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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1969
Page
15
Congress resumes after a fourteenth recess with little to show. The body has enacted one major measure increasing the national debt limit and has not passed any regular annual appropriation bills for the new fiscal year.
The Ways and Means Committee plans a separate tax revision bill before the August 13 recess to close loopholes seen as benefiting only wealthy individuals and big business. The fight over missile defense and nonproliferation treaties looms in Congress as other bills stall in committees.
On this date events include the Sino Japanese War clash at Marco Polo Bridge in 1937, Toussaint L Ouverture declaring Haiti independence in 1801, California annexation rising in 1846, Lincoln assassination accomplices hanged in 1865, U S annexation of Hawaii in 1898, Iceland invasion prevention in 1941, Alaska statehood in 1959, Burma aid shift a decade ago, a French Alps avalanche five years back, and East German border shootings one year ago.
John D. Rockefeller IV and his wife Sharon welcomed a son born Sunday weighing 9 pounds 3 ounces. Grandfather Sen. Charles H. Percy praised the baby’s size and vitality, and the child will be named Jamie with a future chance to adopt Rockefeller’s middle name Davison.
Wellington Kan AP 17 year old Jack Romans died in a farm accident eight miles south of Wellington Saturday. He was cultivating a field on a tractor when he apparently fell off and was run over by the disk. His body found after he did not come in for lunch. Parents are Mr and Mrs Arthur Romans of Moline Kan.
The O'Hare International Airport in Chicago spans about 7,200 acres, highlighting its scale as a major aviation hub and urban facility in Illinois.
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