Delay of LBJ Priority Bills Beyond Easter
President Johnson faces slim chances for House action on three top bills voting rights education aid and elderly health care. The education measure awaits Senate action, while health care moves through Ways and Means with Rules likely after Easter. A delayed timetable reflects House resistance and complex hearings.
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Control Bill On Billboards Due Shortly
A six year dispute over highway billboard control ends at Congress as President Johnson prepares to unveil a mandatory billboard act. The measure would enforce strict controls along new Interstate segments with a 0.5 percent construction cost bonus to compliant states. The bill omits federal highways outside the Interstate system.
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Lie Detectors Opposed By AFL-CIO in Hiring
Washington UPI reports the AFL-CIO formed a two man committee to end the use of lie detectors in government and private hiring. Al J. Hayes and James A. Suffridge were named to lead education legislation and other actions for the campaign.
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Defense Awards Rise For Small Businesses
Washington reports small businesses captured 2.46 billion dollars in prime defense contracts for the first half of fiscal 1965, July 1 to December 31, 1964. The total, up 352 million from the previous year, marks the highest six month volume since 1951.
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Brandeis Grants Creative Arts Medals to Notables
Brandeis University awarded the Creative Arts Medals for 1965 to Tennessee Williams Stanley Kunitz Mark Rothko and Eliott Carter in New York. A special award went to Alfred H Barr Jr of MoMA. Citations honored Salvatore Martirano Kenneth Noland Anthony Hecht and Michael Smith with $1000 each.
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Silver Coins Must Go Dillon Says
U S Secretary Douglas Dillon told a House subcommittee that the United States must discontinue its present silver coins and consider three options: coins with no silver, reduced silver content, or a composite sandwich coin with a base metal and silver on the outside. He noted vending machines would require modest modifications for a copper nickel alloy five or six dollar per machine cost, with mint experiments ongoing and possible legislation in April.
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Dillon Ups Ante To Protect LBJ
Washington UPI Secretary Dillon asked Congress to override Johnson and approve 12.6 million for Secret Service next year, up from 8.7 million. He said the higher total would fund 183 more agents, 76 clerical staff, and purchases of armored vehicles radios and protective gear.
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Congress Set To Probe Klan Leaders Ask To See Johnson
Washington GOP and Democratic lawmakers press for a swift federal probe of the Ku Klux Klan. House and Senate committees plan hearings as the Johnson administration pushes to curb Klan violence with new legislation before voting rights bills. Senate leaders aim for action by May.
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Grand Dragon Plea Sent to Justice Dept for Meeting
Two Ku Klux Klan leaders Calvin F. Craig and Robert M. Shelton Jr sent a telegram seeking a face to face meeting with President Johnson after his criticism of the Klan calling them hooded bigots. The White House referred the request to Attorney General Katzenbach.
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Episcopalians Integrate Selma Church
In Selma Alabama Rev Gilbert Caldwell of Boston Maine Methodist Church joined three other Negroes and one white, the first mixed attendance at St Paul's Episcopal Church after prior refusals. Caldwell phoned a local Methodist minister Saturday to seek Sunday access, who denied it, prompting the visit.
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World's Fair To Open On Time Says Moses
New York AP Robert Moses, president of the New York World's Fair, says the exhibition is on or ahead of schedule for the April 21 opening of its second and last season. Workmen have been in operation dewinterization since mid February and should finish by Friday if the weather holds.
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Five die as nursing home fire injures five more
Boston AP reporting a four story Carmelite nuns nursing home fire left one patient dead and five others critically injured. Over 100 residents were evacuated Saturday night from the brick building as investigators probe the cause. Deceased was John S. Rochefort 75 who was blind. Serious condition inmates included Lawrence White 85 William Reddy 80 William Kelley 87 Nellie LeVange and Joseph Kerreissey 79. Fire confined to Rochefort and Kerreissey room on the fourth floor.
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