Tax Relief May Be Ace In Hole
Washington AP report says Nixon may use tax relief as a fiscal lever if 1973 economy lags. Quadriad advisers Burns McCracken Connally Shultz weigh reinstating investment credit speeding tax cuts delaying Social Security tax base rise to spur growth. Fed cautious about inflation risk, decision likely by late spring or early summer.
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Vote at 18 Amendment Clears Senate in Push to House
The Senate approved a constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 in all elections by a 94 to 0 vote. It would enable about 11 million 18 to 21 year olds to vote everywhere if ratified by 38 of 50 states. Birch Bayh urged quick House action before next year’s elections while a separate DC representation amendment was defeated 68 to 23.
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Kentucky
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District of Columbia
Hanoi delegates skip talks in Vietnam peace mission
Paris AP reports three of the four chief Vietnam peace talks delegates stayed away. Xuan Thuy protests Nixon threats, boycotting again. Nguyen Thi Binh heads to Romania, Dang Lam is indisposed. Only U.S. Ambassador Bruce attended with a brief prepared speech urging serious discussion.
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Vietnam
Xuan Thuy
North Vietnam
Nixon
Nguyen Thi Binh
Romania
Thuy
Phar
Dang Lam
South Vietnam
U.S
David K. E. Bruce
Senate approves measure in race for 1972 election
AP reports Senate approval 94 to 0 with House passage anticipated soon. Other dispatches cover a former general’s deadline to explain finances linked to alleged corrupt schemes on Army bases in Vietnam and EU space leaders debating America’s role in space exploration amid cooperation talks.
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Washington
Vietnam
United States
US planning out in B52 bombers
Washington reports the United States will cut its B52 bomber force in Indochina by about one third next year. Air Force reshuffles aim to reduce sorties from about 1,000 a month, with 15 B52s to return to Carswell AFB Texas by March 31, 1972, as part of a wider force reduction and dispersal program to lessen missile vulnerability.
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Ecology bill heard in Missouri House panel
Jefferson City AP The House Environment and Natural Resources Committee heard the final Schramm ecology package creating a solid waste disposal bureau within the Board of Health. The substitute would remove the non returnable beverage container section and let counties set disposal rules, with a 10 cent tax to fund the program.
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House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
House
Schramm
1000 MPH Train Plan To Be Studied
MENLO PARK Calif AP The federal government funds research into a passenger train reaching 1000 miles per hour in a tube of thin air with magnetic propulsion The plan includes a 121337 dollar Transportation Department grant to Stanford Research Institute for a feasibility study The study covers magnetic lift guidance and cooling to near absolute zero and tests a one fifth scale model over about a year The aim is a safe quiet pollution free ride using a linear induction motor with the train suspended above a guideway
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St Paul Church meal to aid indebtedness Friday
Members of the St Paul CME Church sponsor a turkey dinner in the courthouse auditorium Friday starting at 11 a.m. Proceeds go toward church indebtedness. General chairman is William H Patterson with planning committee Oscar P Payne Virgil Vance and Mrs C A Trotter. Serving runs until 3 p.m.
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Explosion Damages Salem Auto Salvage Office
Authorities probe an explosion that heavily damaged the front area of an auto salvage company building four miles north of Salem Missouri on Route 19. No injuries were reported.
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Salem, Mo
Highway Patrol
Salem
Brain Radio May Help Deaf Blind
SAN ANTONIO. A Yale scientist says small brain implant receivers may in the future give sound to some deaf people and light to some blind people. Dr. Jose Delgado described brain pacemaker implants that stimulate hearing or light sensing brain areas, with hopes for intelligible signals and none of the device turning people into robots.
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Tumor Removal After Woman Grows To 8 Feet
Delores Pollard Johnson, 24, of DeQuincy Louisiana, was reported in satisfactory condition after a seven hour operation at Methodist Hospital in Houston. Surgeons removed a brain tumor and the pituitary gland, which had been driving excessive growth hormone production. She had grown to 8 feet 2 inches and 430 pounds due to the tumor.
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Houston
Tex
Louisiana
Delores Pollard Johnson
DeQuincy
Methodist Hospital
Baylor College of Medicine
Rapid 10 percent Social Security hike aims for quick passage
Democratic leaders seek to attach a 10 per cent Social Security benefit rise to a Senate debt- limit bill, advancing the benefit increase months ahead of Nixon plan. The move would split Social Security from welfare, easing public pressure and pushing action through the Senate by Friday and possible House timing weeks later.
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Senate
House
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means
Ways and
Congress agrees to retroactive Social Security boost proposal
Congress moves to retroactively apply Social Security increases to the last law as welfare reform leaves time for more consideration. President Nixon seeks a 6 percent rise, but leaders expect a 10 percent boost if included in the debt-limit bill to furnish needed borrowing power for government obligations.
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Nixon
Judge Frees Tulsa Woman in Self Defense Shooting
Dist Court Judge Robert Simms ruled Martha Boyce innocent of first degree manslaughter for killing intruder Odell Eugenie McDaniel, a 7 year old in the housebreak attempt, calling the death justifiable homicide. Police said McDaniel, a former convict, tried doors, then kicked in a kitchen door. Boyce, with her baby, fired a .22 pistol. McDaniel died later at a hospital. The case follows burglaries at Boyce’s home.
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Okla
Dist
Robert Simms
Martha Boyce
Odell Eugenie McDaniel
McDaniel
Boyce
Officials return pistol to widow after brief trial
After a brief Wednesday trial, officials discharged a man who faced a lary charge and returned Mrs. Boyce's pistol to her, concluding the proceedings.
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Vatican Issues Rules On Priests
The Vatican barred ex priests from most duties, allowing only hearing and death bed confessions when no other priest is available. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued Jan 13 curbs on liturgical service, preaching, pastoral duties, and church administration for those unfrocked, while streamlining the process to leave the priesthood.
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Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith
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