Restraint Urged On Prices and Wages by Johnson Adviser
President Johnson's economic adviser Gardner Ackley warned the price wage spiral continues after U S Steel announced a $5 a ton sheet steel price hike. He urged restraint by labor and management and called for tax increases and cost cutting through technology to reverse the trend. Ackley commented on auto labor settlements and warned wage gains must align with productivity to prevent higher prices.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S. Steel Corp
Gardner Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
U. S. Steel
Ford
Chrysler
United Auto Workers
Ackley
Mouse Scare Triggers Hasty Car Escape
A playful line notes how girls scream at mice yet calmly jump into a car after the startled moment, illustrating a humorous reversal of fear and quick resolve.
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Canyright
Paint Trail Helps Catch Bank Robbery Suspects in Grand Rapids
Police credited a Grand Rapids Press reporter and a paint spill with leading to the capture of three men linked to a bank holdup and kidnap murder. Investigators traced white paint footprints from a getaway car to a residence, where all three lived.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
John O’connor
Walter Gilbert
Samuel Brown
Gilbert
McCully
Broyles
Brown
Emil Osbeck
Osbeck
Counterfeit $100 Bill Tied to Cedar Rapids Bar Incident
A counterfeit $100 note with serial 622977903A turned up at Chappies Tap in Cedar Rapids. Investigators linked it to bills printed by J. W. Grant and Lee J. Gearhart, who were recently sentenced to ten and five years respectively for counterfeiting.
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J. W. Grant
Lee J. Gearhart
Cedar Rapids
Grant
Gearhart
Charles G. Chapman
Chappies Tap
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Chapman
Lees Grant
Sunny Skies Ahead for Iowa Sunday
Weather forecast promises mostly sunny skies and warmer temperatures across Iowa Sunday after two cloudy days and Friday fog with light snow. Cedar Rapids saw 32 degrees at midnight Thursday rising to 34 by Friday afternoon. highs Sunday expected in the upper 30s to low 40s with teens in the northwest and lower 20s in the southeast overnight.
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Iowa
Weather Bureau
Illinois service tax struck down by judge
CHICAGO The new Illinois service tax enacted last June was held unconstitutional by Judge Thomas Donovan. The 5 percent levy on gross bills for services was deemed indefinite and unfair, and collections would continue while an appeal is filed. Escrowed funds await final ruling.
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Chicago
Illinois
Thomas Donovan
Theodore Jones
State Revenue
Illinois Supreme Court
Donovan
Army Surrenders to Private to Release Him
Pfc. Joe Smith of Brownsville California, missing from 1965 after basic training, will be discharged next week after 18 months away from orders. He worked in Yuba City and received a small allotment. the army initially sought to charge him with desertion but dropped the case.
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SAN Francisco
Joe Smith
Army
Smith
Brownsville
Calif
Ft. Hood
Texas
Yuba City
Glenda
American Civil Liberties Union
Sixth Army
San Francisco Presidio
Active Reserve
Inactive Reserve
Iowa Sees Rise in Pep Pills Goof Balls Abuse
Iowa narcotics agents report escalating use of cheap stimulants and depressants like barbiturates amphetamines and tranquilizers, called goof balls and bennies. They credit stiff state laws and federal patterns for keeping heroin and marijuana problems comparatively small.
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Iowa
Crews
160 Dead in Dam Break in Central Java
Jakarta AP reports the dam breach in central Java produced 160 deaths as of Saturday. A military spokesman said sabotage was under investigation at the scene.
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Jakarta
Java
Archbishop Spellman Dies After Cerebral Accident at 78
Francis Cardinal Spellman archbishop of New York for over 25 years died at St. Vincent's hospital in Manhattan at 11:45 am from a massive cerebral stroke. He had recently spent a week at Cleveland Clinic for tests after a charity dinner. He had offered his resignation in 1966 but Pope Paul VI declined. He was a leading U.S. cardinal and Vatican liaison to the armed forces, with recent overseas trips including a Christmas visit to South Vietnam.
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New York
Francis Cardinal Spellman
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Manhattan
Chancery
Spellman
U.S
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland
Waldorf-Astoria
St. Patrick’s
Paul VI
South Vietnam
Vatican
Bu Dop
U. S
Yen Bai
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Dmz
Campus Drug Talk Called Exaggerated On Iowa Campuses
State narcotics agents and Iowa State officials say marijuana use on college campuses is overstated. Dr. Eugene Robertson the Iowa State dean of students notes only minimal use and cites a year old Ames investigation that found one marijuana conviction. He adds alcohol misuse is a greater concern and more socially tolerated.
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Iowa State
Eugene Robertson
Robertson
Ames
Don Smith
B 52s Bomb DMZ Assault With Heavy Air Strikes
American B 52s dropped 150000 tons of bombs over the DMZ to counter possible fresh Communist thrusts after two days of clashes. The raid targeted suspected concentrations four miles northeast of the Con Thien Marine outpost as North Vietnamese guns opened fire on a Marine amphibious tractor column Friday.
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Leary
Tonkin Gulf
South China
Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U. S
Con Thien
U S Aircraft Hit Chinese Freighter in Hong Gai Attack
Peking’s news agency reports that U S aircraft savagely attacked a Chinese freighter anchored in Hong Gai North Vietnam on November 25 wounding eight crew members and causing damage at more than twenty places aboard the ship.
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Tokyo
Peking
U. S
Hong Gai
North Vietnam
Body Found in Vigil House on Holt Family Property
In Los Angeles AP report, deputies broke into the Holt home after neighbors raised concern and found Ella Holt, 66, dead for two to four weeks in an upstairs room. Officials tentatively cite natural causes. The Holt family, living in a religious vigil, ended seclusion when deputies served a summons Thursday.
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Los Angeles
Robert Holt
Ella Holt
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