Social Security Widow Benefit and Local Traffic Concerns
A reader asks if a wife can draw her own Social Security plus her deceased husband’s widows benefit when higher than her own. An answer explains benefits are combined to the higher total if widow’s amount exceeds hers, else she cannot. Also discusses truck Route issues in High Point and a student pollution program encouraging community action and environmental education.
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Moss
Central
Andrews High
Ferndale Junior High
Northeast Junior High
Apollo 13 mission faces delay and redesign after explosion
Apollo 13 limped toward Earth after an oxygen tank explosion. Lovell warned the moon program will be paused for safety redesigns and backups. Paine said NASA will review the entire Apollo program as Congress prepares hearings and reevaluates space priorities. Senators urged unmanned exploration as committees plan inquiries.
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Lovell
Fred W. Haise Jr
John L. Swigert Jr
Thomas O. Paine
NASA
Paine
Nixon hails Apollo 13 crew reunion and mission success
President Nixon welcomed Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell Frank Haise and their families in Honolulu after four tense days in space. Nixon urged rest after debriefing and noted weight loss while Ziegler cited heartfelt global messages. Haise recovered from a urinary infection, and the ground crew received the Medal of Freedom in Houston.
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Honolulu
Earth
Nixon
Ziegler
Houston
Tornadoes Kill 22 in Texas Hit Panhandle Region
Tornadoes swept a 175 mile Texan path Friday night into Saturday killing 22 people and injuring more than a hundred. In Sherwood Shores near Clarendon a trailer park suffered heavy loss with many residents injured or killed. National Guard and state police aided response as towns from near the New Mexico border to the Oklahoma line faced devastation.
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Clarendon
Tex
Texas
Panhandle
Lakeside Village
Sherwood Shores
New Mexico
Oklahoma
High Plains
Plainview
Ag Sidivee
National Guard
State
Parks and Wildlife
Integration Issue Delays Black Teachers Merger Plan
In Raleigh the predominantly black North Carolina Teachers Association votes unanimously to delay merging with the white North Carolina Education Association. The delay follows disputes over school integration and differing interpretations of merger guidelines.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Teachers Association
North Carolina Education Association
NCTA
E. B. Palmer
NCEA
Palmer
National Education Association
Charlotte Mecklenburg
Inside Reading BAA A A To Fashion DOUGLAS In Controversy
The article discusses a dispute involving Douglas within the BAA A A and fashion topics on page 2 A and page 14 C. It notes controversy surrounding the subject and references related commentary on page 1 D.
Massacre Reported by Cambodian Troops in Village
A Vietnamese youth named Leong said Cambodian soldiers rounded up and shot men in Xon Binh near Phnom Penh. Other sources described about 600 men and youths killed, with bodies seen along the Mekong River. the youth escaped by fleeing as boats were used to move villagers and gunfire followed.
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Associated Press
Phnom Penh
Mekong River
Leong
Apostolic
Saigon
College Senior Killed by Gunfire in Isla Vista Violence
Kevin Moran, 22, of Saratoga, was fatally shot during gunfire between police snipers and rioters near a Bank of America branch in Isla Vista adjacent to UC Santa Barbara. The disturbance followed threats against the bank amid ongoing campus unrest as deputies used tear gas and roadblocks to restore order.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
University of California
Kevin Moran
Saratoga
Inguina
Bank of America
Moran
Isla Vista
Fritz Patterson
Bank
Isla
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Sen
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Senate
House Space Committees
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
Rep
George Miller
D-Calif
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James Lovell
Fred Haise
Florida
Virgin Islands
Camp David
Haise
Pago Pago
American Samoa
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Whiteface
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J.C. Peterson
NEA
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McMillan
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Charles Pearson
A. C. Dawson
Douglas
Editorial
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Eee Lib
Stephen Goodspeed
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