Hughes scores Legis failure to act on proposal to raise $35-million for urban aid by raising tax on net worth of bank, savings and loan and trust co stocks from 0.75% to 2.25%, news conf

JERSEY APPROVES ANTICRIME BILLS; Measures Seek to End Pier Rackets -- Hughes Critical Jersey Approves 2 Measures Aimed at Crime on Waterfront

A City Council investigating committee that had promised "major changes" in the Human Resources Administration split during a long closed-door meeting and failed to agree on its report.  

Councilmen Split In H. R. A. Inquiry; Delay Final Report; Councilmen Delay H.R.A. Report After Dispute on Its Contents 

Rogers repts enemy combat activity and infiltration has recently decreased, news conf; says if conditions persist, pace of Amer troop withdrawals could be affected; refuses to say whether US will respond to lull; Defense Dept gives details on enemy operations

ROGERS SAYS FOE IS CURBING COMBAT AND INFILTRATION; Since Lull Is Only Week Old, He Is Unwilling to Assess Its Significance Now COULD AFFECT PULLOUT Secretary, at News Parley, Asserts Pace May Speed if Conditions Persist Rogers Reports Foe Curbs Infiltration

Antiwar demonstrators destroy files covering 200,000 men, 321 W 44th St, NYC; illus; unsigned note left at NY Times identifies demonstrators as 'group of women attempting to thwart functioning of draft system in Manhattan'; Selective Service area dir Akst says office has duplicate files; FBI begins probe

A DRAFT CENTER VANDALIZED HERE; Antiwar Group Dumps Files and Cuts Record Books An Antiwar Group Vandalizes Records at Draft Center Here

Representative William F. Ryan announced yesterday that he was "seriously considering" an independent Democratic race for Mayor.  

Ryan Considering Bid for Mayoralty; Ryan 'Seriously Considering' Race for Mayoralty 

Gov Rockefeller postpones construction of office bldg; Deputy Mayor Sweet says preliminary surveys indicate use of land for school is 'not appropriate'

STATE POSTPONES HARLEM BUILDING; Site of Protested Offices to Be Used for Play Until Problems Are Solved State Puts Off Harlem Building In Response to Request by City

US mil officials say 3 N Vietnamese regiments (about 7,500 men) have pulled back across buffer zone during last 3 wks; say movements are being watched closely to determine whether they represent pol signal or tactical shift; level of fighting in area from which troops have been withdrawn has dropped sharply; map

Hanoi Pulls 3 Regiments Back Across Buffer Zone; Hanoi Pulls 3 Regiments Back Over Buffer Zone

Nixon rejects CAB recommendation that Continental be given route from US East Coast to S Pacific; suggests route be given to Eastern, which was original choice of CAB examiner who first heard entire route case; backs Eastern's contention that carrier must have extensive service in Eastern cities, particularly NYC

Nixon Again Rebuffs Continental Airlines; Nixon Again Rebuffs Continental Line

Comr Thrower says IRS will make special audit of returns of some 10,000 drs who each recd over $25,000 a yr in Medicare and Medicaid payments from Govt, Sen com; says audit will cover '67 returns of drs, other med practitioners who recd more than $50,000 a yr from 2 programs, will be broadened in yrs to cover those earning $25,000; says HEW Dept will require intermediary ins carriers that pay dr's claims and bill Govt for reimbursement to use dr's Soc Security number on repts of payments; agrees with Sen R B Long that code numbers on ins co forms effectively conceal identity of drs and leave them potentially free to get payments without reptg them as taxable income

10,000 PHYSICIANS FACING TAX AUDIT ON MEDICARE FEES; Each Got $25,000 or More -- Official Says He Won't Prejudge on Cheating PRECISE DATA LACKING Senate Finance Hearing Is Told Revenue Aides Can't Trace Doctors' Income 10,000 PHYSICIANS FACING TAX STUDY

begins conducting special tours around family qrs in White House; illus

Julie Eisenhower Reveals Her Own White House; Julie Eisenhower Shows White House

Rockefeller confs with Duvalier in presence of newsmen; 2 welcome crowd outside Natl Palace, Port-au-Prince; illus; several members of Rockefeller entourage express hope for resumption of US aid, holding cutoff is only hurting people

Rockefeller Heavily Guarded in Santo Domingo After Visiting Haiti; ROCKEFELLER OPENS DOMINICAN VISIT

43 Dist Ct judges and 9 Appeals Ct judges, 2d Circuit, ask US Judicial Conf to postpone its directive curbing judges' outside activities and requiring annual financial repts until a study can be made; hold every Fed judge should have opportunity to voice his views; 2d Circuit judges, at their own recent judicial conf, backed stand of Chief Judges Lumbard and Sugarman who urged that directive be returned to US Judicial Conf's Com on Ct Adm for further study; 10th Circuit judges are currently meeting

52 U.S. Judges Balk At Curb on Activities; CURB ON JUDICIARY FOUGHT BY CIRCUIT

JERUSALEM, July 2 -- Israeli pilots downed four Egyptian MIG-21's today in a 20-minute dogfight over Egyptian territory west of the Suez Canal, defense officials reported.  

