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If you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes
KU students who bundled up and headed for class Wednesday morning found the weather more agreeable in the afternoon. As the temperature reached 58 degrees in Lawrence, students doffed their coats and shoes to withstand the heat wave.
Johnson remains in hospital condition listed as "stable"
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)
—Mrs. Patrick Nugent, optimistic over the condition of her father, Lyndon B. Johnson, said Wednesday the former President was working on several projects "but he is listening to his doctors"
"Mother and I are proud of him," Johnson's younger daughter, Luci, said. "His spirits are good. What we hope now is for several weeks of total uneventfulness."
Luci and Pat took many of the flowers which overflowed Johnson's room to burn victims recuperating in the special ward at Brooke General Hospital.
"The President has been so fortunate to receive so many flowers that he wanted to share them with you," Luci told one patient. "He hopes they will bring a little joy to you."
The flowers were given to veterans of Vietnam and earlier wars.
Doctors said Johnson, who entered Brooke Monday with a painful heart ailment, had the symptoms of a common cold but added his "condition continues to stable with a lessening of discomfort throughout the day."
Dr. Glen K. Arney said "Cardiographic monitoring will continue" along with treatment for the cold.
His symptoms included a runny nose, stuffy head and an aching chest. The former President still suffered the pains near his heart that sent him to Brooke General Hospital three days ago.
Johnson's chief heart specialist said he had "every reason to be encouraged" about the condition of the 36th U.S. President.
Johnson suffered a severe heart attack 15 years ago.
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"He is taking his confinement very well. He is in very good spirits," said Tom Johnson, the former President's executive assistant.
Lt. Col. Robert L. North, the Army hospital's chief cardiologist, said Johnson, 61, was given nose drops to go with the regular drugs to relieve his chest pain and thin his blood.
"He could have the beginnings of a common cold," North said.
An electrocardiogram taken in Johnson's seventh-floor suite Wednesday was unchanged from
"The former President's vital signs remain stable," North said. "His blood pressure is 126 over 76. His temperature is 97.4, pulse 68 and respirations 18."
the day before. North said it still showed "irregularities."
The doctor diagnosed Johnson's ailment as angina pectoris, pains in the chest caused by a reduced flow of blood to the heart. The condition is a result of a type of hardening of the arteries, North said.
The cardiologist said the former President would be kept in the hospital "at least several days." Johnson's wife, Lady Bird, stayed on his side.
Governor's tax lid bill approved by Senate
TOPEKA (UPI) - The Kansas Senate Wednesday night gave tentative approval to Gov. Robert B. Docking's property tax lid bill after nearly six hours of turbulent and long-winded debate.
The bill is expected to pass on a final roll call vote Thursday.
If the measure is passed, it will have to be returned to the House because of Senate changes. It was first passed by the House last week.
and he and a handful of other senators then engaged in a mini-filibuster which lasted just over two hours. A roll call vote was then taken on his motion, and it failed.
Tentative approval of the measure came after ill-fated attempts to kill the bill and then refer it back to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. The motion to kill the bill failed on a vote of 16-23, and the motion to refer failed on a vote of 15-22.
More than a dozen amendments were proposed. The only ones adopted were proposed by Sen. Jack Steineger, D-Muncie. He was floor manager of the bill, and he said the amendments had the governor's blessing.
In his long speech of a little over one hour, Bennett delivered a bitter denunciation of Docking.
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Prairie Village, made the motion to kill the Democratic governor's bill,
The Johnson County Senator attacked the bill as blind "to the problems of an inflationary society," and referred to the proposed earnings tax in the measure as "the most regressive tax that has come to the floor of the Senate in my experience."
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., said Wednesday thousands of dollars in U.S. aid funds had been diverted from Laos to a black market bank account in New York City.
Black market diverts funds
Coast Guard meets treasure searchers
MIAMI (UPI) - A Coast Guard cutter rendezvoused Wednesday with an American treasure hunting vessel seized by the Cubans and found that all was well with
In 1967 alone, Ribicoff said, at least $45,000 moved from an aid fund in Laos to a black market account code-named "Prysummen" at Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York.
In New York, a spokesman for Manufacturers Hanover Trust called the testimony old stuff"
Ribicoff made the statement as his Senate subcommittee reopened hearings on irregularities at Army enlisted men's clubs and black market currency manipulations.
"We've cooperated with the committee fully," the spokesman said. "The account is no longer with the bank."
the five-man crew, the boat and its odd assortment of gear.
"The master of the boat Sten Carlson, Chatham, Mass., said he thought that with all the diving gear they had aboard, they probably looked like a bizarre craft to the Cubans," the spokesman added.
The cutter Steadfast rendezvoused with the 65-foot Jocelyn C., 30 miles east of Cay Lobos off the north coast of Cuba at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday and took statements from the crew.
Efforts to contact the Jocelyn C. by radio after its release had failed because the craft's main transmitter was not working and its secondary radio sending equipment was too weak to contact U.S. authorities.
"They reported they had been held and interrogated by the Cubans: they were released at 4 p.m. Monday, given 450 gallons of fuel and told to leave," a Coast Guard spokesman said.