Confidence rises as Johnson pushes budget cut and tax relief
The business community shows renewed confidence after President Johnson signals a smaller 1964 65 budget and strong tax cuts. Wall Street reacts with a market uptick as industry leaders praise spending restraint and a shift toward private sector growth. Analysts caution about the permanence of promised cuts and the impact of supplemental appropriations.
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Wall Street
Mr. Johnson
Gammon
Lara
Wall Street Journal
Johnson
White House
Ces
Stuart Saunders
Pennsylvania Railroad
Might Work Rule Tie Driver Licenses to Grades
Birmingham school board member Lister Corcoran proposes a high school diploma requirement for obtaining a driver's license to curb dropout rates. He argues cars contribute to academic desertion and that tying licensing to good grades could improve outcomes. Parents would enforce such rules, if feasible, and the idea merits consideration.
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Birmingham
Lister Corcoran
Corcoran
Striking Home Goyunss Bulgaria Joke Crackdown
Word from Vienna says anti-government jokes in Bulgaria now carry penalties for the first time under the Iron Curtain government. A wisecrack could land the teller in jail and incur fines up to 43 dollars as the regime moves to stamp out political humor. The move underscores humor as a weapon of dissent in a strict regime. The piece notes that life under communism is rarely funny but jokes offer mental relief.
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Goyunss
Bulgaria
Ees
Vienna
Red Government
Lubbock Adopts Pledge Page and Rates 1964
The Lubbock Avalanche Journal quotes a pledge to the United States of America and to the public, stating One Nation under God indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all. It lists subscription rates for morning and Sunday delivery in Lubbock and outside Lubbock by carrier or mail, with multiple periods and prices, dated January 14, 1964.
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Texas
Pree Lance
Asocined
Prom
United
Prese Internatoiral
Parker F. Pruuty
A. Quy
Breeldeat
Morne Rd
Ouvide
Lubbock
Amarice
Stende
Lubbock, Tex
Meeting In No Man's Land Provokes Holy Parallels
In Jerusalem two Trans World Airlines reps Eli Atallah, a Catholic Arab born in Palestine, and Ed Frankfurt, an Austrian born Jew, met under tense conditions described as "literally under the gun" amid a high stakes exchange. The piece likens the encounter to a pope and patriarch dialogue, noting shared employer ties and unlikely future meetings.
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Bob Considine
Erusalem
Trans World Airlines
TWA
Paul
Athenagoras
Eli Atallah
Palestine
Israel
Ed Frankfurt
Mandelbaum Gate
Jerusalem
Pope Paul
Atallah
Frankfurt
Interoffice
Gordon Gilmore
Man’s Land
Franks
Athen
Jordan
Considine
Lady Bird Johnson Keeps Busy in White House Schedule
Ruth Montgomery Ashington profiles Lady Bird Johnson as she enters a full White House week. She hosts, greets staff and dignitaries, meets with officials on refurbishments, attends the State of the Union, and leads outreach to labor leaders while pursuing projects to aid distressed coal regions and poverty pockets.
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Ruth Montgomery
Ashington
America
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lady Bird Johnson
White House
Lbj
Nellie Butler
Ftestroom
Coolidge
Toinette Bachelder
Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Lady Bird
Sec. of Labor
Esther Peterson
Consumer Affairs
Johnson
Wilkes-Barre
West Virginia
LBY
Mao May Lose Grip in 1964 Says Tully Report
Andrew Tully reports diplomats foresee 1964 as a turning point with Khrushchev likely to sideline Mao Zedong. Coexistence strategy lures Communist states to trade and currencies, while China’s military resents Mao’s war gestures and may shift support to his rivals as Moscow and Peking drift apart.
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Andrew Tully
Ashingson
Nikita
Khrushchev
China
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
Chiang Kai- Shek
Tully Mao
North
Viet Nam
Mao
Mr. K
Free World
Red China
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Albania
Nikita Khrushchev
Beat Goldwater
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Penthouse Dreamed Not in Small Town Skyline
In a small town the absence of tall buildings rules out penthouse living, highlighting how local skyline limits luxury housing. The note comments on architectural scale and urban expectations shaping residents' perceptions of city life.
Roosevelt sheds 1950 from 1943 salary order
President Roosevelt redirected 1950 of his 75,000 salary to treasury in 1943 under a limit order after taxes to 25,000 a year. The October 1943 order was later struck down by Congress and applied to the single government employee with such a large salary. West Texas club at Hubber Park, Lubbock, fades as park erases itself while officials eye a future ballpark and continued baseball. Congress received a 99,769,000,000 budget for 1945, signaling wartime spending decline with anticipated postwar costs restabilizing after a European victory.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Congress
Hubber Park
West Texas-New Mexico Baseball League
Lubbock
Sam Rosenthal
West Texas
Europe
Barry Goldwater Color and Campaign Vision Commentary
Washington columnist Richard Starnes mocks the 1964 campaign scene praising Barry Goldwater as the lone vivid figure amid bland rivals. He envisions a carnival of political theater with Goldwater challenging modern voter cynicism while Rockefeller and other contenders fade into indistinguishable gray. The piece weighs Goldwater’s conviction against the GOP’s conventional politics and speculates on a hypothetical Johnson Goldwater contest.
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Sen. Goldwater
Barry
TVA
Rockefeller
Johnson
Arizona
Allies Accused Of 40 Red Berlin Violations
East Berlin's Neues Deutschland accuses Western allied patrols of 40 traffic offenses in East Berlin during the first week of the new year. The charges include speeding, failing to stop, driving the wrong way on one way streets, and other violations as the Communist party intensifies claims over four power rights.
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Berlin
UPI
Eas
Sunde
Communist Party
Neues Deutschland
East Berlin
Driv
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