Nixon's outline
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the federal government, so that other levels of government where revenue increases lag behind will not be caught in a constant fiscal crisis.
A far-reaching new program for development of our airways and airports, and our mass transit systems.
A comprehensive labor and manpower program, including job training and placement, improvements in unemployment insurance and proposals to help guarantee the health and safety of workers.
Reform the tax structure. The burden of taxation is great enough
without permitting the continuance of unfairness in the tax system. New legislation will be proposed to prevent several specific abuses this year, and plans will be set in motion for a comprehensive revision of our tax structure by 1970, the first since 1954.
Nixon said he would spell out details in a series of messages to Congress over the next few weeks with the first one going to Capitol Hill this week.
The President said he considered giving a formal State of the Union address, but decided on the more informal message to lawmakers. It was routinely read by clerks in the House and the Senate.
Floods threaten N.D. residents
By United Press International
National Guardsmen and volunteers raced the clock yesterday to carry out new mass removals of flood-threatened residents of Minot, N.D. University and high school students were let out of classes at Fargo, N.D., to battle the rising Red River of the North.
The crests of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers moved within two days of St. Paul, Minnesota's capital city.
Flood waters from northern Iowa to the Canadian border already have driven more than 14,000 persons from their homes.
Sirhan's fate to jury
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California and different from a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
In his instructions to the jury, Judge Walker said "if you find that the defendant's mental capacity was diminished to the extent that you have a reasonable doubt whether he did maturely and meaningfully premeditate and reflect upon the gravity of his contemplated act or form an intent to kill, you cannot convict of a willful, deliberate and premeditated murder of the first degree."
"Sirhan, ghastly pale, broodingly silent in a blue open-necked shirt, was described by Compton as the
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kind of killer who could bring down the United States if such crimes were not to be punished.
"The defense has asked you to divorce your thinking from the fact the victim was Robert Kennedy, to treat the case as if it were John Smith who had been killed," Compton said.
"You cannot divorce the fact that Robert F. Kennedy was the victim because that was the reason the crime occurred," Compton said.
"It had to be a figure of the stature of Kennedy. The motive was to stop the senting of bombers to Israel. That couldn't be accomplished by killing John Smith."
Sirhan had "diminished mental capacity," Compton said: "I say throw 'em all out in one big bag."
Referring to the parade of psychiatric witnesses who testified
"It would be a frightening thing if a case of this magnitude should be decided on their testimony whether the defendant saw clowns playing patty cake or kicking each other on the chins when he looked at some ink blots."
Compton said chief defense lawyer Grant Cooper had argued a man who killed his wife and ran away with a girl was a bad killer but that a man like Sirhan who killed because he thought it was right was a good man.
"This nation could survive with 200 bad guys who killed their wives but could it survive with 200 assassins like Sirhan?"
The Lighter Side
Will mini cars stay mini?
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI) — American auto makers are finally moving into the small car field to challenge the little foreign imports that have become so popular in this country.
Well, lots of luck, Detroit! You're going to need it.
I'm sure the U.S. manufacturers will be able to compete with the foreign car companies. The big question is whether they will be able to compete with heir own advertising agencies.
A small car has three advantages over a big car: It costs less to buy, it costs less to operate and it is easier to park. In short, it's small.
Ford's new Maverick coming out this month and the other domestic models to be introduced next year presumably will have these qualities. At first.
But what happens after they are all on the market and their advertising agencies take over?
Just as sure as God makes little green apples, one of the companies will start claiming that its small car is bigger than the other small cars.
"The The Tim is half an inch longer than any other car in the small car field," the ads will say.
Before long, all of the American small cars will have inched up to the size that the American "compacts" were when they were first introduced.
And then, just as sure as it snows in Minneapolis in the wintertime, the horsepower escalation will begin.
"The Tiny Tim is the only car in the small car field that offers an eight-cylinder, 360 horse= power motor," the ads will say.
Within a few years, if Detroit isn't careful, the foreign imports will have the small car market all to themselves again.
For just as sure as God makes little green apples, advertising agencies turn them into big red ones.
IT'S OUR 10th ANNIVERSARY
"I get my fresh hamburger from Harwood's everyday."
And we're celebrating with good "Old Fashioned" prices this Tuesday and Wednesday
Hamburgers were 20c NOW 15c Cheeseburgers were 25c NOW 20c French Fries were 18c NOW 10c Fish Sandwiches were 30c NOW 25c Milk Shakes were 30c NOW 20c
"I get my fresh Idaho potatoes from the Garett Market every day."
"I get my fresh rolls from the Buttercrust Bakeries everyday."
We've turned back the clock with our prices on the foods we featured 10 years ago.
But don't forget about the latest additions to our family
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