90th Congress Faces Heavy Agenda and Tax Hike Possibility
Washington AP reports the 90th Congress will tackle Social Security expansion unemployment compensation union shop reforms and ongoing Great Society programs while a potential across the board income tax increase looms amid rising Viet Nam costs and urban-planning spending already authorized. Predictions expect Republicans to gain seats narrowing Democrats working majority and shaping the legislative agenda.
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89Th Congress
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89Th
Organized Labor
First Lady Johnson Visits Manila Archaeological Diggings
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson tours a Manila archeological site and travels 60 miles to Calatagan. She inspects 14th century Ming discoveries, brushes at an old churchyard dig, and greets about 800 spectators as guards guide her party through the ruins.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Calatagan
Philippine
Church of Santa Ana
Johnson
Mrs. Johnson
Secret Service
To Save a Soldier TV program reveals war’s compassionate and cruel sides
AP Television writer Cynthia Lowry notes ABCs To Save a Soldier presents the wounded’s journey from Viet Nam to medical care, highlighting flight nurses and the 99 percent who can be returned to life. The Aldrich story ends with a homecoming at Stevens Point Wisconsin.
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ABC
Stevens Point
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Lucy
London
L.A
Desilu
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NBC
Red Skelton
Andy Griffith
Jackie Gleason
Jail Sentence Suspended in Childs Death
COOMIAL HEIGHTS AP A four year suspended sentence was imposed on David Albert Slagle 21 after he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of his five year old stepson James Patrick Johnson last winter. Judge Ernest P Gates gave five years probation. The boy died from a torn colon with bruises seen by a physician who treated him. Slagle had faced murder charges but pleaded to the reduced count.
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David Albert Slagle
Ernest P. Gates
James Patrick Johnson
Slagle
Gates
New York Playwright George S Kaufman Tops 1961 Agenda
AP reports rising star George S Kaufman dominates the season with four new works. Three Broadway pieces include Dinner at Eight and You Cant Take It With You plus a musical based on The Man Who Came to Dinner. An off Broadway exhibit features The Butter and Egg Man.
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New York
George S. Kaufman
Population Control Plan Aims to Curb Colombia Growth
In ten years Colombia’s population rose from 12 to 18.4 million prompting a nationwide birth control program. President Carlos Lleras Restrepo seeks US aid and help from the Population Council and Ford Foundation to reach peasants. The Catholic Church reportedly approved the plan amid social and economic strain from high birth rates.
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Colombia
Carlos Lleras Restrepo
United States
The
Population Council
Ford Foundation
Bible collection wins best of show at California State Fair
A display of 170 unique Bibles earned the best of the show prize at the California State Fair hobby show in Sacramento. The top entry was created by Lewie H. Miller Jr. a Southern Baptist chaplain in the U S Air Force.
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Calif
U.S. Air Force
Lewie H. Miller Jr
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