Nader unit assails vet benefits in Vietnam era report
A nine month Nader task force accuses the government of neglecting Vietnam era veterans through lax medical care meager educational benefits and disdenyals of aid due to service records The 450 page prelim report targets the Veterans Administration proposing hospital absorption into national health care tougher VA program scrutiny for education broader benefit standards and looser discharge rules The report cites VA budget use for non service connected items and criticizes the lack of timely drug treatment for veterans with drug related discharges It notes that only a fraction of VA funds go to Vietnam era veterans and highlights discrimination claims tied to service records and undesirables discharges
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Washington
Ralph Nader
Veterans Administration
Government Accounting Office
Donald E. Johnson
Nader
Johnson
Vietnam
Army
Tama Rites for Crash Victim
Funeral services for Mrs. Richard Phyllis McComas 46 of Toledo will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St Patrick's church Tama. She was killed in a traffic accident Friday in Marshall county. Born June 25 1926 near Toledo she married May 27 1946 in Chicago. Her husband died in a traffic accident four years ago. She and her husband ran Dick's Restaurant in Toledo for 20 years and she later became a real estate and securities broker for B and X Realty Co Des Moines. Surviving include her mother five daughters two brothers two sisters and three grandchildren. Burial in Oak Hill cemetery Tama. Memorial fund established Henderson's in charge.
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Toledo
Richard
Phyllis) McComas
Marshall County
St. Patrick’s Church
Tama
Chicago
Marshall Hopper
Kathleen McGee
John Bonnette
Knoxville
Kenneth Estling
Bondurant
Bruce ‘McCoy
Montour
Rebecca i McComas
University of Iowa
Henderson’s
Minor 4.0 Quake Shakes Arvin California
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake rattled Arvin California about 15 miles southeast of Bakersfield on Saturday. The tremor was reported by the Caltech Seismological Laboratory and caused minor concern but no immediate damage reports.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Arvin
Here
Caltech Seismological Laboratory
Cedar Rapids Club Notes Free for All Meetings and Talks
Cedar Rapids area clubs list meetings and events including Sertoma Kiwanis Lions Toastmasters Rotary and more. Highlights include NARVRE bus trip to the Chicago Flower Show March 31 and a Veterans Administration representative visiting on Friday to assist veterans and dependents.
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Chicago
Travel and Transport
V. A
Veterans Administration
Federal Building
First Street
Brennan Visits Site of Fatal Collapse in Virginia
Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan toured the 26 story Skyline Center site in Bailey's Crossroads Virginia after Friday's collapse that killed five people and injured 34. Crews removed debris while federal OSHA probes the cause, with workers unaccounted and a parking garage also failing.
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Brennan
Bailey
Peter Brennan
Treatment to Syphilis Survivors in Tuskegee Study
Washington AP report states Secretary of Health and Welfare Caspar Weinberger pledges full lifetime medical care for all Tuskegee syphilis study participants. The 1932 1972 project tracked 430 black men from Macon County Alabama with 28 to 107 deaths directly linked to untreated syphilis. An advisory panel previously urged care for 74 survivors.
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Washington (Ap
Caspar Weinberger
Health and Welfare Department
Tuskegee
Macon County
Ala
Weinberger
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B. and X. Realty Co
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American Legion Auxiliary
Tama-Toledo
VFW Auxiliary
Towa Restaurant Assn
Iowa Liquor Assn
Cedar Rapids
Sertoma Club
Mackin Diamond Vogel Paint Center
Mt. Vernon Rd
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Town Square
Marion
Kiwanis
YMCA
Adv
Narvre — National Assn
Bishops
Lindale Plaza
Stamp Club
Cedar Rapids Stamp Club
Peoples Bank West
Baresh Rental
1St Ave
House of Leibsohn
Carol Rickey
Loren Jansa
Linn
First Lutheran Church
1000
Third Avenue SE
Karen Tjaden
Claudette
Ellis Blvd
Jaycee
Wayne Williams
Dick Wheeler
Mike Trabert
Jim Shafer
Bill Carmichael
Lou Mandle
Bishops Downtown
Wisconsin
Hawkeye
Elks Club
Maury Breen
Jim Dvorsky
Harold Gustafson
Duane Popenhagen
Phil Wheatley
Tom LeBuhn
Kent Autor
Jim McBane
East Side Kiwanis
Ron ‘David
Charlies
Lions
Roosevelt
Tom Carney
Public Library
Printing House
Embassy Club
Christian Club
Dale Phelps
Calvary Baptist Church
Camera Club
Exchange Club
Roy Jame
Montrose
Acapulco
Kirkwood Community College
Jerome
Optimist Club
Bob Cramer
Collins
Will
Nelson’s
Rotary Club
K. David Harris
Supreme Court of Iowa
Kennedy
Pierson’s Florists
Hiawatha Opti
Killan
Killian
Gazette
Duane Crock
New
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Darrell Joens
Fifteenth Street
Harry Blackhawk
Neillsville
Wis
Quint DeForrest
F Avenue NW
Dakotas
Skyline Center
Route 7
New York
Nixon
White House
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Crete
Employers Mutual Companies
Teave
Joe C. Ainsworth
American Ins. Associates, Inc
Bezanson-Whitehead Ins
Burkhalter Ins
Cook-Rowley Insurance Inc
Davis-Jones Agency Inc
Jim Forrest
Kohl-Buechel Agency, Inc
McCoy Agency, Inc
Paul C. McCoy & Co
McLean-Bassin Agency
McWhinney Ins
Milhiser-Smith Agency Inc
Moore Insurance Agency, Inc
al Morrissey Insurance
Skogman-Ralston, Inc
Otto Slapnicka, Ins
Slavia Agencies, Inc
John Stamy Stark
Welch-Donovan
Robert T. Werning
Whipple-Winterberg, and Shepard, Inc
Witwer Ins
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