Election Bill Faces Doubts as Senate Hearings Open
President Johnson’s campaign finance bill encounters stiff questions in Senate Finance Committee hearings. Comptroller General Staats and Treasury official Barr testify as lawmakers debate public financing limits, private contributions, and tax-deductible campaign costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Elmer B. Staats
Joseph W. Barr
the Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Barr
Albert Gare
D-Tenn
Gore
Six Army enlisted men die in Little League field accident
At a Washington suburb Little League field six Army soldiers raising a flagpole were struck by a live 7200 volt line when the pole toppled. Investigators say the men died almost instantly as rescuers were kept back until power lines could be cut. The victims were part of Ft Belvoir based personnel preparing the field for local youth teams.
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Springfield
Iwo Jima
Washington
Ft. Belvoir
William Enos
Virginia
Little League Field
Army Base
Pleads Guilty To Fire Trespass In Forest Area
Ray Juen of El Paso pleaded guilty to fire trespass charged by U.S. Forest Service officers. A.L. Connor assessed a $75 fine for entering a closed area, building an open campfire in an undeveloped space without a permit. Incident reported May 7.
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Ray Juen
el Paso
U.S. Forest Service
U.S
A.L. Connor
Juen
Prison Board to Meet Santa Fe for Warden Nomination
The New Mexico Prison Board plans a June 19 meeting at the state penitentiary to name a successor to the late Harold Cox who died last year in Florida.
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Prison Board
Santa FE
New Mexico
Defense chief orders halt to military drinking rituals
Secretary McNamara directs immediate investigation of initiation ceremonies across services with a June 15 report deadline. He calls for termination of hazardous practices after Lt Ronald Greer Reeves died at Fort Bragg in a so called prop blast. Reeves drank alcohol before collapsing. a coroner ruled the death accidental. Fort Bragg officials note prop blasts began in World War II and vary by unit rules.
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Washington
Defense Roberts
McNamara
Army
Navy
Air Force
Ronald Greer Reeves
Reeves
Clemson University
Bragg
N.C
Fr. Bragg
Ft. Bragg
Airborne
John L. Throckmorton
18Th Airborne Corps
Secretary of the Army
Stanley R. Resor
Harold K. Johnson
Army Chief of Staff
Missing 1963 pickup sighted in Silver City
Silver City Police search for a 1963 pickup reported stolen this morning from Robert Bryant of 1601 North Bullard Street. The white ladder rack and white cab truck is missing. anyone with information contacted the Silver City Police Department.
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Silver City
Robert Bryant
North Bullard Street
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ED Foreman
Las Cruces
New Mexico Extension Homemakers Council
New Mexico State University
By John Chadwick Washington
Johnson
Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Charles P. Oliver
Vermilion
Ohio
Kenneth G. Steiner
St. Ann
Marvin D. Harrison
Jacksonville
Pla
Paul D. Briggs
Waco
Tex
Anthony B. Evans
Uniontown
Charles M. Whaleyn
Aberdeen
Iowa Jima
Bob Ramey
Los
H & H Block Co
Deming
N. Mex
Hurley
Bayard
Central
Ed Head
Tom Hartigan
Linda Vista
Sly
Silver Vista Corp
Bullard
N. Gold
Glen E. Smith
Bayard, New Mexico
Bill Tait
John Roberts Motors
John Roberts
BUICK
Pontiac
GMC Trucks
OPEL
Swan Street
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