Pope Edict Seen Not Harming U.S. Family Planning
HEW sources say Pope Paul VI birth control encyclical unlikely to curb U.S. federally funded family planning amid poverty and health concerns. Officials note many poor women will seek contraception regardless, including Catholics, while Puerto Rico leads in programs and Catholic theologians urge conscience in choosing contraception.
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Jack R. Miller
Washington
U.S
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Hew
Katherine B. Oettinger
Puerto Rico
Johnson
Congress
Postal Worker Exemption Clears Senate Advance
A bill to exempt postal workers from government personnel cutbacks cleared a conference committee and the Senate and moved to the House. Postmaster General Watson warned that without such an exemption service curtailments would begin, including shortened Saturday windows and Sunday collections. The measure aligns with Johnson’s spending cuts and parallels exemptions already granted to the FBI and assistant U.S. attorneys.
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Washington
Senate
House
W. Marvin Watson
Congress
Johnson
Watson
Postal Department
FBI
U.S
Budget deficit tops 1968 projection in late March revisions
The 1968 budget gap grew to 176.9 billion dollars with receipts at 152.5 billion and outlays 176.9. Vietnam spending rose to 25.4 billion, about 5.6 billion above January estimates, while a delay in a 10 percent income tax surcharge trimmed receipts by 2.3 billion. The deficit ranks fourth highest in history, behind 1943 1944 and 1945.
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Washington
Fis
Vietnam
Mate
Johnson
Ward
Baanunk
Congress
Fowler
Zwick
Fraser Quizzed Over Campaign Funds By Union Donations
Minnesota Congressman Donald Fraser faces questions over a 4000 dollar Missouri plumbers union contribution and 2000 dollar donations in 1964 and 1966. Fraser says he did nothing improper and cites voluntary funds raised by unions. He says he did not know Callanan personally and that fundraising came from several labor union internationals.
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Minneapolis
Donald Fraser
D-Minn
Missouri Plumbers Union
Minnesota
George Thiss
Fraser
House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
Washington
Callanan
Peter Schoemann
Gunships and Marines Raid Viet Cong Base in Delta
A task force of armored gunboats helicopter gunships and South Vietnamese Marines raided a Viet Cong base camp in the Mekong Delta. Reports say about 90 enemy killed. 62 weapons 423 mortar rounds and over 12 000 small arms rounds captured. Two South Vietnamese wounded.
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Saigon
Mekong
Cai Lon
Gulf of Thailand
U.S. Navy
U.S
Winter Comfort From A Trane Furnace Offer
A gas or oil fired Trane Furnace is promoted to heat every room and begin conditioning the home. The advertisement urges readers to call for a free no obligation estimate to learn about year round comfort.
Truman Signs National Security Act Creates Air Force
President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 creating a separate Department of the Air Force and splitting it from the Army, reshaping the U S military structure.
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Harry S. Truman
National Security Act
Department of the Air Force
Army
Jacoby's On Winning Mixed Bridge Team Triumphs in Minneapolis
The Jacoby team and Mrs Malcolm Brachman joined Mrs Helen Sobel Smith of Detroit to win the master mixed team's title at the 40th summer national bridge championship in Minneapolis. They scored 19 of 26 boards, beating Edgar Kaplan, George Rapee, and Mrs Carol Stolkin of New York and Wilmette, Ill. Smith's sixth mixed team triumph matches Charles Goren's record.
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Helen Sobel Smith
Detroit
Dallas
Oswald
James Jacoby
Malcolm Bracman
Edgar Kaplan
George Rapee
New York City
Carol Stolkin
Wilmette
Ill
Smith
Charles Goren
Jacobys
Brachman
Student Urges GOP To Oppose Red Trade
Law student David Keene of Fort Atkinson Wisconsin urged Republicans at a platform committee hearing to oppose trade with Communist nations. He said aiding Communist nations benefits corrupt totalitarian regimes and harms the people the free world aims to help.
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Miami Beach
Fla
University of Wisconsin
David Keene
Fort Atkinson
Wis
Young Americans For Freedom
Free World
Keene
Republican National Convention
Death Claims Second Gimbels Executive
Howard E. Kaufman 64 vice president and senior merchandise counselor for Gimbels Schubert's department stores died at home after a heart attack on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. He was the second Gimbels official to die recently following Maurice Berger who died last Tuesday.
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Milwaukee
Howard E. Kaufman
Madison
Gimbels-Schu
Sumsters Department
University of Wisconsin
Maurice Berger
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Michael Scanlan
Caledonia
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Waukon
Iowa
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Johnson Drive
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Fomerly
la Crosse
Richard Peterson
Vine St
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The
United States
Grandview Hospital
Life Magazine
Lawrence Callanan
St. Louis
New
Newton Fund
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Wisconsin
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Hoeschler
Delta
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Tay Ninh
Binh Long
Cambo
Dian
Loc Ninh
Trang Bang
Tay Ninh City
Schneider
South Third Street
Trane Deales
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Oak Park
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