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Newspaper
Kenosha Evening News
Location
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1954
Page
3
Congress considers sweeping reforms drafted by the Ways and Means Committee to extend coverage to about 10 million more people and boost benefits. The plan raises wage bases, increases monthly payments, and adds taxes for 1970 and 1975 with no floor amendments on the house floor.
The proposal limits changes to existing rates only up to 1970. It specifies 2 percent until 1960, 2 percent from 1960 to 1965, and 3 percent from 1965 to 1970, for both employers and employees.
Welfare Department pursues Walter Framer and Warren Hull on charges of soliciting funds without a license on the CBS show Strike It Rich. Evidence includes 14 kinescopes. hearing moved to municipal traffic court for facilities. McCarthy denounces the program as un-American and says guests seek charity jackpots attracting indents from across the nation.
Corporal Claude Batchelor, 22, of Kermit Texas, signed a non Communist affidavit at Fort Sam Houston post prison. The document clears the way for about 4000 dollars in back pay and funds to bring Kyoto Batchelor to the United States from Tokyo. He remains imprisoned while the army reviews possible court martial for alleged collaboration with the enemy as a POW.
The Daily Mirror published a photo taken by Fifi, a chimpanzee at the London Zoo. The image shows visitors making monkey faces through the bars of Fifi's cage.
Sen. McCarthy said he will renew the probe into Communist influence in the military after McCarthy Army hearings conclude. He will summon Army Secretary Stevens as the first witness to examine why Maj. Irving Peress got preferential treatment amid an open Communist record.
The Tribune quotes McCarthy criticizing how the Peress affair sparked a broader fight over subversives in the Pentagon. He says he will not be deterred by a televised circus as he pushes to uncover the case details and the handling of an open Communist record. Venezuela's crude oil output holds at about 1,875,000 barrels daily.
Ernest V. Hollis of the U S Health Education and Welfare department urged at North Carolina A and T College commencement that southern defiance of the Supreme Court desegregation rulings damages the American concept of democracy. He spoke as a private citizen and called for more work to promote desegregation and broader civil rights.
The article notes plans for a $600,000 tourist hotel on Margarita Island, Venezuela, as part of broader economic initiatives. It quotes a speaker linking national resilience to progress toward modernization and opposing totalitarian threats. The remarks tie the project to strengthening national policy and combating communism abroad.
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