Safety Features Tied to Auto Excise Tax Cut
Senate Finance Committee rejected the administration’s plan to wipe out only half of the 10 percent auto excise tax. It kept 1 percent to fund junkyard cleanup and conditionally eliminates 4 percent if manufacturers add safety features such as backup lights seat belts padded dashboards safety door latches and safety glass. Leaders say automakers have pledged to pass any tax cut to dealers by lowering prices, with price adjustments tied to each car’s suggested retail value. The House plan would phase out the tax by 1969. Further committee work is planned. votes remain subject to change.
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Senate Finance Committee
Congress
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
American Motors
Byrd
House Unit Votes Repeal Of Right To Work Laws
A House Labor subcommittee approved an administration bill to repeal state right to work laws in 19 states by removing Section 14 B of the Taft Hartley act. The measure moves to the House Education and Labor Committee. Griffin offered a substitute to limit union discrimination and political use of dues, which was rejected by voice vote.
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Washington
House Education and Labor Committee
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Landrum-Griffin
Griffin
New York Senate Reinstates Adultery and Deviant Acts
Albany AP The New York Senate and Assembly reached agreement to overhaul the penal law while restoring adultery and sexual deviation as crimes. Votes split along party lines with 45-40 on the main bill 38-17 on adultery restoration and 39-16 to retain homosexuality and other deviant acts as crimes.
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Senate
New York State
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Assembly
NLRB Rules Against Union in Bronx Closed Shop Case
The National Labor Relations Board ruled this week that Local 2 of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters violated the Taft Hartley Act by walking off the job when a nonunion man worked on a Bronx project. The decision voided a hiring preference clause and held that neither union membership nor tests can be required to obtain a job. Meany’s involvement in the 1964 settlement with Mayor Wagner is noted, but the board found the agreement illegal for imposing improper conditions on the four workers.
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UPI
National Labor Relations Board
George Meany
Bronx
NLRB
United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters
Local 2
Meany
New York
Robert F. Wagner
GOP Board Gives Bliss Full Backing
In Columbus, Republican leaders including Dwight D. Eisenhower urged unity behind National Chairman Ray C. Bliss to unite the party for 1966 and 1968. Barry Goldwater was not invited to the Bliss salute dinners watched by over 10,000 attendees in eight Ohio cities, as Romney and Scranton also voiced support for Bliss.
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Ray Bliss
George Romney
Michigan
Eisenhower
Ohio
Associated Press
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Barry Goldwater
Arizona
White House
Goldwater
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ray C. Bliss
Bliss
Richard M. Nixon
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Isenhower
False Report of LBJ Illness Roils Wall Street
A false rumor claiming President Johnson suffered a stroke sparked a heavy selling wave in New York stocks. The Dow fell 9.21 to 879.74 amid volatile volume, with traders unnerved by bad news and wary of recovery prospects after prior declines.
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Johnson
White House
Dow - Jones
NYSE Probes Rumor Behind Market Jitters
Market in New York on AP says the New York Stock Exchange is investigating the source of a rumor that unsettled traders. A spokesman noted such rumors can arise anywhere and affect market activity as stocks slide from the May 14 peak.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
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Nixon urges unity with moratorium on 1968 race
In a bid for party unity, Nixon calls for a halt to 1968 presidential speculation until after the 1966 congressional elections. He argues the move would strengthen the party and focus on current political goals.
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Nixon
Split Report on Baker To Be Filed in Senate
Washington AP Senate Rules Committee will file two reports on its Baker investigation. Democratic majority draft aligns with Clark’s 18 page draft. Republican minority unhappy with portrayal of Sen. Williams. Baker became millionaire during Senate service, invoked Fifth Amendment. Committee to issue minority report within two weeks and release both with legislative recommendations Friday.
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Senate Rules Committee
Robert G. Baker
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
John J. Williams
Puerto Rico
Ocean City
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Clark
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B. Everett Jordan
Assembly Bars Quarter-Horse Pari-Mutuels in New York
In Albany the Assembly rejected a bi partisan bill to authorize pari mutuel betting on quarter horse racing and allow as many as eight tracks in the state. The measure had passed the Senate 43 to 12 and drew sharp criticism from lawmakers worried about gambling temptations.
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Albany
Assembly
Senate
Tower House
Yellow rain coats eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire
A UPI report states that a yellow rain fell in parts of eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire on Wednesday. Officials said the yellow color, not violet, likely washed pine tree pollen from the air and left a fine yellow film on the ground.
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UPI
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
House Votes to Allow JFK Film Showings in U S
The House approved 311 to 75 a measure to authorize domestic screening of USIA film Years of Lightning Day of Drums about John F. Kennedy. The vote ends a partisan dispute and moves the issue to the Senate, amid debate over potential political use and respect for Kennedy.
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UPI
Senate
United States
John F. Kennedyi
House
U.S. Information Agency
Congress
USIA
Berkshire Eagle Subscription Rates By Carrier And Mail
Rates listed for Berkshire Eagle subscriptions by carrier and mail including zones miles and U S postal regions. Prices shown: one month two twenty. three months five fifty. six months eleven dollars. one year twenty two dollars by carrier and twenty four forty by mail. Foreign subscriptions doubled zones. college students and armed forces receive twenty percent discount. Change of address instructions require notifying the post office and the newspaper.
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