Costly Welfare Debate Prompts War on Poverty Reforms
A syndicated column debates welfare costs and effectiveness, noting over 100 billion dollars spent on social services last year and a $500 tax cost per person. It discusses reforms shifting control to states, concerns about fraud, and calls for rehabilitation driven aid. Inflation, wage trends, and possible economic downturn follow, with warnings of job losses and recession. It also covers antiwar sentiment, youth views, and Gen Westmoreland’s stance on defending America.
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America
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Nixon
Washington
CFO
Moscow Peking Set Showdown in Sino Russian Crisis
Washington reports intelligence indicating a Sino Russian crisis within six months. Soviet troop movements surge, Trans Siberian line closed to civilians, airlifted travel for government business, 380000 Chinese border troops in Sinkiang Inner Mongolia and Northeast China, Peiping Region command tightened, new fighter planes shifted to Urumchi, radio extolls revolutionary feats to bolster morale.
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Washington
Soviet Far East
Sinkiang
Red
Peking
Urumchi
Inner Mongolia
Northeast China
Japan
Yester Daze full of notices from Rochester Mills to Indiana
A chronicle of obituaries and notices from 1964 to 1919 lists Gary Lee Stewart’s death in a wagon accident near Rochester Mills with cousins uninjured, followed by 1959 injuries to Mrs. C V McCreight in an Indiana auto crash, 1954 J Gordon Mack’s death in McKeesport, 1949 Earl Fleming killed in a groundhog hunting accident near Marion Center, 1949 Don Treese killed in Detroit by a truck, 1939 J E Calhoun seeking county auditor nomination, 1929 Grater Bros. fire at Black Lick causing 40000 dollars in damages, 1919 teachers assigned to Mechanicsburg and Brushvalley schools.
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Gary Lee Stewart
William Stewart
Rochester Mills
C. V. McCreight
Oakland Ave
Indiana
Indiana Hospital
Earl Fleming
Marion Center
R. D
Don Treese
Hillsdale
Detroit
Mich
Grater Bros
Blairsville
Black Lick
J. N. Langham
G. G. Cullen
Armagh
Inauguration of Negro Mayor in Mississippi
Drew Pearson reports from Fayette Mississippi on Charles Evers becoming mayor, a historic event in a 1 600 population town eight miles from the Mississippi River seen as a symbol of racial progress and voting rights gains. Evers links the moment to Medgar Evers murder and calls for nonviolence and voting to drive change.
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Mississippi
Washington
Fayette
Charles Evers
Medgar Evers
Charles
NAACP
Medgar
Evers
Nixon
Boards of Education
Nepores
R. J. Allen
Felix Noble
Natchez
Ton Byrne
Adams County
Philadelphia
Ben Chester White
Mitchell
Flip Wilson rises from poverty to top comedy star
New York AP profile of Clerow Flip Wilson, a Newark-born Black comedian who grew up in poverty, served in the Air Force, and pursued stand up until a 1966 Tonight show appearance vaulted him to supper club fame. He aims for a TV special and his own series. He emphasizes self-doubt to self-reliance and the long road to success.
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New York
Flip Wilson
Horatio Alger
Clerow Wilson
Flip
Newark
Air Force
San Francisco
Johnny Carson
Hoover analysis: New Left targets industry with work in program
FBI Director Hoover outlines a New Left tactic called a work in aimed at infiltrating factories and offices. SDS members would pose as workers, hide student status, and build plant unions to influence and disrupt the war economy. The plan mirrors 1967 PLP materials and stresses gradual, subtle propaganda over immediate revolution.
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Progressive Labor Party
PLP
New Left
Inustry and Business
Casey Jones and other quick facts from Q and A notes
The Q and A piece identifies Casey Jones as John Luther Jones who worked in the Mississippi Division of the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1890s. It also answers trivia on birds, bears in South America, and marble versus limestone with concise facts.
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Casey Jones
John Luther Jones
Mississippi
Illinois Central Railroad
South America
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Russell M. Hickey
Joseph L. Donnelly
William B. Hastings
Frank B. Hood
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Garrier Boy
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Pease
William L. Ingersoll
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Moscow
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Gazette
J. Gordon Mack
John Sephus
Margaret Godon Mack
McKeesport
Johnstown
Culver Military Academy
Culver, Ind
Westminster College
J. E. Calhoun
Shelocta
Mechanicsburg
Brushvalley
Cora Miller
Wolf
Mary Swearingen
Price
Elda Artemus
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Stewart
Annie McMullen
Meco
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Simons
Elizabeth Evans
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Rugh
Ethel Brink
Hashbon
John Miller
Oak Grove
Olive Deyarmin
Drew Pearson
Chancery Clerk
Boyle
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By Victor Riesel
J. Edgar Hoover
Mr. Hoover
John Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C
Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
Vietnam
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