Our Daily Sliced Thin on Tax Hike and War Politics
The editorial questions Lyndon Johnson's plan to raise income taxes by ten percent, arguing funds would favor domestic politics and increase federal debt. It asserts voters rejected the approach in last November's elections and urges a Republican leadership to curb domestic programs and debt while supporting the Vietnam effort.
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Alex
Washourn
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Congress
Johnson
Vietnam
Elevator Plan for Hope Federal Building for the Elderly
Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt urged GSA to install an elevator in the Hope federal building to aid aged and infirm residents needing Social Security Office access. GSA cited a 25 000 cost but moved the Social Security Office to the first floor. Warren King & Associates were selected to advise on Arkansas Governmental Efficiency Study.
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John Paul Hamsmer Schmidt
General Services Administration
Federal Building
Social Security Office
GSA
Hammersschmidt
William A. Schmidt
Commissioner of Public Buildings
Hammers Schmidt
City Studies Approaches for Zoning in Hope
Hope city manager board reviewed highway approaches and downtown loading zones for zoning and ordinances. Planning commission acts under Act 186 grant exclusive five mile jurisdiction. Debate on abolishing or charging for some loading zones and curbing chicken houses near Interstate 30. Further study planned with Retail Merchants Association on loading zones and peddler congestion on South Main Street.
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Hope
City Manager Board
Cty
James H. Plknton
Pilkinton
Hope Planning and Zoning Commission
Downetown Hope
Retail Merchants Association
South Main Street
First Baptist
Pressure Forces Changes to State Personnel Study
Arkansas state Senator Olen Hendrix told the Governmental Efficiency Study Commission that pressure from the governor relatives of employees and others forced the legislature to drastically alter a personnel study prepared for the legislature last year by a Chicago firm.
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Little Rock
Warren King & Associates
Chicago
State
Governmental Efficiency Study Commission
Olen Hendrix
Trial of 17 Negroes for Plot to Murder Moderates Underway
In Queens, 17 men and women linked to the Revolutionary Action Movement face conspiracy charges for planning to murder moderate civil rights leaders. Police described RAM as an extremist group with 50 members. weapons and ammo were seized in a pre dawn raid. Potential targets included Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young.
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New York
Queens County Criminal Court
Brown
Black Power
Stueent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
St. Albans
Queens
Revolutionary Action Movement
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Whitney Young
RAM
Tea
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Robert F. Williams
NAACP
Moncroe
N.C
Peking
Ching
International
Isle of Man
Britealn
Commonwealth
United Nations
Mississippi
William Winter
U.S
John Bell Williams
Fulbright Criticizes Johnson Policy On War And Morality
Sen. J W Fulbright told about 600 lawyers in Honolulu that the Johnson administration lacks moral and psychological capacity to end the Vietnam war and advance social justice at home. He linked Vietnam policy to urban violence and warned against a world tilted toward imperial power without moral leadership.
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Barry Schweid
Honolulu
J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
Arkansas Democrat
Ameriean Bar Association
Nuc
Fulbright
U. S
Viet+ nam
Vietnam
North
South
More Americans Work Thanks to Youth Employment
Washington AP reports 76.2 million Americans were working in July, a record high, with 3.25 million unemployed and a 3.9 percent jobless rate. Youths aged 16 to 21 numbered 10.8 million employed, 400,000 more than last year, while youth unemployment held at about 13.4 percent.
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Washington
United States
Labor Department
Elderly Couple Pays Fee for Welfare Aid
In Lonoke County Arkansas an elderly couple paid 40 to a man who claimed he would prevent welfare cuts and Medicare loss. Welfare Commissioner Len Blaylock said the scam affected other residents who reported to the county welfare office. MILROCK?
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Little Rock
Lonoke County
Len Blaylock
Blaylock
Ethel Robinson
Tax Increase Is Linked to Inflation
President Johnson advocates a 10 percent income tax surcharge to curb a potential $29 billion deficit. He argues higher taxes and spending cuts can reduce the gap to $14 to $18 billion, avoiding inflation from finance by borrowing. Republicans press for spending cuts, while economists warn borrowing fuels inflation and higher interest rates.
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Joseph R. Coyne
Washington
Johnson
Congress
Stokely Carmichael
H. Rap Brown
Fyi
Rob Pa
U.S. Navy
Spa College Vote Defeated in Hot Springs Arkansas
Garland County voters rejected a proposed community college Tuesday by 60 votes in a light turnout. Final unofficial tallies: 2,339 for the measure and 2,399 against it.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Garland County
Arkansan Missing in Vietnam War Action
Washington AP report says Sgt 1 C John N Wickliffe husband of Anna M Wickliffe of Benton Arkansas was listed as missing in action in Vietnam by the Defense Department on Tuesday.
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Washington (Ap
1.C
John N. Wickliffe
Anna M. Wickliffe
Benton
Vietnam
Deense Department
Prisoner Escapes from Cummins Prison Farm Arkansas
A prisoner identified as 25 year old Joe Broadway, serving 10 years for Benton bank robbery, walked off a work detail and escaped from Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas. Local authorities sought capture and investigation into the escape details.
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Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
Joe Broadway
Benton
Cumsmins Prison Farm
Ford Calls for Sharper Air Attacks in Vietnam
House Republican Leader Gerald Ford accuses the Johnson administration of sparing North Vietnam from air strikes and says air power should be boosted. He claims two-thirds of military targets in the North have been spared, while McNamara defends restrained bombing to curb troop flow and limit civilian harm.
