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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 23, 1971

Page

6

Are You Forfeiting Some of Benefits

Sylvia Porter outlines 10 percent May Social Security benefit increases and a retroactive June boost, explains eligibility gaps for aged, disabled, and dependent beneficiaries, and urges readers to visit a Social Security office to apply. The piece details beneficiary groups and qualification rules, including widows and rehabilitation support, with emphasis on underutilized benefits and the need to act.

Sylvia Porter New York Ian Social Security Trust

From Nine to Five Join Pension Plan

Rhodesia’s finance minister John Wrathall announces that Black members of the armed forces, police, and others will be entitled to the same pension benefits as European counterparts under the government pension plan in Sailsbury.

Pension Plan Rhodesia T John Wrathall

Civil Defense Bunkers Source of Barbiturates

In St. Charles County Missouri officials found that civil defense bunkers stocked with 100000 barbiturate tablets were looted. About half the supply has been stolen and witnesses testified before a county court judge. The court ordered the remaining pills removed.

St, Charles, Mo UPI Charles County

Boys Wash Plane To Raise Funds

Seventy and eighth grade boys from St Peter's school washed a British Overseas Airways 707 jet at Logan Airport in about an hour to add 150 dollars to the school's recreation fund. An unidentified pupil suggested the effort in a letter to BOAC and the airline cooperated.

Boston St. Peter’s School British Overseas Airways Logan International Airport BOAC

Birmingham Actor Fined for Onstage Costume Dare

Patrick Barber a 24 year old actor in the Birmingham production of Hair was fined after a street incident in which he walked in public in his stage working clothes a bowler hat and black leather boots on a dare He said he stopped on a street near his home and explained to police he wore only his stage attire The court fined him for indecent exposure.

Birmingham England UPI Patrick Barber

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