Negative image hurts drives to recruit Negro policemen
A nationwide AP survey finds slow progress in increasing Black officers in major U.S. cities. Chicago leads with about 25 percent Negro officers, Philadelphia about 20 percent, while others like Washington D C struggle to reach similar shares amid competition from federal jobs and lingering negative police images.
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Senate Revisits LBJ Anticrime Bill Firearm Controls
Washington AP The Senate Judiciary Committee reconsiders President Johnson's anticrime bill amid a firestorm over firearms sales control. Key figures Sen James Eastland and Sen Thomas Dodd clash with Sen Roman Hruska over whether the April 4 action bans or merely regulates handguns in interstate mail order sales while also addressing imports of military surplus handguns and regulation of bazookas mortars and similar devices.
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Wives of Wounded Want Air Discount To Honolulu
Wives of wounded servicemen may fly to Honolulu from the mainland at a $35 discount. The Air Transport Command seeks Civil Aeronautics Board approval for families of men on rest and recuperation leave from Vietnam. A Tripler Army Hospital pilot said his wife could not get the discount despite his injury seven days before his leave.
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Overtime Parking Ticket Paid With One Dollar Note
Police in Laramie Wyoming received a one dollar bill in the mail to settle an overtime parking ticket. A note attached praised the efficiency of the Laramie Police Department and said the ticket was issued while the sender was at City Hall paying another.
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