Welfare Reform Act aims to trim Pennsylvania aid program
The state moves toward further welfare reform next year as lawmakers consider tightening rules. Welfare costs approach one billion annually with December and January totals near eighty one million. The reform acts cut benefit termination notice to ten days, require training and job placement registration, tighten child support definitions, widen data access for eligibility verification, and allow temporary out of state determinations.
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Mason Denison
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Reform measures and welfare bill implementation debate
Lawmakers press for full implementation of the Welfare Reform Act as the state weighs required six month redeterminations and new certifications. Senators Copper Smith and Snyder plan mid April talks with the Department of Public Welfare to address delays and consider further reforms, including medical assistance cost controls.
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State Department of Public Welfare
W. Louis Coppersmith
Johnstown
Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee
Richard A. Snyder
Lancaster
Department of Public Welfare
Coppersmith
Snyder
Penna
News Service
Big John Clashes Over Uncle Willy Car Scheme
Jim Bishop recounts a family scandal centered on Uncle Willy a barber who ran a car parts scam with a welder financing wrecks. They weld front and rear halves to make a selling used car, netting profits amid city pressure, a police call, and a dramatic escape on Communipaw Avenue as Big John forces Willy off his Bayview Jackson route.
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Jim Bishop
Big John
Uncle Willy
Unk
Jackson Avenue
Bayview
Momma
City Hall
Lieutenant Bishop
Numbers
Murtagh
Bergen Avenue
Willy
Ford
G.M
American Motors
Madagascar
Dad
Grand Street
Summit
King Features Syndicate
Memorable Royal Pension Ties Ice Cream Secret
King Charles I granted a French ice cream maker an annual pension to keep the royal ice cream recipe secret. Memorial Day protocol directs the United States flag to fly at half-staff until noon. An April 1 1963 Mt Trident eruption in Alaska produced smoke visible 100 miles away. A full moon reflects about seven percent of sunlight.
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Charles I
England
United States
Mt. Trident
Alaska
Howard Hughes Kept Secret Logs Of Deterioration And Flight
The Washington Post columns detail Howard Hughes private records showing decades of isolation in dark penthouses, extreme grooming routines, a fixed diet, heavy drug use, and erratic schedules. Logs trace moves from Las Vegas to the Bahamas to Nicaragua, with guardian questions and elite visits amid a bid to hide his decline.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Howard Hughes
Hughes
U.S
Daily Logs
Desert Inn
Las Vegas
Internal Revenue Service
Bahamas
Bayshore
Vancouver Harbor
Nicaragua
Hughes Tool Company
New York
Julius, Sedimayr
Courtney Ivey
Mell Stewart
Stewart
Iegs
Reader letter defends Penelec wage fairness and service
An employee’s wife replies to a prior Penelec rate increase letter, arguing workers earn fair pay, highlighting apprenticeships and dangerous duties. She notes the Public Utility Commission denied the rate rise before the letter’s publication and urges a thorough, firsthand examination.
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P.S
P.U.C
Soap Not Food Dear Sir
Letter to the editor challenging a Feb 14 1977 Associated Press caption Food Price Rise Noted For About Half of Items. The writer argues the survey listed 12 items, three nonfood items appeared, and urges accurate labeling. He notes pork chops dropped from 80 to 50 cents per pound and claims readers should consider farmers’ hardships.
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Associated Press
Washington law firms and income stars in 1970s legal boom
The piece analyzes three top U S cabinet lawyers Griffin Bell Cyrus Vance and Joseph Califano and their big Washington law firms earnings in 1976 1972 Census figures show major firms exceed 1 million in gross receipts annually with Washington firms taking half of all revenues leading to high partner incomes Califano’s pay includes a capital account and undrawn 1976 income. Covington Burling and two others earned over 10 million annually as firms grow in status and profits.
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Martha Angle
Robert Walters
Washington
Griffin B. Bell
King & Spalding
Atlanta
Cyrus R. Vance
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett
New York
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Williams, Connolly & Califano
Califano
Vance
Bell
Census Bureau
Legal Services
Bell, Vance and Califano
Carter
Covington & Burling
Fire destroys Marsh home in Tunnelton tragedy
Nine persons died when a fire of undetermined origin consumed Clarence Marsh’s home in Tunnelton near Saltsburg early today. Indicated entries include 1952 fundraiser for crippled children, 1967 state budget request for higher education, and 1972 appointment of George Senott as supervising sanitarian for Indiana and Armstrong counties.
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Saltsburg
Clarence Marsh
Tunnelton
Heret
Indiana County Society
Harrisburg
Shafer
Associated Press
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources
George Senott
Indiana
Armstrong Counties
Dancey tangerine named kid glove orange for easy peeling
The Dancey tangerine is called the kid glove orange due to its easy peeling. John Day served as the first Chief Justice of the United States from 1789 to 1795.
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John Day
United States
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