Mills Seeks Tax Cuts Amid Budget Tightening
President's budget plan faces hurdles as Mills pushes for spending rolls back and tax cuts. Budget Director Schultze signals a reserve for unforeseen Southeast Asia war costs while Mills backs congressional action to cap spending and craft a long range program review. House Appropriations Chair Mahon backs further cuts and a resolution on expenditure limits as a vehicle to resume debate.
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Jor
Mills
Schultze
House
Appropriations Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
George H. Mahon
Texas
Frank Bow
Ohio
Plan Set For Troop Withdrawal
Greece and Turkey cite four points from an informant regarding Cyprus. An appeal by U Thant would seek withdrawal of all foreign troops that arrived after December 1963, including about 12 000 Greek regulars and 1 200 Turkish Cypriot troops. All post December 1963 forces should be disbanded and UN peace force terms widened to restore peace and normality.
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Greece
Turkey
U Thant
Cyprus
U.N
Two Counties Adopt Sales Tax to Fund Budget Increases
Livingston and Orleans counties agreed sales taxes to support record 1968 budgets. Livingston enacts a 3 percent levy with 2 percent to general treasury and 1 percent to schools, a 9-6 vote tied to a 5.3 million budget. Orleans adopts a 2 percent tax to back a 4.8 million budget, with unanimous board approval as part of 1968 spending.
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Associated Press
Boards of Supervisors
Livingston
Orleans
Geneseo
Livingston County
General County Treasury
Albion
Portugal Receives New Navy Escort Ship
Lisbon ceremony at Lisnave shipyards marks turnover of a navy escort ship to Portugal under the Portuguese-American defense pact. The vessel was financed and built jointly by the two nations with U S involvement.
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Lisbon
Portugal
U.S
Wliam Tapley Bennett Jr
Lisnave Naval Shipyards
Dean Urges Prosecution of Racists
CHICAGO RP The Notre Dame Law School dean calls for prosecuting Martin Luther King Jr Stokely Carmichael for advocacy of defying federal draft laws He argues linking civil rights to draft evasion harms the movement Carmichael is abroad and King at a conference in Frogmore Oslo detained. He says protest is allowed but not obstructing the war effort by urging draft resistance.
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Carmichael
Oslo
Norway
O'Meara
King
Southeast Asia
Negro Fair Deal Labor Told Union Seeks More Negro Members
Miami Beach AP Secretary Robert C. Weaver praised a construction union plan to add more Black workers while noting progress toward equal employment. He urged labor to invest pension funds in slum housing and to push mortgage funds through union programs to aid low and moderate income housing, linking this to the federal model cities program.
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Miami Beach, Fla
Robert C. Weaver
Housing and Urban Development Department
Weaver
Afl-Cio Building and Construction Trades Department
Building Trades
C. J. Haggerty
Organized Labor
Building Trades Committee
Union Trustees of Health, Welfare and Trust Funds
Second Bus Strike Hits Rochester
Rochester suffers a second bus strike in seven months as 425 Rochester Transit Corp. employees walk out over pay. City Manager Seymour Scher convenes a three member fact finding panel after accusing both sides of bad faith. About 120000 daily riders are stranded and 10000 school children affected. The company offered 11 cents an hour now plus 12 cents later. union seeks 22 cents immediately.
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Rochester
N.Y
UPI
Rochester Transit Corp
Seymour Scher
City Hall
Charles Whitten
Rockefeller Reappoints Two Aides in New York
Gov. Rockefeller announced the reappointment of Isi dor Schechter to the Employment Insurance Appeal Board and named Dr. Joseph S. Feibush to the Medical Appeals unit of the Workmen's Compensation Board. Schechter of Manhattan to Nov 18, 1978, post pays $23,840 yearly. Feibush of the Bronx to Dec 31, 1969, replacing Dr. Gottlieb. Medical Appeals unit pays $30 daily on official business up to $5,000 yearly.
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Albany, N.Y
Cap
Rockefeller
Isidor Schechter
Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board
Joseph S. Feibush
Ithe Workmen's Compensation Board
Schechter
Manhattan
Feibush
Bronx
Moses L. Gottlibh
Pleasantville
Medical Appeals Unit
Irish Move To Halt Spread Of Disease
London report says the Irish Republic urged citizens to burn letters from Britain and to disinfect money sent from Britain to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading to Ireland. The British ministry noted 29 new cases and more than 225,000 animals slaughtered, with new cases in already infected areas.
