House Hangs Tax Hike On $18 Billion Spending Cut
The House Appropriations Committee recommends a $4 billion spending cut plus a $141 billion reduction in already authorized future outlays to back a $10 billion tax hike. Senate leaders demand a $6 billion next-year cut, while President Johnson seeks overall expenditure control. The House also advances a $5.523 billion Agriculture budget and notes a 6 percent Treasury borrowing rate to refinance debt. Wage hikes in construction average eight percent, with overall union pay rising six percent in early 1965.
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R-Wis
Treasury
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Telephone workers facing six per cent raise in three year deal
Negotiators for the AFL CIO Communications Workers of America and Bell Telephone reportedly agreed on about six per cent annual raises for a three year contract affecting roughly 600 000 workers raising average pay from 2.79 to about 3 29 per hour by year three. Snags on other issues delayed final settlement amid nationwide strike talks.
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Train strikes car killing Jamestown man at Lottsville crossing
A 6:10 a m collision with an Erie Lackawanna freight train at Lottsville crossing killed Clyde Stars devant 43 Jamestown and injured passenger Norman Marsh 38 also of Jamestown. The car was hurled 40 feet after impact. the freight engine continued on to Buffalo.
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Businessmen back Nixon for president in Post survey
The Washington Post surveyed 160 top executives with 180 responding. Nixon led with 91 votes, Rockefeller 38, Humphrey 24, Kennedy 3, Reagan 2, McCarthy 1, Wallace 1. Most executives are Republicans and some express bitterness toward Kennedy. News also notes Rockefeller in Iowa and debates over Vietnam peace talks. Missouri meetings end with strongarm interruptions resembling the Pendergast era.
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Eugene J. McCarthy
George C. Wallace
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Rockefeller
Iowa
Massachusetts
Vietnamese reject Indonesian ship talks site for peace
In Vientiane a North Vietnamese spokesman rejected holding preliminary peace talks with the United States aboard an Indonesian cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin. He said Jakarta is not neutral and ship talks would exclude other nations and press, urging Phnom Penh or Warsaw as sites.
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Poland
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Washington
J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicholas Katzenbach
Heavy U.S. Losses Mount in Northeast Vietnam Clash
The four day battle outside Hue and Dong Ha leaves U.S. and South Vietnamese forces reporting 395 killed and 1,000 enemy dead as 15 000 allied troops sweep the A Shau Valley. Prisoners total 97 including five nurses. combat helicopters suffer heavy losses from 23 mm and Simm anti aircraft fire.
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Dong Ha
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North Vietnam
Shafer orders broad state spending cuts over tax shortfall
Harrisburg Gov Shafer issues an immediate memo directing all state departments to curb day to day spending. All purchase requisitions over 1000 dollars require Budget Secretary Sampson approval and vacancies must get prior budget approval. Nonessential out of state travel also needs approval as April tax take trails estimates.
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Commonwealth
Shafer
Arthur F. Sampson
Sampson
Convicted Erie Slayer To Get New Trial
Erie police obtained a written confession from John Willman 49 days after his arrest. Judge Lindley McClelland ruled the statement invalid because he had no lawyer and was not advised of his rights. Willman, 41, was convicted in 1964 of the strangling death of Laura Mutch, 60, found in an Erie alley after she left church on December 30, 1960. No date is set for a new trial.
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Lindley McClelland
Erie County
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Laura Mutch
Memorial Dedication for King Slaying Site Sparks Poor People's March
In Memphis a marble stone with cross and star is dedicated at the Lorraine Motel to honor Martin Luther King Jr and Ralph Abernathy. The ceremony launches the Poor People's Campaign as 8,000 rally participants urge large turnout for the Memphis dedication and mission to Marks Mississippi.
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