Postal merger risks rate rises and possible delays
The Postal Service plans to merge air mail with first-class service by Aug. 1, setting 13 cents per ounce for domestic letters and potentially eliminating the air mail category. A rate hike could be delayed pending the Postal Rate Commission review, with Oct. 1 seen as the earliest date for any increase. The agency cites red ink and upcoming union contracts as pressures while promising equal or better service under the new system.
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Washington
Postal Service
Postal Rate Commission
Four Missouri counties gain major disaster status
President Ford declared Newton Caldwell Macon and Shelby counties in Missouri as major disaster areas after tornadoes and hail on April 23 24. Damage is estimated at over 19 million to private property and 482000 to public property with fatalities in Neosho and Breckenridge. Federal aid centers will offer loans housing help tax relief and loans from SBA FmHA and USDA programs.
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Washington
Missouri
Ford
Christopher
Newton County
Caldwell
Macon
Shelby
White House
Neosho
Breckenridge
Francis X. Tobin
Kansas City
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Small Business Administration
Department of Agriculture
Farmers Home Administration
Internal Revenue Service
Self taught man fluent in 22 foreign languages
Donald Wixtrom of Witch Lake Michigan, a 46 year old farmer and logger, teaches himself 22 languages through grammar books shortwave radio and self practice. He built a translator business from home after 1965 translating for mining firms and later doing government work. He translates about six million words and still learns a new language each winter while maple sugaring each spring. He prefers working at home in his village of 50 and remains conversational in most languages.
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Witch Lake
Mich
Donald Wixtrom
Wixtrom
Michigan
United States
Mehlville Girl Is Miss Teen Queen Missouri
Joletta Lamatina, a 15 year old from Mehlville, was crowned Miss Teen Queen Missouri after a pageant of 29 finalists in St Louis. She earns a $1000 scholarship to Culver Stockton College in Canton and will represent Missouri at the Miss Teen Queen pageant in Kansas City next month.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Kansas City
Joletta Lamatina
Culver- Stockton College
Canton
Tighter Rules Proposed On Welfare Moms
Government proposes cutting off welfare payments for mothers who refuse to help identify the father of their children while rewarding cooperation with cash bounties Up to 20 a month in child support incentives would be paid without loss of welfare for cooperating mothers Income beyond 20 would reduce welfare payments HEW estimates 1 3 million deserted fathers cost 1 5 billion annually to taxpayers Rules implement 1974 AFDC amendments Public has 30 days to comment before July 1 effective date Refusal to cooperate would shift children's benefits to welfare agency or third party Non confidential AFDC records may be shared with non welfare officials for child support purposes SSN would become a condition of eligibility for AFDC Also Cosmetology Board appointments in Jefferson City Missouri and other brief notices.
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Washington
Department of Health Education and Welfare
HEW
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Continental
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Federal Energy Administration
FEA
McNamar
Skelgas
Medicine Lodge
Kan
Bailey Peters Gas Co
Loose Creek, Co
Missouri — Bouyer Oil and Gas Co
Fulton
Gier
Standard Service
Eldon
Nixon
Charles Hamilton
New York
Thieu
Hamilton
Theia
Nimitz
Norfolk Naval Station
Mehlville
Jefferson City, Mo
Wanda E. Bolton
State Board of Cosmetology
Christopher S. Bond
Lyle J. Bouck Jr
St. Louis County
State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
James A. Mertz
Bolton
Mama Cheeseburgers
Mexico
S. Jefferson
Cook
Cook Coromax
Midwest
E.D
K.D
Cook Paint
W. Monroe
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