ISRAELIS REPORT JETS SHOT DOWN 4 EGYPTIAN MIG'S; Cairo Declares 2 Mirages Were Destroyed in Clash West of Suez Canal Israelis Report Jets Downed 4 Egyptian MIG's 

Sec Gen Thant calls on all govts to halt development and stockpiling of chem and biological agents for warfare and to eliminate them from weapons arsenals, statement based on rept from internatl panel of 14 scientists; rept warns that potential for development of such weapons has grown considerably and holds there is no secure defense against them; warns that if such weapons were used on large scale, no one could predict how enduring their effects would be and how they would affect stucture of soc and world environment; Thant again asks all govts to sign Geneva Protocol, which bans use of all chem and germ agents, including tear gas; Dr I Bennett was US repr on panel; other members listed

THANT URGES HALT ON GERM WEAPONS; Panel Reports No Defense Is Sure Against Chemical or Biological Warfare THANT URGES HALT IN GERM WEAPONS

USSR officials tell Western diplomats that Nixon visit to Rumania offers no obstacles to arms control talks or to gen improvement in US-USSR ties

SOVIET UNRUFFLED OVER NIXON'S TRIP; His Visit to Rumania Is Said to Offer No Bar to Arms Talks or Closer Ties Soviet Unruffled Over Nixon's Visit to Rumania

Keating Submits Credentials

group headed by Natl Council of Chs pres A S Flemming writes lr to Nixon urging him to end war, and not simply de-Americanize it; calls for change in US mil strategy and other measures; signers of lr listed

Nixon Is Urged to End War, Not De-Americanize Fighting

2 laborers find 25 modern paintings stolen from Sir R Penrose, Apr, in store they were demolishing in London

25 STOLEN PAINTINGS ARE FOUND IN LONDON

Pan Amer may send team to USSR to evaluate TU-144 jetliner

Pan Am May Study Purchase Of Soviet Supersonic TU-144

Borman and family arrive, Moscow; greeted by USSR astronauts Maj Gen Beregovoi, Lt Col Titov and K P Feoktistov; illus; Bormans' flight was delayed nearly 20 hrs

Soviet Astronauts Greet Borman as His Visit Begins

US Sec Rogers repts Pres Nixon will include more trade among topics to be discussed during planned 1-day Aug visit, news conf; says Nixon is unlikely to make on spot decisions during trip

NIXON TO DISCUSS TRADE IN RUMANIA; Rogers Asserts U.S. Seeks to Expand Flow 'Sensibly'

countdown rehearsal successfully completed, despite over 3-hr delay caused by leaking valve in launching tower propellent pipes; project officials hold rehearsal was 'smoothest thus far in Apollo series'; illus of flight emblem

Moon Rocket Held Ready After Its Rehearsal Test

The Proceedings In the U.N.

An alleged Mafia figure was directed in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to answer questions put to him by a grand jury investigating the fixing of prizefights.  

TESTIMONY ORDERED IN INQUIRY ON BOXING

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Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and founder of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to sing backing vocals and played a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts.

July 3, 1969

Headlines from July 3, 1969

JERSEY APPROVES ANTICRIME BILLS; Measures Seek to End Pier Rackets -- Hughes Critical Jersey Approves 2 Measures Aimed at Crime on Waterfront

Councilmen Split In H. R. A. Inquiry; Delay Final Report; Councilmen Delay H.R.A. Report After Dispute on Its Contents

ROGERS SAYS FOE IS CURBING COMBAT AND INFILTRATION; Since Lull Is Only Week Old, He Is Unwilling to Assess Its Significance Now COULD AFFECT PULLOUT Secretary, at News Parley, Asserts Pace May Speed if Conditions Persist Rogers Reports Foe Curbs Infiltration

A DRAFT CENTER VANDALIZED HERE; Antiwar Group Dumps Files and Cuts Record Books An Antiwar Group Vandalizes Records at Draft Center Here

Ryan Considering Bid for Mayoralty; Ryan 'Seriously Considering' Race for Mayoralty

Billboard 200

Hair

The Age Of Aquarius

Blood; Sweat & Tears

Romeo & Juliet (1969)

This Is Tom Jones

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for July 3, 1969