Bennett seeks to strip key gun control act provisions
Sen. Wallace F. Bennett with White House backing reintroduces a bill to exempt 90 percent of ammunition from the Gun Control Act and reduce buyer data. Administration spokesmen oppose new restrictions but urge state action. the move bypasses key committees.
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Senate
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
Bennett
Internal Revenue Service
Administration
Treasury
Justice Department
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Department
House
House Judiciary Committee
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Thomas J. Dodd
House approves 10 percent raise for state workers
Harrisburg AP reports the Pennsylvania House passed a 10 per cent pay hike for state employees plus fee bargaining rights for state and local workers. The measure covers about 500,000 public employees including 100,000 teachers, with police and fire not affected. The 10 per cent rise adds to a 5 per cent increment for a total 15 per cent raise, and the bill cleared the House 125 to 72.
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Harrisburg
House
Pennsylvania
Nixon makes first Saigon visit calls for end to war
President Nixon arrives in Saigon with Nguyen Van Thieu and says the United States and South Vietnam have gone as far as possible in opening peace talks. He urges the other side to respond to a generous peace offer, while Mrs. Nixon visits an orphanage. The trip marks Nixon's eighth visit to South Vietnam.
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Nixon
United States
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
South
North Vietnam
Thailand
U.S
Johnson
Hanoi
Thieu
North
Cam Ranh Bay
Tan Son Nhut
Independence Palace
Richard Nixon
Bangkok
Oasis Gambling Tickets Destroyed After Raid
Judge Lindley R. McClelland approved the district attorney's move to destroy nearly 150 gambling tickets seized in a March 21 raid at the Oasis on East Main Street. Troopers also confiscated over $61 in cash. Fred A. Lindsay, co owner, was fined $200 plus costs after pleading guilty to trafficking in lottery tickets. The cash goes to the county treasury.
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Lindley R. McClelland
William E. Pratt
Oasis
East Main Street
Fred A. Lindsay
Close Ups Tomorrow Photos Of Mars From Pasadena
Mars probe Mariner 6 sent long shot images from 450000 to 771000 miles altitude showing a ragged southern polar cap edge and a new dark central spot. A closer transmission tonight may reveal more as the 156 day, 241 million mile flight nears the Thursday close up pass within 2130 miles of Mars to seek signs of life.
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Calif
Marspound Mariner 6
Earth
Mars
Red Planet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mariner
State lawmakers mull personal income tax under business pressure
A secret Pittsburgh meeting last Thursday linked by the Philadelphia Bulletin surfaced plans for a personal income tax in Pennsylvania as House Democrats push a $340 million hike to fund spending. Business leaders from U S Steel Gulf Oil Alcoa Westinghouse and Mellon Bank warned senators that even an 86 percent tax rise would choke growth.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Shafer
House
Philadelphia Bulletin
Robert D. Fleming
Allegheny County
Stanley G. Stroup
Bedford
Senate Finance Committee
T. Newell Wood
Luzerne
Bulletin
Edwin G. Gott ,Jr
U.S. Steel
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
ICC to Hear Erie Lackawanna Plan to End Hoboken-Chicago Trains
The ICC scheduled hearings starting August 25 in New York City on Erie Lackawanna’s bid to discontinue two Hoboken to Chicago passenger trains. Additional hearings follow in Scranton, Binghamton, Jamestown, Youngstown, Kent, Marion, Huntington, Rochester, and Chicago through September 16. Local protest has been limited. area lawmakers oppose elimination but may not push hard.
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Erie Lackawanna Railway Co
Hoboken
N.J
Chicago
ICC
New York City
Bernard Feuer
Scranton
Binghamton
N.Y
Jamestown
Youngstown
Ohio
Kent
Marion
Huntington
Ind
Rochester
Erie Lackawanna
Corry
Crawford County
Harrisburg
Forest Hopkins
R. Budd Dwyer
Erie
Crawford Counties
Road Relocation Bid Tops Cost For UC Dam Project
Union City officials announced S J Groves and Sons of Michigan won the dam area road relocation bid at 3 106 731 dollars. The project has an initial cost estimate near 8 million with potential additions for a 6 million recreation complex. The Corps of Engineers and Rep Joseph Vigorito say land condemnation for 467 acres has begun with 61 913 dollars offered for property from seven tracts involving eight owners near Route 8 Smiley Hill.
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French Creek
Union City
S.J. Groves and Sons Company of
Michigan
Joseph Vigorito
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Nichols
Erie County
Richard Schweiker
Vigorito
Erie
Corps
Federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Corps of Engineers
Washington
Smiley Hill
Robert B
Helen J. Davis
R.D
J. Charles
Maud B. Richards
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Lyle N. Gifford
Emma J. Alford
Martin and
Mildred Gregor
Clarence
Faye Lathrop
Kennedy
Hyapais Port
Mesa
Cape Cod
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