Federal pay reform urged amid pension and salary excesses
The piece argues that high federal salaries and automatic raises under a lenient civil service system harm public perception and efficiency. It notes a double dipper at HEW and calls Carter’s plan to replace the Civil Service Commission with two bodies to improve merit incentives, accountability, and payroll savings. It frames reforms as benefiting dedicated workers and aligning government pay with private benchmarks.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Veen
HEW
Joseph Califano
Carter
Congress
Civil Service Commission
Merit System Protection Board
Presidential commission on world hunger mocked by critics
The piece lampoons a new presidential commission to study global hunger, mocking its promise to end poverty. It questions Rockefeller Bourne style rhetoric, notes American poverty at home, and ridicules the idea of solving worldwide hunger with a formal committee. It expresses skepticism toward politicians’ grandiose plans and suggests bureaucratic inaction.
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Congress
Carter
Peter Bourne
Bourne
Bull Roar
Middletown News Journal Subscription Rates Noted
The Journal published daily by News Journal, Inc. lists subscription rates for Middletown Ohio. Home delivery weekly costs 90c weekdays and 25c Sundays, with motor route 15c daily 30c Sunday. Mail in USA 38 dollars yearly, 46 outside.
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The
News Journal, Inc
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
USA
U.S.A
Good intentions drive schools to bankruptcy
A columnist cites Public Law 94-142 and argues the ideal of fully integrating handicapped students is financially unfeasible for many towns. He warns that literal perfection would require sweeping renovations, extra teachers, and costly accommodations, risking school bankruptcies if federal funding is not tempered by practical tradeoffs.
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Washington
OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Agency
Industrialist George F. Will on McCormick and American farming
A compact essay tracing Cyrus McCormick’s reaper rise and Jefferson’s agrarian ideals, linking government policy to two centuries of U.S. agriculture. It argues farming evolved into a capital intensive, government-involved industry and notes the current farmers strike as a political lobby.
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Washington
Charles Darwin
Abraham Lincoln
Cyrus McCormick
McCormick
Henry Ford
Confederacy
Union
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Apostle
Applied Enlightenment
Land Grant College
Midwest
Letters to the Editor on discrimination and fire relief
The first letter argues insurance discrimination citing a policy cancellation tied to a husband’s suspended license and urges separate policies for a married woman who is the primary earner. The second thanks the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Middletown fire department, emergency squad, police, and residents for shelter, meals, warmth, and speedy help after a Feb. 11 Ross Hunt Towers fire.
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Ross Hunt Towers
Towers
Order of Eagles
S. Clinton Street
Middletown
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