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Bonds to battle inflation
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson has trotted out his newest anti-inflation weapon—a voluntary tax increase.
It's a new style, higher interest-yielding savings bond designed to take inflationary purchasing power out of the hands of consumers.
Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler described them as "a new and more attractive product line."
DETAILS OF THE NEW bonds are to be announced in November or December; they will go on sale in January. The government's sales campaign will be "reminiscent, to some extent, of a wartime drive."
In that respect, this voluntary, refundable-with-interest tax hike will be like that real-involuntary-tax increase the country may have to stomach if the Viet Nam war gets bad enough.
Fowler made it very clear that the new bonds were not meant to attract savings. The government doesn't want people drawing down their bank accounts or selling old-style savings bonds in order to purchase the new bonds.
Docking leads State Fair poll in all except one day,s vote
HUTCHINSON—(UPI)—Robert Docking, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, carried a better than 100 vote lead over Gov. William H. Avery into the fifth day today of a straw vote poll being conducted at the Kansas State Fair.
The four-day totals Tuesday showed Docking with 510 votes compared to Avery's 391.
In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. James B. Pearson held a slim lead after Tuesday over his Democratic opponent, J. Floyd Breeding, 450 to 424.
The poll, being conducted by a Hutchinson newspaper, will run through Thursday.
Draft boards lower mental qualification
WASHINGTON—(UPI) Mental standards for the draft will go down Oct.1, increasing the number of men available for military service by 20,000 annually.
The Pentagon also said additional steps would be taken in early 1967 to qualify another 20,-000 registrants who otherwise would be deferred in the 1-Y category, men who would be "qualified for service only in time of war or national emergency."
Adopt new code
NEW YORK—(UPI)The motion picture association of America Tuesday adopted a new code of self regulation that replaces the Hays Code of 1930 and establishes procedures for advertising films as "suggested for mature audiences."
Car prices flout LBJ
DETROIT—(UPI)—Ford Motor Co. flouted President Johnson's appeal for price restraint yesterday by becoming the first of the "big four" automakers to announce an increase in car prices.
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp. were expected to make similar increases.
Volunteers send goods to Indians
Ford cited rising labor, materials costs and lower profits in 1966 as reasons for increase.
LAFAYETTE, La. — (UPI) Volunteers working against time crammed food, medicine, clothing and tools into railroad cars today for shipment to a tribe of Indians in Mexico who are starving to death at a rate of 100 per day.
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Items were being loaded by National Guardsmen, Army Reservists, college and high school students and citizens into five box cars.
Reds ask U.S. out of Korea
UNITED NATIONS — (UPI)— Ten Communist countries today requested inclusion as "an urgent separate" item on the agenda of the General Assembly the question of the withdrawal of all U.S. and other foreign forces from South Korea.
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The Senate steps gingerly into the nationwide school prayer controversy today with a series of votes on whether to endorse silent meditation or approve Sen. Everett M. Dirksen's constitutional change.
The votes were to end three days of debate centered on Supreme Court decisions prohibiting the recital of a state-sanctioned prayer in New York public schools and a state-ordered bible reading in Pennsylvania classrooms.
They also demanded the dissolution of the United Nations machinery in that country.
Prayer issue vote due
U.S. ups foreign aid
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The House voted $3 billion in new foreign air funds Tuesday over a barrage of complaints that most of the recipient nations had failed to help the United States in Viet Nam.
Marines, Reds clash in 'tunnel' stronghold
SAIGON—(UPI)—U.S. Marines and North Vietnamese troops fought a bloody see-saw battle for control of the southern end of a Communist "underground railway" into South Viet Nam.
American forces stormed the area only one mile south of the demilitarized zone by land and aircraft and ships positioned off the coast bombarded the Communist positions.
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Troops of the 26th Marines stormed the Communist fortress at An Dinh,425 miles north of Saigon, three times yesterday but later fell back.
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and artillery to pound the village, which U.S. commanders say is a major infiltration point into the south via the supposedly neutral zone between North and South Viet Nam.
Commanders said U.S. air power had not been as effective as in other battles because the Communists have gone deep into their tunnels, then emerged to fight off attacking ground troops.
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