Tax bill limits travel spending and duty free relief
The House Ways and Means Committee backed a five percent tax on air tickets to foreign destinations and cut duty free exemptions for returning travelers. It postponed action on Johnsons expenditure tax while aiming for a $100 million yearly balance of payments gain. A uniform 10 percent tariff on goods above exemptions was set and gift allowances drop to one dollar. Senate votes on a combination plan blending an income tax surcharge with spending cuts are anticipated, though House support is uncertain.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
U.S
Johnson
United States
John
Senate
Angry crowd forces action by firemen at High Ridge
In High Ridge Missouri an angry mob armed with guns and clubs threatened firefighters and forced them to extinguish a blaze. Assistant chief Robert Ellison said about 75 residents surrounded the scene and grabbed the hose. Firefighters faced a tag rule that forbids fighting fires at untagged homes unless lives are at risk. Police and sheriffs deputies stood by. Earlier that day crews had put out a blaze at an unprotected home where a woman and child were at risk. the child suffered smoke inhalation and the mother minor injuries.
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High Ridge
Robert Ellison
Ellison
State Highway Patrol
Jefferson County Sheriff’s
St. Louis
Yippies Scout Chicago Plan for Grant Park Festival
A Yippies scouting party met Mayor Daley in Chicago to seek camping facilities for a planned festival in Grant Park during the Democratic National Convention week. Paul Krassner said they were denied camping in parks by a park district spokesman. The group aims for a national youth festival at the lakefront park near the Amphitheatre, amid anticipated antiwar and black power protests.
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Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Grant Park
Paul Krassner
New York City
Flower People
Chicago Park District
Park District
Yippies
Youth International Party
International Amphitheatre
National Mobilization Committee
Cost of living up for fifth straight month in February
February saw a 0.3 percent rise in consumer costs and a 0.7 percent jump in wholesale prices, with food up 1.5 percent. The index climbed to 119.0, while wages averaged 104.33 dollars, aided by longer work weeks and higher hourly earnings. Medical care, housing maintenance, and auto repairs led price gains.
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Labor Department
Arnold Chase
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Indus
Mental health workers in Illinois threaten strike action
A labor union spokesman said more than 5,000 of 11,000 employees across 19 Illinois Mental Health Department institutions may strike after a vote authorized by seven units. Votes continue in others as a strike committee prepares for Saturday discussions with department leadership.
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Springfield
Illinois
Mental Health Department
Roy Wine
Illinois State Employes Union Council 34
Wine
Chicago
Harold M. Visotsky
William J. Reilly
Visotsky
Reilly
YMCA Charged With Racial Discrimination in Rentals
The U S government charged the Columbia YMCA in South Carolina with violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for refusing to rent rooms to Negroes. The suit was filed in U S District Court in Columbia.
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Washington
Young Men’s Christian Association Today
U.S. District Court
Columbia
S.C
Columbia Ymca
Justice Department
YMCA
CIA funds assist South Vietnam pacification effort
A CIA official described substantial CIA funding and equipment support for South Vietnam's pacification as transferred to the Defense Department. The program involved CIA agents and military and State personnel, with Roche alleging 50,000 workers recruited and paid by the CIA. Ambassador Komer dismissed Roche's claims as unconnected to current activities.
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Department of Defense
CIA
State Department
U.S. Information Service
New Life
Sidney J. Roche
Roche
Central Intelligence Agency
Robert W. Ko
Weather outlook for tonight and Thursday
Partly cloudy with a chance for brief thundershowers tonight. Low temperatures 50 to 55. Thursday will be partly cloudy and cooler with highs in the 60s. Weather details on map page 10.
Battle for hamlet near Saigon enters fourth day of heavy fighting
American infantry supported by tanks artillery and planes pressed the Viet Cong in the hamlet of Ap Long Mac northwest of Saigon as U S and South Vietnamese forces reported 396 enemy killed in Trang Bang area since Sunday. Allied casualties described as light with at least eight enemy dead reported in the current action.
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Saigon
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Ap Long Muc
Trang Bang
U.S
al Chang
Associated Press
Ap Long Mac
Central Highlands
Ban Me Thuot
North Vietnam
Abrams May Succeed Westmoreland to Depart Soon
Gen Creighton W Abrams may wind up his Washington visit today and return to Vietnam as Johnson weighs his replacement for Westmoreland. Abrams met with the President twice and with John son. official word on his final status and NSC attendance was unavailable. Dublin Irish Sweepstakes announced top prize winners based on the Lincolnshire Handicap at Doncaster England. WNL 65411 Bob Belcher and VAC 87627 Celeste Karl Weinberg listed as prize tickets. Mrs Katherine C Schumacher of Scranton Pa was acquitted of tampering with a jury in a related fraud case involving Krebiozen promoters.
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Washington
Pentagon
Creighton W. Abrams
Vietnam
Abrams
William C. Westmoreland
Johnson
Westmoreland
Army
White House
George Christian
Christian
Secur
Dublin
Ireland
Doncaster
England
Norton Priory
WNL
Bob Belcher
N. Walcot
Chicago
Celeste Karl Weinberg
Main Manor
du Quoin
Katherine C. Schumacher
Scranton
Krebiozen
Illinois Highway Study Commission plans $150000 information drive
The Illinois Highway Study Commission voted to hire Connors-Sager & Associates to draft a statewide campaign blueprint to win public support for a highway rebuilding program. The plan includes a speakers bureau, newspaper ads, radio and TV shorts, and press releases.
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O. T. Banton
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois Highway Study Commission
Aurora
Connors-Sager & Associates
Connors-Sager
William Watson
Lombard
Commission
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
Clark's grave concern on Vietnam policy stirs campaign
Illinois attorney general William G. Clark, the Democratic Senate nominee, voiced grave concern about U.S. Vietnam policy in a campaign release. Observers called the statement a potential trial balloon tied to Daley, while Clark asserted no Daley consultation and urged a policy review rooted in 1954 foundations.
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Chicago
William G. Clark
U.S. Senate
U.S
Vietnam
Clark
Illinois
Adlai E. Stevenson III
Johnson
Stevenson
United Nations
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Cago Tribune
Richard J. Daley
George Tagge
the Tribune
Daley
John Dreiske
The
Sun-Times
White House
John Foster Dulles
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