15 Dec 1967
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1967
Page
1
The notice invites readers to contact ACTION LINE for problem solving or inquiries, offering a call option or letter to The Enterprise. It positions ACTION LINE as a responsive avenue for answering questions and addressing worries.
Reader requests where to obtain Dormeyer mixer parts through a Charlotte shop and Turpin Electric guidance. The page also discusses truck obstruction on Sherman Road, sidewalk hazards at 201 N Main, and public works responses, plus wartime air raids and a Christmas truce in Vietnam.
In Washington Senate chaos erupts over a Social Security bill vote as Sen. Russell Long seizes leadership to push the measure. Sen. Byrd and Kennedy clash over process while Mansfield defends decorum amid a stalled roll call and renewed plotting.
Congress seeks swift deals on major bills with adjournment in reach. Conferees approve a 1.77 billion antipoverty appropriation and a 9.3 billion two year extension of the Elementary and Secondary School Act while Social Security expansion action looms. The House rejected a 2.3 billion foreign aid measure and sent it back to conferees for final terms.
The conferees agreed to a school aid bill authorizing funding through fiscal 1970 with a compromise allocation guaranteeing no state loses money versus last year. They eliminated a Senate-passed provision allowing federal courts to hear challenges to federal funds for church-related institutions. State control of funds for local districts remains, with 95 percent handed to states this year and full funding next year.
The Senate approved a Social Security bill 62 to 14 and sent it to President Johnson. It increases benefits by 3.6 billion and payroll taxes by 1.5 billion in 1969, with checks rising at least 13 percent for 24 million beneficiaries. Welfare limits were criticized as harsh and likely to be revised next year.
Viet Cong posters in Tuy Loan Da Nang offer 1750 dollars for Marine Sgt. Marvin Murrell who worked with local militiamen. Murrell, on 30 day leave in Syracuse after more than two years in Vietnam, led a combined action platoon. Two other Marines with similar praise received rewards near 2000 dollars.
In Columbia Local 34 of the International Typographical Union goes on strike at the Columbia Record The State after a 12 month negotiation over a new contract to replace one that expired December 31 1966. The company cites a center issues over installing computerized type setting equipment while some workers cross the picket lines.
Stanford scientists led by Arthur Kornberg and Mehran Goulian synthesized viral DNA from Phi X. The man-made DNA replicated inside E coli and produced infectious Phi X viruses. NIH director James Shannon hailed it as a landmark. the work raises questions about defining life and its origin.
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