FTC proceeds with hearings on cigarette warnings
The Federal Trade Commission will begin hearings next Tuesday on a proposed cigarette advertising warning. Testimony from Surgeon General William Stewart and Dr. Luther Terry leads antismoking witnesses, while industry pleas were rejected by a 32 vote. The act expires July 1 1975 and fate rests with a Senate Commerce Committee.
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William Barton Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Congress
William §. Stewart
Luther L. Terry
House
Senate
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
Senate Commerce Commission
H. Thomas Austern
The
Tobacco Institute
Senate Committee
Eight Minnesotans win Bush Leadership Program awards
Eight Minnesotans received Bush Leadership Program honors in Minneapolis. Four men won $18,000 fellowships for 16 months of study and internship at leading universities, with nine months of coursework followed by a nine month placement. The recipients include Gerard D. I. Strom and Lynn J. Hummel among others. Four additional winners earned Bush Management Scholar awards for 16 weeks of fulltime study at $250 weekly, including Clarence E. Harris David P. Lindgren and Robert W. MacGregor. The program aims to groom leaders across business law education journalism government divinity and labor unions.
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Minneapolis
Gerard D. I.strom
Lynn J. Hummel
Detroit
Henry J. Savelkoul
Albert Lea
Thecus
St. Paul
Bush Management
Clarence E. Harris
Neapolis School of Art
David P. Lindgren
Brooklyn Center
Robert W. MacGregor
Minnneapolis
Bush
California moves to ban cigarette ads in mass media
Senate approval of a bill to ban cigarette advertising in California newspapers magazines TV radio and billboards seeks to extend to national publications with regional editions. Beilenson notes parental and health support and cites foreign bans as precedent while exemptions apply to other tobacco products.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Senate
State Assembly
Ronald Reagan
Beilenson
Great Britain
Canada
Norway
Denmark
Sweden
Switzerland
Italy
France
Governmental Efficiency Committee
Walters Village misplaces funds and loses ordinance book
State Auditor says Walters Minnesota, a 133 person village in Faribault County near the Iowa border, misplaced funds and lost the town ordinance book. Examiners found un reconciled accounts, liquor sales on credit, prizes for a bowling machine, early pay to the store manager, and cash kept in a cigar box, with about 2422 dollars missing from July 1968 receipts.
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ST. Paul
Robert Whitaker
Walters
Minn
Faribault
Iowa
Floyd Beck
Canada Indians may get back rights and land
In Ottawa, Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chretien unveiled a long-range plan to erase legal discrimination and grant Canada's 237,490 registered Indians the same services as other Canadians while abolishing the reservation system. Leaders welcomed the proposal cautiously, with Walter Dieter of the Indian Brotherhood expressing guarded optimism.
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Ottawa
Canada
Indian Affairs
Jean Chretien
Walter Dieter
National Indian Brotherhood
Expert cites sharp rise in child mental illness nationwide
San Francisco AP reports expert Michael Gorman of the National Committee Against Mental Illness says U S children with mental illness increased 150 percent in ten years, with at least four million affected. He notes gaps in treatment facilities, especially in 15 states lacking juvenile care and 24 lacking facilities for low and middle income youths. A joint report urges a Magna Carta for mentally ill youths and calls for a president’s council on children, state commissions, and local child youth authorities.
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San Francisco
U.S
Congress
Michael Gorman
National Committee Against
City Health Department
Gorman
Joint Commission
Advisers
Minnesota firms fund Afro American culture grants
A Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. and the Hill Family Foundation donated 700000 to the United Negro College Fund to finance microfilm research centers and filming of Afro American culture and history materials. UNCF executive director Harry V. Richardson announced the grant at a news conference at UNCF headquarters in New York.
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New York
Minnesota
St. Paul
United Negro College Fund
Harry V. Richardson
UNCF
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co
Hill Family Foundation
Topeka Man Awarded 627000 in Injury Suit
A Topeka district court jury awarded William C. Comstock 627000 for injuries when a car jack from Vulcan Manufacturing Co. allegedly failed, causing a car to fall on him. Officials called it Shawnee County’s largest personal injury award.
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Topeka, Kan
Topeka
William C. Comstock
Vulcan Manufacturing Co
Minnesota
Shawnee County
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Fred G. Bock
New York State Department of Health
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