Social Security Measure Faces Stiff Senate Test
House passed a Social Security bill 288 to 8 to raise benefits about 5 percent for 20 million beneficiaries and add over half a million to the rolls. Proposed increases include $40 to $42 for a single retiree and $157.60 to $175.50 for a couple, with higher family maximums planned. Senate amendments likely trim hospitalization provisions to a voluntary option.
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Senate
Washington
House
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Congress
Connortere
County Survey Report outlines Maine plan for York County
Alfred L. Keith Marsh Jr chairman outlined survey results at a York County Planning Committee meeting at the County Courthouse. Volume 3 on transportation and communications stresses highway coordination with Maine and New Hampshire, bypasses for heavy traffic, harbor improvements, and a rail spur to Sanford. Volume 2 covers natural resources focusing on water protection and pollution, with regional shortages potential in York Kittery Eliot area. The report urges cooperative town action and legislative support, with emphasis on lakes and wildlife protection and ocean research for lobstering and salt marsh preservation.
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Alfred — L. Keith Marshall
York County Planning Committee
Area Redevelopment Administration
James W. Sewell Co
Ok Town
Maine
Department of Economic Development
Marshall
Tol Y«k
Ogunquit
Portland
Kittery
Sanford
York
Eliot
Biddeford - Saco
Old Orchard Beach
Chuckle on fools and majorities in politics
A satirical line muses that tricking everyone is unnecessary. a simple majority suffices for influence. The quip hints at public manipulation and governance themes, with a wry Gen Copr copyright tag embedded. It reads like a vintage humor panel from a newspaper page.
China balks at red showdown meeting splits world communists
Tokyo report cites a Chinese communique refusing to attend a Moscow drafted showdown meeting of world communist parties. Beijing says it opposes schismatic talks and supports unity on Marxism Leninism while criticizing Soviet policy of peaceful coexistence. Moscow plans to invite 26 parties, including major national groups, to shape a conference on the Sino Soviet split.
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Tokyo
China
Russia
Communist Movement
Soviet Communist Party
Peking
Central Committee
Chinese Communist Party
New China News Agency
Red China
Italy
France
Japan
Indonesia
Red Chinese
Soviet China clash over unilateral meeting plan
Red China claims opponents are determined to force an open split in the international Communist movement. Soviet Russia, in a June 15 letter made public on July 15, urged Beijing to agree in principle to convene a meeting soon and not delay the gathering.
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International Communist Movement
Red China
Soviet Russia
Foto
Ailing Sen Engle Dies At Fifty Two In California
Senator Clair Engle of California dies at age 52 after a second brain operation and long illness. He had served 20 years in Congress, eight terms in the House, and was elected to the Senate in 1958 known for water resource work and service on Armed Services and Commerce committees. Burial planned in Red Bluff, California.
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Washington
Clair Engle
Calif
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
California
White House
Pierre Salinger
Engle
Salinger
Alan Cranston
Senate
Spessard Holland
Dfla
Cranston
Bed
Lucretia
Red Bluff
Roy L. Sexton
Congress
House of Representatives
West
Armed Services and Commerce
Bakersfield
Chico State College
Hastings College of Law
University of California
Major Viet Cong ambush kills American officer north of Saigon
In Saigon a US Army officer is reported killed in a major Viet Cong ambush of a government battalion 30 miles north of Saigon. Casualties are described as heavy and a fifth American death in three days may be confirmed. Government pursuit teams were sent into the Ben Cat area with no contact made.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Ben Suc
Ben Cat
Nho
Charles de Gaulle
South Viet
Civil Rights Leaders Cool To End To Demonstrations
Civil rights leaders in several cities resist a call to halt mass demonstrations until after election day. They critique the Goldwater backed Republican platform as states rights seeks to curb federal civil rights efforts. Key figures like Wilkins King Young and Randolph sign urging restraint but local leaders plan continued action for results.
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New York
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Imass
Morel
Harlem
Wilk
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Johnson
Associated Press
Jesse Gray
Gray
Community Council On
Wilkins
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Whitney M. Young
National Urban League
A. Philip ‘Randolph
Negro American Labor Council
Thetatement
East Will Be Prime Election Territory
President Johnson and GOP nominee Barry Goldwater are positioning the Eastern industrial states as a campaign battleground. Johnson taps Sen. John Pastore of Rhode Island as keynote at the Atlantic City convention while Goldwater names Northeastern allies Ray Bliss and Leonard Hall to steer his campaign, signaling a push into states like New York and Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Johnson
GOP
Barry Goldwater
Democratic Arrangements Committee
John O. Pastore
Rhode Island
Atlantic City
N.J
Goldwater
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Hershey
Arrangements Committee
Ohio State
Ray Bliss
National Party
Leonard W. Hall
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Sandy) Stronach- Hardy
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Albert E. Worden
Wildwood Drive
Saco
Rotary
Chard Beach
New Hampshire
Gen
Fea, Corp
Bill’s TV Center
Main Street
Saco Dial
Kesslen Shoe Co
Kennebunk, Maine
Catalina
Rose Marie Reed
Old Orchard Street
Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Communist
Sen. Engle
Viet Nam
U.S. Senate
de Gaulle
Philippines
U.S
Saco River
Twin Cities
Murphy’s Music Store, Inc
Biddeford
Ken
Riverside Avenue
Camp Ellis
Ken Pendleton
Prop
East
New York State
L. Clifford Maling
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