Altered N Y Penal Code Passed Drops Adultery
The New York Assembly backed a reform of the penal code dropping adultery as a crime and modernizing the law. It rejected removing stigma from homosexual acts, while Volker’s bid to restore adultery or ban deviate acts failed or passed in separate votes. If Senate and Gov Rockefeller approve, the changes take effect Sept 1, 1967.
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Albany
New York
Bartlett Commission
Julius Volker
Buffalo
Volker
Senate
Rockefeller
Tightened Ethics Bill Passed by N Y Senate
Albany reports a tightened ethics bill cleared the New York Senate 47 to 9 after four hours of debate. It bars lawyer-legislators from charging fees before the State Court of Claims, bans former lawmakers from lobbying for two years, and expands disclosure of financial interests in state regulated businesses. The measure preserves a provision allowing a law firm member legislator to handle Court of Claims cases without sharing in fees, and assembly action was expected Monday.
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Albany
Legislative Code of Ethics
Senate
State Court of Claims
Assembly
Retail District In Boston Set For Facelifting
The Boston Redevelopment Authority unveiled a 19 million plan to renew about 198 acres in the heart of Boston’s retail district. It includes purchasing the South Station terminal and several wool and leather firms, with talks under way with Boston Terminal Corp. for the terminal, aiming to convert it into a large parking garage and potential bus terminal.
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Boston
UPL
Boston Redevelopment Authority
BRA
Edward J. Logue
South Station
Boston Terminal Corp
Logue
Berkshire Eagle Subscription Rates Change Notice
Change of Address notice instructs subscribers to ratify with the local post office and Berkshire Eagle, providing old and new addresses to avoid service interruption. The notice notes second class postage paid at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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Berkshire Eagle
Pillsfield
Massachusetts
Connecticut House legalizes sweeps tickets in state
The Connecticut House passed a bill making it legal to hold sweepstakes tickets such as the Irish and New Hampshire sweeps with a limit of five tickets per person. The measure aims to curb large scale bookmaking and could lead to fines or jail for possession.
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Hartford, Conn
UPI
Connecticut House of Representatives
Senate
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Five airmen killed in KC135 crash near Walker AFB
Roswell New Mexico AP reports a KC135 tanker crashed near Walker Air Force Base killing five airmen on a routine mission. Names were withheld pending kin notification as the tanker approached the Walker AFB runway. The base houses two tanker groups within a Strategic Air Command installation.
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Roswell
N.M
Air Force
Walker Air Force Base
Walker Afb
Walker
Strategic Air Command
New England Built Astronaut Gear Aids Gemini Four Flight
Boston reports that food, suits, and gear for the Gemini Four mission were largely produced in New England. Natick Laboratory prepared 49 freeze dried foods, Worcester workers made the suits, and vendors in Boston Worcester and other towns supplied beacons coatings visors and support equipment. Sikorsky copters aided recovery and Hamilton Standard built propellant handling units and air conditioners for the Titan II launch vehicle.
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Boston
UPI
James McDivitt
Edward White
New England
White
McDivitt
Army Natick Laboratories
Natick
Mass
Worcester
Virgil L. Grissom
Sikorsky Helicopters
Strafford
Conn
Cape Kennedy
Wasp
Navy
Quonset Point
Windsor Locks
Hamilton-Standard Division
United Aircraft Corp
Hand Signals For Motorists Being Unified
UPI reports Massachusetts motorists will use federal standard hand signals starting June 43. Registrar Richard E. McLaughlin says nationwide signals improve traffic flow during peak visitor months. Left turn signaled by horizontal extension, right turn by upward extension, stop or slow by downward extension.
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Boston
UPI
Massachusetts
Richard E. McLaughlin
Space Suit of 21 Layers Costs NASA $28,000
Houston AP report notes astronaut Edward H. White wore a $28,000 21 layer space suit during Gemini 4 outside the capsule about 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean. The suit weighs 3 pounds and includes three helmet visors, life support, oxygen, and pressurization.
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Houston
Tex
Edward H. White
Pacific Oceana
Outer Space
Lexan
Myler
Medicare Revised In Senate Medicare Change On Specialist Billing
Senate Finance Committee approved a Johnson administration request to keep hospital billing for specialists separate from general hospital costs. The amendment targets about 30,000 radiology, anesthesia, pathology, and physical medicine specialists, aligning with the House plan to bill these services separately under the supplementary insurance program. Some members consider delaying implementation to Jan 1, 1967. current plans would start July 1, 1966. Byrd chairs a continued closed-session debate pending quorum.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Johnson
House
American Medical Association
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ul
Douglas
Harry PF
Byrd
D-Va
False Teeth Aid Keeps Plates Steady with FASTEETH
FASTEETH is an improved powder sprinkled on upper or lower plates to prevent sliding. It holds false teeth firmly without gummy taste or saline feeling. The alkaline, non acid formula checks plate motion and is available at drug counters.
Astronaut Recovery Forces Count 26 Ships and 10,300 Men
Washington reports a 26 ship, 10,300 man recovery force led by the carrier Wasp for Majs James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II after their 62 orbit space flight. Modernized plans cut personnel from 15,000. 18,000 were used for Mercury missions. Air rescue planes would cover 99.4 percent of potential landing sites within six hours. worst case twelve hours. Largest group, 4,800 aboard Atlantic vessels, will bring the astronauts aboard Wasp 300 miles east of Cape Kennedy if all goes as planned.
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Washington
UPS
Wasp
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
Air Force
Leighton I. Davis
Defense Department
Atlantic
Cape Kennedy
Unemployment Rate Drops For May
President Johnson announced that unemployment fell to 4.6 percent in May, the lowest in 91 months. He said 220,000 fewer jobless, total 3.3 million, and 113 million more Americans employed for a total of 72.4 million.
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Washington
Johnson
Thurg
Labor Department
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Robert R., Gilruth
Nafick
David Clark Co
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MacDivitt
Raytheon Co
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Rowland Products Co
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Muda
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