Johnson asks Congress for $4.1 billion elderly benefits boost
President Johnson proposes a sweeping Social Security expansion worth 4.1 billion dollars, extending payments for 23 million retirees with a 15 to 59 percent rise, higher payroll tax ceilings, and boosted minimums. The plan raises wage bases to 7800 in 1968, 9000 in 1971, and 10800 in 1974, lifts the rate to 4.5 percent, and increases monthly minimums to 150 dollars for couples and 100 for individuals.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
Johnson proposes $5.9 billion urban revival plan
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff urged a $5.9 billion start to revitalize cities, with a decade long $50 billion program to remove slums and create livable neighborhoods starting 1970. He said riots showed the need for reasoned approaches and warned of continued urban decay without action. He also backed Social Security increases and broader credits to raise elderly benefits, counting more worker earnings and extending coverage to farm workers.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Abraham AM _ Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate
Ribicoff
Connecticut
Democrat
Gun battle in Managua seizes 20 U.S. hotel guests
Anti-government forces in Nicaragua held 20 American visitors at the Grand Hotel as new street fighting erupted in Managua seizing hostages amid clashes between national guard troops and opposition civilians. Air force planes fired on rooftops as tanks ringed the hotel. government said 15 killed and 70 wounded.
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Nicaragua
UPI
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Grand
Fernando Aguero
Santos Portaluppi
Donato Chavez Y Nunes
Aguero
Jaycees Plan 14th Awards Banquet in Washington
Washington Jaycees schedule their 14th annual Awards Banquet at the Captain's Table on Thursday January 26. Winners will be named for the Outstanding Boss Young Man of the Year and Outstanding Young Farmer awards plus the Key Man Award. Featured speaker is George LaMore Jr. from Iowa Wesleyan College with performances by Washington High School vocalists led by Jesse Knight.
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Jaycees
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Iowa Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
Bombers collide crash into Laguna Hills apartments in rain
Two Marine Corps A4B Skyhawk bombers collided and crashed into eight unit apartment buildings in a Laguna Hills retirement community. Five people died including pilot Capt. James H. Powell and three civilians. three others injured as debris and fuel spread. Radios failed and heavy rain hampered navigation during approach to El Toro.
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Calif
UPI
Marine Corps
Floyd Bennett Field
Brooklyn
N.Y
el Toro Marine Corps Air Station
Laguna Hills
Leon Lauderbach
Harold Berman
Margaret
H. H. Kenyon
James H. Powell
Milford
N.J
Powell
Suspect in jail here arson charges filed wake of Wellman fires
Washington County deputies hold 21 year old Virgil E. Davis Jr of Cedar Rapids, previously Wellman, on arson charges for two fires Saturday near Wellman. Bond set at 5000 dollars as investigators probe a pole barn housing about 800 bales of hay at the Robert Yoder farm and a Longwell Stockyards office blaze. Firefighters found arson indicators including a fire drawer, burned papers, and a lighter fluid can. State fire officials, highway patrol, Wellman volunteers, and sheriffs deputies aided the inquiry.
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Cedar Rapids
Wellman
Virgil E. Davis Jr
Snyder
Davis
Robert Yoder
Duane Longwell
Robert Kuhns
Yoder
Kuhns
Longwell Stockyards
Kuhn
Johnson to seek record $135 billion budget for 1968
President Johnson will submit a $135 billion fiscal 1968 budget to Congress on Tuesday, the largest defense outlay since World War II. The plan raises total spending by $8.3 billion from fiscal 1967, with about $5 billion more for defense to finance the Vietnam War, and projects a deficit of $8.1 billion if tax hikes pass.
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Viet Cong Down U.S. Helicopter and Minesweeper Shooting
Viet Cong gunmen raked a U S Navy minesweeper in the Saigon channel and shot down a hovering helicopter sent to help, killing all six aboard the helicopter and two aboard the minesweeper. In separate actions, U S infantry pursued guerrillas into a cave complex with an underground river, and a Navy destroyer shelled a South Vietnamese village, causing civilian casualties. Additional air combat over North Vietnam and reconnaissance photos showing a Russian MIG base were reported, with restrictions preventing bombing of the base.
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Bong Son
Weather outlook for Iowa with cold snap and light precip
United Press International reports considerable cloudiness across Iowa through Tuesday with a chance of rain or snow starting northwest late tonight. Very cold tonight with lows 15 to 20 degrees north and 20 to 25 south. Tuesday highs 30 to 35. Wednesday outlook shows ending precipitation and little temperature change.
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United Press International
Iowa
Hughes vows veto on daylight time repeal in Iowa
Gov. Harold E. Hughes said he would veto any bill abolishing daylight saving time in Iowa and dismissed a public referendum as a waste of money. He reaffirmed support for a six month daylight period and uniform national time despite federal changes. Senator Bass Van Gilst favored a nonbinding referendum, but Hughes saw no value in it.
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UPI
Harold E. Hughes
Hughes
General Assembly
Iowa
Bass van Gilst
D-Oskaloosa
Four killed in two accidents across Iowa roads
Iowa weekend toll rose to 12 with four fatal two car crashes in northeast and central Iowa. In Dubuque Mary Dalzell 53 and Martha Widmeyer 55 died when their car collided head on with Philip Recker’s, both other passengers injured. Earlier Tim othy Fury 2 and La wand a Aldrichs 36 of Monticello died in a Jones County crash. Additional fatalities included Timothy Fury’s relatives, Dennis Fury, and two others in separate crashes across Audubon and Council Bluffs areas.
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Mary F. Dalzell
Dubuque
Martha Widmeyer
Philip Recker
Earlsville
Recker
U.S. 20
Dalzell
Patricia McEarly
Dubque
Mercy Hospital
Becker
Timothy Fury
Lawanda Aldrichs
Monticello
U.S. 151
Langworth
Jones County
Des Moines
Center Point
Mary Venneman
Cedar Rapids
James Gray
Iowa 150
Miss Venneman
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Gray
Ottumwa
Jack Colton
Charles Ireland
Colton
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