Public aid and welfare questions spark concern over neglected children
Letters discuss home conditions with a mentally incapable mother and six children in foster care, welfare privacy, and public responsibility. A reader urges corrective action while noting bureaucratic barriers and the impact on vulnerable babies. Also included are pecan hulls, pecan prep tips, and Morehead Planetarium hours with admission.
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Welfare Dept
M. H
John Smith
County Welfare
Greensboro
Dept. of Public Welfare
Morehead Planetarium
Chapel Hill
N. C
Year Around Snow and Chickens Stave Town for Roses
In a Modern Poultry note the poultry business ranks as a major state crop after tobacco producing 5 percent of weekly broilers and claiming national rank as a top industry. The letter humorously blames feather clutter for yard woes and offers three tongue in cheek solutions to reduce the nuisance while noting workers and routes around Westchester.
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Westchester
Tax hike pressed as economy lags and slows growth
Washington reports show unemployment at 4.3 percent and October retail sales dropping to a five month low as the Ford strike and Vietnam buildup influence the economy. Administration argues for a 10 percent surcharge on income taxes though some analysts question urgency.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Gardner Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Ford Motor Co
Ackley
Ford
General Motors
Lost At Sea Trio Rescued After Weeklong Ordeal
Milton Leggett his 10 year old son Matt and Lenox Howell were found after a 15 foot outboard trip turned perilous. They endured a lonely week at sea before rescue by the fishing boat Best Bet and a Coast Guard cutter and were hospitalized in Savannah.
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Savannah
Milton G. Leggett
Bessemer City
N. C
Leggett
H. J. Anderson
Cherry Grove Beach
S. C
Matt
Lenox Howell
Laurinburg
Florida
Coast Guard
Battle Near Dak To Pushes U S Death Toll Past Five Hundred
In the central highlands near Dak To U S forces from the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought entrenched North Vietnamese units. By nightfall 27 Americans were dead and 243 wounded, bringing U S casualties to 83 dead and 428 wounded, with North Vietnamese deaths at 521 for the 10 days of fighting. Helicopters evacuated the wounded amid mortar fire as B 52 bombers joined the strike.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
U.S
Dak To
U.S. 4Th Infantry Division
173Rd Airborne Brigade
4Th Infantry
Three Released POWs Disappear in Cambodia
Three American Army sergeants freed by the Viet Cong in Phnom Penh vanished from sight after a ceremony and a ride away in a station wagon. U.S. officials and the peace committee representative offered mixed statements about their status and location.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
U. S
Vietnam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
U.S
Saigon
Johnson proposes sea meeting for Vietnam peace on Enterprise
On Veterans Day aboard the USS Enterprise off San Diego President Lyndon B. Johnson urged a peace meeting at sea. He recalled World War II service and invoked the Atlantic Charter as a model while calling for leaders to bury the quarrel beneath the waves if Hanoi will say the word. He spoke as planes glinted in the morning sun, urging peace and restraint.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Associated Press
USS. Enterprise
Johnson
Vietnam
Hanoi
Enterprise
California
San Diego
Heaven
Missouri Girl Teen Queen Crowned Miss Teen America 1968
Stephanie Crane, 17, of St. Louis Missouri won Miss Teen America 1968 in Dallas Texas. She received a 100 pound weight as reported and a 10000 scholarship plus a year of appearances before American youth. Runners up were Sheila Poenisch 17 Columbus Ohio Barbara Sigel 17 Rosemont Pennsylvania and Ann Scott 17 Portland Oregon. Crane performed How Lovely to be a Woman in the talent section.
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Dallas
Tex
Stephanie Crane
St. Louis
Sheila Poenisch
Columbus
Ohio
Barbara Sigel
Rosemont
Philadelphia
Ann Scott
Portland
Ore
Mountains Moved By Arctic Earthquake Shocks Alaska
The Commerce Department notes the 1964 Alaska quake moved mountains and raised parts of the Mississippi, with a seismic wave reaching Antarctica. Coast and Geodetic Survey findings in a ESA technical report cite subsidence, sea-floor rise up to 50 feet, a wave 8 445 miles long at 430 mph, 131 deaths and $750 million in damage across Alaska and the U S Pacific coast.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Mississippi River
Antarctic
Department
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Environmental Science Services Administration
Alaska
U.S. Pacific Coast
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Hell
Action
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Francis Peebles
Steah
Norman A. Mordue
Syracuse
N.Y
Christina
Valley Forge Army Hospital
Phoenixville
Mordue
An Qui
Lost In Ocean
Shipboard
Thomas Hayden
Peace Committee
W. Averell Harriman
State Department
Pentagon
SFMA
America
X Shee
San Francisco
Potrero Hill
Calif
Enbarcadero Freeway
St. Teresa’s Grammar School
State Division of Highways
LBJ
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