Tax Time Is Here not reform in sight
AP analysis notes no major overhaul in federal tax policy despite early steps in Congress. Nixon proposes elderly property relief and tuition tax credits, with debate over raising revenue via closing loopholes. Mills and McGovern spur reform chatter while Senate foes doubt rapid change. Brando misses Tahiti charity event after delayed arrival.
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Meatless Tuesdays and Thursdays urged by national boycott group
Washington AP report notes National Consumers Congress founded by 150 women pressing two meatless days weekly and a May 5 protest against high food prices. Leaders call for Earl Butz resignation, reduced meat exports, greater domestic production, and price rollbacks amid industry warnings of shortages and possible rationing.
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Grant Made For Elderly Food Service
Missouri will receive 124000 in federal grants for food and medical services serving low income elderly residents. Local agencies must submit need requests by May 25. An additional 99066 will extend transportation facilities for seniors across 33 counties.
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Mr Bumble Is Right Law Sparks Comic Debate
A quirky Ledger item notes that a California law misreads present as future and gender terms, prompting a cheeky witticism about Mr Bumble from Dickens. The piece frames the law as odd, with the headline in a playful tone reflecting legal quirks.
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Pentagon seeks 1.4 billion more for Vietnam war operations
The Pentagon requests 1.4 billion additional funds for U S bombing mining and other operations in the Vietnam war over the past nine months, bringing this year’s total to 3.7 billion. The House subcommittee will probe whether the bid covers current bombing in Cambodia and Hanoi Haiphong.
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Nixon Proposes Higher Jobless Benefits and Coverage
President Nixon asked Congress to set minimum unemployment insurance standards ensuring at least half of a worker’s average weekly wage. He urged extending coverage to about 635,000 agricultural workers with migrant safeguards and sought to remove benefits for strikers to preserve program neutrality.
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Settlement Ends Wagner Electric Strike in St Louis
Wagner Electric Co workers returned to work after a three-year contract ratified by nearly two thirds of Local 1104. The pact adds a 50 cent hourly raise, cost of living protection, and better pension and insurance benefits. A separate Pepsi Cola delivery walkout ended with drivers and vending staff resuming duties after a one day wildcat strike.
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Tax Offices Open Friday Amid State Holiday
AP reports most state revenue department tax offices stay open Friday to assist taxpayers as the filing deadline for state and federal taxes approaches on Monday. Offices in eight cities will operate Friday to help citizens with their tax issues.
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Callaway May Be Army Secretary
WASHINGTON AP Howard Bo Callaway a former one term Republican representative from Georgia is in line to become secretary of the Army congressional and Pentagon sources report Callaway now a GOP national committeeman would replace Robert F Froehlke the Army s civilian head for nearly two years Froehlke is said to be anxious to return to the insurance business in Wisconsin A boyhood friend of former Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird Froehlke came to the Pentagon as an assistant secretary of defense at the outset of the Nixon administration in 1969 and shifted to secretary of the Army in mid 1971 Laird resigned early this year and has been succeeded by Elliot L Richardson
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Bo” Callaway
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