House unit shift stalls union shop repeal in Civ rights tie
The House Education and Labor Committee approved a bill to repeal Section 14B of the Taft Hartley Act allowing union shops and tied the measure to a civil rights provision. The panel voted 21 to 10 and will hold action until Negro employment rights are reinforced under the 1964 civil rights law. Chairman Powell said he would use a pocket veto pending stronger enforcement of civil rights provisions.
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Washington
House Education and Labor Committee
Adan Clayton Powell
D-N.y
House
Fair Employment Practices Commission
William H. Ayres
Rohio
Powell
Kennedy proposes Teachers Corps to fight poverty and boost education
Senator Edward M. Kennedy urged a national teachers corps patterned on the Peace Corps to join the Higher Education Assistance Act of 1965. The program would have qualified teachers volunteer in low income urban and rural areas, paid by the federal government at salaries aligning with local teachers.
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Washington
UPI
Edward MM. Kennedy
D-Mass
National Teachers Corps
Kennedy
Sen
Vaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Three Dead 10 Missing After Victoria Hotel Fire
In Plainfield New Jersey three people were found dead and at least ten others reported missing after a blaze destroyed the century old Victoria Hotel and Boarding House near the business district. Police removed three unidentified bodies from the charred three story building as more than 100 guests escaped across from the Fire Department HQ. In Buffalo New York crews begin tearing down the Kremlin block Sept 30 to clear space for new construction.
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N.J
Victoria
New Jersey
Fire Department
Buffalo
UPI
Kremlin
Moscow
No Reason for Gloom Says LBJ on Economy
President Johnson said the economy shows no gloom and expects a good steady second half. He cited high employment strong revenues and stable currency after meetings with top advisers at the White House.
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William Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury Secy
Henry Fowler
LBJ
Washington
UPI
White House
Treasury
William McChesney Martin
Gordon Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Martin
Columbia University
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Banking Committee
Patman
Lighthouse in Boston named national historic landmark
Boston Light, the nation’s oldest lighthouse on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor, was dedicated as a national historic landmark. A plaque was unveiled by Osborne F. Hallett, longtime keeper, wearing a Lighthouse Service uniform. The light, established in 1716 and turned over to the United States in 1790, is now operated by three Coast Guardsmen after the Coast Guard assumed lighthouse duties in 1939.
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Boston
Little Brewster Island
Boston Harbor
Osborne F. Hallett
Lighthouse Service
Coast Guard
United States
Coast
Bias Marchers Would Oust Head of Chicago Schools
A march on City Hall and a citywide boycott aimed at removing Chicago school chief Benjamin C. Willis and accelerating integration drew civil rights leaders Roy Wilkins and James Farmer. Attendance checks showed mixed results with high absenteeism in some Negro schools and normal rates in white schools amid ongoing tension between civil rights groups and city officials.
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Bias
Chicago
Benjamin C. Willis
City Hall
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
Wilkins
Farmer
Soldier Field
NAACP
Lynward Stevenson
Woodlawn Organization
Frank M. Whiston
Board of Education
Willis
Richard J. Daley
Retired Critic Louise L. Mace Dies at 71
Miss Louise L. Mace, longtime movie and drama critic for the Springfield Union and Springfield Republican, died at age 71. She began at the Republican in 1917 as assistant social editor and retired in 1959. An Emerson College graduate of 1915, she received the Hoopes Citation in 1947 for distinguished work in her field. She died Thursday.
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Springfield
Mass
Louise L. Mace
Springfield Union
Springfield Republican
Lynda Johnson to Work as Archaeology Student in Grasshopper
Lynda Bird Johnson 21 daughter of the President begins a two week term at the University of Arizona Summer Archaeology Field School in Grasshopper on the Fort Apache Reservation. She will use standard digging tools and share basic dormitory facilities with 20 other students. Newsmen will be barred and a news conference is set for June 22 to release details.
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Grasshopper
Ariz
William Longacre
Lynda’ Bird Johnson
Lynda
University of Arizona
Fort Apache Indian Reservation
Arizona
Longacre
Lyn
Senate Finance Unit approves broad excise tax cut
Senate Finance Committee approved a 4.7 billion excise tax cut wiping out most levies except tobacco alcohol and highway related items. The measure passed 14 3 and targets taxes on autos appliances air conditioners TVs radios handbags watches cosmetics cameras and several services notably local and long distance phone calls. An amendment moved repeal timing to the day after President Johnson signs the bill affecting four retail excises including watches luggage cosmetics and furs and many manufacturers excises. The panel kept a partial auto tax reduction and tied final 4 percentage points of the tax to auto safety device equipment readiness by 1968 1969.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Johnson
Headhunter On the Bench Issues Warning
In Los Angeles Judge A A Scott warned teen boys with long hair to avoid his Superior Court courtroom or face a free haircut in the courtroom. He pledged to have a barber present to cut hair on the spot if needed.
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UPD
Superior Court
A. A Scott
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