Senate splits on tax bill as special session looms
State senators battled over a house approved tax package to raise sales taxes, then defeated it 13 to 18. Lt Governor Preston Smith warned no bill exists, hinting a second special session to resolve 1969 fiscal issues. A Schwartz amendment would lift the corporate franchise tax to boost revenue.
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Garti Jones Austin
Senate
Aflerwiatra
Preston Smith
John Connally
Dallas
Lions International
House
Bill Patman
Ganado
A. R. Schwartz
Galveston
Schwartz
Charles Wilson
Lufkin
Driving Underwriting Faces Back Seat In Insurance
Senate subcommittee heard testimony alleging insurers factor personal traits such as marital status income and neighborhood into auto premiums. Fred Iser Jasper owner of Jaspers Reports claimed to publish data on race religion finances and police records used to justify high rates. The hearing linked consumer profiling to underwriting practices and raised questions about ethics and legality.
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Chicago
Eerie
Senate
Fred Iser
Jasper
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Philip A. Hart
D-Michs
Hart
Time heals all wounds as flag comes down on Iwo Jima
Marine veteran Col Miller Blue of San Diego recalls the 1945 siege as U S and Japanese forces hand over Iwo Jima and the Volcano Islands to Japan. Maj Paul Gerber transfers command to Cmdr Kajuun Sakamoto as the Stars and Stripes is lowered and the Rising Sun is raised. See IWO JIMA Page 15.
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U.S
Col. Miller Blue
San Diego
Calif
Central Pacific
Japan
Washington
Tokyo
Paul Gerber
U.S. Air Force
Cmdr
Kaju UN Sakamoto
Mt. Suribachi
City Council rejects Q zoning plan tightens strip rules
Lubbock council rejects its own plan for professional offices on Avenue Q and approves dance halls in C-4 zoning. They also authorize commercial development on a large southwest tract while hearing on widening Avenue Q proceeds.
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Jerry McCarty
Avalanche-Journal
Avenue Q
Lubbock
Clovis Road
22Nd Street
Spooksman
Leroy Elmore
Fred West
Loop 289
Quaker Avenue
Morris W. Turner
Floyd Honey
Turner
Elmore
Jack Eastman
82Nd Street
Indiana Avene
Planning and Zoning Commission
Eastman
Apollo 101 Gets Go For 1968 Orbit Mission
Space officials approved the Apollo 101 design to carry three astronauts into orbit later this year after an eight day test of the 2TV-1 model showed no constraints on thermal structure or systems. Astronauts Kerwin Brand and Engle described the craft as a clean bird and a comfortable spacecraft. The team completed 186 hours just shy of eight days in a vacuum chamber simulating space temperatures.
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Paul Recer Space Center
Houston
Wally Schirra
Joseph Kerwin
101
Kerwin
Vance ‘Brand
Joe Engle
Outer Space
Joe Kotanchik
Istructures and Mechanics Division
Manned Spacecraft Center
San Antonio
Brand
EVEN BANKERS High Fashion Trends Aid Varied Lines
Fashion preview notes designers’ fall collections shaping belts and closures with hidden fastenings. Pearl strands return as black dresses shift to bold geometric colors, while belts regain prominence in the design landscape. See HIGH FASHION Page 15.
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New York
Fortas Nominated for Chief Justice and Thornberry for Court
President Johnson named Abe Fortas for chief justice and Homer Thornberry for the Supreme Court to fill Warren's vacancy. Fortas would be the first Jewish chief justice. both nominees are liberals. Republicans discuss possible filibuster as confirmation faces Senate scrutiny.
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Associated Press
Washington
Johnson
Abe Fortas
Earl Warren
Supreme Court
Homer Thornberry
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Congress
Fortas
United States
Thornberry
High Court
Warren
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Daily Prayer Remembers Duty to Help Others
A short prayer asks God to aid the writer in serving and helping a poor soul each day and night. An editor's note invites readers to share up to 60 words of their own favorite prayers.
Horrors Of Drug Use Painted At Meet In Texas
A West Texas law enforcement seminar exposed grim drug abuse cases from marijuana cookies to mescaline labs. Agent J. W. Hand of Dallas warned Texas is a leading illicit drug producer and that addiction does not determine danger. See HORRORS OF DRUG Page 6.
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Meet
J. W. Hand
Dallas
West Texas
Texas
United States
Transatlantic police smash vast heroin ring
US and French authorities arrested five men and seized 22.4 million dollars worth heroin hidden in a French car. Prosecutors say 730 kilograms were smuggled into the United States over three years worth 146 million dollars, with six others sought including an unnamed banker.
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New York
Atlantic
Washington
Ramsey Clark
Paris
United States
France
Middle
Far East
Hunt
Midnight Rescue Saves Sailor Edith Baumann
RAMSTEIN Germany UPS reports U S planes guided the French maintenance ship Henri Poincare through stormy seas to a midnight rescue of Edith Baumann a West German sailor adrift in a 36 foot sailboat The C130 Hercules kept contact and Miss Baumann boarded the Henri Poincare over the radio anchorages not detailed in the source
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Germany
UPS
U.S
Edith Baumann
U.S. Air Force
Henri Poincare
Miss Baumann
Marines pull out of Khe Sanh after 77 day siege
U S Marines begin withdrawal from Khe Sanh combat base amid mounting enemy pressure and a shift in Vietnam strategy. Command cites gains in friendly strength and firepower alongside increased enemy replacement flows as factors. Landing Zone Stud becomes new western anchor as siege ends. two rebuilt North Vietnamese regiments are reported moving toward Saigon.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
U.S
Khe Sanh
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Khe Sanhs
Weather Map Page Southwest Weather Display
Regional map shows cities including Vik City Abilene El Paso Albuquerque Houston Amano Oklahoma City Dallas Clovis Denver and Walls with numeric codes likely temperatures or identifiers. The fragment hints at a broader forecast grid across the Southwest region.
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Abilene
el Paso
Albuquerque
Houston Amano
Okla
Dallas
Clovis I
Denver
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