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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1970
Page
10
Mr. Brown voices frustration over retirement inequities he calls a cruel blow to husbands. He notes that a wife under 62 cannot receive Social Security, while the husband at 65 loses salary and must fund his wife’s needs. He argues Medicare rules and pension provisions compound the hardship, especially for men with younger spouses.
John Smothers, 58, a janitor at the Cathedral Building in Oakland for 20 years, was found shot to death Wednesday in the building lobby. Police said his body lay half out of an open elevator, face down in a pool of blood with three spent pistol shells nearby.
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