House Votes Cash Aid To Artists
Washington AP The House approved a bill to create a national foundation for the arts and humanities with grants to artists, performers, and scholars. It would authorize 21 million dollars annually and set up endowments dispensing three million yearly, with matching funds from private sources.
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Highway Beauty Bill Is Emasculated Says Lady Senator
President Johnson's highway beautification bill faced changes to win Senate approval. Sen Jennings Randolph floor managed the $400 million measure and introduced amendments at the administration's request. One amendment would cut federal aid penalties from 100 percent to 10 percent for states not participating, prompting Sen Margaret Chase Smith to call the bill an emasculation of the proposal.
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South's Governors Adjourn Race Issues Excluded
Southern governors at the 31st Southern Governors Conference adjourned without any discussion of race. Governor Tawes of Maryland, new chairman, called the move a new era for the region. Georgia's Carl E. K. Sanders was elected vice chairman as moderation guided the talks. Pennsylvania's William Scranton urged nonracist Republicans, noting defections in 1964.
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Wisconsin Dean Returns To Head U of Maine
Dr Edwin Young dean of the college of letters and sciences at the University of Wisconsin is recalled to Maine to lead the University of Maine where he earned his BA and MA. He succeeds Lloyd Elliott, who becomes president of George Washington University. Tawes, at 71, notes the lack of dispute over the transfer.
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State to Seek First Degree Murder Charge in Slaying
Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers voiced displeasure over a Lowndes County grand jury not indicting for murder in the killing of Jonathan Daniels a white civil rights worker. He pledged further court action to ensure a first degree murder charge against Thomas L. Coleman of Hayneville. Daniels 27 a Episcopal seminary student was killed August 20 outside a Hayneville grocery.
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Reserve Merger Dies In Arms Appropriation
Washington negotiators agreed on a 46.8 billion defense appropriation and rejected any merger of the Army Reserve and National Guard this year. The conference accepted Senate language on the merger, ending House hopes for consolidation. The bill funds the Defense Department for FY1966, including 31.7 billion for Viet Nam buildup.
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Compromise bill sets up $90 million high speed rail study
A Senate House conference panel approved a three year, 90 million dollar program to study high speed rail transportation. The plan includes a New York Washington pilot with up to 40 cars at 150 mph and a New York Boston phase with New Haven Railroad. The project aims to share knowledge with all railroads and transport systems while patent rights policy is addressed separately.
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Shipyard work share proposal dropped by conferees
The conferees rejected a Senate provision that would require at least 35 percent of naval ship repair alteration and conversion work to be performed by privately owned shipyards. The House and Senate bills’ appropriations were debated, but the provision favored private yards was omitted.
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Earl of Snowdon Pays Fine For Towed Car
The Earl of Snowdon, Princess Margaret’s husband, retrieved his sports car from a Westminster police station after it was towed for a no parking violation. He paid two pounds to reclaim the vehicle.
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Poverty vetoes upheld in House vote
In a 208 to 179 decision the House rejected a plan to strip governors of veto power over local War on Poverty projects. The bipartisan defeat boosts GOP claims, with governors and Democratic defectors aiding the outcome.
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False Accuser Of Screvane Gets a Year
Bernard Gittelson, who falsely involved City Council President Paul Screvane in a parking meter bribe scandal, was sentenced to four years in jail and fined thirty thousand dollars or five extra years. He lied to a grand jury that investigated a fifty thousand dollar bribe that was never paid. Screvane lost the Democratic primary bid for mayor but was cleared of bribe complicity when Gittelson pled guilty to ten counts of perjury.
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