Old Abuse Is Put Back in Income Tax
The Senate Finance Committee votes to let travelers deduct entire transportation costs for trips that mix business with pleasure. Critics say the move restores a major tax loophole, undoing reforms aimed at reducing abuses and widening revenue loss as tax cuts are pursued. The piece urges drastic tax reform and an end to lingering abuses.
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Editorial Defends City Parking Use Of Post Office Site
The Unionist misstates Herald positions on the old Post Office site. The Herald notes it did not urge selling utilities or a cultural center, supports parking use, and says council action was unanimous after four months of consideration.
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Anniversary of Drive In Service Stations In Austin
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the drive in service station, noting 40 current stations in Austin from license records. The Gulf station in Pittsburgh pioneered free oil checks air water tire installation and a rest room, with two gas grades and a one gallon crank for pumping.
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City Recorder’s Office
Pittsburgh
Ford Urges Scrutiny Over Johnson Proposals
In a Rochester Post Bulletin editorial excerpt Rep Gerald Ford urges Congress to resist rubber stamping executive measures. He cites Johnson's call for unity and warns against hasty approval of controversial administration bills in the wake of national sorrow after Kennedy's assassination.
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John S. Kennedy
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Quotation from Jesus on Faith and Bread
The excerpt records a biblical scene in which Jesus questions the disciples about their lack of faith and bread. It includes a quotation from Matthew 16 8 and a reflective note by Bishop A C Hall about personal accounting rather than increasing wealth.
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Bishop A. C. Hall
Subscription rates for Austin area newspaper
The notice lists home delivery and mail subscription prices for Austin. It details zone based rates: Zone 1 within 50 miles plus military. Zone 2 50 to 150 miles. All other zones beyond 150 miles. Prices shown per week month quarter and year.
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Turn Back The Clock 30 Years Ago Highlights Town News
Welfare committee distributes 125 baskets of food clothing and toys. CWA workers in Mower County receive 9465 in wages for the week. More than 75 applications for corn loans totaling 25000 filed at the Farm Bureau office by County Agent F L Liebenstein.
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Punchcard shopping joins foreign markets expanding retail
A trade feature outlines punchcard shopping in France and Sweden where customers pick cards for each product, cashier machines tally bills, and warehouses assemble orders. Proponents say it speeds shopping, saves display space, reduces theft, and automates stock records.
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Sweden
Home care cuts hospital costs and boosts patient morale
Doctor Brandstadt explains home care plans allow selected patients to be treated at home under hospital supervision. Benefits include reduced costs, fewer hospital trips, enhanced morale, and expanded access without new wings, with coverage expanding under Blue Cross and other insurances.
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Labor leaders rally for defense cutback victims in budget clash
National labor leaders pledge support for the thousands losing Pentagon jobs as defense cutbacks loom. They push for severance pay pools and new job programs while awaiting President Johnson’s State of the Union and a clear labor policy on hours, Medicare, and labor-management battles.
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Johnson Keeps Willard Wirtz in Cabinet as Labor Head
President Johnson asks Willard Wirtz to remain in the Cabinet to handle labor policy. Wirtz agrees and the White House seeks to keep labor issues out of the spotlight, a task tougher than under Kennedy. Justice Arthur Goldberg remains a close insider as Johnson readies to tackle early labor headaches after resuming normal business.
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Impoverished Right Wing Awaits Transfusion By Edson
Report from the Capitol notes right wing groups struggle to respond to President Johnson after Kennedy’s assassination. conservative presses debate future policies, civil rights, and foreign aid while fundraising declines force new appeals and a January 9 11 Human Events conference is planned with entry fees.
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Friends of “‘Human Events
Today in History December 26 1963 and notable events
History notes highlight the 1776 Battle of Trenton as Washington crossed the Delaware to defeat Hessian troops. Also listed are the 1932 China quake deaths, the 1943 Scharnhorst sinking, 1947 heavy snows in New York and New Jersey, Eisenhower’s 1953 troop withdrawal, farm surplus returns, and Pakistan Red China border talks. A local item reports Hays City official Tom Boone fined $15 after a goat ran at large.
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Korea
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Red China
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Tom Boone
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Johnsons Foreign Aid Bill Strains Republican Unity
President Johnson seeks rapid action on foreign aid to secure Democratic support for civil rights while Republicans challenge his motives and warn the AID budget may be better kept at last year’s $3.0 billion level. The dispute centers on a pre holiday rush and the use of a continuing resolution through January 31.
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Johnson
Congress
White House
Agency For International Development
AID
House
GOP
Charles A. Halleck
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