Sacrifices Called For In LBJ's Budget Message
President Johnson urged sacrifice and hard choices in a 556 page budget message proposing 186.1 billion dollars in outlays and a 10.2 billion dollar war tax surcharge to curb inflation amid a Vietnam war. He warned the deficit could reach 20 billion without the tax hike, with 1968 peacetime deficit near 19.8 billion.
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LBJ
Washington
Johnson
Vietnam
Congress
Defense Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Unified budget described as federal plan with rising outlays
The article outlines a bipartisan commission’s unified budget concept and notes outlays will rise with highway, Social Security, and Medicare payments. It warns that actual spending includes trust funds treated as regular outlays and projects about $47 billion more in tax collections, with continued deliberations in Congress.
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Bay State Man Dies In Fire At Freedom Farm
Robert M. Davis 39 formerly of Westfield Mass died from apparent asphyxiation when a fire destroyed the Freedom Farm on the Old Biddeford Road Kennebunkport. Fire officials said the blaze started near the basement furnace and the home was a total loss. Davis had recently purchased the house and was staying in a sleeping bag. He served as a technical supervisor at Westover Air Base and was a World War II veteran active in Boy Scouting. Funeral services set for Trinity Episcopal Church in Saco.
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Westfield
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Biddeford
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Robert Boston
Robert Chick
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Nedeau
Westover, Mass
Manchester
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May Robinson Davis
Miriam W. Davis
Sally Sue
Madeline E. Westfield
Deanne D. Adams
Fort Dix
N.J
Trinity Episcopal Church
Saco
Ethan Milliken
United Baptist Convention of Maine
Cecil Grant
James Steele
Grants
Steele
Bibber Memorial Oe
Summer St
Kenne
Tet truce canceled in Northern Vietnam as invasion force builds
The Tet cease fire was canceled in the northern sector of South Vietnam amid reports of a large North Vietnamese invasion force near the DMZ and in Laos. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces rushed to bolster the region, with nearly 10,000 Army troops mobilized in the 1st Corps area and ongoing air and artillery actions around Khe Sanh.
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Panhandle
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Saigo
Richard Merron
South
Nguyen van Thieu
Jon. D. Black
Johnson City
Tenn
Norris M. Overly
Huntington
W.va
Ens
David Paul Matheny
Indiana
Jury Pool Chosen for Brochu Murder Trial
Jurors for the trial of Armand A. Brochu of Biddeford are being polled during today's York County Superior Court opening session. A 99-person panel is formed with those needing it excused as officials announced.
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Biddeford
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York County Superior Court
In Korea Infiltrators Driven Back Along Demilitarized Zone
U S troops beat back North Korean infiltrators along the Korean DMZ for the eighth straight day. The Pentagon said it was strengthening Far East air power as diplomacy over the Pueblo seizure continued. No American casualties were reported.
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South Korea
Two Subs Missing In Mediterranean
In the Mediterranean a search for the Israeli submarine Dakar and the French submarine Minerve intensified. Aboard Dakar 69 crew. Minerve 52 crew. Surface indicators and sonar contacts were pursued by an international task force from Israel, Turkey, Greece, the United States, and Britain amid rough seas near Cyprus and Toulon.
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Cyprus
Mediterranean
Minerve
Haifa
Dakar
Yaffa
Toulon
Ree Kersaint
Clemenceau
U.S
England
Britain
Dickey Lincoln Project Gain Sought For St John River dam
President Johnson asked Congress to drop opposition and fund final planning of the Dickey Lincoln public power dam and reservoir complex on Maine’s St John River. The 1969 budget requests 1,276,000 dollars, down 400,000 from 1967 proposal. House previously blocked planning funds despite Senate approval.
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Johnson
Congress
Mammoth
St. John River
Maine
House
Senate
Dickey Lincoln
Dickey-Lincoln
New England Dam Project Faces Opposition from Interests
Private power interests conservation groups and economy oriented lawmakers oppose the Dickey-Lincoln plan. About 1.9 million dollars has been spent planning a two dam 88 000 acre reservoir complex authorized in 1965. It promises 100 000 kilowatts firm power and 650 000 kilowatts peak power, with municipal utilities from Rhode Island to Maine eyeing the output and hopes of lowering regional rates.
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New England
House Appropriations Committee
Dickey-Lincoln
Maine
Rhode Island
Maine prophetess Shirley Harrison inspires belief at Saco lecture
Reporter attends a speech by Shirley Harrison, a 45 year old Bar Mills resident, on ESP and occult topics at Saco Fair Field School. She predicts events with accuracy and links her experiences to religion, while acknowledging a busy life raising six children and preparing to visit Greenwich Village. The reporter, moved yet unsettled, plans follow up for potential future developments.
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Washington
Jean Dixon
Saco
Fairfield School
Shirley Harrison
Bar Mills
Duke University
Rockettes
St. Andre’s
New York
Toj
Greenwich
Hale
Margaret
Congregational Church
Shiley
Greenwich Village
Incomes Tax Filing Basics for 1967 Returns
This AP summary outlines who must file returns, taxable versus nontaxable income, and exemptions for 1967. It covers deadlines, required W-2 forms, self employment thresholds, and the choice between joint or separate filings for married couples.
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James Marlow
Associated Press
Washington
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