Sick Leave Abuse by Postal Workers Probed by GAO
GAO accuses Post Office workers of moonlighting as cab drivers teachers and custodians costing the government about 10 million dollars annually in eight offices led by Boston Worcester Brooklyn Long Island City Philadelphia Newark San Francisco and Los Angeles. Post Office disputes findings citing minimal substantiation and says reforms have tightened sick leave.
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John B. Howarth
Post Office Department
Civil Service Commission
GAQ
Brooklyn Post Office
Power Plan For Maine Authorized Power Plan For Maine Authorized
Washington AP reports President Johnson signed a food control navigation bill authorizing Maine’s 227 million Dickey Lincoln School Power Project on the St John River. The plan includes 800000 for initial surveys and aims to generate 794000 kilowatts as part of a 4.7 billion supplemental appropriation for the current fiscal year. The project stems from tidal proposals near Passamaquoddy and Cobscook Bays with studies previously urged by the Interior Department.
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Johnson
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Cobscook Bays
New Brunswick
Canada
Congress
Interior Department
Upper St. John
Johnson Rejects Carb on Powers
President Johnson signed a 2 billion river and harbor bill authorizing 142 projects and said he will ignore a section he contends would curb presidential powers. He objects to a future authorization shortcut for projects under 10 million, noting it would not affect current administration.
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Tex
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House
Senate Public Works
O Hair Case Dismissed Under Maryland Belief ruling
Mrs. Madalyn Murray O Hair, extradition case from Texas to Baltimore on seven assault charges, had those charges dismissed by Criminal Court Judge Shirley B. Jones after ACLU lawyer Fred Weisgal cited a two week old Maryland Court of Appeals ruling that jurors need not affirm belief in God. The ruling said the state constitution provision requiring affirmation of belief in God violates the U.S. Constitution.
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Texas
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Supreme Court
Criminal
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Fred EB. Weisgal
American Civil Liberties Union
Weisgal
Maryland Court of Appeals
U.S
Aide to Dr. King Faces Ouster
Cincinnati Ohio UPI reports Rev. Fred L Shuttleworth a top aide of Martin Luther King Jr faces removal by a dissident group of parishioners who claim sufficient support to oust him over accusations he tried to run the church like a dictator and misused funds without authorization or proper records
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UPI
Fred L. Shuttleworth
Martin Luther King Jr
Wallace Spurs Rights Cause in Alabama Speech
AMHERST AP Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers called Governor George Wallace the best friend the Negro has in Alabama for provoking protests against discrimination. Speaking at Amherst College he said Wallace’s defiant stance accelerates civil rights demonstrations. Flowers, Wallace adversary and Hayneville murder trial prosecutor, weighs running for governor or the Senate in 30 to 43 days and predicts federal laws criminalizing killings of civil rights workers. He also noted potential conviction gaps in Liuzzo case and suggested a federal crime law may be enacted.
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Richmond Flowers
George C. Wallace
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Wallace
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Hayneville
Selma
Liuzzo
FDA orders warning on three antihistamines for pregnancy
FDA ordered labels warn that three over the counter antihistamines may not be safe for unborn infants. Meclizine Cyclizine and Chlorcyclizine linked to potential congenital harm in animal studies, though human data are inconclusive. Labels will note inefficacy against vomiting and apply to pregnant or possibly pregnant women. Pfizer disagrees with the labeling. Meclizine has been sold OTC since 1953.
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UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Chicago
Chas, Pfizer & Co
McNamara denies he would resign as defense secretary
Washington May 16 defense secretary Robert S McNamara denied a published report that he told President Johnson he wanted to resign before year end Arthur Sylvester assistant secretary of defense for public affairs said McNamara had told him he never has had any such discussion with the President The report appeared in the Tribune Oakland Calif
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Arthur Sylvester
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The
Tribune
Oakland
Calif
Draft policy lifts ban on childless married men under 26
Selective Service officials said the ban on drafting childless men who married before Aug 26 was lifted to meet raised quotas. states plan to draft married men under 26 in December or January, with roughly 150,000 to 160,000 youths turning 14 this year and about 2 million 18-year-olds next year. The new order places single men and those married since Aug 26 ahead of men over 26. Meanwhile Churchill’s funeral car to be displayed in Los Angeles after being bought from British Railways for 980 dollars.
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