House Nears Showdown On Poll Tax
The House liberal bloc pushes to add a flat ban on poll taxes to the voting rights bill. The Rules Committee plans floor action by July, with split sentiment between banning the tax and allowing court challenges. Administration backing favors court challenges. supporters cite broad evidence of discrimination.
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House Judiciary Committee
House
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Congress
Johnson
Nicholas de B. Katzenbach
Assembly Passes Revenue Plan Remap Fight Goes Down To Wire
Springfield report on the 74th General Assembly as late night sessions brace for final reapportionment. Republicans warn of overreach while Democrats push a House map. Congress delegation arrives to press for congressional reapportionment. Illinois Supreme Court may step in if stalled. Speaker Touhy disputes with Arrington as GOP predicts 82 to 84 seats and Democrats 93 to 95 in the next House.
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Ralph H. Johnson
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
74Th General Assembly
House
Senate
Illinois
Illinois Supreme Court
Harris Rowe
Jacksonville
John Touhy
Sen. Arrington
Leslie Jones
Flora
Bills Await Final Action in Illinois Legislature
Major bills facing the Illinois Legislature include reapportionment of legislative and congressional districts, higher taxes on gasoline cigarettes and utilities, leasing tax on equipment, and powers for cities to double sales tax and levy on alcohol tobacco and beer. Other measures seek bigger state police forces higher minimum salaries for police and firefighters wiretap authorization increased school aid.
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Illinois
Illinois House Advances Revenue Amendment To Include Income Tax
Illinois lawmakers push a constitutional revenue article adding a 3 to 6 percent income tax while preserving Cook County real estate classification. House passage opens the measure for Senate approval and a 1966 voter referendum. Other actions include term limits for sheriffs and treasurers, a school superintendent appointment plan, and home rule charters for counties. The Senate moves swiftly on bills as Lt. Gov. Shapiro shells through bills with gavel and little debate.
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Springfield
Illinois Senate
Cook County
Senate
House
Ralph H. Johnson
Lindsay-Schaub
Legislative
Illinois House
Revene
Sam Shapiro
D-Kankakee
Shapiro
Sen
Alan Dixon
Belleville
Washington County
Illinois House approves master plan for junior colleges
The Illinois House completed final action on three bills to create a statewide master plan for junior colleges and send them to Gov. Otto Kerner who backed the measure. The bills authorize state aid to public junior colleges and propose a governing board to oversee the program.
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Springfield
Illinois House
Senate
Otto Kerner
Showers for Southern Illinois Forecast Tonight
Partly cloudy to cloudy with little temperature change. Showers and thunderstorms affect 30 to 50 percent of the area tonight. Low around 70. Thursday showers end and a cooler high 85 to 90. Weather details Map page 22.
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Illinois
Encircled Viet Nam Troops Fight Way From Viet Cong Trap
A large government force fighting its way to safety amid a Viet Cong attack 200 miles northeast of Saigon. An infantry unit was surrounded and engaged while another command post was in danger of being overrun. Air sorties and jet losses were reported as battles raged in Phu Bon Province and near Da Nang.
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Viet Nam
U.S
Coral Sea
Oriskany
Vinh
Hanoi
da Nang
Air Force
Phu Bon
Republicans urge LBJ De Gaulle meeting and NATO plan
Four House Republicans returning from Paris urged President Johnson to visit Europe to meet De Gaulle and proposed a NATO planning conference with 15 nations. They called for coordinating French and American nuclear capabilities and for a diplomatic NATO standing group to unite nonmilitary issues.
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House
Paris
Johnson
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States
NATO
de Gaulle
France
Free World
Washington
Hitt Wins Senate Confirmation for SIU Board
The Illinois Senate confirmed F. Guy Hitt of Benton to the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees to succeed John Page Wham for a term ending in 1971. The chamber also reappointed Robert Schneider as agriculture director and Howard McWard as assistant director.
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Senate
Robert Schneider
Howard McWard
NAACP Leaders Criticize War on Poverty as Paternalism
At the 56th NAACP convention in Denver, Herbert Hill calls the war on poverty a white welfare policy with a BB shot against poverty, while Roy Wilkins urges turning the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into action to resolve the roots of inequality, including Title 7 to outlaw job discrimination.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Herbert Hill
NAACP
Roy Wilkins
Wilkins
Warden Supplies 100 Foot High Roast With Provisions
A warden stacks a dramatic 100 foot roast with bread peanut butter candy bars cigarettes and ample water. The vivid setup underscores a staged event or display described in the fragment.
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