Few Fees On LBJ Tax Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee reports scattered opposition to President Johnsons 4.8 billion tax proposal aimed at funding the Viet Nam war. It would delay some tax cuts, speed up corporate collections and adjust middle income withholding with a target enactment by March 15.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Johnson
Senate
Viet Nam
House Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Fowler
Charles L. Schultze
John W. Barnes
Wisconsin
Ways and Means
March of Dimes Marathon continues through Sunday
Auction bids on Madame Bovine Angus cow reach $200 with calls to 662.9916 662.9924 or 662-9925. A local man declares Americans are soft after ordering a raw sirloin steak with salt and pepper at a restaurant.
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Contine
Winc
Madame Bovine
Form of Sales Tax Is Still Unrevealed
Virginia lawmakers closed the first full week of the 1966 session amid debate over how a statewide sales tax would be structured. Gov. Godwin kept his plan to a state levy, omitting local tax powers, prompting city leaders to hope for retained authority. The week featured budget action, committee assignments, and proposals on parks, education funding, and broader social policy.
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Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
Harrison
Godwin
Bombing Decision on North Vietnam Next Week
Washington AP report says President Johnson likely to decide next week whether to resume bombing North Vietnam. Military and State Department officials differ on scope with some proposing near Hanoi and Haiphong, others favoring limited action or no renewal.
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Washington
Dent Johnson
Viet Nam
Johnson
Hanoi
Haiphong
State Department
United States
Probe Ordered in Death of American in Soviet
The Foreign Ministry tells the United States the body of News comic Mott will be brought to Moscow for an autopsy. U S officials demand a full investigation into his death on a prison train after he was jailed for illegally entering the Soviet Union. His mother questions the claim of self harm, noting guarded surround and lack of details.
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Moscow
Foreign Ministry
United States
Newscomb Mott
U.S
Mott
Sheffield
Mass
Soviet Union
Howard Mott
Washington
Murmansk
Lar
Kirov
Ural Mountains
Sibiera
Foy D. Kohler
State Department
Decter
CAB Links Low Flying to Winchester Crash Deaths
The Civil Aeronautics Board blamed unwarranted low flying for a June crash near Interstate 81 that killed Charles W. Hillyard and seriously injured Garland E. Perry and Alfred W. Frye. The report found no aircraft malfunction. A separate Virginia Beach crash on June 14 killed Dallas F. Bell due to a failed elevator control cable.
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Washington
Winchester
Civil Aeronautics Board
Garland E. Perry
Charles W. Hillyard
Interstate 81
Perry
Alfred W.frye
Dallas F.bell
Virginia Beach
Chesapeake Bay
Cape Charles
Multiple Fatal and Injury Crashes Reported on Rt 50 and Rt 522
A Washington DC man died in an 11:50 PM crash on Rt 50 near the West Virginia line. Rich Arthur Beer drove off the road, sending 30 year old Robert William Hammons to death as 11 others were injured in a series of area crashes. Six people were treated and released at Winchester Memorial Hospital. others included Adaline Whiting and Ronnie Whiting among hospitalizations and injuries from separate incidents near Fairmont Ave. Additional injuries were reported from a two car collision near Winchester and a house impact on Rt 522 North.
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Washington, D.C
West Virginia Line
Robert William Hammons
Richard Lee Beer
J. P. Lannan
Mr. Bee
Robert Jones
Willie Sanders
Capon Bridge
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Addaline E. Whiting
Virginia Beach
Ronnie C. Whiting
Weather brings snow to most of Virginia today
AP reports a fast moving disturbance with centers in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and off the south Atlantic coast is delivering snow across much of Virginia today. The winter weather system prompts travel advisories as precipitation moves inland.
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Richmond
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Virginia
Terrorist Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier in Saigon Truce Day
A 25 pound terrorist bomb exploded against a U S billet in Saigon killing a sergeant asleep in a nearby room and fatally wounding a Vietnamese woman. Two soldiers and several civilians were injured as the Viet Cong truce was underway.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Signal Corps
Tan Son Nhut
Speak Up Britons Told The Limey Lingo Opens Doors
AP reports Alec Snobel Sun editor urges Britons touring the United States to speak up and use their lingo to gain access. He recounts how Americans welcome varied accents from Laurence Olivier to Ringo Starr and cites experiences in Miami Williamsburg Washington and Atlantic City.
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London
United States
Alec Snobel
The
Sun
America
Laurence Olivier
Ringo Starr
Oxford
Cardiff
Liverpool
Snowstorm Dumps Deep Snow Across Virginia and South
Snow moved northward with four inches or more forecast in the Shenandoah Valley. Harrisonburg saw initial snowfall by 11:15 while Winchester reported first flakes at 12:25 p.m. Heavy warnings covered the state except the Tidewater region as Arctic weather spread from Texas and Oklahoma into the central South.
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House of Delegates
E.blackburn Moore
Virginia
del. M.caldwell Butler
Roanoke
Assembly
Ginia
Shenandoah Valley
Harrisonburg
Winchester
Tidewater Area
Norfolk
Texas
Oklahoma Panhandle
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Tennessee
Kentucky
Gulf Coast
New Engand
Bristol
Danville
Lynchburg
Local Man Dies After Severe Burns in Virginia Hospital
Virgil F. McCauley 61 died at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond after suffering first to third degree burns over the lower body from an incident at his Frederick County trailer home. He was transported by Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad and survived by wife Rilla Hockman McCauley, son Rodney, and grandson Gregory. Funeral set Monday at 2 p.m. at Malick Church with burial in Malick Cemetery.
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Virgil F. McCauley
Lockhart
Frederick County
Medical College of Virginia
Richmond
McCauley
Winchester
Mr. McCauley
Hampshire County
Charles R
Linnie Moreland McCauley
Rilla Hockman McCauley
Route 2
Rodney K. McCauley
Route 3
Gregory McCauley
North River Mills
Highland Avenue Trustee Sale Cancelled
Entire stock of the trusteed Highland Avenue property sale is cancelled as announced by Dabney W. Watts as Trustee. No further action planned.
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Highland Avenue
Dabney W. Watts
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