Congress Costs: House and Senate Upkeep Compared
Washington costs show taxpayers pay about 188000 yearly per House member and 300000 per senator for salaries and staff. Fringe benefits push total expenses higher, with long distance, travel, stationery, free mail, and office space, plus generous pensions reaching 36000 annually after 32 years.
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Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Congress
Virginia
California
$25 000 Item Tops OOB Town Agenda
Old Orchard Beach Town Council meets at Loranger School at 7 p m. The school building committee seeks 25 000 for preliminary architectural and engineering fees. Also on the agenda are a dog pound project, two planning board alternates, trainee building inspector ad, and fire alarm installation talks.
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Old Orchard Beach
Loranger School
Planning Board
Seven Dead In Path Of Texas Twisters
The death toll rose to seven from tornadoes in Texas on Saturday. Harold Sims, 72, of Grape Creek, died Sunday night in San Angelo, after his wife and two others were injured when the twister hit Grape Creek. Six others died from injuries in a separate Hubbard twister that virtually demolished the town.
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Hubbard
Tex
Texas
Harold Sims
Grape Creek
San Angelo
Here
Whist Party Winners Named At LeFoyer Event
Winners at Le Foyer whist party Sunday night included Riena Lagrange Flora Lambert and Hazel Foucault as top contenders. High scorer Roy Perry and participants Joseph Viger Emma Thiboutot Adrienne Lessard Aurore Soucy Claire Lessard also played. The event will be repeated next week open to the public.
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le Foyer
Riena Lagrange
Flora Lambert
Hazel Foucault
Roy Perry
Joseph Viger
Emma Thiboutot
Adrienne Lessard
Aurore Soucy
Claire Lessard
Normand Lapointe
Ted
Retirement Argument: Retirement as Beginning of Action
The author contrasts retirement with death, urging retirement as a chance for ongoing effort. He warns that waiting for Social Security resembles awaiting a funeral and cites Aristotle that the end of man is an action. Retirement should start a new form of activity rather than end it.
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Aristotle
Social Security Questions and Child Disability Advice
Readers ask about self employment earnings affecting winter Social Security, benefit rate increases for a working parent, and the advantage of applying for childhood disability benefits for an epileptic son. Officials note combined monthly work time matters for self employed earnings and describe retroactive rate increases and the potential for continued checks beyond 18 with disability status. Contact details for the local Social Security office are provided.
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Alfred ‘St
Biddeford
Maine
Lodge Discharged After Prostate Surgery in Boston
Henry Cabot Lodge 70 was released from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after Thursday surgery to remove the prostate gland. The former U S ambassador and Massachusetts senator, defeated by John F Kennedy, was discharged Sunday.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
United Nations
South Vietnam
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Lodge
U.S
Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
St. Josephs Guild Plans Bake Sale and Meeting
The St. Josephs Guild will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday at 7 p.m. A chop suey supper will be served and the evening includes entertainment and a cake decorating contest organized by Mrs. Doris Coburn and Mrs. Bernadette American Courtois.
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St. Joseph's Guild
Old Orchard Beach School Committee Agenda Includes Hockey Plan
A Friday meeting at Loranger School 7 30 p m will review a student request to form a high school hockey team and present a report on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills among 10 agenda items for Old Orchard Beach.
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Old Orchard Beach
Iowa
Loranger School
Humphrey would have named Kissinger as adviser
Sen. Hubert Humphrey said after White House services he would have appointed Henry Kissinger as his foreign policy adviser if elected in 1968. He called Kissinger professional and extraordinary and indicated he now supports Nixon’s postwar aid plan to North Vietnam due to budget assurances.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Henry A. Kissinger
White House
Minnesota Democrat
Nixon
Humphrey
North Vietnam
Roll Call Vote on ERA Fails in York County House
In York County Maine the Equal Rights Amendment vote in the House ended with a defeat for ratification. Legislators cast final roll calls on the amendment, with members voting for and against in a close political division reflected in last week’s Senate action.
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York County
Maine
Equal Rights
Senate
St Demetrios Church sets weekly parish schedule
Rev Nicholas Dufault announces weekly parish activities at St Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Biddeford Choir rehearsal Tuesday 7 to 8 pm altar boys meeting Saturday 12 noon Greek Language School Tuesday Thursday 6 to 7 pm Session I Sunday School Saturday 11 am Readers for Divine Liturgy Evelyn Louis Epistle Georgia Antonakos Gospel Combined choirs rehearse for April 15 concert at St Joseph's Church Biddeford-Saco Council of Churches choir practice Sundays 3 30 pm First Parish Church Saco parishioners urged to contact Miss Koutoulakos.
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Nicholas Dufault
St. Demetrios
Biddeford
Altar Boys
Evelyn
Koutoulakos
Rotary Talk Highlights Golden Age Program
Wilfred Trottier of the Saco Jaycees spoke to the Biddeford Saco Rotary on The Golden Age a plan to inform seniors about local services discounts and resources. Albert Deshaies led the discussion and proposed how the program should function. The Kimbell Museum design by Louis Kahn was noted for its natural light display of art.
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Biddeford-Saco
Albert Deshaies
Kimbell Museum
Fort Worth
Tex
Louis Kahn
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