U S Air Attacks on North Viet Nam Hint Bomb Hanoi Fields
U S pilots pressed air assaults on North Viet Nam with reports of record mission numbers. Washington hinted Hanoi airfields could be bombed if Communist MIGs down American planes. Marines and South Vietnamese troops reported heavy Viet Cong losses and a high daily total of sorties while police cracked Viet Cong cells in Saigon.
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Johnson Signs Rent Subsidies and Teacher Corps Bill
President Johnson signed into law a $2.8 billion supplemental bill funding two controversial programs. The rent subsidies plan allocates $12.1 million to assist nonprofit landlords with privately financed properties serving low income families. A $9.5 million national Teacher Corps aims to staff slum schools. The measure includes funds for various federal agencies through June 30. The president urged more funding in the next fiscal year to enable the Teacher Corps to operate effectively.
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Sit-In at University Building Ends With Injury in Chicago
A group of about ten students occupied the University of Chicago administration building for three days to protest draft information policy. About 350 protesters marched to President Beadle’s house. a girl demonstrator was injured when a walkie talkie was thrown from inside. Counter demonstrators clashed outside as security remained tight. the siege left offices largely inaccessible.
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Truth in Packaging Measure Advances in Senate
Washington AP Senate Commerce Committee approved a revised truth in packaging bill by 14 to 3 sending it to the Senate for action. The legislation would allow voluntary industry standards for weights and quantities with possible mandatory standards if not approved or followed, drawing fire from Sen. Norris Cotton who warned it could stifle competition and raise prices.
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Future Astronauts Will Have Good View
Engineers at the Manned Space Center in Houston plan to keep Gemini 9 clear windows by placing extra panes over the heat resistant ones during orbit. Lt Col Thomas Stafford and Cmdr Eugene Cernan will swap to spotless panes for a three day mission, ensuring pilots can make precise observations through the 12 inch window.
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Welcome Signs Of Boom Slowdown From Ackley View
Economist Gardner Ackley told the Business Council in Hot Springs that there are welcome signs of a slowdown in the boom but not a recession. He noted uncertainty over a possible counterinflationary tax rise and warned against a rapid downturn that would endanger progress on Viet Nam.
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Chinese atomic blast not hydrogen weapon says AEC
Washington AP reports the Atomic Energy Commission concluded China’s third atomic test was not a thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb. AEC notes a radioactive cloud over the U S with debris at 30 40 000 feet likely to reach the East Coast and Europe. Gore says the explosion larger than first estimated and fears a nuclear China within a decade.
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Industrial Boom Slackening Amid Record Profits
Corporate profits reached a historic high in early 1966 while industrial output rose at a slower pace. Fed data show April production leveling after last fall’s surge, with coal and rail strikes among factors. Dow fell 9.46 to 876.11 as profits rose 4 percent from Q4 1965. Gardner Ackley cautioned a possible slowdown but no recession unless Viet Nam war ends.
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Policeman Named Heir To Property
CHICAGO AP A policeman named heir to the estate of elderly Chicago woman Miss Alice B Atwood said he will not quit his job until matters are settled. The will, dated December 2 1964, left a stake described as 3 percent of a Texas King Ranch fortune with estimated value between 1 and 10 million dollars. Michael J De Bella 34 a patrolman in Grand Crossing district was chosen to inherit. Miss Atwood died aged 85 last December 11 in a Des Plaines nursing home and had been declared incompetent on August 31 1965.
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Thousands to Take Draft Deferment Tests Today
Washington AP reports thousands of college and graduate students will take a three hour 150 question draft deferment test across 1,200 colleges under a government contract with Science Research Associates. About 350,000 to 400,000 test today with 600,000 more on May 21 June 3 and June 24. Passing grades are 70 for undergraduates and 80 for grads, but results are advisory to draft boards.
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Draft deferments shrink as volunteers pick up test
The article notes many individuals defer draft while about 1.8 million choose not to risk the draft. Selective Service revived the national test plan last March as draft calls for the Vietnam era mounted. The system was described but details are on page two.
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Weather Summary for Virginia and North Carolina
Virginia mostly cloudy and cooler with some rain in the east and scattered showers. Highs 70s in the southeast to 50s in the northwest. Sunday fair and cool. North Carolina mostly cloudy with showers and scattered thundershowers Saturday, highs 50s in the mountains to near 80 in the south coastal plain. Sunday is considerably clouded. Downtown weather log notes 7 pm to Saturday 1 am readings and no precipitation in the 24 hour record.
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