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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1967
Page
1
A reader asks how to obtain a divorce at minimum cost after a lengthy separation and a prison term for the husband. The answer notes a filing fee about 18.50, sheriff service around 2.00, no formal separation needed, and that a decree may be granted in municipal court once the defendant is notified and has 30 days to reply.
A Detroit riot report describes a house at Lasalle and Lamothe under siege by three white men with weapons, later linked to white Wayne University students and a socialist party figure. Police fired on the building. three white men surrendered. White participation in the uprising is raised as a key question with four clear points.
State Treasurer William Winter and U S Representative John Bell Williams led the Mississippi governor race. With about 62 percent of precincts reporting they outdistanced the other five candidates, setting up a runoff battle for the governorship.
Washington AP Democrats sought a housing plan to ease riot prone slum conditions while Republicans backed Johnson rent supplements. The Senate Banking Committee weighed five proposals to improve city slums as Percy touts a private enterprise led home ownership bill subsidizing construction costs via government loan rate support and mortgage guarantees. Dirksen criticized street violence at a Tuesday news conference.
Escaped convicts and shifting urban policy debate mark a year of change as Dirksen notes growing GOP support for Johnson rent subsidy plan. Mississippi Negro gains, Barnett’s weak showing, and numerous black candidates win runoffs amid sparse turnout figures.
American air cavalry units struck a North Vietnamese tunnel complex in Song Re Valley near Duc Pho and met heavy mortar and antiaircraft fire. Three troop carrying helicopters were shot down and nine Americans killed with 24 wounded. US pilots reported destroying gun positions and air force fighters attacked multiple machine gun nests. A separate Tuesday battle left about 65 Viet Cong killed.
In Washington a bipartisan coalition rewrote President Johnsons anticrime bill turning a federal grant program into a largely state program funded by federal money. The Cahill block grants amendment passed 256 to 147 and the House approved the measure 377 to 23 before sending it to the Senate. The plan emphasizes riot and crime control with a proposed 50 percent funding increase to 75 million dollars, including 30 million for riot training.
President Johnson presses Congress to approve a 10 percent income tax surcharge to avoid inflation from a possible 29 billion dollar deficit. He argues the economy’s basic supply and demand laws require either higher taxes or spending cuts, with borrowing as a last resort.
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