Tax Boost Tied To 6 Billion Dollar Spending Cut
Washington AP Senate House conferees approve President Johnsons 10 tax surcharge tied to a 6 billion spending cut. The plan would raise about 10 billion yearly, run 15 months for individuals and 18 months for corporations, with 17 million low income taxpayers exempt.
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Senate House
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Senate
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
House
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Executive Branch
Veterans’ Medical
John J. Williams
R-Del
A Glance At Politics From The Associated Press
The Republicans push leniency over crime while Nixon calls for moderation. Rockefeller urges a post Vietnam plan. Democrats rally with Humphrey seeking backing for Vietnam talks, Kennedy readying an economy stance, and McCarthy attacking Kennedy on farm votes. Nebraska primary sees Humphrey and Rockefeller supporters pushing for write ins next Tuesday.
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Associated Press
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Hubert H. Humphrey
United Auto Workers
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
Kennedy
Nebraska
Humphrey
Rockefeller
Intercepted Letter Recounts College Dean Encounter
An intercepted letter recalls an oldtimer at the next desk describing a college dean meeting in student days. The anecdote notes would be welcome a score or more fellow students to sit in with him.
Woman Found Alive Trapped in Abandoned Car Trunk
Law officers rescued a woman found locked inside the trunk of an abandoned car located two miles west and half a mile north of Martin Johnson airport around noon. She was taken to Neosho Memorial Hospital in reportedly good condition. Identity pending. Agencies from Wilson and Neosho counties along with the highway patrol and Chanute police are assisting. A similar missing-woman report from Oklahoma is noted.
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Martin Johnson Airport
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Wilson County
Area Forecast Sees Showers and Warm Fray Friday
The area forecast calls for scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday with a low around 50 tonight and a high in the upper 60s on Friday. Rain probabilities include 40 percent tonight and 60 percent Friday. In southwest Kansas rain revived pastures but did little for wheat. Thunderstorms hit southeast Kansas Wednesday night with Cedarvale, Sedan, Oswego, and Arkansas City reporting rainfall.
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Garden City
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Sedan
Oswego
Arkansas City
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ICC Approves End Of Santa Fe Chief
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted Santa Fe Railway permission to discontinue its Chicago Los Angeles Chief streamliner. It ordered continued operation for one year of another Chicago Los Angeles passenger train, the Grand Canyon.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Santa Fe Railway
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Grand Canyon
Docking Announces Bid for Second Term as Kansas Governor
Gov. Robert Docking says he will seek reelection for a second term. He announced Wednesday night with a formal reveal planned Saturday in five cities. Early races feature Dems including George Hart and Democratic chairs tout Docking’s two party aims.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Kansas
Kansas City
Kan
Pittsburg
Wichita
Docking
Dresling
Viet Cong Attack Presses Saigon as Peace Talks Near
The Viet Cong drove toward central Saigon from the south and east while U S forces claimed to have halted the push with 2000 infantry from the 9th Division along with APCs helicopter gunships and dive bombers. Civilian casualties and displaced rose as jets bombed downtown Saigon.
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U.S
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North Vietnamese Delegation Arrives in Paris for Talks
North Vietnam's chief delegate Xuan Thuy arrived in Paris from Moscow aboard a special plane. A crowd greeted him at Le Bourget Airport with flags and a banner. So viet Ambassador Valerian Zorin and Su-Chih attended as others waved banners amid high expectations for long bargaining with American negotiators.
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Xuan Thuy
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le Bourget
Valerian Zorin
Su-Chih
The
Dele
U.S
Johnson
Hanoi
Planners Discuss Annexing Study and Housing Ordinance
City planning commission met last night to discuss annexation. Chief Lige Matlock voiced views on armory annexation and its impact on police power and juvenile delinquency. The panel plans studies on orderly growth and housing standards with samples from Kansas City and Iola.
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City Planning Commission
Lige Matlock
National Guard
Police Department
Kansas City
Iola
Traffic Fatalities Log For May 9 1968 Topeka
Kansas traffic death log shows 0 fatalities in the 24 hours to 9 am Thursday May 9 1968. The year is 1968 and the figure compares with 187 in the corresponding 1967 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Rockefeller urges postwar plan for veterans jobs education
Gov Nelson Rockefeller proposes a national post Vietnam planning effort to secure eight million new jobs by 1970. He outlines education and employment for returning veterans, transitions from war production to peacetime needs, and a New York blueprint by a 25 member task force. Rockefeller campaigns on college campuses, seeking broad exposure and delegate support.
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Kan
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Far East
New York State
Rockefeller
Kansas
Mil Moore
Man
Tee
Vietnam
Miners Near Rescue at Hominy Falls West Virginia
Rescue workers aimed to save 15 of 25 trapped miners as water levels dropped. Foreman Frank Davis and Bob Rudd could rejoin 13 others 0.5 miles from the entrance, while a deeper group of 10 is presumed dead.
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Hominy Falls
W.va
H. E. Sundstrom
Frank Davis
Bob Rudd
Clyde Hill Seeks Re election From 9th District
Kansas Representative Clyde Hill R Yates Center filed for renomination from the 9th District on Wednesday. Hill age 55 has served eight terms and was speaker of the House in 1965 and 1996 and is currently speaker pro tem. The district covers Wilson and Woodson counties.
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Kansas
Clyde Hill
Yates Center
Wilson
Woodson
Hill
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