$700 million rise in U.S.-Viet craft
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has ordered a $700 million increase in combat aircraft production of the Viet Nam war.
Beginning next July 1, 12-month production will be increased by about 280 fighter and attack planes.
The Navy, whose operations are entirely over North Viet Nam, will get a "majority" of the new craft, McNamara said. Navy air losses have been somewhat higher than expected.
The secretary was reminded that the Pentagon order for plane production was announced the same day that the United States offered to stop bombing North Viet Nam. He was asked whether the two announcements amounted to a "carrot and club tactic"."Certainly not," he replied.
The Pentagon chief said the new plane production schedules have been devised "to insure that new deliveries of aircraft will exceed potential losses."
They were jailed overnight pending a grand jury appearance today.
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Thirteen Mafia chiefs were arrested Thursday night by police who raided a "little Apalachin" crime convention in an Italian restaurant.
It was the second big catch of underworld figures in New York state in a decade. In 1957, police broke up a meeting of 65 Mafia leaders in Apalachin, N.Y., an historic roundup of crime figures.
Mafia chiefs nabbed at New York meeting
The "delegates" came from Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana and Texas as well as New York. Police said they had thousands of dollars in their pockets but, typically, none of them had weapons.
Detectives seized the underworld barons while they were finishing dessert and took them away in handcuffs before Joseph T. Alercio, owner of the La Stella Restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens, could present them with a bill.
Worker comes for chicken leaves with day's receipts
LONG BEACH, Calif.—(UPI)A construction worker walked into a fried chicken restaurant last night and ordered two chicken dinners to take out. Instead he was given a sack containing the day's receipts, $825.
When the man and a lady friend arrived at Newport Beach to enjoy their picnic dinners, he discovered the money. He promptly drove back to the restaurant to return it.
At the restaurant he found the grateful store manager about to give a report to police officers.
"Please don't use my name," the construction worker told the officers. "The lady isn't my wife."
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WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson today signs a bill to increase the minimum wage 35-cents to $1.60 an hour and extend its coverage to 8.1 million more workers.
Labor wins; LBJ signs
The bill, passed after a two-year struggle, was the only trophy organized labor could claim from the 89th Congress. It also represented a six-fold increase in the minimum wage since it was set in 1938.
Football men try soccer-type shoe
HOUSTON —(UPI)— Clad in soccer shoes the University of Houston Cougars take on Washington State Friday night in the first football game ever played on artificial grass.
The Cougars have tested them in workouts and say they work better on the turf than regular shoes.
The soccer-style shoes have more cleats than football shoes. They are also shorter and smaller in diameter and made of a softer rubber to give more traction on plastic grass.
Inmates print counterfeit passes
CANON CITY, Colo.—(UPI)—The boss was away, but the print shop boys at Colorado State Penitentiary kept the presses inked and rolling.
The only trouble, embarrassed officials admitted Thursday, was that some of the work wasn't state business. But it was nearly $14,000 in counterfeit canteen tickets later that they learned it.
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