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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1968
Page
7
Washington area debate centers on making Washingtons Birthday Memorial Day Veterans Day and Columbus Day three day weekends. Support from business travel groups clashes with opposition from patriotic and veterans groups and church leaders wary of Sunday attendance and patriotism concerns.
A federal bill to move four holidays to Monday was approved in committee, forging a coalition between Rep. McClory and Rep. Rodino. The proposal would fix Washington's Birthday Memorial Day Columbus Day and Veterans Day on the fourth Mondays for federal employees with possible state adoption. Leif Ericson supporters fear new opposition if the bill reaches the floor.
Richmond AP reports preparations to transfer Black Power leader H. Rap Brown from Virginia to Maryland where he faces inciting to riot and arson charges. The 4th Circuit and Supreme Court habeas appeals were dropped, with a transfer planned at the earliest possible time. Brown’s health worsened after a hunger strike. he is also under Louisiana firearms and FBI intimidation indictments.
Washington AP report notes the IRS still uses informants to catch tax cheats. Rewards are small and declining, with 624 rewards paid in the last completed fiscal year from about 4 019 tip claims. rewards average 4 to 6 percent of recovered taxes.
In St Louis 17 of 24 Democratic state executives met and chose to wait and watch rather than back a nominee. They rejected any mass pledge while noting lack of unanimity and abstentions from Mississippi and Georgia governors. Johnson stood not seeking or accepting the nomination.
Arthur Reeve, 25 at the bus’s debut, drove trolley bus 59 for 30 years and half a million miles before its last trip to the beach and back. The retired vehicle will be towed to Johannesburg to join the St James Hall Museum of Transport, where Reeve fought back emotion.
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