Welfare rules under scrutiny in Lubbock County
The Planning Council and hospital officials clash over welfare policy for medically indigent patients. Proposals include relaxing "one bean pot" rules, pursuing nonresident payment, and delaying maternity care coverage. Calls grow to extend clinic hours and reimburse emergency care while reducing violence to cut hospital costs.
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Welfare Board
County Commission
Rosa Settle
Welfare Department
Planning Council
Lubbock
Lubbock County
Bill Davis
Community Planning Council
Hospital Council
Texas
Davis
Arch Lamb
Polar Rescue Bear Near End As Atlantic Storm Rages
The Bear, a 198 foot wooden barkentine famed for arctic rescues and Byrd expeditions, took a beating 140 miles south of Halifax with 30 foot seas. Tow vessel Irving Birch lost the tow, two men aboard were rescued by Coast Guard and RCAF planes, while the ship listed severely.
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Boston
Barkentine
Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Greenock
Scot
Alfred M. Johnston
Villanova
Nova Scotia
Irving Birch
Halifax
Coast Guard
Salem
Mass
RCAF
Roosevelt High students honored in penmanship ratings
Nine Roosevelt High School girls received certificates and pins for penmanship in the 50th International Order of Gregg Artists in New York. The awardees include Betty Shaw Charlene Sherrod Claudia Thornton Sandy Smith Patsy Faulkner Robbie Gregory Sue Schoppa Pat Barnard and Lynda Dutton.
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Roosevelt High School
International Order of Gregg Artists
New York
Betty Shaw
Charlene Sherrod
Claudia Thornton
Sandy Smith
Patsy Faulkner
Robbie Gregory
Sue Schoppa
Pat Barnard
Lynda Dutton
Order of Gregg
Toiday
Roosevelt
Bobbie Gregory
Blanche Davis
OGA
Gregg
Roosevelt students win penmanship pins in 50th Gregg Contest
Nine Roosevelt High School shorthand students earned pins and certificates at the 50th International Order of Gregg Artists Contest in New York. The event, judged by New York shorthand experts, honors Gregg shorthand and marks a golden anniversary for the OGA and a 75th anniversary for Gregg shorthand. Charlene Sherrod received an extra pin for best Roosevelt entry.
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Sherrod
Roosevelt
Welfare policy debate and county government roles discussed
Hackney outlined welfare programs from old age assistance to aid to Cuban refugees and medical aid to the aged noting federal reimbursements and monthly death removals. Judge Denton traced the commission form of government urging officials to recognize public responsibilities and higher moral expectations.
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Hackney
State of
Texas
John Winters
Judge Denton
Denton
Pioneer Hotel
Questions on Job Prospects Involves Texas Rep and Bureaucrat
In Washington Rep. Henry B Gonzalez of San Antonio mocked a federal bureaucrat who sent a long list of questions about the wife of a man seeking a government announcer job. The applicant, a longtime friend of Gonzalez, works at a San Antonio radio station.
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Leslie Carpenter
Avalanche-Journal
Washington Beress
Washington
Henry B. Gonzalez
San Antonio
Gonzalez
U.S. Information Agency
Voice of America
Usia Ree
U.S
Boston
England
Benjamin ‘Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Tanks and mortgages tie Estes case to Texas firms
Testimony linked Billie Sol Estes to about four million dollars in mortgage notes and tank fabrication by Superior Manufacturing. Officials described tanks with altered serial numbers and money routing through a Pecos account controlled by Estes aides. Witnesses included J. E. Coats and T. A. Rogers of Lubbock Machine and Foundry detailing financing and tank production for Estes Enterprises.
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Kreeger
Heller
Estes
M Kreeger
Superior Manufacturing and
General Leasing, Inc
Fort Wayne
Ind
General Leasing
Robert K. Graham
Superior Manufacturing
J. E. Coats
First National Bank
Pecos
Texas Steel Co
Billie Sol Estes
A. B. Foster Jr
Estes Enterprises
Lubbock
T. A. Rogers
Lubbock Machine and Foundry
Dan Daniels
Fabens
Dan Daniels Chemical Co
Ivestigate
Wesson
Daniels
John D. Cofer
Alice God
Win
Kennedy Youth Corps Survives Senate Skirmish Amid GOP Opposition
The Kennedy administration's proposed youth conservation corps cleared a Senate manpower subcommittee with changes to cost control and program scope. The panel kept the 15,000 first-year enrollees, trimmed future ceilings, and added a good character clause to avoid delinquents framing. House action moves forward as Republicans warn of high costs and scope creep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Senate
Washington
Kennedy’s
Conservation’ Corps
Senate Manpower. Subcommittee
Administration
Full Labor Committee
Youth Conservation Corps
Congress
Coast Guard escorts crippled airliner to Hawaii runway
An Air Force transport faced a wing failure and tire blowout on landing but touched down smoothly. Passengers were taken by ambulance to awaiting Air Force transports for Honolulu, while Coast Guard rescue planes escorted the crippled craft 550 miles to Hilo. Parachuting divers stood by in case ditching was necessary as crews reassessed the situation.
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Air Force
Honolulu
Exelund
Hilo
Coast Guard
Hawaii
Ekelund
Jannette McCoy
Grand Rapids
Mich
Yoko Clay
Bel
United States
Travis Afb
Calif
Travis
San Francisco
Los Altos Ekelund
Burroughs Denies Interest in Senate Run
Portales Special John Burroughs, former Democratic governor, denies plans to seek the state senate seat held by Ike Morgan. He says he is too busy running a peanut mill and radio stations and has no intention of running from Roosevelt County. He was defeated in 1960 by Edwin Mechem.
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Portales
Waurika, Okla
Causey
Clifton Edward
Waurika Junior High School
Billy Smith
Edward
Oklaoma State University
Jefferson County
Okla
John Burroughs
Senate
R. C
Ike) Morgan
Roosevelt County
Burroughs
U.S
Edwin L. Meachum
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Paul Turpen
West Texas
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Lee O'Daniel
Charles M. Wesson
National Forests
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Vermont
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House
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
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Robert Halpin
Williamsburg
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