Medicare cost estimates and political hype cited in Our Opinion
The piece argues federal officials misrepresented Medicare costs, citing 1964 warnings from Nation’s Business and a critic Dr. Barkey Sanders. It claims estimates to pass the bill were $1.3 billion by 1970 but later costs rose to $4.1 billion, with officials denying wrongdoing.
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Barkey Sanders
Nation
Congress
Social Security
This Most People Understand That Baffling World T
A composite compile of curious, unexplainable events and feats described by John Godwin in This Most People Understand That Baffling World. Includes Houdini tricks, mysterious disappearances, the Oak Island treasure, Mary Celeste, and reports of extrasensory claims and strange phenomena.
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John Godwin
Hart Pub. Co
Little Oak Island
Nova Scotia
TV crime profits questioned by Pearson and senators
The piece argues TV and radio profits rise with crime themed programming. Senators Dill Cox Johnson point to FCC license renewals and industry profits, noting 1967 network earnings reached 718.7 million while CBS diversified into baseball and entertainment ventures.
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Washington
Clarence Dill
FCC
Cox and Johnson
Kenneth Cox
Nicholas Johnson
Commission On Violence
Robert Kennedy
Reac
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Lions of
Patricia Harbutson
Ris
Plans for Flag Day program disclosed by city official
Final plans for tomorrow's Flag Day program and parade were disclosed by Charles P. Keating of the Ellis committee. The event will start at 3 p.m. in City Park.
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Charles P. Keating
B.P.C. Ellis Committee
Blairs And Firemen In Erie County Politics
The Erie County column covers Rep. Stanley L. Blair resignations and reversals, talk of successor Ralph Merry, and a Harrisburg visit. It also notes DPI status talks for Edinboro College, local highway and motorcyclist bills, milk pricing, a Peninsula bridge plan, and a Bobcat season tweak. The piece includes dinners with Rep. Wendell Good and John Baur, a traffic ticket bill vote, a bear-damage funding rise, a transportation conference at Pocono Manor, and a Carl Urban eye surgery case led by Dr. Paul Barclay.
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Stanley
David S. Hayes
Wairview
Election Bureau
Conference Committee
Crawford
Erie
Ralph Merry
Merry
Welch
C. Russell Welch Jr
Harrisburg
Edinboro
R. Budd Dwyer
David Kurtzman
Fred Miller
Department of Public Instruction
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Pennsylvania
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Joe Rigby
Pittsburgh
House
Milk Control Commission
Adrian Sharp
Erie County
Frank Polaski
Peninsula
Wendell Good
Department of Health
John Baur
Pennsylvania Electric Co
Wendell
Bill Piper
Blue Mountain Inn
Philadelphia
Game ‘Commission
Bobcats
Pocono Manor
Bruce Wyman
Larry Grean
State Health Department
Paul Barclay
Carl Urban
North East
This Day in History June 12 in 1968 Highlights
On June 12 1665 New York City was incorporated under English law with a mayor five aldermen and a sheriff appointed. Other notes include John Winthrop arriving Salem harbor in 1630 the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1770 and events through 1940s wartime attacks and Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers assassination in Jackson Mississippi.
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John Winthrop
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