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London
Irish Republic
Britain
British Ministry of Culture
Merger Approved For Great Northern Pacific Line
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved the merger of five railroads creating a 27000 mile network from Mississippi to the Pacific coast. The Great Northern Pacific and Burlington Lines, Inc. will be the largest U.S. railroad by track length with assets over 3.2 billion dollars. The joining lines include Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington and Quincy, Pacific Coast, and Spokane Portland and Seattle. ICC will issue a report in several days and voting details were not released. The decision includes protections for railroad workers and access provisions for other lines.
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Washington
UPI
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Mississippi
Pacific Coast
Pennsylvania-New York Central Railroad
Great Northern Pacific and
Burlington Lines, Inc
Northwestern States
Great Northern Railway
Northern Pacific Railway
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Pacific Coast Railroad Co
Spokane, Portland and Seattle
Guard freezes recruitment of untrained youths in Guard pullback
The Army National Guard suspended recruiting of young men without prior service to reach 400000 authorized strength by next summer. As of October end the Guard counted 417300. Recruitment for skilled personnel remains open and a New Jersey Negro enlistment drive continues toward its 865 target. Defense Secretary McNamara said the Guard and Reserve would receive a 3 percent boost to help man 125 new riot control units.
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Washington
Army National Guard
Guard Bureau
Army Guard
New Jersey
Air National Guard
Secretary of Defense
Robert 8. McNamara
Army Reserve
Guard
Reserve
Group Offers Ways To Cut Medicaid
Syracuse New York UPI report: The Medicaid Committee of the County Officers Association proposed four changes to ease rising taxes from the Medicaid plan. They seek lower eligibility, separate normal medical expenses from hospital fees and catastrophic costs, simplify administration, raise deductibles, and urge local legislators to act.
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Syracuse
UPI
The
County Officers Association
Canada Hikes Taxes With Surtax on Income
Ottawa AP Canada’s Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp announced a 3 percent surtax on personal income taxes starting Jan 1 and a 10 percent boost in alcohol and tobacco taxes effective immediately. The move targets five of six taxpayers earning above 100 dollars, with a top surtax of 600 dollars. The alcohol tax raises prices on liquor and beer, tobacco tax adds two cents per pack, and steps to speed corporate profits tax collection were outlined along with upcoming government spending cuts and civil service restraint.
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Ottawa
Canada
Mitchell Sharp
Sharp
House of Commons
Edgar Benson
Fleas Fight Rabbits in Western Australia War
Spanish fleas armed with myxomatosis germs are imported to Western Australia to wage war on crop-destroying rabbits. The agriculture department says domestic mosquitoes failed to spread the disease due to lack of fresh breeding swatter in the outback. Fleas are expected to multiply on rabbits alone.
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Perth
Australia
Western Australia
Agriculture Department
Aussien
Rats Eat Coconuts See Bounty For Rat Tails In Colony
Victoria Seychelles AP reports that rats consume about one third of the coconut crop in the Indian Ocean colony. A 20 cent bounty was offered for every rat tail turned in on a monthly rat tail day.
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Victoria, Marie, Seychelles
Indian Ocean
McNamara verdict Timing Questioned
Washington AP President Johnson viewed timing as propitious for Robert S. McNamara departure from the Pentagon but offers little reason why now. White House and Woods confirm nomination to the World Bank director post. timing disputed by Kennedy and McNamara associates who describe calm reactions.
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Washington
Johnson
Robert S. McNamara
Pentagon
McNamara
World Bank
George Christian
White House
Christian
George D. Woods
Mel Namara
Woods
Bank
Edward M. Kennedy
ID Made In Slain Indiana Teen In Florida Case
One of two youths found shot to death in a thicket off U S 1 near Ormond Beach was identified as Daniel Schultz 18 of Solsberry Indiana. The other victim was Ray Cass and an investigation continued with several travelers detained or missing.
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Ormond Beach
Fla
U.S. 1
Indiana
Florida
Ray Cass
Flager County
Ind
Randy Tannehill
Rockledge
Tannehill
James Bland
Cather Carter
Cass
Harold Wayne Sterling
Sterling
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Schultz
Mildred Sterling
Eastern High School
Salsberry
Flagler County
P.A. Edmondson
Mobutu appeals for Bukavu aid after mercenary occupation
President Mobutu called Bukavu a national catastrophe in an emotional broadcast. He urged peace and justice seekers to aid the Congolese nation as thousands in Bukavu lack shelter and food following the ousting of mercenaries.
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Kinshasa
the Congo
Joseph D. Mobutu
Bukavu
Bakavu
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