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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1967
Page
9
The column notes Senator Humphrey’s leading role in pushing to allow posters to be blocked by a majority vote. James Marlow, the usual columnist, is on vacation.
The new Congress opens with a renewed Senate fight over Rule 22 that requires a two thirds vote to end debate and limits speaking time to one hour. Proponents argue for a majority vote to allow cloture while opponents warn of eroding Senate freedoms and civil rights protections.
A 72 year old banjo player joins the 67th Mummers Parade on Broad Street with 16,000 participants and 1.5 million spectators expected. Prizes total 75,000 dollars as bands, comics and string brigades compete in a tradition tracing to Nordic and Celtic roots with musical skits and elaborate costumes.
President Johnson will ask Congress for broad anticrime reforms from a presidential commission that found Washington DC crime up 116 percent since 1959 to 1965 while comparator cities rose 63 percent. The report urges changes requiring congressional action and notes DC police costs per resident far higher than peers. It also covers extended interrogation limits and other legal changes.
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