Champions of lonely causes and calendar reform debates
A feature on activists like Elizabeth Heller of the Share Your Birthday Foundation, World Federalists, and calendar reform advocate Wallace Barlow, plus Walter Judd's Committee for a Free China outlook. The piece traces funding, aims, and shifting public support across postwar advocacy efforts and looming China policy changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Judd
Committee For A Free China
Lee Edwards
Chiense
Taiwan
Red China
United Nations
General Assembly
Security Council
Friends
Chiang Kai-shek
Welfare rolls dip for third straight month in July
U S government reports AFDC recipients fell by 30 638 to 11 269 670 in July a 0 3 percent drop from June while welfare families headed by unemployed fathers rose 0 5 percent to 495 853. July payments averaged 216 61 per AFDC family and 66 79 per individual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stowell Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Department
United States
AFDC
Cleanup Draws 400 At Wichita Mountains Refuge
More than 400 volunteers joined the fall cleanup at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge despite heavy fog. They collected about 4,000 pounds of trash including 300 pounds of aluminum and 1,100 pounds of glass, with 16 cubic yards of garbage. Thirty one groups from Lawton Fort Sill Duncan Altus and nearby towns helped, directed by VFW 5263. Local merchants supplied lunch and Lawton Jaycees served it. The event was sponsored by Great Plains Country Association and Keep Oklahoma Beautiful Inc with refuge staff coordinating chaired by Paul Cook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Boy Scouts
Lawton
Fort Sill
Duncan
Altus
Chattanooga
Blair
Marlow
Indiahoma
Wichita Falls
Tex
Lawton Jaycee Jaynes
Great Plains Country Association
Keep Oklahoma Beautiful, Inc
Paul Cook
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Washington
Korea
Japan
Bill Stern
Syngman Rhee
Republic of Korea
Rhee
General Motors
Ralph Nader
Elizabeth Heller
U.S
United World Federalists
World Federalists
USA
VFW
UVF
UWF
Michael Shower
Sandy Persons
Members of
Congress For Peace Through Law
Federalist Movement
Persons
Wallace Barlow
Barlow
Gregory
Barlol
Congress
Navy Department
Library of Congress
Calendar Reform Foundation
Calendar Reform Political Action Group
Samuel Stratton
D-N.y
World
Richard Nixon
Edwards
Committee of One Million
Nixon
China
Judd
People’s Republic of China
Peking
Lawton Insulation CO
Avi
Mead’s Bakery
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