Writing to Congress Tips From a Guidebook
A guide recommends writing to congressmen on personal or business letterhead with a legible signature and a clear subject, preferably including bill numbers. Include personal experience, state how the issue affects you or your community, avoid form letter phrasing, and request a reply on position and vote. Send letters when legislation is pending in committee and address to the correct Senate or House office in Washington.
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House
Senate
Bourke Hickenlooper
Jack Miller
Washington, D. C
Fred Schwengel
Who Intercepts the Poverty Money
A column critiques hunger statistics and federal relief. It questions distribution of the $26 billion spent annually to fight hunger, cites Representative Goodell’s accusations of missing funds, and considers alternatives like direct payments or a guaranteed annual wage. The piece references Milton Friedman and several quotations.
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Department of Labor
Representative Goodell
America
Goodell
Florida
John H. Perry Jr
Chester Hale addresses Zion Lutheran on ghetto issues in Davenport
Civil rights leader Chester Hale, a former Muscatine resident and Oscar Meyer foreman, spoke at Zion Lutheran in Davenport urging action on housing, employment, and education. He criticized welfare, urged local leaders and churches to build institutions, and called for a broader political stance across parties to uplift the ghetto community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Hale
Rock Island
Muscatine
Zion Lutheran Church
Davenport
Chester
W. O. Scott
Mississippi
Fairport
What yeast infections mean and bread yeast impact
Dr Molner explains yeast infections are linked to micro organisms, not the bread yeast used for baking. Most germs are harmless or helpful, and antibiotics can disrupt balance. Bread yeast is not a cause of yeast infections, but seek kidney health guidance by writing to Dr Molner for his booklet.
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Watts
Stokley Carmichael
Rap Brown
Dr. King
Johnson
Dr. Moiner
A Columnist's Mailbag Wonders From A Busy Era
New York AP notes include sweeping trivia from readers such as baby sitters earning over a billion dollars yearly, Americans as restless shoppers, and address churn of 35 to 40 million annually. It highlights holiday lore in the Virgin Islands, quirky quotes, and shifts in fashion and health trends while detailing the Eiffel Tower repaint schedule and paint quantities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Virgin Islands
Mistinguette
United States
Brazil
National Geographic
U.S
Muscatine Almanac Notes Local Echoes Across Decades
A compilation of past events notes rainfall in recent decades with minor street effects, plus alumni and local notices. Rev L T Lee and Miss Calla Dougherty visited from Chicago, a photographer ad appears, Dr Hammer injured abroad, Ellen Gellman Stocker obituary, P J Bisesi begins naval indoctrination at Columbia, and a four million dollar U S Senate rivers project nudges Muscatine harbor toward reality.
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L. T. Lee
Chicago
Calla Dougherty
Clifford and Sons
Stocker
P. M. Musser Public Library
Burlington
Muscatine
P. J. Bisesi
Mike Bisesi
East Fifth Street
U. S. Reserve Midshipman School
Columbia University
N. Y
St. Ambrose College
Davenport
U. S. Senate
Today in History Highlights for July 8, 1968
Digest of notable anniversaries and events on this date. Highlights include Perry’s expedition to Yokohama in 1853, Shelley’s drowning in 1822, the Liberty Bell crack during Marshall’s funeral in 1835, Wilson leaving Paris in 1919, Norway’s government moving to London in 1940, the Saipan capture in 1944, MacArthur named UN commander in 1950, Eisenhower’s 10th Ottawa visit a decade ago, Spaak and Khrushchev talks in Moscow five years ago, and renewed fighting near the Suez canal one year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Matthew Perry
Yokohama Harbor
U.S
Japan
Percy Shelley
Gulf of Spezzia
Italy
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
John Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
New York
Versailles
France
Norway
London
Saipan
Douglas MacArthur
United United Nations
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ottawa
Paul-Henri Spaak
Belgium
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Egypt
Israel
Suez Canal
Prayer of Break in Lord With Thy Sudden Grace
A devotional prayer invoking Jesus from Luke 8:45 requesting grace to respond to others calls whether convenient or inconvenient. The supplicant seeks emboldened mercy and rescue from dreary sameness through divine goodness and responsiveness to others in the likeness of the Lord.
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Jesus
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Mustacne Journal
Pressey
John Chamberlain
CBS
Orville Freeman
Charles E. Goodell
House Education and Labor Committee
Freeman
Department of Agriculture
St. Petersburg
Harvard
Milton Friedman
Calvin Coolidge
Emily Dickinson
Herbert V. Prochnow
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The
Small Society
Bicker
Congress
Ghetto
Martin Luther King
King
Mr. Nixon
Republcan
West Eighth and
Marquette Streets
Joseph G. Motner
M.D
Moola
Grand Canyon
Kal
Boyle
Lone Tree
L. A. Hammer
Dr.Hammer
U.S. Army
Ellen Gellman
the Daily Prayer
Mister Breger
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