Senate approves 5.06 billion antipoverty bill amid debate
The Senate Labor Committee advanced a 5.06 billion antipoverty package with a 12-3 vote, including a 2.8 billion slum emergency plan the White House says lacks funds. The bill would fund 2.26 billion for current year antipoverty efforts, and 2.5 billion over two years to create jobs, plus a 300 million loan fund for riot-damaged businesses. Clark defends the emergency plan despite White House objections.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
Sen
Joseph
Clark
D-Pa
White House
UAW rejects Big Three offers as inadequate and inequitable
United Auto Workers negotiators urge rejection of three automaker proposals, citing failure to meet workers' pressing needs despite claims of high wage increases. The union plans to target one company for a strike as three-year contracts covering about 650,000 workers expire at midnight Tuesday.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Lola Woman Driver Charged With DWI
Kay Moulton a 40 year old Lola resident was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated careless driving and no operator license after a collision at 11 pm near 7 S Santa Fe Her 1963 Chevrolet owned by Ralph Sloan rammed a parked 1955 Plymouth owned by Richard Norris causing estimated damages of 200 to the Sloan car and 150 to the Norris vehicle She was held at the city jail awaiting hearing or bond.
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Kay Moulton
Lola
S. Santa Fe
Ralph Sloan
S. Garfield
Richard L. Norris
W. Mulberry
Sloan
Norris
Traffic Fatalities Logged in Topeka and Kansas
A Kansas traffic death log shows 57 deaths for August 1967 and 413 for the 12 months ended in 1967 with a 467 figure for the comparable 1966 period. The 24 hour toll through 9 am Wednesday is not specified.
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Topeka
Kansas
Worst Fire Destroys Three Buildings In Hutchinson Downtown
In Hutchinson Kansas a blaze described as the worst in half a century destroyed the McCoy Furniture Co and the Adams Parker furniture warehouse and damaged a beauty shop a stationery store and an investment office. Firefighters fought the two hour blaze using all town equipment. One firefighter was hospitalized with shock after contact with a live wire. two others were injured but not seriously. City Manager Milt Martin urged residents to conserve water to preserve pressure. No total loss estimate was available.
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Hutchinson
Kan
McCoy Furniture Company
Adams - Parker Furniture
Investment Company
Don Miller
Milt Martin
Five Children Rescued From Burning Maine Home
Portland, Maine AP report: a 23 year old trucker named Ronald Striker rescued five of his children aged 1 to 7 from a fire that destroyed the eight room house. Six older children escaped on their own.
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Portland
Maine
Ronald Striker
Red Forces Free 997 Prisoners in Saigon Area Assault
Communist troops struck provincial capital cities in five war zones near North Vietnam under mortar bombardment. They freed 997 prisoners in Saigon area while also hitting a power station, helicopter field, advisory compound, Seabee camp, and a radio station. The Tam Ky attack left 70 dead and 104 wounded among South Vietnamese, with 3 Americans killed and 44 hurt. additional North South clashes and a Dalat shelling occurred as U.S. pilots flew 151 missions and lost one A4 Skyhawk with its crew missing.
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Saigon
Red
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
1St Corps
Quang Ngai
Tam Ky
U.S
Unseasonably Cool Weather Grips Kansas After Warm Day
Area forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and unseasonably cool conditions through Thursday with highs around 80 and overnight lows in the mid 50s. Kansas saw a cool air mass from Canada after a brief warm spell and reported storms including a tornado near Augusta damaging outbuildings power lines and trees.
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Topeka
Kansas
Canada
Weather Bureau
Goodland
Wichita
Concordia
Pittsburg
Augusta
Johnson silent on US policy after Vietnam vote
Washington AP rush analyzes possible moves after South Vietnam elections. Senate leaders and U Thant reject UN mediation while Mansfield urges a push toward peace talks with the Viet Cong. Dirksen predicts no bombing halt despite election outcomes.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
U.S
South Vietnam
Senate
No Announced Burial Place For Slain Nazi Rockwell
Reports from Culpeper Virginia state the body of the slain Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell remained unburied as of noon with burial plans undecided. Army officials denied permission to inter Rockwell in Culpeper or any military cemetery. The situation drew national attention as Rockwell’s followers clung to insignia and swastikas amid public scrutiny.
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Culpeper
George Lincoln Rockwell
US. Army
Rockwell
Arlington
Virginia
Culpeper National Cemetery
Army
Cmdr
Planned coup against Nasser foiled in Arab capitals
Reports circulated in Arab capitals that Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser foiled a planned coup by arresting Marshal Abdel Abdul Hakim Amer, his former trusted aide, as details emerged through Associated Press coverage.
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Associated Press
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Abdel Abdul Hakim Amer
Johnson orders immediate apportionment of highway funds
President Johnson told the Midwestern Governors Conference that $4.8 billion for the next fiscal year's highway program is now available. He urged local cooperation and praised conferences as steps toward better regional planning while stressing money alone cannot solve core issues.
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Dirksen
Johnson
U.N
Usage Beach
Midwestern Governors’ Conference
Warren E. Hearnes
Missouri
Secretary of Transportation
Hearnes
Otto Kerner
Illinois
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Nils A. Roe
South Dakota
Republican
Kerner
Heavy Equipment Training Offered in Topeka
The Martin Tractor Co of Topeka will train 10 unemployed workers as heavy duty equipment mechanics under the Manpower Act. The 26 week program expects to pay about $20,000 in wages, with the Labor Department covering $4,490 of training costs.
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Washington
Topeka
W. Willard Wirtz
Martin Tractor Co
Labor Department
Intercepted Letter Cites Apathy as Voter Barrier
The text compares apathy in the United States to terrorism in South Vietnam as a force suppressing voter turnout, describing it as a threat to freedom. It emphasizes voter disengagement as a parallel danger alongside foreign unrest.
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U.S
South Vietnam
Insurance chief denies Resnick charges in Kansas
Topeka AP report says Frank Sullivan, Kansas Insurance Department commissioner, denied improper gifts or favors by Farm Bureau affiliated firms in Manhattan. Rep Joseph Resnick of New York alleged tickets and support for the office. Sullivan testified he has no knowledge of such tickets and urged public record inspection, while Resnick pushes broader tax and corporate-activity scrutiny.
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Frank Sullivan
Kansas Insurance Department
Farm Bureau
Manhattan
Joseph Y. Resnick
D-N.y
Washington
Insurance Commissioner
Resnick
Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co
Oe Bureau Life Insurance
Kansas Farm Bureau
New York
Kansas Insurance
Commissioner’s Office
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Topeka
Kansas Insurance Company
Kansas Farm Life Insurance Co
K.F.B. Instance Co
State Insurance Department
Insurance Department
Kansas Insurance Firms
Kansas
Sullivan
Ward Wright
Kansas Department of Insurance
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