Urban Rural Spokesmen Split Over Sales Tax Bill
Urban and rural spokesmen split over Gov Godwins sales tax bill at a three hour House Finance Committee hearing. City leaders urged distributing the tax return to locals by where collected and oppose removing merchant licenses and cutting capital gains. counties backed the compromise. Other actions included unemployment benefits rise and local law libraries funding.
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Horace S. Edwards
Richmond
Virginia Municipal League
House
Senate
Rawlings
D. W. Bird
Virginia
Johnson Ky vow Saigon will not surrender or compromise
Honolulu AP reports President Johnson and South Viet Nam Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky assert Saigon will not surrender or concede to the Communists and seek greater military strength. They outline a two pronged plan combining military action with social and political reform while pledging to pursue a just peace and continue the fight as long as necessary.
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Honolulu
Johnson
South Viet Nam
Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
Pacific
North
Will
Hanoi
Senate
Thien
House Approves Permanent Cold War GI Bill Unanimously
The House passed a permanent education and housing veterans bill 381 to 0, backed by Viet Nam era support but with lower annual educational payments. It mirrors a Senate plan expiring in 1967, with Johnson likely to sign. debate noted the measure as insufficient by some members.
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Korea
Senate
Viet Nam
Johnson
Government Raises FHA Mortgages Interest Rate
The government hiked FHA insured mortgage rates to 4 1/2 percent, making total FHA mortgage payments 6 percent including the 4 1/2 percent loan insurance. The change increases a 30 year 15 000 loan by about 2.25 dollars monthly to 91.41, effective immediately, amid mixed views on its impact on FHA fund-raising and housing finance.
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Washington
Federal Housing Administration
National Association of Home Builders
Mondavy
Plane With 37 On Board Feared Down In Kashmir
A Fokker Friendship propjet carrying 37 people is missing over the Banihal Pass in Kashmir en route from Srinagar to New Delhi with stops at Jammu and Amritsar. The last radio contact was 11 43 a m Monday as rescuers including Indian air force helicopters searched amid storm and fog. Among those aboard were many Kashmir government officials. two foreigners a Swede and a German were listed.
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India
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Jammu
Amritsar
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John S. Nilson
Rawalpindi
Pakistan
Senate Votes Today On Motion To End Filibuster
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield plans to vote from a naval hospital bed in Bethesda Md on Tuesday to cut off the filibuster against the union shop bill. The move seeks to end a long debate on repealing Taft-Hartley Act Section 14B requiring workers to join or pay dues. If cloture fails the issue moves to Page Two.
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Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Mansfield
Raleigh heir tied to death in New York trunk
Celeste Crenshaw, 19, daughter of Raleigh manufacturer William Crenshaw, was found dead two weeks earlier in the trunk of a car in New York. Police charged Robert Friede, grandson of Moses Annenberg, with homicide and failing to report a death, along with narcotics and body transportation charges for Friede and musician Dudley Watson.
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Raleigh
N.C
Annenburg
Celeste Crenshaw
William G. Crenshaw
Robert Friede
Moses
Annenberg
Friede
Dudley Watson
Miss Crenshaw
Sorbonne
Paris
William N. Gooden
Soviet Moon Package Ends Mission
MOSCOW AP Pioneer Luna 9, a globe shaped instrument package, will send no more pictures from the moon as its power fades after three days of history making radio and image reporting. The surprise extra transmission Sunday night did not indicate a new assignment. The mission yielded the first soft lunar landing, the first lunar radio transmission, and the first lunar panorama.
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Moon
Lunar
Earth
Allies In Control Of Coastal Valley But Fail To Find Two Enemy Units
U S and South Vietnamese forces seized key points in the An Lao Valley, a 11-year Communist stronghold, but failed to locate two battle-hardened Viet Cong regiments. The push extended the Pincer Move with tanks, air support, and ground troops, while a convoy was ambushed in Dinh Tuong province. Hanoi claimed U S losses and shot down a reconnaissance drone as air strikes continued.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Bong Son
Dinh Tuong
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Viet Nam
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North Viet Nam
North Carolina Boat Plunges Over River Lock Missing Six
A cabin cruiser The Kork plunged over Cape Fear River lock No 3 near Elizabethtown North Carolina killing six aboard. Jack Allen age 46 his wife aged 22 their three children and Jasper Hyatt of Fayetteville were aboard when the 40 foot craft wrecked early Sunday. Investigators say the boat lost power failed to signal and capsized. Sheriff deputies and rescue squads searched the muddy waters with grappling hooks as water levels rose about four feet above the lock.
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N.C
Cape Fear River
Jack Allen
Jasper Hyatt
Fayetteville
Joseph P. Parker
Parker
Sheriff's Deputies
Drowning in Ice Swamp Near Virginia Beach
Four boys, including Ronnie Caffee 8 and Clyde Caffee 12, slipped into an ice covered swamp near Oceana and Virginia Beach Boulevards. Divers recovered Ronnie from a log hole two hours after the 4:30 p.m. incident. Ronnie’s family of eight children resides on Virginia Beach. Michael Phillips, 10, was treated for severe exposure and later listed in satisfactory condition at Virginia Beach General Hospital. The other two boys were James White, 9, and Clyde Caffee, Ronnie’s brother, 12.
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Virginia Beach
Oceana
Ronnie Caffee
James L. Caffee
Michael Phillips
Virginia Beach General Hospital
James White
Clyde
UNC Committee Bars Two Speakers At Chapel Hill Campus
The UNC Board of Trustees executive committee voted 8 to 3 to deny permission for two controversial speakers. Student groups had invited Herbert Aptheker and Frank Wilkinson to speak on March 9 and March 2. Critics urge open forum, while trustees cite campus safety and policy.
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UNC
William C. Friday
Fof
Consolidated University
Paul Dickson
Dickson
Coptheker
Aptheker and Wilkinson
Weather Summary for Virginia and North Carolina
The Virginia outlook expects mostly cloudy skies with light drizzle possible in the morning. North Carolina shows variable cloudiness with west mountains having scattered showers and east portions partly cloudy. Highs range from the upper 30s to mid 60s depending on location, with a cool start and little precipitation reported in the 24 hour log.
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