New York approves largest tax package in history
Gov Rockefeller and a Democratic Republican coalition pass a budget with a 2 percent sales tax, $45 million auto registration fee increase, and $110 million cigarette tax. The measures raise $310 million for the last seven months of the current year and fund state workers and local school aid. The budget clears the way for a April reconvened session after a November to April labor of action and a Master recess.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
Rockefeller
New York
Senate
Assembly
Job Training Grows in State
Massachusetts gained nearly five jobs for every job lost between 1950 and 1963, a manpower training study shows. The report by J William Belanger notes about 246000 new nonmanufacturing positions created as 51000 manufacturing jobs disappeared, yielding a net gain around 193000. Training began in 1982 under the Manpower Development and Training Act with 2109 enrollees, 62 percent completed, and 74 percent of trainees men.
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J. William Belanger
Division of Employment Security
Massachusetts
Textile Indust
Kennedy Backs Subsidy to Save NHRR Passenger Runs
Senator Robert F Kennedy urged a plan for governmental aid to merge Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads with New Haven to continue New Haven passenger service. He said ICC proposals should ensure service remains in the public interest and not an undue burden. The hearings focus on halting drastic cuts by August and potential decimation by year end. Governors plan in Connecticut seeks 11.4 million dollars across four states to sustain service temporarily.
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New York
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Pennsylvania
New York Central
New Haven
Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
John N. Dempsey
Connecticut
New Haven Railroad
Man Freed In Liuzzo Slaying
The Justice Department dropped a conspiracy charge against Gary Rowe Jr., a Birmingham man, in the March 25 slaying of Viola Liuzzo near Lowndesboro Alabama. The dismissal followed a grand jury not indicting him. Rowe had been arrested with three other Klansmen described by FBI agents.
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Montgomery
Ala
Justice Department
Birmingham
Detroit
Gary Thomas Rowe Jll
U.S
James M. Guttery
U.S. Alty
Sentell
Washington
Rowe
Trowe
Birmingham Area
Johnson
Ku Klux Klan
FBI
Viola Liuzzo
Lowndeshboro
Richmond Flowers
Lowndes County
Grand Jury
Hammermill Picketed Over Selma Plant Plans
Civil rights demonstrators picketed two Hammermill Paper Co. subsidiaries in West Springfield Massachusetts on Wednesday protesting the firm plan to build a new plant in Selma Alabama. Pickets included University of Massachusetts and Amherst College students and residents from Hartford New Haven Torrington and Newington Connecticut.
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West Springfleld
Mass
UPD
Hammermill Paper Co
Selma
Ala
University of Massachusetts
Amherst College
Hartford
New Haven
Torrington
Newington
Humphrey predicts major votes and bills in 89th Congress
Vice President Hubert Humphrey told editors that the current Congress will pass landmark legislation including voting rights, health care for the aged, higher education, medicare, health facilities and research, and urban affairs. He compared current momentum to FDR's 1933-34 era and cited acts already enacted.
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Washington
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
Congress
Johnson
Itumphrey
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Humphrey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chicago Poverty Chief Denies Political Motives
Washington UPI reports Dr Deton J Brooks executive director of Chicago Lowmileo and Urban Opportunity denied charges that his agency is filled with political hacks aligned with the Daley machine. Brooks defended Mayor Richard J Daley and accused Rev. Lymward Stevenson of misrepresenting Chicago and its Black community while Stevenson condemned the Daley administration and Brooks organization in a sharp attack before a House subcommittee reviewing Johnson’s 1.5 billion poverty program for the new fiscal year.
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Washington
UPI
Chicago
Daley
Deton J. Brooks
Chicago Lowmillee
Lymward Stevenson
Woodlawn Organization
Richard J. Daley
Brooks
Mouse Education and Labor
Johnson
Stevenson
United States
Holy Cross Loan For Dining Hall
The Community Facilities Administration announced a 2.575 million dollar loan to Holy Cross College in Worcester Massachusetts to build a student center with dining and related facilities, supplemented by 1.4 million dollars of the college's funds.
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Washington
Community Facilities Administration
Holy Cross College
Worcester
Mass
USW May Delay Deadline in Pittsburgh Talks
The United Steelworkers Union signals a May 1 strike deadline extension for a token wage or benefit increase. Negotiations, drawn from Wednesday meetings, would require uninterrupted bargaining and follow two industry proposal paths offering a short extension or an interim contract to be reopened after the union’s election dispute.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
Steel
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Bertshire Eag
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R. Kennedy
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New York State
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Page Hoy
National
House of Representatives
Frank Mitchell
Springfield
Hammermill Co
Appalachia
Holy Cross Loan
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Allendale Shopping Center
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Oxford
Walker
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