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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1967
Page
5
President Johnson approved a two-year extension of the War on Poverty, granting governors and mayors local program control. The measure allocates 1.98 billion for fiscal 1968 and 2.18 billion for fiscal 1969 with full local control starting February 1969. Johnson signed aboard his travel route from Cam Ranh Bay to Karachi.
UPI reports the New Orleans Police Department planned a Christmas season test of a new Intoximeter after reporter Jack Dempsey consumed multiple drinks to prove the device worked. The machine failed to register any alcohol for Dempsey, though a sober colleague did register a zero. Police then vowed not to test on newsmen again and ordered a new unit.
Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas warned a tax increase remains possible next year if inflation makes higher taxes seem less harmful. As chair of the Ways and Means Committee, he backs broad tax reform over rate cuts and urged early reform proposals from President Johnson for 1968.
In Philadelphia protests rise over the Vatican ordered suspension of Rev. William K Leahy 32 for officiating at a civil marriage of his brother former priest John Leahy and searching for a conciliatory solution. Petitions from Roman Catholics Protestants and Jews flood the Archdiocese as Cardinal Krol contemplates the Rome reply.
In East Harlem Anthony Corallo nicknamed Tony Ducks faces federal charges as an underboss in the Luchese family and linked to a bribery scheme. James L. Marcus resigns as city commissioner amid kickback accusations on an $835,000 contract.
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