Medicare and Medicaid Help Lift Nation's Poverty
Wilbur Cohen, undersecretary, told a University of Michigan audience that Medicare and Medicaid may be reducing death rates in early 1967. He cited data and a New York City official while urging continued anti poverty and health programs and warning that education alone cannot fix barriers from disability or poverty.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Wilbur Cohen
Health, Education and Welfare
University of Michigan
Cohen
New York City
Edward O'Rourke
Saturday Quiet One For LBJ
President Johnson, turning 59 on Sunday, spent a quiet Saturday at the White House with no announced visitors or unanounced callers. Mrs. Johnson remained at the LBJ Ranch in Texas and was expected to return for the birthday. A Camp David trip was possible but unlikely, with no special plans reported.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Texas
LBJ
Johnson City
Tex
Johnsons
Camp David
George Christian
Indians on New Mexico Reservation Get Electricity
In Magdalena area 35 miles northwest, about 1 100 people gathered as the Alamo Navajo reservation received electric power for the first time. Vice President Humphrey hailed the milestone via radiotelephone, promising improved living standards, and President Johnson sent a congratulatory letter calling it a brave march forward.
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Magdalena
N.M
America
New Mexico
Johnson
Hubert Humphrey
Alamos
Kit Carson
Humphrey
Minneapolis
Minn
U Thant Accepts African Summit Bid
United Nations Secretary General U Thant has accepted an invitation to the Organization of African Unity summit in Kinshasa for September 11 to 14, conditions permitting his travel from New York. He attended the Cairo summit in 1964.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
U Thant
Organization of African Unity
Kinshasa
New York
Thant
Cairo
Alaskan Brown Bear Donation Disrupted by Rabbi’s Protest
George S. Lewis donated a stuffed Alaskan brown bear to the Jewish community center in Kansas City. The Sunday presentation was canceled after Rabbi Morris B. Margolis ruled that killing animals except for food violates Jewish law. The board concurred and the donor seeks another display location for the eight foot bear.
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Kansas City
George
Lewis
Morris B. Margolis
Lyndon Johnson dedicates Butt-Holdsworth Library in Kerrville
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson dedicates the $500000 Butt Holdsworth Memorial Library in Kerrville Texas praising libraries as democratic places. She plants a oak sapling from the Alamo site as she remarks on access to knowledge and the community’s democratic spirit.
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Kerrville
Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library
Degeared
Dustry
Guadalupe River
Davey Crockett
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NALON
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High Point
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Penney
Glenbrooke
Penn
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Lady Bird
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