Tax relief debate widens for single taxpayers
The Senate Finance Committee backs a plan to cut federal income taxes for about six million single filers and two million single, widowed, or divorced with dependents. The measure would cap singles at 20 percent higher than married couples with the same income, a partial step toward equal rates, while critics urge full equality.
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Greensboro
N.C
Daily News
Manifesto to Churches Tops 1969 Religion Story
The Black Manifesto and church responses were named the top religion story of 1969 by the Religious Newswriters Association. The poll gave the story 421 of 430 points, with editors noting six polled ranked it No. 1. James Pike’s death in Israel as he researched Jesus ranked second.
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Boston
Religious Newswriters Association
Dorothy Newell
Association
James Pike
Episcopal
Israel
Jesus
Willie Sutton Says Crime Does Not Pay on Christmas Day
Willie Sutton says crime never paid and notes decades in prison. The 68 year old bank robber was released from Attica State Prison after a preholiday review, spending Christmas in seclusion and expressing a wish to help deter youth from crime.
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NEW York (Ap
Willie
Katherine Buses
Sutton
Picketing resumes at Kansas City Stock Yards
Kansas City stockyards again see picketing by Local 576 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen as union members claim a lockout and seek wage parity with St. Louis and St. Joseph. No negotiations are scheduled, and the union says they are protesting, not on strike. The yard previously halted shipments while talks continued.
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Anmalgamated
Mesut Cutters
Butcher Works
Kanesas City Stock Yards Company
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Thy
Union
Best Time to Kick Alcohol Addiction Through AA Power
A Star Feature recounts a woman’s path from alcoholism to sobriety after turning to Alcoholics Anonymous. It stresses AA's non denominational approach, the need for personal desire to quit, and offers contact via P.O. Box 10 McCaskill Arkansas. The piece emphasizes faith, self discipline, and community support as the route to lasting peace.
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P.O. Box
McCaskill, Ark
Wisden
Johnson says he never wanted the presidency
New York AP reports Lyndon B. Johnson articulated in a CBS interview that he had no desire to be president and would have left the 1964 Democratic nomination open for RFK or Humphrey, but his wife Lady Bird urged him to run. He cited internal party forces and public opinion as obstacles to a tax bill and Vietnam peace, noting Kennedy and McCarthy’s campaigns did not alter his decision to step down in 1968.
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New Hampshire
Walter Cronkite
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CBS
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Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
Ume
Jonson
22 Years But U S Gives Up UFO Search
After 22 years the U S Air Force closed its UFO investigation saying no threat to national security. The topic sparked debate at an AAAS symposium with Harvard astronomer Donald Henzel and Northwestern astronomer J Allen Hynek offering opposing views on the phenomenon and calls for future atmospheric research.
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Associated Press
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Air Force
American Association For the Advancement of Science
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Harvard University
J. Allen Hynek
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Nixon delays California trip to handle budget work
President Nixon remains in Washington over Christmas to finalize the federal budget due to Congress next year. He plans to return to California next week, work on the State of the Union, and review a large tax cut and reform bill with advisers while Mammie Eisenhower visits.
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California Track Picketed as Strike Opens Santa Anita
Arcadia California union spokesmen say 500 pickets began at 12:01 a.m. around Santa Anita race track as the AFL-CIO SEIU strike starts. Negotiations with the Federation of California Racing Associations failed late Wednesday leaving little chance the season would open on schedule.
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Santa Anita
Afl-Cio Service Employee International Union
Federation of California Racing Associations
Silver Half Dollars Remain in Use Despite Copper Plan
AP Washington report notes the Mint continues producing scarce silver half dollars despite Treasury desires to switch to copper clad to conserve silver. Denver Mint produced 14.65 million halves in November, about 20 percent of a 100 million cap. Officials say many Kennedy halves minted since 1964 are not circulating, with banks lacking inventory. Hoarding and perceived future silver value deter daily use. If Congress allows nonsilver halves, shortages may ease as Philadelphia Mint scales to 16 million coins daily by year end, with its own bonded strip production.
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Associated Press
Washington
Treasury Department
Denver
Roy S. Cahoon
Colin
Cahoon
Kennedy
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Senate
Philadelphia
Revenue Loss Big Problem for Nixon
President Nixon, drafting the 1971 budget, cited a $2.5 billion revenue loss from Congress tax reform as a major challenge. He indicated no veto threat but acknowledged last minute moves to cut the anticipated loss, after a brief talk with reporters while on a California holiday.
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Robert A. Walker
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
California
Missing Badger State fire leaves 14 aboard rescued
In the mid Pacific a Viet Nam bound cargo ship laden with 2000 ton of TNT burned after breaking apart 580 miles northeast of Midway Island. Fourteen of 39 crewmen aboard the SS Badger State, including Capt. Charles Wilson, were rescued by the Greek freighter Khian Star as explosions tore a hull hole. Navy officials said no confirmed casualties yet and the search continued with life rafts marked by dye and smoke.
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Honolulu
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Hickam’ Air Force Base
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Festus Actor Refutes Plans to Sell Bank Stock
Ken Curtis known as Festus on CBS Gone Smoke says he will not sell his 1110 shares in Union National Bank of Little Rock. He disputes an Arkansas Democrat report from December 23 that misquoted his business manager and suggested he intended to liquidate his stake.
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Festus
Union National Bank of Little Rock
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Arkansas Democrat
Robert Ginter
Los Angeles
Union National Bank
North Korea hijack case fuels proposal rejection
Seo ul said no to a North Korean plan for a meeting of nonpoliti cal groups to discuss returning passengers from a hijacked South Korean airliner. Information Minister Shin Bumeshik warned the move would be a great mistake and insisted on straightforward return through official channels. The plane with 48 passengers and four crew was hijacked to North Korea amid claims of pilot defection and disguised North Korean agents.
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South Korea
Shin Bumeshik
Panmyne
Joint Military Armistice Commission
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