Value Added Tax Considered By Nixon Aides In Budget Plan
The Nixon administration weighs a value added tax to balance next year’s budget, a move likely to face stiff congressional resistance. Rep. Mills and key Democrats oppose a national sales tax while a private task force may recommend against it. Economic goals push for a balanced 1971 fiscal year though political hurdles loom.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
John Alexander
Wife Sees Through You But Misses Missing Ton
A cryptic note notes humor about a wife who can see through a person yet overlooks a missing ton, signaling playful irony or a riddle about perception and value. Copyright discussion remains implied rather than explicit in the excerpt.
Extent Shown by Weapons Seized
Treasury agents report militant U S groups continue arming with illegal machine guns rifles hand grenades dynamite and other devices. Officials note the scope not fully known but unlikely crisis. seizures in 1969 span the nation with many unregistered weapons. Detained include Minutemen Ku Klux Klan Black Panthers Liberators and Mafia. Largest 1969 seizure found 605 Thompson submachine guns at Richard Laughli home in Collinsville Illinois along with rifles shotguns and pistols.
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Treasury Department
U. S
Treasury
The
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Ku Klux Klan
Black Panthers
Liberators
Mafia
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division
U.S
William Behen
National Commission On the Causes and Prevention
Behen
Robert Bolivar Depugh
Independence
Depugh
N.M
Deough
Walter Peyson
Hazlehurst
Miss
Illinois
Richard Laughli
Laughli
Firearms Division
Collinsville
Utah
Rail Safety Bill Pushed by Ray
Des Moines Iowa Gov Robert Ray urged national governors to back a federal railroad safety bill after noting a 93.5 percent rise in annual train wrecks over eight years and two thirds caused by equipment failures. He cited a Dec 19 Senate vote authorizing rules and urged support when the bill reaches the House amid a Tama county derailment near Montour with no injuries.
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Des Moines
Robert Ray
Ray
U. S. Senate
Secretary of Transportation
North Western
Montour
Tama County
Zodiac Sends Christmas Plea to Melvin Belli
The Zodiac killer has mailed attorney Melvin Belli a Christmas plea for help, including a bloodstained shirt fragment from taxi driver Paul Stine. Police say the note is authentic and place the killer behind at least five murders in Northern California, with earlier letters claiming seven.
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San Francisco
UPI
Melvin Belli
Paul Stine
Zodiac
California
Blaze Claims Two Children in Merrill Fire
AP reports during a heavy snowstorm two children died from suffocation after a Merrill fire gutted a home. Paula Williams, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roberts Williams, and Robert Olson, 2 months, son of Mary Ann Williams, perished as the blaze began in the Williams kitchen. Paula Williams rescued four others but could not reach the toddlers.
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Merrill (Ap
Paula Williams
Roberts Williams
Merrill
Robert Olson
Mary Ann Williams
Williams
Miss Williams
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