LBJ Opens Way to Increase Interest on Savings Bonds
President Johnson orders the Treasury to raise the rate on U S savings bonds with a likely minimum of 4 percent and Congress may approve over 4.25 percent. Fowler to implement while preventing cashing in. The move aims to back Vietnam war efforts and curb inflation amid rising rates from banks and lenders. Savings bonds held by the public were valued at about 4499 billion at year end 1965.
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Viet Nam
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Cab Regulation Back to County and City For Taxi Rules
Deputy District Atty John Porter and staff draft an ordinance to return cab regulation to county and city governments. The city commission plans a committee to tighten driver permit controls and suspend permits for violent acts, with a report due in two weeks.
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Coroner's Jury Clears Housewife in Ex Husband Shooting
In a two day inquest, coroner's jury absolved Mrs. Detmering after she testified about threats and harassment from her ex husband Charley Gross. She said she shot at him with a 22 caliber rifle in self defense to protect her children at their Lexington mobile home. The verdict ended a tense, public examination of the case.
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Nuclear engineer goes berserk at Brookhaven wounding three
A quiet Brookhaven National Laboratory engineer Michael Maresca shot three colleagues then died of a self inflicted wound. FBI and Suffolk police responded as victims were treated at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Suffolk County
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Fast Patchogue
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World Briefs from Tokyo and Bonn
The clandestine voice of Lansradin said troops shot down two 18. aircraft over Lans and captured one pilot. Former West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, suffering bronchitis, may cancel his planned visit with President Charles de Gaulle.
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UPI
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Pathet Lan
Lans
RONN
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IPT
Konrad Adenauer
Charles de Galle
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Murder-for-hire plot targets LA attorney Chotiner
LA attorney Chotiner is the center of a murder-for-hire plot with alleged plans to kill him at his Beverly Hills office. A man named Amabile acted as a money intermediary, paying 240 dollars as a down payment, while informant Hinman reported the scheme. Investigators tie the case to ongoing divorce disputes and past political connections.
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Leonard Amabile 22
Chotiner
George Mag Mag
Author
Hinman
Sukarno Backers Mobilize Support Amid Demonstrations
Indonesian President Sukarno drew broad backing as cabinet members and the Nationalist Party pledged support after a Sunday appeal. Radin in Singapore reported leaders of the Student Union met him during a period of price protests and a Sunday ban on demonstrations.
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Kathleen Norris Dead at 85 Renowned Author and Feminist
Frances Kathleen Norris famed novelist and feminist biographer died at 85 in San Francisco at her son Dr Frank Norris’s home. She produced more than 89 romantic novels and autobiographical Family Gathering in 1959, endured arthritis since age 30, and spent four years in hospital beginning 1959.
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San Francisco
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Military government warns of action to quell western Nigeria violence
In Lagos Nigeria the provisional military government led by Gen Agurot Trons warned it would impose military measures if violence in the western region continued. The Voice of Nigeria broadcast the warning after reports of fresh unrest, while the capital Abuja remained under firm military control following a failed weekend coup.
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UPI
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Voice of Nigeria
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Love letter cited in Idaho murder case against ex sailor
An Idaho sheriff said a love letter allegedly written by William H. Butler could aid prosecutors in the strangulation of Barbara Jean Dixon near Boise. Butler, 23, waived extradition from Illinois where he was detained, and investigators matched tire casts to a rental car.
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UPI
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William H. Butler
Paul Broght
Ada County
Butler
Jersey City
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Barbara Jean Dixon
Boise
Bright
Evanston
Lettey
Billy Bright
Miss Nixons Kady
Burler
Apollo moon shot postponed again at White Sands
Weather delays push the final Apollo escape system test at White Sands into Thursday and then to Saturday, NASA officials say they will attempt the test again if conditions permit. The test, once completed, would qualify the escape system for mating with a Saturn rocket at Cape Kennedy Florida.
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US to spend 65 million to modernize mail service
Postmaster General Lawrence F OBrien announced a six month automation push costing 65 million dollars to install optical scanners and letter sorters in 169 post offices handling about 60 percent of mail. The plan aims for one day domestic delivery and includes new offices, campus recruiting, more self service post offices, 4000 Mail Masters vehicles, and ongoing postal research.
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Lawrence F O'Brien
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France Demands Veto Rights in Common Market Ultimatum
France gives its European Common Market partners two weeks to accept continued veto rights for Paris. Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville announced formal market talks would resume only if the demand is met, prompting crisis deliberations and agitated huddles among delegates. Belgium proposed a compromise but France pressed the veto claim, recalling the soviet veto that blocked Britain’s entry two years ago.
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UPI
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Charles de Gaulle
Maurice Couve de Murville
West Germany
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Holland
Belgium
Couve de Murville
Britain
Bitter Cold Grips Nation Across Wide Regions
A new bitter cold wave swept the central and southwestern states driving temperatures to 10 degrees below zero in Green Bay and seven below in Chicago. Snow and freezing rain affected Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Florida Everglades, with Abilene and Memphis reporting snow. Gusty winds, expected eastward, icy warnings, and $300,000 damage from gale winds in Southern California were noted.
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Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
California
Gemini Crew Selections Move Toward Three Man Space Flight
Space Center Houston reports the Space Agency will soon name two pilots for Gemini 10 and set a crew for the nations first three man orbital mission. Officials will not confirm identities, but speculation centers on veteran John Young and Edward White with rookies Buzz Aldrin Michael Collins Roger Chaffee and Donn Eisele.
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F.dwin
Buzz) Aldrin
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Roger Chaffee
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Young Singer FINGEST Joins St Bartholomew Choir
Ned Gammon, the junior member of the St Bartholomew Church choir in Fingest England, recently joined the group at age 99.
Senate clears first 1988 wild rivers bill
The Senate approved a bill to designate certain national wild rivers as preserved wilderness. The vote was 71 to 1, with Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming the sole dissenter. The measure ties to President Johnson era conservation efforts and awaits further action.
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UPI
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Tno
Milward L. Simpson
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Birmingham protests under legal challenge
In Birmingham Alabama Negroes filed motions in federal court challenging a restraining order on racial protests. A three judge panel last week barred Negro leaders from entering schools to recruit students for demonstrations and prohibited protestors from blocking traffic. The moves question federal jurisdiction in the case as demonstrators say discrimination in voter registration sparked their three week protests. In Atlanta Georgia Governor George Wallace set a March election date to fill a House seat denied to Rep elect and pacifist Viet Nam critic.
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Farl Sanders
Tuan Rond
Viet Nam
U S Objects to Aid for Havana University Project
United States representative James Roosevelt announced an official objection to UN funding for a project to boost the engineering school at the University of Havana. He said the US would not push the protest further beyond a formal objection, noting it was the only project out of eight with US objections.
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U S
Governing Council of the
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United States
Peking Fires More Rounds at Kremlin
An editorial in the official Pe king People's Daily accuses the Soviet delegation at Havana of pretending to oppose US actions in Viet Nam while backing peaceful coexistence, and claims Tass edits softened the Soviet stance. The piece notes a clash between Chinese anti Americanism and a Russian call for peace in Viet Nam.
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