Tax Bill Aims to Enactment After Election Fund Postponement
A $15.8 billion tax cut over three years moves toward enactment after a conference committee finalized a bill that delays funding for presidential campaigns beyond 1972. The measure includes President Nixon backed financing changes with a campaign checkoff option for individuals contributing $1, while the White House signals possible repeal efforts.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Conference Committee
Congress
Wilbur D. Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mills
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
Senate
Pakistani Planes Hit Three Indian Airfields
Pakistani warplanes attacked three airfields in western India including Srinagar Amritsar and Pathankot as sirens sounded in New Delhi. The Indian spokesman reported the strikes were ongoing with no further details available.
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Associated Press
India
New Delhi
Srinagar
Kashmir
Pakistan
Amritsar
Punjab
Pathankot
Agartala
East Pakistan
West Pakistan
Seminar on Phase 2 set for Winchester next Thursday
The IRS and Virginia Retail Merchants Association will host a Phase 2 seminar in Winchester in the Community Room of Farmers & Merchants National Bank. The 2.5 hour session opens at 2:30 p.m. with IRS instructors and VRMA and chamber partners reviewing price and rent allowances, wages, and mandatory price lists, followed by audience Q A. Other seminars roll out next week in Wytheville Norfolk Lynchburg Newport News Richmond Charlottesville Arlington Danville and Roanoke.
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Internal Revenue Service
Virginia Retail Merchants Association
Winchester
Nixon
Farmers & Merchants National Bank
Virginia
Chambers of Commerce
VRMA
Wytheville
Norfolk
Lynchburg
Newport News
Richmond
Charlottesville
Arlington
Danville
Roanoke
Air pirates hijack jet demanding medicine for Bengali refugees
Pakistani International Airlines flight from London to Beirut was seized at Orly by hijackers who demanded 20 tons of medicine for Bengali refugees. After hours of negotiations, two Red Cross couriers delivered vaccines and penicillin to the aircraft as passengers began to disembark.
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Paris
Red Cross
Orly
London
Pakistan
Beirut
Lebanon
Bangla Desh
Pasteur Institute
Farm Products Lift Wholesale Prices in Last Month
The government reported a tenth of a percent overall rise in wholesale prices last month driven by farm products not under government control. The industrial commodities index declined slightly while consumer finished goods prices climbed two tenths percent, keeping the overall index at 114.5 percent of 1967 and 3.2 percent above November last year.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
U.S. Soviet Plan Joint Manned Space Flight
American and Soviet scientists plan a joint manned space mission with a final agreement expected within two months. The talks in Moscow, the third NAS A–Academy of Sciences session, discussed hardware compatibility and separate launches to link in space.
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Moscow
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Jack Tech
Washington
Tech
Robert Gilruth
U.S. Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Campbell Charged With Bank Holdup
Federal warrant issued for Virgil Clarence Campbell 33 of Washington DC in connection with yesterday’s 15500 Farmers and Merchants National Bank holdup in Front Royal. He faces arraignment and bond setting, then Western District trial. Police tracked his car to Winchester after the robbery and he was recaptured after a brief escape attempt.
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Virgil Clarence Campbell
Washington
D.C
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Front Royal
William Thomas
FBI
Campbell
U.S
David Simpson
Thomas
Harrisonburg
Roanoke
U.S. Western District Court
Valley Ave
Winchester
Frank L. Kalafat
Ward Plaza
Virginia Faces Cold Front With Snow Prospects
A storm moving eastward through the northern Gulf of Mexico brings Virginia cold weather and the prospect of snow in southern, southwest, and south central regions as the system moves in.
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Richmond
Gulf of Mexico
Virginia
U S Jobless Rate Rises to 6 Percent in November
The Labor Department reports unemployment up to 6 percent in November while employment hits a record 80 million. Job seekers rise by 210000 to 4.8 million as teenagers and veterans contribute to the rise. Wages show small declines from October yet remain higher year over year.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Clarke County Democratic Committee Elects White Chairman
Lawrence White was elected chairman of the Clarke County Democratic Committee at a mass meeting held at the Clarke County Courthouse. Oscar M. Carr steps down after 16 years. John E. McIntosh becomes vice chairman and Edythe R. Pifer is secretary-treasurer. Members were named from Battletown Chapel Greenway and Longmarsh with several to be named later.
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Berryville
Lawrence White
Clarke County
Democratic Committee
Oscar M. Carr
John E. McIntosh
Edythe R. Pifer
Battletown
William L. Renner
J. Fred Jones
Mr. White
Buddy Hardesty
Louise McClaughry
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Weber & Sons Nursery
Tripura
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Indira Gandhi
Panchagarah
Dinajpur
Akhaura
Comilla
Polniaeie
Tidian
Old Mills Country Store
Sherwin-Williams
DeHaven Nursery
Martinsburg Pike
Miles N
Shy
Gunman
Erie
Cliff Brady
Brady
Gilruth
Soviet Union
By David Smith
Scar
Bellview
Kalafat
Hill
Lloyd P. Bland
David Newlin
Clarke
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