Oil Depletion Cuts Sought by House Committee
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 18 to 7 to tighten oil tax relief, lowering the oil depletion allowance from 27 1/2 to 20 percent and reducing similar benefits for other minerals. The move aims to raise about 400 million dollars annually in Treasury revenues and shapes the upcoming tax reform bill.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
Charles A. Vanik
Ohio
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Senate
Finance Committee
Russell B. Long
D-La
Apollo 11 astronauts head home after lunar mission
Space center Houston reports Armstrong Aldrin and Collins breaking lunar orbit after 60 hours on the moon. They sped home at 3016 mph, 20993 miles from the Moon, entering quarantine at the lunar receiving laboratory to guard against moon germs.
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Space Center
Houston
UPD
America
United
Columbia
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
Moon
Armstrong
Aldrin
Collins
Lunar Receiving Laboratory
U.S. 1
Eagle
Charles M. Duke
Wernher von Braun
Huntsville
Ala
Robert Gilruth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Lunar
Mars
Gilruth
Nixon
Pacific Ocean
Honolulu
Donald ‘Deke’ Slayton
Earth
New York Times
Tranquillity Base
U.S
Nixon Heads Busy World Tour After Apollo 11 Return
President Nixon, upbeat over Apollo 11, plans a packed day before a seven nation mission. He will attend the All-Star game in Washington and fly to San Francisco then Johnston Island, with stops in Honolulu Guam and beyond, aiming to return by August 3. He expects to meet astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin and speak with world leaders along the itinerary.
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Nixon
Washington
UPI
San Francisco
Johnston Island
Hawaii
Congress
White House
National Governors Conference
Warren Giles
Baseball Hall of Fame
Robert F. Kennedy
Manila
William P. Rogers
Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mayfest faces 9000 dollar deficit and resignations
Mayfest in Bennington confronts a roughly 9000 dollar loss after a month long festival. Executive secretary John Carton submitted his resignation as the steering committee wrestled with causes and ways to reduce the deficit.
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John H. Carton
Bennington
John H. Williams II
John G. McCullough
McCullough
North
Carton
County National Bank
Brasserie
Peggy Worthington
Joseph E. Joseph
Williams
Inside Shaftsbury selectmen discuss trailer park plan
On the Inside Shaftsbury selectmen discuss a proposal for a trailer park on Town Line Road. An editorial deplores the cut in federal library aid. Columnists Mankiewicz and Braden suggest ABM forces may win the first battle but lose the final war.
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Shaftsbury
Town Line Road
Mankiewicz
Braden
Kennedy Attends Kopechne Funeral In Plymouth Pa
Senator Edward M. Kennedy attended the funeral of Mary Jo Kopechne in Plymouth Pennsylvania with his wife and others. A July 28 hearing in Edgartown Mass will decide if Kennedy faces prosecution for leaving the scene of the accident that killed Kopechne. Police and medical officials said Kopechne was not intoxicated.
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Kennedy
Plymouth
UPI
Edward M._ Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Mary Jo Kopechne
Kennedys
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Miss Kopechne
St. Vincent’s
Edgartown
Boston
Hyannis
Engineer Urges Townwide Bennington Water System
Engineer L M Pittendreigh of the Springfield firm outlines a plan to unite North Bennington and Bennington village into a townwide water system. The proposal accompanies the third monthly progress report on the master water plan begun after a 15 000 appropriation and targets completion by December 1. A linked main between Sentences ton and North Bennington is proposed as part of the developing system.
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Randolph
Pownal
National Geographic Society
Water, Prey and Game Birds of
North America
Bennington
North Bennington
L.M. Pittendreigh
Springfield
Dufresne-Henry
Town Water and Sewer Commission
Pittendreigh
Sentenceton
Scribner
L. M. Pittendreigh
Village Water Department
Bolles Brook
Clarence E. Howard
Town Water and Sewer Committee
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Edwin L. Dale Jr
New York Times News Service
Guam
Far Pacific
Nixons
Philippines
Indonesia
Thailand
India
Pakistan
Romania
Great Britain
United States
Harold Wilson
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
West Germany
King Baudouin II
Belgium
By Greg Gums
Sorenson
Goodell
New York
Theodore Sorensen
Charles E. Goodell
Nelson A. Rockefeller
David Scribner
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