A moment to reflect . . .
Two people with a good discussion going, or maybe two people with nothing to say at all, usually seek a place to themselves. This couple seems to find the walk around Potter Lake an ideal place for a quiet talk—or a tranquil silence.
Fate of 18-year-old vote rests in President Nixon's hands
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon will either sign or veto early next week a bill which would lower the voting age from 21 to 18 in all federal state and local elections by 1971, the White House said.
The bill also would extend for another five years the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has helped to add more than one million Negroes to the voting rolls in the South. The act is scheduled to expire Aug. 6.
Although Nixon is in favor of lowering the voting age, he has previously expressed doubts it can be done without a constitutional amendment.
However, White House sources expect Nixon will sign the bill into law despite this reservation. The courts could later rule on the constitutionality of lowering the voting age without affecting the provision of the bill to extend voting right guarantees.
If Nixon were to veto the bill,
Congress would have to rewrite
it to eliminate the lower voting age and then vote on it again in order to extend the Voting Rights Act. Chances of doing this before the Aug 6 expiration of the act would be slim, congressional sources said.
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told newsmen Nixon would make his decision on whether to sign the bill after studying the question during the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in nearby Maryland.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Attorney General John N. Mitchell accused the House today of "delaying to death" a key Nixon administration bill designed to combat what he described as a national epidemic of drug abuse.
Ziegler said the President discussed the bill with his advisers Friday and at Camp David would study briefs submitted by constitutional lawyers as well as reports on the bill by congressional leaders and White House staff members.
Until Ziegler spoke, there had been some speculation Nixon would simply hold the bill for 10 legislative days, permitting it to become law without his signature.
Drug bill still awaits action
the narcotics reform bill, combining proposals for less stringent penalties in some drug violation
Widow wins negligence suit against four state doctors
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — An ex-mental patient's widow was awarded $125,000 by a Superior Court jury on her claim four doctors were negligent in releasing her husband from a state hospital 36 hours before he killed himself.
Mrs. Louis Boyce, 45, Long Beach, Calif., charged in her suit, her husband, Robert, then 37 and a chronic alcoholic, should not have been released from Metropolitan State Hospital, Norfolk, Calif.
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Following his release Aug.21, 1964, Boyce, who had attempted suicide on two prior occasions, killed himself by attaching a hose to the exhaust of his car and breathing carbon monoxide fumes.
Boyce was sent to the hospital on a "long term commitment" June 17, 1964, but was given a "certificate of competency" before he was discharged.
The Cincinnati Zoo, built in 1906, was the site of the first barless animal exhibit in the United States.
cases with such controversial police authority as "no knock" entry, was submitted to Congress last July 15. It was approved 82 to 0 by the Senate on Jan. 28.
But Mitchell said there appears to be no immediate prospect for House passage of the bill and asserted that the delay would "paralyze our whole coordinated assault against narcotics of which the bill is an integral part."
"The House of Representatives is delaying to death a key administration bill designed to combat the national emergency in narcotics and drug abuse." Mitchell said in a speech prepared for a meeting in Bal Harbor, Fla., of the Florida Bar Association. The text was made public by his Washington office.
Mitchell charged that the bill "is being delayed to death by a combination of bureaucratic slowness and minor criticisms."
"We could go on for years having hearings and making minor adjustments to our proposal," he said. "But we do not have years to waste—really we do not have any time left at all."