Good Time to Reconsider Postal Revision
An Austin Daily Herald column argues for privatizing and professionalizing the Post Office to remove politics, grant budget and personnel control, and aim for self-sustaining operation. It notes bipartisan support and a need for drastic overhaul of the moribund mails system.
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Nixon
Johnson
Tration
O'Brien
Commission
Post Office
Congress
Austin Daily Herald -Thomson Newspapers, Inc
Austin
Minnesota
Richard Gross
Unitates
APO
FPO
Minn
Us&s
Welfare reform debate highlights New York costs and migration
The article argues New York faces a 170 million shortfall in local welfare by year end with NYC showing high welfare reliance. It notes state-to-state disparities in payments, cites New York paying seven times Mississippi for families with dependents, and calls for federal-state balance plus broader reforms to reduce dependence through education and employment opportunities.
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New York
New York State
New York City
Mississippi
South
Kremlin action on Czechoslovakia prompts Hall defense
The article reviews Gus Hall's apologia on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Hall argues limited democracy under proletarian rule and compares dissent to choosing a black car, noting abuses but defending Moscow's actions while criticizing Czech leaders.
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Czechoslovakia
Lenin
Gus Hall
Communist Party
U.S.A
Soviet Union
Hungary
Poland
East Germany
Bulgaria
Chechoslovakia
Hall
Kremlin
Russia
Halil
Congress Pressures Spending Cuts and Reforms
The piece notes calls for a $6 billion spending cut while boosting the congressional budget to nearly $300 million and trimming payrolls to about 12 000. It mentions past reforms, lobbyist controls, and limits on patronage, with Speaker McCormack cited on a floor rule deviation and reform debates from 1967. It references a MILWAUKEE JOURNAL attribution.
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Congress
Senate
McCormack
Santa letters and local notes from Austin history
Dozens of readers write to Santa including Billy Rishavy seeking a train and a Charley McCarthy car and D D Skinner asking for gifts for siblings Roxie and Reta. The piece also cites Hormel’s Austin focus, China rumors from a Marine, Austin Utilities rates, and Minnesota delivering the deed to Horace Austin State Park in Austin.
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Santa Claus
the Herald
Billy Rishavy
Sullivan St
Charley McCarthy
D. D. Skinner
Johnson Ave
Santa
Roxie
Reta
Charlie McCarthy
Austin
Twin Cities Interstates Highlight Huge Construction Project
Long Minnesota link between Minneapolis and St Paul costs 80 million dollars. It includes 83 bridges three tunnels 12 miles of storm sewer 68 retaining walls and 18 interchanges. Critics call for broader state interstate spending beyond Twin Cities.
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Neapolis
St. Paul
Twin Cities
State Highway Department
Minnesota
Twin Citties
Militant Labor Chiefs Seek to Unionize Hospital Workers
New York leads a national push by Local 1199 and NOCHNHE to organize hospital and nursing home staff including technicians and professionals. Reverend King’s legacy and SCLC ties fuel trainers and mass actions across Northeast and South.
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New York
43Rd Street
Martin Luther King Jr
Northeast
Midwest
South
Leon Davis
CIO
John L. Lewis
Walter Reuther
France
Mr. Davis
Alliance For Labor Action
ALA
Davis
America
Reverend King
Memphis
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Atlanta
King
SCLC
Nochnhe
Publishers Hall Syndicate
Finch poised to join Nixon cabinet as HEW head
California Lt. Gov. Robert Finch appears ready to resign to become secretary of health education and welfare in the Nixon administration. Reagan’s lunch meeting signals a likely successor choice while Finch weighs his California base and national ambitions.
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America
Iran
Finch
Nixon
HEW
San Francisco
Nea
California
Robert Finch
Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
California Republican Party
Richard Nixon
United States
White House
GOP
George Murphy
Murphy
Spiro T. Agnew
Journalists Chronicle Hanoi Contact by Ashmore Baggs
Two Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions officials recount a private Hanoi visit in January 1967 and a later private message to North Vietnam. They critique Johnson and State Department policy, presenting a semi unofficial line and a cautious, independent channel. Miles A. Smith.
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Hanoi
Harry
Ashmore
Wiliam C. Baggs
Putnam
Ashmore-Baggs
Center For the Study of Democratic
Pacem
Ho Chi Minh
Center
State Department
Johnson
Moscow
United States
Baggs
D Department
North Vietnam
Miles A. Smith
Income tax Q and A on breeding stock gifts and losses
A column discusses depreciation for breeding stock depending on whether stock was raised or purchased and explains gift deductions up to 25 per person per year. It also covers child care deductions, retirement illness sick pay, and stock loss timing for tax reporting with reference to 1968 rules.
Today in History for December Eleven Nineteen Sixty Eight
On December eleven nineteen sixty eight the Associated Press notes events in world history. Germany and Italy declared war on the United States four days after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Indiana became the nineteenth state in nineteen sixteen. Louis Napoleon was elected president of France in eighteen forty eight. King Edward VIII abdicated in nineteen thirty six. King George VI ascended to the throne. In nineteen forty four German troops faced pressure from the American First Army across the Roer River. In nineteen forty six John D Rockefeller Jr offered six blocks in Manhattan for UN headquarters. One year ago monsoon rains halted U S air strikes and allowed Haiphong port logjam relief for North Vietnam.
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Associated Press
Germany
Italy
United States
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Indiana
Union
Louis Napoleon
France
Edward VIII
Britain
George
Roer River
U.S
North Vietnam
Haiphong
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Henry Ford
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Beven
House
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China
Tsingtao
Peiping
Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
DFL
Karl Rolvaag
A. M. Keith
Harold LeVander
Hubert Humphrey
Thomas Byrne
Arthur Naftalin
Minneapolis
Nicholas Coleman
Karl Grittner
Wendell Anderson
Donald Fraser
D. D. Wozniak
Warren Spannaus
Robert Short
Edina
Lawrence Yeika
Humphrey
U.S. Senate
Masschusetts Foundation
Genievieve Waite
Sadruddin Aga Khan
United Nations
Dow Chemical
Bruce Biossat
Book Review
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Manhattan
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