Health insurance minefield shapes Carter’s 1978 strategy
The Carter administration faces a stalled push for national health insurance in 1978. UAW and AFL-CIO pressure the White House for a firm proposal next year, while Califano hints at only general guidelines. Analysts warn delayed action could raise costs and jeopardize labor support. Douglas A. Fraser and Edward M. Kennedy loom large in the health care debate.
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H.E.W
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UAW
Los Angeles
White House
New Orleans
U.A.W
Douglas A. Fraser
Fraser
Capitol Hill
Afl-Cio
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Gift of health immunization urged as holiday kindness
A columnist urges grandparents and parents to give a health gift this season by ensuring children are fully immunized against polio measles rubella mumps diphtheria pertussis and tetanus. Citing declines in polio and lives saved they note more than 20 million children remain unprotected and warn of measles death risk. Immunization requires effort but offers lasting protection and clear love.
Putnam Memorial Hospital Gets $20000 Donation
Henry W. Putnam donates twenty thousand dollars to the Putnam Memorial Hospital to meet current expenses. Banner employees receive a Christmas bonus equal to a week’s pay for all twenty staff. An Air Force jet engine will be displayed at Edwin L. Sibley Manufacturing Co open house on West Main Street, with two airmen bringing the exhibit to Bennington. A soggy runway causes a crash at Bennington Airport. the White Plains owner-pilot escaped injury by wearing a seat belt. aircraft damage estimated at four thousand five hundred dollars from a fifteen thousand dollar plane.
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Air Force
Edwin L. Sibley Manufacturing Co
West Main Street
U.S. Air Force
Bennington
White Plains
They also smelled of mittens and wood stoves
A reminiscence from Maine on returning to wood burning stoves amid an energy crunch. The narrator recalls mittens drying on stove rods, old-time kitchen warmth, and knitting work as a cultural habit, contrasting past soot and scent with present fuel choices.
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Dooryard
Maine
Apri
Satan
Mane Jovem
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