12 Dec 1969
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1969
Page
1
The Senate approved its veto threatened tax reform bill 69 to 22 sending it to a conference with the House. Negotiations will align differences such as Social Security boosts and personal deductions while Nixon threatens a veto if unchanged.
Douglas County plans a 10 a.m. Wednesday tax sale at the courthouse rotunda. Sheriff Rex Johnson will auction more than 60 tracts with delinquent taxes and penalties as high as over 6 000 dollars, with Skillet Skiles as auctioneer. prospective bidders should register before bidding begins.
Kansas State Board of Education endorses using income tax revenue to fund schools with a 100 percent surtax as the main local support. The plan predicts delivering about 59 million dollars annually to education and would cap local levies at 25 mills while continuing state foundation aid.
Reno officials including the mayor police chief and the Roman Catholic bishop received marijuana from the Zig A Zag Gang in a holiday scam. The letters named 11 recipients and warned others to surrender while nine others were left off.
A day started with a 15 degree low and a five day warming trend is forecast. Highs may reach 40 this afternoon then fall to 25 or 30 tonight, with 50 expected Saturday as skies stay clear and little precipitation is seen. Topeka reported eight degrees.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finishes at 786.70, rising 3.17 points as gains spread across listed stocks. Investors react to steady momentum and mixed economic signals influencing market sentiment.
Harvard University suspended forty Black students after a brief sit in at University Hall ended by a Middlesex Court injunction. About 100 blacks exited the building promising ongoing pressure to reach at least 20 percent Black employment on Harvard construction.
U S aircraft and artillery killed 111 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers in five attacks near the Cambodian border and Mekong Delta. South Vietnamese forces reported 88 enemy dead, with 70 more counted by aerial observers after three assaults. Nine U S paratroopers were killed and 18 wounded amid heavy fighting as Mekong Delta clashes continued. Maj Gen Hollis urged troops to minimize civilian harm in wake of My Lai while 25th Division personnel assumed Tay Ninh base camp from the Philippines Civic Action Group as 1 300 Filipino troops end their commitment.
TOPEKA AP Charles F Scanlan publisher of the Fresno nia Daily Herald was named executive secretary of the Kansas Republican Party Don Concannon Republican state chairman said the 40 year old will assume the post January 1 replacing Bill Low who resigned in September to join the Republican National Committee staff in Washington Concannon called Scanlan a man with experience and background in public relations.
A three week West Coast shipping dispute idles 28 ships including 14 Matson vessels, delaying 130000 Christmas trees bound for Hawaii. The Save Christmas Committee appeals to the Marine Firemen's Union and to President Nixon after a first grade letter pleads for Santa’s release. Governor Burns says Hawaii can survive 45 days without new supplies as stores show mixed stock for the holiday.
Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad Jr and Alan Bean told reporters they can perform nearly any task on the moon and worked in half‑hour rates, planning for longer shifts up to nine hours with breaks. They described two four hour moonwalks and noted a brief TV loss during walks.
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