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28 Jan 1970
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High Point Enterprise in High Point, North Carolina
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1970
Page
1
Widows Not Granted Special Provisions Under New Social Security Law
A reader asks if widows receive new benefits under the recently passed Social Security law. The answer: no special provisions for widows. the law provides a 15 percent overall increase. Further changes may come in 1970, but specifics are not known. Contact the Social Security office at 883-4166 for details.
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J.H. A
Congress
Social Security Office
Readers Ask Line Faces Overwhelming Response
The Dear Readers Action Line notes the huge volume of calls letters and requests it receives. It states it cannot answer or acknowledge every item due to the tremendous amount of correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Action Line
Working Poor Income Plan Snags in Congress
The House Ways and Means Committee grapples with how to set a $2,400 yearly minimum for a four person family amid fluctuating casual earnings. Testimony from New Jersey pilot program directors warns of an administrative nightmare with monthly income checks. The panel shifts focus to an expanded employment referral system, noting cost as the main barrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Nixon
al Ullman
D-Ore
Office of Economic Opportunity Experiment
New Jersey
Ullman
Ways and
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Israeli Jets Hit Cairo Maadi Area in Sudden Strike
Four Israeli planes attacked outskirts of Maadi and Dahshour near Cairo causing three civilian deaths and 12 injuries and destroying three houses. Army installations targeted about half a mile from Maadi and 16 miles south at Dahshour. Explosions and antiaircraft fire rattled the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Maadi
Middle East
Dahshour
Nile River
Suez Canal
Compromise Offered to End Budget Health Education Veto Fight
Washington AP reports the administration floated a compromise on the 19.7 billion health education package as lawmakers vote on overriding Nixon's veto. Ford voiced optimism that many Republicans and Democrats would sustain the veto, while Boggs and Quie described White House assurances of increased funding and options for Congress to control spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Hale Boggs
D-La
Ford
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Boggs
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
White House
Congress
Quie
John Rhodes
R-Aziz
Robert H. Michel
Ill
Rhodes
House Republican Conference
Michel
Appropriations
Ervin Defends No-Knock Raids Cites Prophet And Archy
Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. argued against striking a no knock raid provision from a drug control bill. The Senate voted 70 to 15 to keep the provision while adopting stricter search warrant rules. Ervin, 73, known for constitutional rights battles, serves on the Judiciary Committee and often critiques government intrusion on individual liberties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Micah
Rudyard Kipling
Archy the Cockroach
Ervin
Senate
Ervin de
Senate Judiciary Committee
Carswell Denies Serving as Presidential Adviser at Hearings
Judge G Harrold Carswell told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court justices have enough to do without acting as presidential advisers. The remarks came during the second day of confirmation hearings on Nixon's nomination of Carswell, a 50 year old Southern jurist, to the high court. Senator Griffin urged concern about court overreach into legislative and executive affairs referencing former Justice Fortas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Chadwick
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
G. Harrold Carswell
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Nixon
Carswell
Lyndon B. Johnson
Griffin
Johnson
Fortas
Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Senate
Nixon adviser question triggers Supreme Court role debate
California bound president Nixon faces questions about a possible advisory role for justices as 500 men board a ship awaiting shifts after the lunar New Year. Carswell, nominated to Fortas’s seat, says a justice should not serve as presidential adviser but could take only noncontroversial tasks with overall presidential responsibility. Griffin supports Carswell’s confirmation while stressing party unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
South Vietnam
Quote shows Carswell flung back at critics over mediocrity remark
The document reveals that Nixon's earlier nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. faced derision from opponents. Carswell retorted with a remark praising mediocrity as a compliment, aiming at Proxmire and others who attacked him as merely mediocre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Fortas
Carswell
Griffin
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Wholesale Prices Rise Sharply Led by Processed Foods
The Labor Department said the wholesale price index increased seven tenths of 1 percent in the month, the largest rise in a year. Processed foods and feeds up 2 percent while farm products rose 0.4 percent and industrial materials up 0.3 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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