
Northwest
Johnson appeals to Soviet people for world peace
President Johnson urged the Soviet Union to pursue new paths to peace and warned against aggression and subversion. He also urged non Communist nations not to seek peace through submissiveness while Chou En Lai dismissed US Soviet aid limits.
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Johnson
Soviet Union
Premer Chou En-lai
United States
China
Chou
Hungary
East Germany
Poland
Urban observatories urged to aid city problems
The National League of Cities endorsed immediate creation of urban observatories to study municipal issues beyond housekeeping tasks. Dr. Robert Wood of MIT proposed the concept, urging ongoing research to help solve sociological city challenges with academic collaboration. Mayor Henry Moer of Milwaukee championed the effort.
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National League of Cities
Robert Wood
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Falk Foundation
Cation
League
Henry Moer
Miwaukee
Prett
Nem
College Queens Question Business image at World Fair forum
John Chamberlain reports on a forum at New York's Hall of Free Enterprise where fifty college queens discussed business and industry. The panel found widespread campus antipathy toward business, blamed on myths of the profit system and media portrayals, with professors and corporations urged to improve their public credibility.
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Hall of Free Enterprise
New York
College
Queens
U. S
Busiesser
America
University of Connecticut
Vance Packard
United States
Gils
Karl Marx
Henry Ford
Marx
Johnson and Congress Clash Over Veterans Hospitals Veto Threats
ROWLAND EVANS AND ROBERT NOVAK INSIDE REPORT. Congress planned to override a presidential veto if Johnson blocked closing Veterans Administration hospitals, showing Congress’s clout over the Budget Bureau and revealing a rift with the President in wartime policy. The piece notes Democratic majorities turn against Johnson when facing a two thirds override.
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Johnson
Asia
Latin America
Capitol Hill
Congress
Budget Bureau
Budget Bureau Blues and VA Hospitals Clash in Johnson Era
The piece recalls how the Budget Bureau under Kermit Gordon pushed budget cuts to end major funding for Agriculture research stations and to close VA and other facilities. Congress, led by Veterans groups, blocked VA hospital closures, forcing the President to keep six of fourteen open as House leaders move to kill the budget hardball.
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White House
Johnson
Kermit Gordon
Budget Bureau
Agriculture Department
Pentagon
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Public Health Service
Veterans Administration
Congressional
Gordon
Hubert Humphrey
Congress
Veterans
House Veterans Committee
House
Life at Forty Original Entertainment Is Offered
The column recalls a Midwest Literary Society nightlife of monologues and sketches once popular with adults over 21. It notes faded stars Ruth Draper and Cornelia Otis Skinner and highlights Marcia Robie, a 41 year old from Darien Conn pursuing a career as a monologist with self written sketches.
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Robert Peterson
Midwest
Literary Society
Ruth Draper
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Anna Russell
Canada
England
Marcia Robie
Darien
Conn
Mixed Emotions Mark Homeward Flight of a Nurses Hero
Lt. Julie Klebaum 24 of Wapato Washington ends a year at the 8th U S Army Field Hospital in Nha Trang South Viet Nam. She cared for about 5500 patients, receiving warm sendoffs from airmen while balancing duty and feminine longing for privacy and home. Julie recalls bravery of a dying pilot and looks forward to Brooke Army Medical Center and a quiet apartment on return.
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Nha Trang
South Viet Nam
Julie Klebaum
Wapato
Wash
U. S.army Field Hospital
Julie
Frank Harbor
Starkville
Farwell
States
Klebaum
Julia
Brooke Army Medical Center
Ft. Sam Houston
Tex
Letter to the Editor Invitation and Guidelines
The Messenger invites readers to submit opinions on current topics. Letters should be brief and signed with the writer’s address and telephone number, not necessarily for publication. The paper reserves the right to select and condense letters to fit space.
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Dear Abby readers advise on noisy neighbors and toupees
Dear Abby responds to a couple dealing with constant fights between nearby friends, advising setting boundaries and not letting home become a domestic battleground. The column also weighs in on men wearing toupees and a reader recounts dieting and its impact on marriage.
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