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Postal rate rise boosts revenue and pay rises
The new postal rates, effective this week, will generate about 900 million dollars annually and fund a 6 percent raise for postal workers and a 4 percent rise for other civil service staff. First class letters rose to 6 cents per ounce, airmail to 10 cents, postal cards to 5 cents, and airmail cards to 8 cents. Second class rates climbed about 24 percent and bulk third class mail rose 34 percent. insufficient postage letters will be returned.
Allies Send More Troops to Vietnam for Six Month Reinforcement
The article notes about 7,000 additional allied troops will join existing U S and South Vietnamese forces in six months, boosting allied strength to 66,000. It compares this to the 13 UN members who fought in Korea and lists South Korea, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Nationalist China as key contributors with varied troop levels and advisory roles. Paramilitary aid and nonmilitary support are also highlighted as part of multinational efforts to halt communism in Southeast Asia while negotiations hinge on a mutual cease-fire and guarantee of concessions from North Vietnam.
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Philippines
New Zealand
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Federal job programs MA-1 and MA-2 outlined for hard-core unemployed
The article describes two federal programs targeting hard-core unemployment in five cities Boston Chicago Los Angeles San Antonio and Washington. MA-1 funded 10 companies to train about 6 200 workers at an average 2 300 per trainee with no guaranteed employment. MA-2 offered manpower funds to recruit and train with job guarantees, with potential spending of 35 45 million for roughly 15 000 trainees. The efforts accompany a prior 40 million slum-area aid plan.
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Chicago
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San Antonio
Washington
Proposals to employ hard core unemployed roots for 18 thousand jobs
The plan counts 85 corporations proposing 18 834 jobs, but only about a dozen are solid enough for serious consideration. It argues training and employment of hard core unemployed removes them from relief rolls, offers living wages, and makes taxpayers of them. The hard core total about 500 000, needing 1.5 billion dollars for jobs at 3 000 each. The solution, though late and small, is in sight.
Anti Strike Maneuvers Toward Taylor Law Tossup in New York
The Taylor law forbids public employee strikes in New York state and has been intermittently enforced to jail Albert Shanker and fine his teachers union for contempt. With transit workers’ contract stalled since January 1, organized labor seeks to leverage Shanker’s jailing to challenge the law, while the State Public Employment Relations Board watches for a legal strike and its implications for public labor across the country.
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Albert Shanker
Teachers’ Union
Shanker
Thoreau Not a Hippie Despite Modern Misconceptions
Professor Frederick T. McGill argues Thoreau’s 1840 New England ideal was about living simply in nature rather than rejecting commerce or embracing drugs. He notes Thoreau’s morning air as his chief intoxicant and his discipline of giving up desires to focus on essentials, contrasting with today’s hippies.
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Thoreau
Frederick T. McGill
Rutgers College of Arts and Sciences
Newark
New England
No Parking Notes and a Killer Whale Kiss
A driver in a business district notes a job threat after a failed hunt for parking and a police officer concedes a ticket to avoid losing his job. In California a marine trainer befriends Shamu, a 2,500‑pound killer whale that affectionately licks the trainer but reveals the whale’s fearsome teeth and predatory nature.
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It’s All In Your Mind Work Column Insight
The Charleston Daily Mail argues that a man’s work life is greatly shortened by aging to 21 and retirement at 65. Considering eight hours of sleep, weekends, holidays, vacations, and breaks, the average person ends up working around seven years of a typical lifetime, about one tenth of a threescore and ten, a puzzling paradox with little explanation offered.
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Charleston
World faces hunger as population outpaces food supply
United Nations FAO warns population will hit five billion by 1980, with three billion in Asia Africa and Latin America where food is scarce. Despite Western science pursuing synthetic foods and fertilizer advances, most developing nations lack farming modernization and must boost production to avert famine, as demands for food grow in the next two decades.
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Australia
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Great Plain
Gilligan Secures Ohio Democratic Nomination Endorsement
Former Congressman John J. Gilligan opened his campaign for Ohio’s Democratic Senate nomination after wresting the party endorsement from Sen. Frank J. Lausche. Gilligan called the decision a decisive action by the Ohio Democratic Executive Committee and a culmination of years of discontent with Lausche’s voting record.
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Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio Democratic Executive Committee
Lausche
Analysis of Johnsons political risk and North Vietnam talks
The piece weighs Johnsons prospects for election against a partisan Congress and Vietnam War pressures. It notes Democrat control since 1961, Republican gains in 1964, and Johnsons dual burden of nominating and campaigning while facing war doubts. It critiques North Vietnam talks as potentially one sided and examines political uncertainty ahead of a turbulent presidential election year.
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North Vietnam
Michigan
George Rominey
Johnson to Meet Governors on Rioting Prevention Measures
President Johnson will convene the National Governors Conference February 29 to March 1 in Washington. Discussion will center on preventing or curbing racial street rioting next summer, with focus on education jobs and housing funding for ghettos amid war costs. Governors will hear committee reports on health welfare education taxation law enforcement and state urban relations.
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Washington
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Otto Kerner
Illinois
National Guard
National Advisory Commission On
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United States
Richard M. Nixon
George Romney
Michigan
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Calvin L. Rampton
Utah
Philip H.hoff
Vermont
Starvation diets fail to reduce weight long term
In the British Medical Journal a Scottish medical team reports on a 410 pound man who lost only 20 pounds in two weeks on a vitamin based unsweetened liquid diet and regained weight to 410 pounds in six months and to 491 pounds in two years. Other patients likewise lost weight briefly but regained it.
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London
Edinburgh
Beirut Heart Surgeon May Try Transplant
BEIRUT Lebanon APL reports Lebanon top heart specialist may attempt a heart transplant at American University Hospital. A prospective patient awaits a donor while Hospital Director Edward Stockman notes no decision yet. If done, Dr. Ibrahim Khalil Dagher would lead the team, regarded as the country’s best heart surgeon.
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Edward Stockman
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Humphrey Africa Tour Highlights Western Alliance Ties
Vice President Humphrey crisscrossed Africa covering 22000 miles in 13 days visiting Liberia Ivory Coast Ghana Congo Zambia Ethiopia Somalia Kenya and Tunisia. He urged majority rule human rights and self determination while criticizing apartheid and Rhodesia and secured loans and aid though Africa’s leaders remained wary of Western influence.
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United Press International
State Couple Fined 5000 for Tax Evasion
A Plantsville Connecticut couple Edgar Morin and Evelyn Morin were fined 5000 after pleading guilty in U S District Court Portland Maine. Judge Edward Gignoux suspended one year prison sentences and placed them on two years probation on condition they pay back taxes interest and penalties. The Morins previously ran a structural steel construction business in Caribou Maine.
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Plantsville
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Edward T. Gignoux
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Caribou
New Jersey's cheap legislature mocks Connecticut plans
A critique argues Connecticut lawmakers resist New Jersey's model of a lean, constantly meeting system. It notes New Jersey spends about 26 cents per person on legislative purposes, lacks staff and offices, and is viewed by groups like the League of Women Voters as a limited board of review. The piece contrasts this with Connecticut's push for grand offices, larger staffs, and frequent sessions, suggesting lawmakers prefer prestige and perks over efficiency.
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Connecticut
John Aan Ovnasteap M. Lupton
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League of Women Voters
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Polish Cardinal Attacks Flower Children In Sermon
Warsaw AP Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski criticized the California hippie scene during a Friday sermon, saying long-haired, colorful youths seem shielded from life’s hardships yet fear it and advocate universal love. He noted they watch parents chase money and feel weary of memory.
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