Social Security at 25 Years Faces Tax and Policy Debates
An overview of Social Security's growth since 1935, noting benefits rising from $21.60 to $46.40 for certain groups and the payroll tax expansion to 3 percent for employees. The piece discusses public assistance limits, proposals for general assistance, and the Advisory Council’s reforms to aid more needy families while maintaining federal funding.
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Patricia Connor
United Press International
Washington
UPI
Torres
Franklin D.lest
Fed
Advisory Council On Public Assistance
William L. Mitchell
Congress
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Post High School bans disruptive dress code
The Post Independent School District board banned blue jeans, slacks, pedal pushers for girls and beltless levis, exposed shirt tails and odd haircuts for boys at Post High. Superintendent R T Smith said such attire demoralizes learning and cited the district as the last in West Texas Study Council to permit it. The policy applies to the high school with hope it will influence junior high students.
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POST
Post High School
Supt
R. T. Smith
Post ‘School
West Texas Study Council
Jan Cannon To Be In Concert Here
Contralto Jan Cannon will be presented in a concert Friday August 1 at 8 p.m. at the 2013 14th St Vocal Studio in a program conducted by Gordon Gaines with Dortha Barrett on piano. The repertoire spans Verdi Prati Handel Le Florindo and Fedele Scaratti Andre Musik Mondnacht Widmung Voi de sapete Water Mill Verborg enheit Chanson epi que Chanson a boire and additional songs by Williams Wolf and Mauric Ravel plus Gaines numbers Go Way From My Window He s Gone Away and Ah Love But A Day.
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Jan Cannon
Gordon Gaines
W. A. Mozart
Williams
Hugo Wolf
Maurice Ravel
Mr. Gaines
Resale Of Veteran's Land Is Announced
Land Commissioner Bill Allcorn announced the resale of 58 tracts under the Veterans' Land program for July. Properties total $390,688 with the state investment at $352,288.
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VPI
Bill Allcom
Veterans’ Land Program
Manchester Sikhs protest bus turban ban in hiring rules
Sikhs in Manchester accuse the city transport agency of religious discrimination after it rejects turbans as part of the required uniform for bus conductors. Council officials say uniforms are compulsory, despite Sikh leaders arguing the turban is a core religious symbol and should be allowed in lieu of a cap.
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London
Manchester
City Transport Company
C. R. Morris
Gyani Sundar Singh
Raj
Khs
Sagar
Agar
Agar Made These Points On the Sde
Newcastle-upon- Tyne
Post Independent School District Sets Inspection Schedule
The Post ISD board meets at 1 PM Monday to inspect the new 338000 high school building and plan an open house for it and the 125000 gym. The old high school from 1928 becomes a junior high after remodeling next summer while the junior high houses upper elementary grades. Prof Garets will address journalism education needs at a San Antonio meeting.
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POST
Bord of Trustees
Post Independent School District
Wallace E. Garets
Texas Tech
Texas Daily Newspaper
Assn
San Antonio
Hilton Hotel
Garets
Association For Education In Journalism
Pennsylvania State University
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