Humphrey Breaks Tie To Aid Farm Bill Vote
Washington The vice president cast a tie breaking vote to keep the farm bill intact and the Bass amendment intact. The Senate then faced further amendments on minimum wheat prices and subsidy limits as it neared final passage.
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Vital Farm
Washington
UPI
Rubert H. Humphrey
Senate
Karl E. Mundt
R.D
Bass
Labor Department
Agriculture Department
W. Willard Wirtz
United States
Wirtz
Creation of Life Urged by Chemist As National Goal
ATLANTIC CITY N J AP A scientific leader urged that artificial creation of life be set as a national goal. Dr Charles C Price president of the American Chemical Society said knowledge rush makes it possible to modify living things and control evolution toward creating new or existing life including perhaps new human life It can be done it is only a matter of time and money and great effort he told a general session of the society s national meeting in an interview
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Atlantic City, NJ
Charles C. Price
The
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Society
Southern Governors Urge New Elasticity
SEA ISLAND Ga AP Governors urged unity and a broader national outlook for the South at the Southern Governors Conference opening. Gov Connally cited urban growth and rising per capita income as signs of change, while Gov Sanders spoke of a new South with unity and solidarity. Governors Harrison McNair and Johnson attacked the voting rights law, with SC testing the law and MS contesting it.
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Connally
Carl E. Sanders
Georgia
New South
Sanders
Albertis.s. Harrison
Virginia
Southern Regional Education Board
Harrison
Robert McNair
South Carolina
Paul B. Johnson
Mississippi
McNair
Johnson
Foreign Aid Bill Reduced By Senators
Senate Appropriations Committee passed a foreign aid bill at 3.193 billion dollars, omitting India Pakistan cuts. It is 92 million below the House level and 167 million under Johnson's request. Senator Byrd authored a compromise motion trimming 92 million, while debate looms and India Pakistan provisions remain unsettled.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
India
Pakistan
House
Johnson
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate
Senate Committee
Dean Rusk
U.S
Robert C. Byrd
D-w. Va
Udall Sees Conn. River Possibilities for National Park
Hartford AP Udall after a six hour Connecticut River cruise said the river has possibilities as a national park. He declined to say if he would urge a formal congressional study. Gov. Dempsey and Sen. Ribicoff accompanied him as Ribicoff promotes a checkerboard plan to place select river sections under federal park use.
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Connecticut River
Secretary of the Interior
Stewart Udall
Udall
Old Saybrook
John N. Dempsey
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Ribicoff
Congressional
Congress
Loan Sharks Pinpointed Across 12 Major Urban Areas
Washington AP reports a House Banking and Currency subcommittee led by Rep. Charles Weltner has identified 13 loan sharks in Boston 5 in Buffalo 12 in Chicago 3 in Cleveland 1 in Detroit 3 in Kansas City 4 in Los Angeles 4 in Milwaukee 3 in New Jersey 21 in New York City 21 in Philadelphia and 8 in Miami. The racketeering amounts to about a billion dollars a year with a three tier system moving money through retailers at 1 2 and 5 percent weekly vigorish.
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House
Charles L. Weltner
D-Ga
Banking and Currency
Weltner
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Buffalo
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Kansas City
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Milwaukee
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Miami
U S Pours Aid Into Louisiana Amid Betsy Aftermath
President Johnson dispatched 2 million dollars to rebuild hurricane torn Louisiana as coroner Chetta lowers the death toll amid miscommunications. Debris cleanup by Youth Corps, surplus food shipments, and farming relief programs expand into a wartime effort. Betsy’s toll seen as the era’s worst maritime disaster apart from cost estimates.
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New Orleans
Johnson
Louisiana
White House
Department of Agriculture
Government Studying Hurricane Betsy Aftermath
Washington report to President Johnson outlines proposals to detect storms earlier, track more accurately, and possibly control weather. It urges expanding the Weather Bureau’s reach, joining a world weather watch, and forming a federal warning system to save more lives from future hurricanes.
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Washington
Johnson
The
Commerce Department
U.S
Weather Bureau
Truscott Dies War Hero Buried With Honors
Gen Lucian K Truscott Jr 70 famed World War II Army hero who urged officers to stay with troops will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. A Texan by birth he taught in a country school before 1917 Reserve Cavalry commission and served in North Africa and Italy with the 3rd Infantry Division. He missed World War I overseas action but later led bold assaults and played Army polo between world wars, retiring in 1949.
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Lucian K. Truscott Jr
Arlington National Cemetery
Cavalry
Walter Reed
Truscott
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Italy
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