Tax Axe Stayed In Senate
Washington AP The Senate Finance Committee paused after two days of rapid progress on the big tax bill and reassessed actions from Thursday. It set Monday to resume item by item review and, per Sen Carl T Curtis, approved a five year carry over on charitable deductions aligning individuals with corporations. The panel also dropped a Thursday backed provision taxing reimbursements from health or accident insurance beyond illness costs.
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Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Carl T. Curtis
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Curtis
Wheat Sale OK Given Total 300 Million
Export licenses were issued for an additional 164 million dollars of wheat to the Soviet Union. If closed, total U S surplus wheat shipments authorized would reach about 1 300 million dollars, with further deals possible. Licenses in the hunting category indicate final contracts not completed.
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Soviet Union
U.S
Commerce Department
Russia
Hungary
Bulgaria
East Germany
Negroes Win Awards In Springfield Suit Over Ale Price Bias
Four African American plaintiffs sued under a Massachusetts equal treatment law and won $100 judgments each against Windsor Court Restaurant in Springfield for charging higher prices for ale than white customers on November 14, 1961. Judge Charles D. Sloan approved the civil awards Friday.
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Massachusetts
Windsor Court
Spring
Charlies D. Sloan
Legislator Pay Raise Fight Brings Signature Hearings
Boston AP reports hearings scheduled across Suffolk Middlesex Nor a schedule Friday for signatures protests against the proposed referendum to repeal the $2,600 a year pay raise for Massachusetts legislators. The State House hearings open January 27 with protesters and petitioners, followed by four additional hearings February 4 Worcester City Hall February 11 Worcester City Hall February 18 Fall River City Hall and February 25 Provincetown City Hall. The 2,110 raise is a 0 per cent boost in the pay that rose from 5,200 to 2,600.
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Wheat shipments to Russia via Boston rail routes
More than 6 million bushels of wheat will move by rail through Boston to Russia next week, about half of a recent surplus sale. Continental Grain Co. president Charles J. Koelsch told the Massachusetts Port Authority that the Duluth and Minneapolis wheat will reach East Boston’s grain elevator in two weeks, with the remainder shipping through Norfolk, Virginia.
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Continental Grain Co
Massachusetts
Soviet Union
Duluth
Minneapolis
Norfolk
Firearms Registry Suggested For Each State
Fitchburg Massachusetts mayor George Bourque recommends to President Lyndon B. Johnson a nationwide firearms registry. He proposes state registries similar to motor vehicle records to give public safety departments a complete list of all persons buying owning or possessing firearms.
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George J. Bourque
The
Massachusetts Mayors Association
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bourque
Public Safety Departments
Nehru’s Congress Endorses Democratic Socialism Plan
In Bhubaneswar AP Prime Minister Nehru’s Congress party wrapped up its 1964 convention with a unanimous endorsement of a resolution for democratic socialism in India. The party vows peaceful change via consent of the people and seeks to reform economic and social relations. It supports limits on income and private property and a progressive government takeover of rice units and related food processing industries. Nehru remained offstage recovering from illness.
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Republic of Panama
Thomas C. Mann
U.S
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Andrew P. O'Meara
Mann
Mexico
Edwin Martin
Cyrus Vance
Canal Zone
Ralph Dungan
Robert J. Janning
Panama and U S clash in crisis over canal zone
U S delegate Adlai Stevenson defended actions as protecting lives in the Canal Zone as Panama breaks ties and denounces the canal treaty after deadly clashes that left 20 dead and hundreds wounded. The OAS mediates as Panama seeks dem demification and guards U S interests across the zone.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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Canal Zone
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Inter-American Commission
Panama
Local High School Basketball Scores Mixed Evening Action
A sequence of scores shows NEL Adams 61 over St Joe s Py 30 Wahconah 35 over St Joe s NA 48 Mount Greylock 66 over Drury 60 SBL Lee 9 over Chester 66 Lenox 93 over Mount Everett 30 Searles 68 over Williams 53 College Vermont 88 over Massachusetts 85 NBA Boston 169 over Cincinnati.
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