Education Program to Grow Bigger Under LBJ Budget
President Johnson’s fiscal 1967 budget proposes total education expenditures of 2.8 billion dollars, up 516 million, with 1.5 billion for elementary and secondary schools. The plan shifts college loans to private lenders through a loan guarantee program, reducing direct loans and expanding private financing for housing and academic facilities.
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Johnson seeks $1.6 billion to fight poverty next year
President Johnson proposed a $1.6 billion budget rise aimed at expanding antipoverty programs, including the Job Corps with 124 centers and 39 000 men 6 000 women, bringing federal aid to about 34 million people and total poverty-related spending to roughly $21 billion. Republicans criticized the plan as political and inefficient while backing probes into the program.
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Johnson proposes space budget cut and lunar program push
President Johnson announces NASA funding at 5.3 billion for the next fiscal year starting July 1. The plan emphasizes unmanned Saturn V and Apollo tests, progressing toward a manned lunar landing by decade's end, with most funds to manned space activity and scientific space missions including Surveyor lunar probes and Mariner flights to Venus and Mars.
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Court Rules Chronic Alcoholism Not Criminal Disease
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals holds chronic alcoholism a medical problem and not a crime when public drunkenness is involuntary. The ruling, in Joe B. Driver's case from Durham North Carolina, says treatment and rehabilitation may replace criminal punishment. Mountains are described as largely silicon and aluminum rock formations.
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Child Dies When Smoke Fills House in Roanoke
An 8-year-old Roanoke girl, Diana Bannister, died from smoke in an overloaded coal store, while her 9-year-old sister Faye was hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Police said the sisters and their mother were home. they reportedly went to bed around 9 30 and the house filled with smoke about an hour later.
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