Congress and Johnson Clash as New Fiscal Year Opens
Washington reports the new fiscal year starts with the administration and Congress at odds over red or black ink. Fiscal 1966 closed in the red, with deficits estimated at 2.5 to 2.9 billion dollars, while Treasury hints last year’s deficit could drop near 3 billion.
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Joseph R. Coyne Washington
Congress
Johnson
Senate House Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Treasury Department
U S Planes Hit Fuel Depot as Vietnam War Drags On
U S pilots struck another North Vietnamese fuel depot near Hai Phong to choke supplies for trucks bound for the south. The Dong Nham depot held about 14 000 metric tons of fuel. On the ground American troops pushed back a Viet Cong unit toward the Cambodian border 60 miles northwest of Saigon amid heavy fighting near An Loc. Three U S fighter bombers accidentally dropped anti personnel bombs on a village, killing five civilians and wounding 41. helicopters evacuated the wounded.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U. S
Dong Nham
Haiphong
An Loc
Market Rally Gains Steam In Early Trading
The stock market rally gathered pace in moderately active trading. The Dow Jones industrial average stood at noon about 9.13 points higher at 879.23 as gains broadened across the market.
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New York
Credit pitfalls in installment buying for young couples
George Willshite and two Herrin credit experts warn that young couples with modest incomes can fall into heavy debt via installment plans. King helps a family of six with a $325 take home, allocating about $120 monthly to creditors while the rest funds living costs. Young notes high approval rates and low default, but stresses budgeting, careful contract signing, and education through schools and the 1965 Agriculture Yearbook guidance.
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George Willshite
Herrin
Billy Joe King
Illinois Financial Service
King
Dave Young
Bank of Herrin
Young
Illinois
Department of Agriculture
Bank of Herrin’s Young
Yearbook of Agriculture
Superintendent of Documents
Washington, D.C
Consumers All
Credit Bureaus
Johnson Vows Raids Until Peace Talks Open
President Johnson warned Hanoi that U S air raids will continue in North Viet Nam as long as Communist leaders refuse to negotiate. He offered direct talks without an agenda or commitments to speed end to fighting and stressed resolve to stand with South Viet Nam. The U N Security Council noted oil facility bombings as necessary to slow infil-tration and Quakers held a silent Senate gallery protest.
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Johnson
Hanoi
United States
Viet Nam
U. S
North
Nebraska
Iowa
South Viet Nam
Jonason
U. N. Security Council
Senate
Congress
Tokyo Rally Against Bombing Draws 2700 Protesters
About 2,700 left supporters gathered in Tokyo to protest U S bombing in the Hanoi Haiphong arc. The demonstration, sponsored by the Japan Socialist party and Sokyo Labor Confederation, ended with some clashes with police.
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U. S
Hanoi- Haiphong
Japan Socialist Party
Sokyo Labor Confederation
Duplication Of Tragedy In Fairfield Three Children Drowned
In Fairfield Maine three young children were found drowned at home. Police plan a murder warrant against mother Constance Fisher 37. Father Carl Fisher 45 found the bodies. a prior similar drowning of three children involving the same mother occurred in 1942. Fisher wife taken to Thayer Hospital Waterville with empty pill boxes found and a note recovered.
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Constance Fisher
Carl Fisher
Bus Crash Kills Eleven Migrant Workers in Alabama
A converted school bus carrying migrant farm workers plunged off a 35 foot embankment near Ozark Alabama killing at least 11 people including two children and injuring more than a dozen others. The victims were all Black and traveling from Orlando Florida and Missouri to cane fields work.
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Highway Patrol
Ozark
U.S
Orlando
Fla
Missouri
France quits NATO posts and redefines alliance role
President Charles de Gaulle orders withdrawal of about 2000 officers and men from NATO military commands. France keeps flag at Paris post while troops in West Germany move out from integrated control. Allied planning continues amid uncertainty over future French participation and base status.
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France
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Charles de Gaulle
West Germany
NATO
Europe
Paris
de Gaulle
A5th Quake Strikes Tashkent Worsening City Crisis
The Soviet Asian city of Tashkent suffered the 525th earthquake since April 26. More than 300,000 residents, about a quarter of the 1.1 million population, have been left homeless while casualty figures remain incomplete.
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Moscow
Tashkent
Virginia Ends Pre Civil War Bond Payments
Virginia has begun paying off the last pre Civil War bonds dating to 1820. A total of 505 000 dollars matured today with a 1942 sinking fund sufficient to retire them. The state still owes about 376 000 tied to other obligations and Civil War era bonds are excluded by the 14th Amendment. The 1866 debt was settled over time with West Virginia sharing one third of the burden and the final serial 2 percent bonds now retired.
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Virginia
Richmond
Commonwealth of Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
West Virginia
U. S. Supreme Court
Lunar Explorer Rockets Toward Moon Orbit From Cape Kennedy
The Lunar Explorer spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy at 11:02 p.m. CDT aboard a three stage Delta rocket aiming for a 74 hour 246000 mile journey to lunar orbit. If successful it would be Americas first lunar orbiting payload and test shielding and solar wind effects on astronauts. The mission seeks to map the moon environment and assess magnetic shielding potential for crewed missions.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Moon
America
Russia
Hope Fades For Surveyor 1 In Moon Mission
Pasadena experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory report Surveyor 1 is unresponsive after two command signals. The 620 pound craft stopped sending images during the two week lunar night when temperatures fell to 260 degrees below zero. Officials say battery or equipment damage from the extreme cold is possible as they continue attempts to revive the camera on America's first soft landing on the moon.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Surveyor
United States
Moon
Group Buys Florida Paper by Lindsay Schaub Group
Byron Vedder of Lindsay Schaub announces that Press Publications Inc. will acquire the New Port Richey Press, a weekly, effective July 1. Lindsay Schaub Florida, Inc. buys the plant and assets. W. H. Thomas, editor and publisher, retires after sale.
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Florida
Lindsay- Schaub
Byron Vedder
New Port Richey Press
Press Publications, Inc
Lindsay- Schaub Newspapers, Inc
Lindsay- Schaub Florida, Inc
Port Richey Press
W. H. Thomas
Weather outlook with warm temps and isolated thundershowers
The forecast calls for mostly clear to partly cloudy skies with continued warmth and scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms through Sunday. Tonight, lows near 70s, Saturday highs in the 90s, with a regional map and details.
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