National News Briefs 3 2 Vote Extends Board Life
In a 3 2 Senate vote with only five present, the Subversive Activities Control Board gains a one year lease on life and heads to President Johnson for signature. The five voting members were Dirksen Ervin Bible Proxmire Gore, with Proxmire and Gore on the losing side. The board, tasked with identifying Communist controlled groups, has seen hearings dwindle and is paid $26,000 annually.
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Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Albert Gore
Tennessee
Sam J. Ervin Jr
North Carolina
Alan Bible
Nevada
Dirksen
Ervin
Bible
Proxmire
Gore
Supreme Court
Social Security Bill Passes Senate in 62 to 14 Vote
The Senate approved a sweeping Social Security measure sending it to President Johnson. It raises benefits by 3.6 billion annually and payroll taxes by 1.5 billion with 13 percent increases for 24 million beneficiaries starting in 1969, while welfare curbs face opposition and promises of future tweaks.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Rooney Divorced After Brief Las Vegas Marriage
Actor Mickey Rooney, 47, and sixth wife Margaret, 46, divorced in Los Angeles after she testified the marriage of two months was terrible and Rooney’s love lasted briefly. They wed Sept 10, 1966 in Las Vegas. The settlement awarded her a car and 350 dollars monthly for a year.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Rooney
Margaret
Hope greets Nixon during holiday Pacific trek
Bob Hope, en route to entertain troops in the Pacific, visited Richard Nixon in a television studio. Nixon opposed widening the Vietnam ground war with the hot pursuit concept. Hope joked about pursuing a golf ball and quipped that Nixon had changed makeup men.
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Hollywood
Pacific
Bob Hope
Richard M. Nixon
Hope
Vietnam
Northwestern survey shows higher pay for 1968 graduates
Evanston Illinois AP reports that business and industry will hire more college graduates at higher salaries in 1968 than ever before, according to a Northwestern University survey released today.
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Evanston, Ill
Northwestern University
Library To Be Repaired Soon
The Carnegie Free Library board approved a about 2500 repair project to fix ground floor structural faults. The work will add support to floor joists as dead load from people and books is cited. Start within 20 to 30 days, contractors to discuss plans and costs.
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Carnegie Free
Library Board
There’s Always Next Week It’s Been A Bad Week For Dean Rouse
Ottawa Junior High School faced a week of illness with up to 25 percent of its 676 students absent due to colds and flu. A water leak from a ruptured Was ter line flooded the furnace room, cooling temperatures and delaying classes. Principal Royse and Superintendent Forker decided to close the building this morning, turning away students. Officials expect normal operations to resume by this evening and plan for Christmas vacation start next week for all district pupils.
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Marvin P. Forker
Ottawa
In Hat
Dean Rouse
Ottawa Junior
Scott Payne
Dean Royse
Marvin P
Forker
Royse
Fifth
South Main
Ottawa Boys' Club Seeks City and Federal Aid
Ottawa Boy s Club plans a 5300 000 building but has only about 518 000 raised from a local drive. The group asked the city commission for help linking with the housing agency so federal funds could cover the deficit, with city backing pledged.
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Ottawa Boys’ Club
Otetawa City Commission
Guy Briscoe
City Recreation Commission
Housing and Urban Development Agency
Don Capper
Housing and Urban Organization
Flu concerns dot Ottawa area schools amid rising absences
Ottawa schools report rising student absences due to a flu like illness. Garnett and Garnett High note scattered cases of scarlet fever like illness, with Irving School monitoring fever and symptoms. Longsfellow and Holy Angels parochial report several flu absences while Central Heights West and area districts assess overall impact.
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Ottawa
Garnett
Irving School
Irwin Figgs
Figgs
Darlene Olson
Anderson County
Irving
Probelem
Elmer Burton
Longs
Ain
Central Heights
Where The Fines Go Help a child today
A county speeding scheme assigns fines from speed tickets to the county treasurer for redistribution to local schools. Judge Don White collects the penalties, Velma Powers then sends cash to school districts. Last year county residents contributed $14,482. this year about $13,000 so far with 15 speeding days until Jan 1, 1968.
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Don White
Velma
Weather County Forecast Cloudy and cold with light winds
Cloudy and cold tonight with light north or northeast winds. Saturday mostly cloudy with some temperature moderation and a slight chance of light snow. Low tonight 15 to 20. High Saturday mid 30s. Also notes on record highs and lows for this date and 0.04 inch precipitation in the last 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Hourly temps ending at 8 a.m. today.
LBJ Sends Photos To Ottawa School Friends
Two 11 year old boys Steve Whitacre and Steven Curry wrote to President Johnson. Johnson replied with a photograph of himself and his wife and a booklet about the White House. The boys say the President is a nice guy and hopes he stays in office to stop the war.
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Rosie Lister
Johnson
Ottawa
Steve Whitacre
Steven Curry
Steve W
Steven C
White House
Washington, D.C
Lynda
Luci
Juanella
D Roberts
Steven
LBJ
Ateso
Steven. C
Steve. W
Robert Whitacre
Ash
Steven.c
Bill Curry
Olive
Eugene Field School
Weather Breaks and US Raids Over Hanoi
U S waves planes resumed raids on key bridges toward Hanoi for a second day while Red China reports many planes raiding the capital. An American and a Communist plane were downed in the Sal. Saigon government announces a 24 hour Christmas truce starting 6 pm and says it may extend for New Year and Tet. The Viet Cong had earlier said it would observe three days of rest around Christmas and New Year.
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Saigon
U.S
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Red China
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