Social Security Hike Tied to Welfare Reform Approved
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a 5 percent Social Security boost and core welfare reform components. President Nixon backs the bill though preferring separate action, with a $12 billion package moving toward House passage. The raise would start June 1 1972 following prior increases. Rep. Wilbur Mills said administration support remains solid despite bipartisan backing and some criticism from welfare groups.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Dent Nixon
Wilbur D. Mills
Nixon
Mills
Independence Crash Kills Two. Four Involved
An early morning crash near Independence, Kansas left two dead and two wounded when a car on a gravel county road missed a curve and overturned. Victims were driver Dale J. Crawford 18 and Pat Carr 23. injured were Bea M. Patton 24 and Danny W. Rhodes 21, all Independence residents.
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Independence
Kan
Highway Patrol
Dale J. Crawford
Pat Carr
Bea M. Patton
Danny W. Rhodes
Burger blasts adrenalin-fueled lawyers and Know-Nothingism
Chief Justice Warren E Burger denounces lawyers and press hostility as a new litigious era fuels incivility. He criticizes editors shrill invective and savage political cartoons as part of a modern attack on rational debate while recounting a Harvard incident with Archibald Cox. An accident on K39 and Plummer injures Canda L Barr and minor injuries to John E Gier as a 1960 Ford pickup collides with a 1962 Volvo.
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Washington
Warren E. Burger
America
John E. Gier
Gier
Miss Barr
South Plummer
Cox
Iain Burger
Englan
England
Congress
Brothers in Switch For Vietnam Duty
In Yarmouth Maine the father of Glenn and Wesley Storer explains the two brothers swapped identities for Vietnam service. Glenn refused to return and was sent to Virginia then surrendered to authorities. Wesley reportedly en route back to Vietnam after impersonating his brother.
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Vietnam
Yarmouth
Maine
Carleton R. Storer
Wesley
Storer
Les
Glenn
Virginia
Portland
Trial Day Two in Amerson Sheriff Case
Prosecution portrays Lucius Amerson as a vengeful sheriff who pistol whipped a black prisoner after a jail shootout, as the Amerson and chief deputy face civil rights charges. Witnesses are set to continue as defense argues self defense after Harris fired during booking at Macon County Jail.
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Opelika
Ala
Lucius Amerson
Amerson
Wilbert Dean Harris
U.S
Alabama
Reconstruction
Richard Coleman Jr
Harris
Macon County
Tuskegee
Coleman
Bill Baxley
Fred Gray
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Joe D. Waggerer Jr
National Welfare Rights Organization
Campaign
George A. Wiley
David M. Ackerman
The
National Council of Churches
Coalition
Burger
American Law Institute
Institute
Archibald Cox
Harvard Law School
New York Times
Harvard
K39
Plummer
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Candace L. Barr
S. Lafayette
Barr
Quiet Kool
Emerson Radio
Ors
First State Bank
Thayer, Kansas
Ft. Devens
Mass
Kiwanis
Harold Anderson
Kiwanis Club
Tioga Hotel
Ben Barber
Maurice Argabright
Robert Sime
Don McReynolds
Eldon Penner
Barber
Fred Potter
Emmet Bolze
James Brown
Lewis Gerken
Ray Hedrick
Paul Parsons
L. D. Perry
Phil Cooper
Harold Fulps
N. Rutter
W. Main
Chanute, KS
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