Basic Pay Bill Becomes Law
President Johnson signed a law raising the national minimum wage to 1.60 dollars an hour by 1968 in staged increases. The White House ceremony included labor leaders and lawmakers. Johnson cited Jefferson and noted the measure aids millions of workers and minority groups without reducing employment.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Labor
Senate
House
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
House Labor Committee
Powell
Thomas Jefferson
Nelson for Washington Senate panel backs poverty bill
Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin joined 15 other Labor Committee members in approving a $24 billion authorization to extend the anti poverty program for a third year. The vote signals broad support for continuing the initiative through the next fiscal period.
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Washington
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Senate Labor Committee
May Reach Target For Adjournment
Washington AP reports Congress nears a mid October adjournment target as key bills advance to floor votes. Inflation control gun control and poverty measures moved through committees on what the Johnson administration calls the busiest day of the session. Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien termed it a major breakthrough and said daylight may be seen for adjournment soon.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
Congressional
Lawrence F. O’brien
O'Brien
B52s Hammer Reds in North Viet Nam War Drive
U S B52s bombed North Viet Nam in a fourth air raid aimed at halting infiltration into the South. Waves of bombers targeted ammunition dumps truck parks and storage depots while Viet Cong losses were reported at about 157 killed and 100 wounded in a three hour engagement near dawn.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Panhandle
Demilitarized Zone
Air Force
Navy
North
P Divison Befere
Farmer Found Dead In Tractor Tragedy At Farm
AP reports early Scott was found dead Thursday pinned under a tractor wheel in a shed on his farm east of a Oneida County community. Cause of the accident was not determined.
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Monico (Ap
Scott
Oneida County
Knowles Blames Rivals For Low Primary Vote
Wisconsin Governor Knowles blamed Democratic rivals for a weak primary turnout. He argued the four candidates failed to generate compelling issues despite campaigning. He declined debate with Lt. Gov Lucey and touted state actions on vocational education traffic safety and water resources.
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Madison
Warren P. Knowles
Wisconsin
Knowles
Patrick J. Lucey
Lyndon B Johnson
Lucey
Robert F. Kennedy
Dn.y
Johnson
Kennedys
Lacey
Governors And Johnson Study Economy Progress Report
President Johnson convenes governors for a briefing on stabilizing the economy. White House would not disclose invitees or details of the 11 30 a m session. Johnson urges labor restraint, business price stability, and government efficiency while Ways and Means backs suspending most of the 7 percent investment credit and two rapid depreciation rules for buildings until year end 1967.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
House Ways and Means Committee
LBJ
Passenger Train Strikes Cattle Herd Near Eden Wisconsin
Sixteen cattle owned by Lawrence Koenigs were killed when a northbound North Western Railway passenger train struck a herd being herded across tracks near Eden in Fond du Lac County. No injuries to train occupants were reported.
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Eden
Wis
Lawrence Koenigs
Fond du Lac
North Western Railway
Park Longevity Suggested To Aid Teens In Ritter Park
Juvenile Court Judge Russell L. Daugherty in Huntingdon West Virginia urges park commissioners to keep Ritter Park open beyond midnight. He argues teenagers need a public place to park and that parking is as much a part of teen life as anything else they might do.
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Huntingdon
W. Va
UPI
Juvenile Court
Russell L. Daugherty
Ritter Park
Daugherty
U N denounces Goldberg Viet Nam peace proposals
At the United Nations General Assembly Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko demanded immediate withdrawal of all U S forces as the only path to peace. He dismissed Arthur Goldberg s latest peace plan as a part of a so called peace offensive and urged unconditional bombing cessation and ally troop withdrawal from South Vietnam.
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United Nations, N.Y
Soviet Union
U.S. Viet Nam
U.S
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
Viet Nam
Democratic Republic of
United States
South
Bayonet Found Near Scene Of Foes
Kenilworth police chief says a bayonet found in Lake Michigan could be the weapon in the stabbing death of Valerie Percy. A Chicago crime lab tech found no blood or fingerprints on the Army type bayonet, which had nicks and a 1 inch blade.
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Percy
Coast Guard
Lake Michigan
Kenilworth
Charles H. Percy
Valerie
UPI
Anilworth
Valerie Percy
Chicago Police Crime Laboratory
Irwin Haviland
The
Crime Laboratory
Chicago Fire Kills Seven in Crowded Apartment Blaze
A fierce Chicago apartment fire trapped seven people and injured at least four others. Parents hurled frightened children from windows as flames swept a three story building near midnight. Firefighters used ladders and hoses to rescue residents and extinguish the blaze.
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Chicago
Persom
UPD
Michael Reese Hospital
Mary Williamson
Edgar J. Bedar Jr
Robert Juhm
Jus
Cosa Nostra Bosses Held After Major Queens Raid
A New York State Supreme Court justice set bail at 1.2 million total for 13 Cosa Nostra bosses arrested in a Thursday roundup described as the largest since the 1957 Apalachin crackdown. Bail of 100000 each, with all held as material witnesses in Queens County as investigators pursue major crimes. The defendants were remanded when they could not post bond, after dining at La Stella in Forest Hills.
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New York
Supreme Court
Cosa Nostra
National
Underworld
Joseph Valachi
Joseph M. Conroy
Queens County
Sanford Garelik
Apalachin
N.Y
la Stella
Forest Hills
Strikers Defy Back-to-Work Order at AMC
Several hundred workers gathered outside American Motors Corp body plant in Milwaukee defying Walter Reuther's order to return to work. The walkout began after disciplinary actions against a union steward and affected 2,700 at the Milwaukee plant and 3,000 at Kenosha, with a Brampton Ontario plant also joining. Reuther labeled the walkout unauthorized and in violation of union rules.
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Amc
Milwaukee
American Motors Corp
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
America
Kenosha
Brampton, Ont
Reuther
International Uaw
Wisconsin Wins National Award For Road Beauty
Wisconsin named state winner of the 1966 Keep America Beautiful award for reducing litter. Highway cleanup costs dropped from 474000 in 1963 to 383940 last year. Award to be presented in New York City by Keep America Beautiful Inc. Governor Warren P. Knowles announced the honor with Thomas E. Branagan of Appleton.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Warren P. Knowles
Knowles
New York City
Keep America Beautiful, Inc
Thomas E. Branagan
Appleton
Warplane Order Boosted by 280 Planes in 1968 Budget
Secretary of Defense McNamara announced 280 additional warplanes for fiscal 1968 at a cost of 700 million dollars. Most will go to the Navy due to higher loss rates, as overall Viet Nam aircraft losses and sortie numbers adjust. Pentagon figures show 505 U.S. planes downed to date with 83 in the North and 122 in the South. further production is to be funded from open or new production lines, with potential supplemental funding sought later.
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Washington
Johnson Administration
Viet Nam
Robert S. McNamara
Navy
Defense
Pentagon
U.S
North
McNamara
Defense Department
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