Social Security Welfare Rider Draws Critique in Our Opinion
The Corry Journal notes the 1968 welfare and Social Security package, highlighting a 13 percent pension bump for about 24 million, with checks due end of February. It warns the welfare limits, likely to keep employable adults off relief, unfairly burden urban states like Pennsylvania and urges removal of the restrictions next year.
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Congress Junkets and the Travel Obsession
Drew Pearson describes how Rep Mendel Rivers uses air travel and a personal nursemaid to tour the world, while other lawmakers chase photo opportunities abroad. Senators and House members plan trips to Vietnam and the South Pacific, funded by taxpayers, amid talks of reviving WPA style public works programs as last resort employment.
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Lloyd Meads
Ted Kupferman
Rn.y
James McClure
R-Idaho
Patsy Mink
Hawaii
Honolulu
New Rivers
Ranafrust
No New Taxes for 1968 Word From Governor Shafer
Harrisburg report analyzes Shafer’s no new taxes pledge for 1968 and the divergent June stance. It notes a tax package and a fiscal crisis, with warnings that legislature could seek new taxes despite the governor’s current position. The piece weighs political calculation, veto power, and the prospect of future tax action in an election year.
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It Happened In Corry A Week Of 1848 Illnesses Ice Skating Forecast
Corry reports mumps influenza and measles remain common in the past week per City Health Officer John Flanigan. Mead Park skating rink now clear of snow and ice conditions are excellent with crowds nightly. Public schools extension teaching classes begin January 19 and continue each Tuesday in the weeks ahead per library meeting notes.
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Ailing New Year’s Eve in Jim Bishop’s Prohibition Era Family
Jim Bishop recalls a boisterous clan tied to Prohibition era drinkers. He sketches the Bishop brood’s antics from New Year’s Eve entries to sketched mercy, shots, and shared fears. The piece weaves humor and nostalgia through aging leaders and a hangover culture.
Memories of Hal Boyle Reflections on 20th Century Trivia
AP columnist Hal Boyle muses on memories as building blocks of the mind. Vignettes evoke childhood lessons, fashion, etiquette, shoplifting myths, barbershop gossip, street corner diamonds, soda dates, hired girls, bicycle bravado, saloon photos, and mustache lore from earlier times.
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