Medical Care Plan Killed in Senate by 52-48 Vote

Medical Care Plan Killed in Senate by 52-48 Vote

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They said they An hour after the Senate serious defeat for every Ameri- vote, Kennedy went before tel- can family." tion's medical care plan, said last night he would maintain their present manner of treat- would welcome having the medicare program ment, including treating needy patients free evision cameras and radio mi- Kennedy promptly fired his as an election issue in November. of charge. crophones to read a statement. stinging reverse by a coalition He said the defeat had dealt Henriksen, chief surgeon of Point Pleasant of Republicans and Southern The compromise Anderson old age health a setback to 17 million Ameri- Hospital, referred to President Kennedy's Democrats into a major issue insurance bill was tabled and, in effect, killed cans over 65 and was a blow for the November congression- statement earlier asking that voters show in the Senate by a 32-48 vote. to children of older persons they are for the plan in the congressional al elections and said he would Both New Jersey senators, Republican who have to educate their fam- elections this fall. offer the program again next Clifford P. Case and Democrat Harrison A. ilies and help their parents "I welcome it as an issue because I think year.. Williams Jr., voted against tabling the meet medical expenses. there are enough Americans who wanf to take measure. Then he added: The American Medical Asso- care of their own health needs without gov- ciation, which led the fight Prior to the vote Williams said that pas- "I think the American peo- ernment interference," said Henriksen, add- ple are going to make a de- PRESIDENT KENNEDY talk* with Clevefand Mayor Anthony J. Cefebrezze, designated against the program which ing that he was "very happy" over the set- sage of the bill would be the best antidote to would have been financed socialized medicine. cision in November as to to b» lecretary of welfare, at the White House. Abraham Ribieoff, who resigned back of the legislation In the senate yester- whether they want this bill, through higher social security day. the welfare pair to campaigh for the Senate from Connecticut, is at left. payments, said yesterday's Sen- "We cannot wish away the serious health and similar bills to be passed, Henriksen was the leader of a group of ..'.'.., (AP Wirephotol ate action was "a vote in the problems of the elderly, and if we do not or whether they want it to be New Jersey doctors who pledged to refuse to public interest." soon take constructive action, the people may defeated. Nearly all the Re- treat patients under provisions of the King- some day demand reckless action." publicans and a handful of Same Pattern Democrats Joined with them Kennedy had placed the med- to give us today's setback .. Joining 31 Republicans to kill ical care plan in the top pri- and thus kill an amendment by on hand. Many House mem- the medical care plan were 21 "We have to decide, the Hughes Signs Bill Making ority bracket of his legislative Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, D- . bers and Senate employees Democrats, 17 of them South- United States, in 1962, in No- program. The coalition which N. Mex., that would have huddled at the rear of the erners. Five Republicans who vember, In the congressional scrapped It was of the same hooked the plan onto a House- floor. Capacity crowds filled co-sponsored the compromise elections, whether we want to pattern of the one that had passed public welfare bill. the galleries. voted with 43 Democrats in stand still or whether we want killed two of his other major - An air. of tenseness charged GoofballPossession Crime trying to save it. The climax to the most bit- to support this kind of legis- proposals in the House — his terly fought issue of the cur- the chamber as the roll call lation for the benefit of the farm bill and his plan to set was taken. < TRENTON (AP) - Law en- i>y Hughes yesterday gives the which provides a life sentence for . The showdown was on ap- rent session came at mid-aft- people. up a Department of Urban Af- proval of a motion by Sen. Rob- forcement officials are armed health commissioner authority to illegal sale of narcotics to minors ernoon in a packed Senate When it was all over. Vice . "You are going to have a fairs. ert S. Kerr, D-Okla., to table chamber. All 100 senators were President Lyndon B. Johnson (See MEDICAL, Page 2) with a new weapon today in their classify certain habit-forming Also present at the signing were growing crackdown on "goof- non-narcotic drugs as narcotic Spina; Dr. Lloyd J. McCorkle, balls" and other habit-forming drugs, thereby ^regulating their chairman of the state Narcotics drugs, control and sale. Control Commission; and State Yesterday Gov. Richard J. Sens. Fox, Ozzard, Crane, and Police Lt. Leonard Iatesta, in Hughes Plans Veto Hughes signed into law a bill George B.' Harper, R-Sussex, charge of narcotics enforcement. Giant Space Balloon sponsored the bill. ~ . * making it a crime to possess cer- The governor expressed hope tain hypnotic or sleep-inducing , Hughes said the. bills will pro- vide a powerful new weapon to that a bill increasing the maxi- pills or barbiturates which are mum penalty for stealing narcotic On Bingo Unit Czar law enforcement authorities in not narcotics. drugs and another prohibiting the Hughes signed the bill shortly the growing battle against nar- TRENTON (AP) — Gov. Richard J. Hughes says he will cotics addiction. He said they will sale of codeine without a prescrip- veto a bill to replace the state's Bingo-Raffle Commission with Mission Is a Success after Newark City Police Director supplement the state's present tion would be passed by the state a one-man administration. Dominick A. Spina attributed four CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)dor to try to pick up films made heat of tha sun in the vacuum narcotic, laws, including one Hughes said yesterday that the commission was free of recent deaths in Newark to the (See HUGHES, Page 2) —The largest space vehicle ever by a movie camera aboard the of space. The 50 pounds in the scandal, and that the lack of "universal satisfaction" with the use of "goofballs." sent aloft—a balloon which in- rocket that also recorded the in- first Big Shot was too patent commission's work was only natural in an area involving de- Essex County Sheriff Leroy J. flated to the height of a 13-story flation process. a load and made too much gas cisions and penalties. D'Alola, credited by Hughes with building—was rocketed 950 miles Remarkable pictures taken by too rapidly. Although there was The bill to abolish the commission was sponsored by Sen- being one of the original sponsors ,-bove the Atlantic Ocean today both type cameras enabled tech- a near vacuum inside the sphere, Sewer Authority ate Majority Leader Charles W. Sandman, Jr., R-Cape May. of the, bill, said It would be, a as r. forerunner of an advanced nicians to determine what caused the tiny amount of air present Sandman was a member of a Seriate committee, that in- tremendoos Jhelp to law enforce- Echo communications satellite. a similar balloon to rip to shreds was enough, in combination with vestigated the agency and^charged. it-was excessively severe ment officials. The gleaming silvery sphere, on the first big balloon launching the quick-expanding gas, to in- in punishing charitable groups licensed to conduct'bingo and Graduate To Narcotics dubbed "Big Shot," provided a last Jan. 15. The sphere expand- flate the bag too fast. Asks federal Aid raffles. brief but spectacular show for ed to its full diameter In two sec- To flow down the inflation proc- D'Aloia, termer speaker of the WANTS AMENDMENTS MATAWAN TOWNSHIP - The About one-fifth of the munici- ground observers in the Cape onds and just as swiftly burst ess in today's balloon, a less -AsMfflNJ; «jid, that "goofball" But Hughes said the commission was composed of unsala- Canaveral area as it separated apart. users are usually beginning dope Sewer Authority, at its meeting pality will get sewer service from active sublimating powder, ben- next week, expects to process its the plant to. be' constructed by ried, public spirited citizens who had served the public well. from the Thor booster, expanded Repeated screening of thefilms zoic acid, was used and the addicts. Later, when "goofballs" Hughes also announced he will accept a bill permitting to its full 135-foot diameter, and disclosed two major flaws; .

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