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Washington
House
Gerald Ford
South Vietnam
Johnson
North Vietnam
Michigan
Republican
North Vieteam
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Ford
GOP
U. S
McNamara
U.S
Jetnam
4Th Division
Vietnam
Six Presumed Dead in Lake Charles Blast
Fire control squads hunted through Cities Service Oil refinery after explosions killed three men and left three missing. Firefighters let flames burn through the night to avoid igniting explosive gases as crews checked the one block area of freestanding gasoline and nearby buildings. Officials anticipated recovering the missing men in the burning section too hot to enter as the plant, valued at 330 million dollars, endured a sequence of thirteen smaller blasts after the initial 4 45 a.m. explosion that shattered stores six miles away in Lake Charles.
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Lake Charles
Cities Service Oil Co
Hery
Objects to OEO Poverty Program in North Little Rock
North Little Rock Mayor W F Casey Laman voiced moral objections to an Economic Opportunity Agency poverty program. Nine of 36 youths hired to work on recreation projects in Pulaski County Negro communities operate in North Little Rock. EOA director William Walker said the project, run with a $100,000 federal grant, is part of a keep cool plan to prevent violence.
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North Little Rock
W.F. “Casey” Laman
State Economic Opportunity Agency
Pulaski County
Laman
ETA
William
Sonny’? Walker
EOA
Coalition reshapes LBJ anticrime bill after riots
In Washington a Republican Democratic coalition rewrites President Johnsons anticrime bill converting a federal grant program into a state driven plan using federal funds. The House approved block grants and rioting civil disorder suppression aims while debate over funding and cabinet control continued.
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Carl P. Leabsdok
Washington
Johnson
William T. Cahill
R.mj
House
Senate
James G. O'Hara
Ramsey Clark
William E. Minshall
Ohio
Justice Department
Office of Justice
Minshall
Justice Has Hepatitis BANGKOK Flight home for Justice Clark ill
Outgoing U S Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, 68, flew home from Australia after an illness in Bangkok. He arrived Aug 2 for a lecture series, then grew worse two nights later. He was treated at a U S Army hospital in Bangkok and diagnosed with infectious hepatitis before an Air Force plane transported him to Andrews Air Force Base.
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Bangkok
U.S. Supreme Court
Tom Clark
Australia
U.S. Army
Special Air Force
Clark
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington
Walter Reed Hospital
McClellan and Holland Push for Slums Survey Focus
Senators McClellan and Holland urged inclusion of root-cause questions in a Census Bureau slums survey. They criticized Census Director Eckler for excluding reports on illegitimate children and welfare dependent adult males from the sample. They argue Congress needs more data on factors behind rioting and unrest.
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Washington
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Spessard L. Holland
D-Fla
A. Ross Eckler
McClellan
Eckler
Holland
Congress
Pollution Code Seminar Seeks Arkansas Industry Reform
A seminar in Little Rock sponsored by Associated Industries of Arkansas and the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce discussed the proposed air pollution code for the state. Industrial leaders urged immediate action, but no specific plans were agreed upon.
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Little Rock
Ary
Arkansas
Associated Industries of Arkansas, Inc
Arkansas’ State Chamber of Commerce
All Around Town and Local Notices Blend
Police Chief Alvin Willis said a 14 year old boy was picked up and turned over to juvenile authorities after a theft at Bar's Cafe. Junior Choir Camp attendees at Ouachita Baptist University include Dave Bramelett and others. Stan Parris is the sole Hope High rep on the West All Star football or basketball squad. Photos for the school annual will be taken at Shipsleys Studio. State police report July highway fatalities. Hempstead and surrounding counties show various wrecks. University of Oklahoma granted 816 degrees. Suzanne Sommerville received a Master of Science. Redlands RCI to meet Thursday at 7:30 pm at st McCaskill for entertainment.
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Alvin Willis
Stan Parris
Hope High
War Memorial Stadium
Stan
Shipsley
Three Copters Lost in Raid on Tunnels
A US Army air cavalry unit struck a North Vietnamese tunnel complex in Song Re valley northeast of Saigon. Three troop-carrying helicopters were shot down amid fierce mortar anti aircraft and small arms fire, with at least four Americans killed and 22 wounded. US aircraft reportedly engaged machine gun positions, destroying seven and damaging five.
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George Esper
1St Air Cavalry Division
Song Re
Duc Pho
U.S. Air Force
Priest Declares Secularization of Mena Church
The Reverend Fred Hancock of St. Mark's Episcopal Church declared secularization of Christ Church in Mena, paving the way for razing the damaged structure and building a new church. He praised the fire department, the congregation, vestry, and building committee for saving furnishings and raising funds, and thanked St. Agnes Catholic Church of Mena for donating over three hundred dollars to the rebuilding effort.
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Fred Hancock
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Southwest
Episcopal Diocese of
Father Hancock
St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church
Mena
Son Kills His Terminally Ill Mother in Mercy Shooting
Chicago police charged Robert Waskin, 23, with murder after allegedly shooting his mother Alice Waskin, 52, in her hospital bed while she faced a terminal leukemia diagnosis. Hospital spokesmen said she had only a few days to live.
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Chicago
Robert Waskin
Alice Waskin
Waskin
Jury to Study Coordination in Fayetteville Grand Jury
In Fayetteville Arkansas the Washington County Grand Jury was charged to study coordination between local laws. The request sought to determine how enforcement agencies have acted and what plans remain to curb civil disorders blamed on lax law enforcement.
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Fayetteville, Ark
Washington County
Grand Jury
Soult Dedge Maupin
WE Mings
Cummings
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