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Newspaper
El Dorado Times
Location
El Dorado, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1964
Page
1
The House Ways and Means Committee dropped the health care proposal for the aged, hindering enactment this year. The panel shifted to possible increases in Social Security cash payments while deadlocking on alternatives. Rep Cecil R. King led the motion to remove the measure, narrowing focus to retirement system changes.
The Senate Finance Committee approved a measure to trim excise taxes on furs cosmetics handbags and jewelry by 260 million dollars each year. The substitute replaces a full repeal proposal and shifts a 10 percent levy to a manufacturer's price base starting October 1 1964.
A hardware store and warehouse a shoe store and a dry goods firm were destroyed in Paris Arkansas Tuesday night. A transformer and a box of dynamite spread the fire to nearby businesses on the town square. Dr Robert Robertson fell from a ladder and was hospitalized. An unidentified firefighter was overcome by smoke. Fire crews from Paris Charleston Booneville and Magazine contained the blaze after about two and a half hours.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a 1.524 billion dollar military construction bill for the year starting July 1. It shaved 66.974 million from the House measure, casting doubt on whether Arkansas projects such as Blytheville Air Force Base and other Akan sas sites remain authorized.
Arkansas reports clear and cooler conditions through tonight with fair and mild weather on Thursday. Highs in the 80s and a low tonight near 60s. Louisiana shows partly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms mainly along the coast this afternoon through Thursday with lows in the mid 60s to mid 70s and highs around 88.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou arrived in Washington for a fresh round of talks with President Lyndon Johnson aimed at direct negotiations between Greece and Turkey over the Cyprus crisis. The visit follows a similar two day session with Turkey's Ismet Inonu as part of Johnson's diplomatic push.
The Associated Press reports Arkansas cooled briefly after a Tuesday 100 degree high in Little Rock and a cool front. Showers were sparse outside the southern third, farmers lacking moisture as a record 100 degrees faded and Fort Smith posted a record low minus 55. Warmer weather resumes Thursday.
Henry Cabot Lodge quits his ambassadorial post in South Vietnam to return to the United States. He says he aims to aid Gov. Scranton’s bid for president and is not seeking a candidacy himself. Lodge’s move prompts Scranton backers to hope for more GOP defections from Goldwater.
The Federal Trade Commission requires by January 1 1965 cigarette package labels to warn that smoking is a health hazard and may cause death from cancer and other diseases while advertising must carry the warning by July 1 1965. The language is left to manufacturers and advertisers to craft clearly and conspicuously. The rule was announced as Chairman Paul Rand Dixon testified before the House Commerce Committee investigating smoking and health.
A Georgia firm posted the apparent low bid as the Arkansas Highway Commission opened bids totaling about 9 million dollars for road and bridge work. Wright Construction Co of Columbus bid 2 467 097 48 for surfacing 10.4 miles of Interstate 40 in Lonoke County from Highway 31 east to the Prairie County line.
General Maxwell D. Taylor to lead as U S ambassador in Saigon and unify civilian and military efforts. He will work with Westmoreland and Johnson while Earle Wheeler becomes Joint Chiefs chair. Lodge to return to politics with Scranton. President Johnson’s pick gains broad support.
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy announces he will not seek the New York Democratic Senate nomination and heads to Germany. He keeps doors open for a possible presidential run. civil rights priorities and Johnson term commitments frame his return.
Federal and state agents resumed and intensified door to door and gully to gully searches at daybreak in Philadelphia Mississippi for three missing civil rights workers.
A Mississippi investigation intensified as FBI and state authorities search a swamp area near Philadelphia for missing civil rights workers James Cheney and Michael Schwerner and Andy Goodman. Dulles was ordered to coordinate the probe with Gov. Paul Johnson and FBI officials.
In Moss Point Mississippi Jackson County Constable Hubert W Alford reports two civil rights volunteers Ronald Ridenour 24 of Venice California and Howard Kirchenbaum 19 of Long Beach New York were arrested on vagrancy and investigative charges after a chase. They were among five volunteers canvassing a Negro settlement in Jackson Park. Three attorneys were en route to represent them. A meeting hall used by civil rights groups was burned the prior night in Moss Point.
Premier Nguyen Khanh told Saigon that free world nations stand with South Vietnam and will strike communism at its roots if needed. He spoke in Rach Gia after Taylor’s U S ambassadorship was announced as proof of ongoing U S resolve to fight communism. A Peking broadcast warned of grave Indochina tensions and U S bombings in Laos and Vietnam.
President Johnson called Congress to extend a six day work week ahead of the Republican convention drawing strong objections from GOP leaders. House Minority Leader Halleck said it is unfair and an attempt to sabotage the GOP gathering as Rep. Laird argued.
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