28 Mar 1972
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1972
Page
1
A panel backed changes aimed at narrowing the gap between low earners and maximum benefit recipients in Social Security. The plan shifts emphasis away from benefits proportional to lifetime earnings toward broader support for long‑time workers at low pay.
The Maine Democrat's campaign drew 2.02 million from backers through last Jan 31, with a later report planned to cover January 31 to April 7. The piece notes a push for new federal disclosure laws and discusses Social Security benefit implications and donor ties to Nixon Agnew era funding.
The bill would affect about 340,000 people immediately with an annual cost of 110 million and a long range price tag near 1.5 billion. It provides 10 dollars a month for each year worked over ten, yielding 100 to 200 dollars for twenty to thirty years, with a spouse boost. Nixon administration favors five percent across the board, Mills seeks twenty percent.
World War II and Korea veteran Robert Silver offers his Arlington plot for A Henry Kauffman who died at 73. Kauffman earned the Distinguished Service Cross for a heroic artillery action. Pentagon limits Arlington burials to specific categories, leaving Silver hopeful for a reply from Kauffman’s family.
The Agriculture Department reports a $23 yearly rise in a typical family's food bill with middlemen taking $18 of the increase. Meat costs climbed, and the market basket rose to 1297 dollars, 50 dollars higher than last November, with farm prices up as well.
Ohio Penitentiary guards return to duty after a sick-out protest sparked by loss of hazard pay. State corrections chief reports 153 guards at 6 am with about 40 absent. Gov. Gilligan ordered replacements. 8 new hires to work. Warden Cardwell notes improved staffing though vacancies persist. Civil Service Employees Association and Teamsters urge return to work as legislature considers related complaints.
Thousands of Protestants marched on Stormont in Belfast to denounce Britain's takeover of power after Edward Heath ordered a 12 month suspension. William Craig led mass action as strikes crippled services from electricity to bread with clashes between Protestant youths and British troops.
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