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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1967
Page
1
About 150 bodies have been recovered in floods around Rio de Janeiro with police estimating up to 500 dead. Rescue workers search through mud as torrential rains and landslides bury vehicles and debris along the Paraiba River corridor west of the city.
In Itaguai 800 homeless and 200 missing after floods from a tributary of the Paraiba. CARMICHAEL recovered. A construction camp was engulfed. Luiz Eduardo Braga escaped from a bus buried by mud while Ataide de Oliveira lost his entire family. Rio-Sao Paulo highway impassable for 90 miles. Police fear private cars swept to deaths.
President Johnson urges higher taxes and user fees to finance a 1968 budget of 135 billion dollars. He warns against deep cuts and links the plan to Vietnam costs while outlining deficits, defense needs, and social program funding in a period of tax and rate increases.
The fiscal year 1966 67 to 1967 68 budgets show spending rising from 126.7 to 135.0 with income 117.0 and 126.9 and deficits of 9.8 and 8.1 billion. Federal debt ends at 327.3 and 335.4 billion. Asset sales up to 5.75 billion proposed. Republicans call it gimmickry and the president warns against heavy cuts.
Police with dogs broke up a wild brawl as demonstrators halted Nguyen Cao Ky's car by crowding the roadway. Women flung themselves before the limousine and eggs splattered the windows, while boos and chants of Ky go rang out. Police dragged several people off the road and fights continued as Ky's motorcade escaped to a hotel amid ink throwing and continued jeers from a second crowd.
In Roanoke Virginia a few hundred residents confronted City Council demanding the topless go go dancers quit. Mayor Benton C Dillard faced calls to resign after defending the show. The council postponed action while the city attorney studies legality.
The budget proposes spending $135 billion up $8.3 billion with most for Vietnam. Revenues total $126.9 billion led by personal income taxes, corporate taxes, and excise taxes. Deficit $8.2 billion and national debt projected at $335.4 billion. defense $72.3 billion including $22.4 billion for Vietnam and Nike X start. Space $5.3 billion down. foreign aid rises to $2.43 billion. Great Society programs total $18.3 billion with antipoverty at $1.86 billion.
President Johnson formally asks Congress for 12.3 billion dollars in new wartime spending. Of this total 9.1 billion would be for the current fiscal year ending June 30. the rest is for future commitments. He argues funds are needed to sustain combat operations and provide aircraft, weapons, ammunition, and equipment to field forces.
President Johnson proposes a 6.1 billion budget for veterans benefits and services for fiscal 1968 with higher educational allowances and expanded training for Vietnam era veterans. He cites a net decrease from 1967 due to asset sales and adds plans to extend compensation and medical benefits to Vietnam veterans along with life insurance enhancements. He also includes a 52 million construction program for major hospital projects in San Diego Chicago Seattle and Tampa.
A PRC statement claims PLA commanders pledged to help Mao seize party state and financial power from authorities. Reports cite wall posters of army actions in Fangshan near Peking, with clashes in Tientsin and Paoting and seizures of party offices and security bureaus.
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