Rise in Social Security Benefits Set at 13 Percent
House senate negotiators settled on a 13 percent across the board rise in social security benefits for 23.8 million Americans with a new $55 monthly minimum. The increase funds come from raising the payroll tax base to 7600 and the tax rate to 4.4 percent, then 4.8 percent in 1968, totaling 9.6 percent for payroll. First larger checks arrive in March, with benefits rising next February.
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Johnson Attends Spellman Rites Amid Heavy Security
President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey joined thousands at Francis Cardinal Spellman’s funeral in St Patrick’s Cathedral New York. Six American and three foreign cardinals attended with Vatican envoy Luigi Raimon di. Johnson flew from Washington despite rain and anti draft protests, straining police as days off were canceled.
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Meat Inspection Bill Advances To President For Signature
Congress approved a major overhaul of the nation meat inspection law the first change in 60 years The Senate approved the compromise after House Senate talks the bill clarifies federal grants to help states raise intra state plants to federal standards USDA can act against non compliant plants and imports must meet domestic standards The measure drew support from House and Senate Republicans and agriculture leadership led by W R Poage with mixed views on federal intrusion
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Gerald Ford
Mich
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Queen's Personal Pilot Killed in Royal Helicopter Crash
Newbury England AP report states Air Commodore John Blount 47, personal pilot to Queen Elizabeth, died when a royal helicopter crashed into a field on Thursday. The incident occurred amid royal travel operations with an investigation underway.
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Peace Move Aims to End Desegregation Aid Debate
Senate sponsors back a 14.2 billion education aid bill with White House support as southern lawmakers press for changes. An amendment would set a fixed date by which HEW must announce whether districts will receive aid, avoiding delays during the school year and prompting tense exchanges in the chamber.
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D-Ga
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D-Miss
Russell
Mansfield
Simplicity Marks Pearl Harbor Commemoration
The 26th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack featured simple ceremonies with tolling bells and Taps at the battleship Arizona site. A $7,500 model of the ship was added to the Memorial museum as a gift from the Fleet Reserve Association, weighing 325 pounds and built in New York.
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Hughes Urges Fast Iowa U Action on Antiwar Demonstrators
Gov. Hughes pressed University of Iowa officials to act swiftly against antiwar demonstrators involved in a Tuesday riot in Iowa City. He urged careful discipline to target only those who participated, and backed expulsion depending on the offense while allowing campus recruitment by groups not breaking laws.
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Largest Viet Cong defection as 38 surrender to South Vietnam
In Tam Ky a Viet Cong platoon leader Tran Tuay says villagers endured heavy taxes and hard labor under communist rule. Thirty eight defectors including four women and a 15 year old nurse surrendered under the Chieu Hoi program at a Vietnamese outpost near Tam Ky. The group, aged 15 to 47, cited schooling and a freer life as motives, with many lamenting losses of home and cattle.
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Minister and Choir Robbed at St. Paul Presbyterian
In Kansas City two young men robbed the pastor Rev. Arthur Honore and 15 choir members during a Christmas program practice at St. Paul United Presbyterian church. They took 67 in cash and valuables after detaining honore in his office and forcing the choir to surrender purses and billfolds.
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Famous bronze horse forgery shocks New York museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art disclosed that its famed bronze horse, long hailed as ancient Greek masterwork, is a 50 year old fake cast in Paris after World War I. The 15 inch statue, bought in 1923, fooled scholars and prompted a nationwide expose of forgeries.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paris
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Encyclopedia Britannica
James Noble
Noble
Red Guns Busiest in 2 Months
North Vietnamese gunners pounded the US Marine forward post at Con Thien with the heaviest artillery barrage in over two months and probed a nearby marine position with a ground assault.
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Saigon
US. 1 Marine
Con Thien
Lightning Destroys New Cedar Rapids House During December Storm
A Cedar Rapids neighborhood reports a lightning strike around 12:05 am hitting a new Westgate addition home in Cedar Hills. The bolt traveled via a vent, blew a furnace transformer, and ripped shingles while causing airport service disruptions amid dense rain and fog. Maximum rainfall totals were recorded northeast of the city with Dubuque at .85 inches and Charles City at 1.12 inches.
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North Korea Accuses U.S. of New War Plans
In Tokyo the North Korean government accused the United States of plotting a new war in Korea. It warned that if its warnings are ignored the DPRK says its armed people will mete out stern punishment.
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U S combat deaths and wounded in Vietnam reach weekly totals
Saigon AP reports U S combat casualties last week 207 killed and 634 wounded. Of the wounded 435 required hospitalization. American military personnel in South Vietnam at week’s end totaled 470000.
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U.S
South Vietnam
Marine casualties rise as heavy bombardment continues near Con Thien
American forces report seven Marines killed and 77 wounded in a heavy barrage by artillery and mortars, plus five more killed by an accidental air strike near the DMZ. North Vietnamese losses include three confirmed killed as U.S. air and naval strikes target gun positions and routes supplying enemy forces.
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