Nixon urges federal standards for unemployment pay and strike ban
President Nixon asked Congress to set federal rules for unemployment compensation at least half the worker’s weekly pay and extend coverage to about 635,000 farm hands. He urged amending the Federal Unemployment Tax Act to ban benefits to strikers and to those nonstrikers harmed by disputes, citing cost impacts on state funds and employer taxes.
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UPI
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Ixon
Lompoc Honors POW Cmdr Southwick in Grand Welcome
Navy Commander Everett Southwick and Mrs Nancy Reagan arrived to a packed Lompoc Civic Auditorium after a long street and airport welcome. A parade of students mothers and seniors lined H Street as banners and theater signs proclaimed the greeting.
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Nancy Reagan
Gov. Reagan
Lompoc Civic Auditorium
la Purisima Catholic School
Luchertey
Lompoc
Explorer Post
Peo le
ABC TV
Los Angeles
Cmdr
Southwick
Karen
Lom
George Otsenmeyer
Francis H. Beattie
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Lewis
Lom Senior High School
H Street
Navy
Reagan
Charles Everett Southwick
Valley
Dan Duffy
Commander believed would be rescued
Navy Commander Charles Everett Southwick recounted his six year captivity after his F 4 dive over Than Wah, Vietnam, on May 19, 1967. He described torture, interogation, and the local population’s mood, ending with a faith that his country would rescue him.
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Navy
Charles Everett Southwick
Than Wah
North Vietnam
Southwick
Mississippi River floods Delta plantation country
The Mississippi River reached historic highs in Mississippi's Delta region forcing thousands to flee homes and inundating a 9,800 acre plantation near Holly Bluff. Residents described widespread flooding as levees failed and towns like Vicksburg saw flooded low areas while upriver in Missouri and Illinois, residents began returning briefly before continued flooding.
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United Press International
Mississippi
Joe Woodward
Delhi
Holly Bluff
Miss
Elvane Gilbert
Vicksburg
Illinois
Louisiana
George Wigley
Wigley
Woodward
Missouri
Midwest
Morgan City
Fight for price rollback postponed to after Easter
House Democratic leaders abandon economy wide price rollback and approve a 60 day extension beyond April 30 of Nixon wage-price controls. The move, backed by bankers and farmers, signals weak prospects for broad rollback and keeps prices, rents and interest rates near current levels.
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Washington
UPI
House
Nixon
House Banking Committee
Fighting rages in South Vietnam despite cease-fire
Reports say fierce fighting continues across South Vietnam during week 11 of the cease-fire. Viet Cong warn peacekeepers away from areas after a helicopter was shot down north of Saigon. Haig returns to Washington amid Cambodia and aid tensions with Lon Nol. Weather outlook: increasing clouds, highs 65 to 72, cooler nights.
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South Vietnam
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Phnom Penh
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Paris
UPI
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Washington
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