Farm Bill in Senate Tops Congress Issues
In Washington the Senate moves to tackle a farm bill amid a packed congressional docket after Labor Day. The Agriculture Committee advanced a bill with wheat and cotton provisions opposed by the administration and a plan to reduce Soviet wheat sales shipping costs. The House faces foreign aid funding questions and an overarching budget fight as $4.1 billion in aid looms.
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Congress
Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Johnson
Pentagon
Labor and Welfare Departments
Senate Agriculture Committee
Soviet Union
United States
U.S
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Edward J. Derwinski
Summer Jobs Lottery Opens to Congressmen Favoritism
UPI reports thousands of summer postal posts were allocated by Congress members, including to the son of Sen. Hiram Fong and his niece Carolyn. Rodney Fong and Richard Fulton Jr. are named among recipients. most jobs pay $2.29 an hour. The Post Office Dept withholds names, citing congressional confidentiality, continuing a practice of patronage in vacation relief posts.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
Rodney Fong
Sen
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Carolyn Fong
Fong
Richard Fulton Jr
Tennessee
Rep
Fulton
Postal
Post Office Department
Rangers Seek 26 Cut Off In Gorge
Zion National Park rangers planned to enter the Virgin River gorge to rescue 21 people stranded by flooding and locate five missing Californians. Two 16 year old Utah boys reported many women and children among the stranded party with supplies low as search efforts continued after three days of rising water and a storm.
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Zion National Park
Utah
Zion Narrows Gorge
Virgin River
Zion
Johnson signs foreign aid bill amid Pakistan Kashmir focus
President Johnson spends Labor Day at the ranch and signs a 3.9 billion foreign aid authorization covering the new fiscal year. He troops multiyear budget review, outlines a library for official papers at the University of Texas, and cites disaster relief savings. Also announced are ambassadorial nominations and Geological Survey leadership moves.
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Tex
Johnson
Pakistan
India
Dean Rusk
U.N
Arthur J. Goldberg
Congress
University of Texas
Austin
Here
Budget Bureau
Area Redevelopment Agency
Richard Hallock Davis
New York
U.S
Romania
William A. Crawford
John Howard Burns
U.5
United Republic of Tanzania
William Leonhart
William T. Pecora
Geological Survey of
Department of the Interior
Survey
Perera
Thomas B. Nolan
35 Month Steel Pact Signed In Pittsburgh
AP reports a 35 month steel industry peace pact signed in Pittsburgh by I W Abel of the United Steelworkers and R Conrad Capper. The agreement boosts wages about 50 cents hourly for some 450000 workers, exceeds White House guidelines, and includes immediate boosts plus further raises, enhanced benefits, and relocation pay.
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Pittsburgh
Washington
Johnson
I. W. Abel
United Steelworkers Union
R. Conrad Capper
House
White House
Cooper
Abel
the Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
Minute Dose of Pesticide Kills Sea Life
Interior Department and Fish and Wildlife Service researchers report extremely small pesticide levels kill aquatic life. One part per billion DDT in water killed blue crabs in eight days. Endrin and other chlorinated hydrocarbons damaged shrimp and oysters in lab tests.
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Washington
Interior Department
Fish and Wildlife Service
Worker Bleeds Fatally at Chelsea Plant
UPI reports Cleveland Howard, 44, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, died after his foot was severed by a machine at American Barrel Co. The article also covers a government study on pesticide contamination in oysters and marine life, noting high pesticide levels stored in fat and risks from chlorinated hydrocarbons and organic phosphates. Prolonged fat reserves may prove fatal in stressed wildlife.
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Mass
UPI
Cleveland Howard
American Barrel Co
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