Social Security Turns Forty Facing Financial Strains
The aging program marked its 40th anniversary amid looming funding pressures from unemployment and inflation. Since 1935 the system has grown to provide 4.9 billion dollars monthly in benefits to about 31 million recipients, with Medicare added in the 1960s and HEW shifts expanding services. David Mathews, HEW secretary, was invited to a anniversary ceremony at the social security headquarters.
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UPD
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ida Fuller
Admin
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Medicare
Inta
David Mathews
Plainview Wins $200,000 HUD Grant for Parks
Plainview receives a $200,000 federal grant from the U S Department of Housing and Urban Development to fund park improvements at Curry Lake in north Plainview and paving on 9th Street and in far east Plainview. The awards come under the Housing and Community Development Act of 197.
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Plainview
Cay
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Curry Lake
North Plainview
Hart Days Celebration Winners Announced
Hart Marina Bauman won Miss Flaponors Salar y with a Miss Flapper title, as voters donated pennies for the Hart Cemetery Fund. Parade highlights included Bob Ott winning the antique car division and Chi Fsi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi earning a float prize.
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Hart
Hart Cemetery Fund
Bob Ott
Sunnyside
Christie Roland
Roland
Chi Fsi
Beta Sigma Phi
Miss Hi
Tammy Gilcrease
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Good Neighbors Club
Lucionne Bonsalident
T- Hart
Zealot Club
Mary
Miss Mar
New Dutch Army Plan Offers Bonus for Four-Year Enlistments
The Netherlands proposes a four year enlistment with an extra year of pay upon discharge. A sergeant would receive a six dollar bonus when returning to civilian life.
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The
Netherlands
Ie Army
Television Schedule Highlights And Special Features
TV guide notes a Monday lineup with CBS NBC and ABC daytime and evening shows including news programs NewsHour 6:30 Evening Edition and 6:30 PM Martin Agronsky. The schedule lists game shows soap operas dramas children’s programs and movie features with local host and guest details.
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Chancellor
David Brinkley
CBS News
Walter Cronkite
ABC News
Howard K. Smith
Harry Reasoner
Martin Agronsky
Washington, D.C
Sanford & Son
Fred Buys
Lamont
del Reeves
United States
Indianapolis
Indiana
Los Angeles Dodgers
Philadelphia Phillies
Matt
Jill
Maude
Walter
Swat RY
John Davidson
David Brenner
Jacqueline Bisset
Pierre Immer
Pamela Franklin
Americus
Alan Landsburg
Area Television Log Brings Late Night Chaos and Tragedy
A chaotic TV log lists channels and programs for August with notes on a coin auction on channel 10 and a honeymoon cruise scene. A Greenville crash on U S 380 kills two residents Billy Denmark 22 and Mark Smallwood 16, police report.
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U.S. 380
Greenville
Billy Denmark
Mark Smallwood
Ford Economic Policies Split Experts Across the Board
Economists debate Ford's approach favoring business and deregulation vs Nixon's more mixed stance. Inflation falls from 13% to 9.6% under Ford while unemployment edges up, with critics citing slow energy policy and insufficient job programs.
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NEW York
Ton Friedman
Federal Reserve Board
White House
Gerald R. Ford
Vnetheless
Walter Heller
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