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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1968
Page
2
President Johnson signed the long sought tax bill into law in the Rose Garden with his family present. He challenged Congress to enact the $6 billion in federal spending cuts tied to passage while wage earners would see a 10 percent withholding tax increase in two weeks.
President Johnson signed a broad tax bill extending higher levies on 82 million of 98 million taxpayers while 16 million low income individuals are exempt. The plan includes a 10 percent surcharge but excludes single filers under 1900 dollars and couples with two dependents under a specified income.
U S forces backed by air and artillery drove a remnants of North Vietnam 814th Battalion onto South China Sea beaches near the DMZ. 36 prisoners were captured and North Vietnamese losses were reported heavy. Far south a Viet Cong raid near Song Tra killed 45 civilians. Hong Kong and Macao reported 36 brutalized corpses washed ashore from Communist China.
A $325000 lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles by Beverly Jane Brody widow of Samuel S. Brody against Jayne Mansfield estate. Brody, 40, died with Mansfield after a June 1967 crash near New Orleans. The suit seeks funds for community property, legal services, career management, and other costs totaling well over $325000.
Mrs Robert Taft Jr wife of Ohio congressman died Friday at her Cincinnati home after a cancer related amputation and relapse Rep Taft was with her The Tafts married in 1939 and she native of New York Survived by husband four children Robert II Sarah Deborah and Jonathan Funeral services are pending
Perry Mason actor William Hopper, 52, son of Hedda Hopper, was found guilty of drunken driving in Ventura Municipal Court. He received five days in jail and a $250 fine, with license revocation as it was his second DUI.
Alson Wahrlich, 32, of Troy New York once among the FBI's 10 most wanted, was sentenced in Flagstaff Arizona to 30 to 50 years in state prison for kidnapping a 7 year old Tucson girl in 1964. Judge Laurance Wren ordered isolation from society and Wahrlich expressed remorse for past harms.
The officer identified as Lt. (jg) Gary Granai 26 once believed killed in Vietnam by the Nixon family has been found alive, his wife and brother said Friday night in New York. He had escorted Nixon's daughter to a debutante ball.
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