Navajo Health Service predicts rising morbidity from staffing cuts
Dr. George E. Bock of the Navajo Area Indian Health Service warns that personnel reductions under the 1968 Revenue and Expenditure Act will raise illness and death, with Gallup hospital closing a 26 bed ward and reduced care for emergency and non-emergency patients across the Navajo health area. He notes 70 percent staffing with ongoing delays to the 1966 level, and potential cuts to Head Start, maternal and child health, school exams, environmental health, and field clinics.
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Rock
Ariz
George E. Bock
Navajo Area ‘Indian Health Service
Bock
Navajo Trial Council
Riforale
Gallup
Health Service
Indian
She
ONEO
Clines
Crownpoint
Navajo Health Units Face Severe Cutbacks in 1966 Levels
Dr Bock warned that cutbacks would tighten referrals to other hospitals and shrink care for demented and tuberculosis patients. In Fort Defiance Chinle Shiprock and other service units the 1966 target would reduce home visits school health activities field clinics and hospital services and force program terminations.
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Ford
Fort Defiance
Chinle
Shiprock
Bock
Navajo Council Backs 300 Million Page Plant Plan
Navajo Tribal Council approves a $300 million coal powered generating plant at Page Arizona using Black Mesa coal. Three 750 MW units expected to start mid 1970s with water from the Upper Colorado and a 50 year or coal life based agreement. about 110 to 130 Navajos to mine coal and 15 to 20 to operate the plant. Salt River Project cooperation includes Navajo Community College training program. Approval from the Secretary of the Interior required before work begins.
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Window Rock
Ariz
Page
Navajo Tribal Council
Black Mesa
Norman Bowman
Navajo Tribe
Colorado River
Kayenta
Bowman
Salt River
Project’ Co
Phoenix
Navajo Community College
Many Farms
Resources Division
Legal Department
Salt River Project Co
Secretary of the. Interior
Nevada
Nixon names a steady, bipartisan cabinet lineup
President elect Nixon announced a 12 member cabinet drawn from Republican governors and business leaders, promising an internationalist yet fiscally conservative team. The lineup includes Rogers at State Laird at Defense Kennedy at Treasury Mitchell at AG Blount at Post, Hickel Interior Stans Commerce Shultz Labor Finch Romney Volpe Romney, with a future Democrat ambassador to the United Nations.
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Washington
Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
Herbert G. Klein
Ronald L. Ziegler
United Nations
Sargent Shriver
France
Shriver
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Walter E. Washington
GOP
William P. Rogers
California
George
Romney
Michigan
John. A. “Volpe
Massachusetts
Cargo Praises Nixon Appointments in New Mexico
Santa Fe AP Five Nixon cabinet picks draw praise from Gov. David Cargo of New Mexico. He singles out Interior Secretary designate Walter Hickel for park understanding and notes discussions at Carlsbad Caverns. Cargo optimistic about an excellent administration and comments on George Romney as housing secretary pick.
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Santa FE
Nixon
New Mexico
David Cargo
Cargo
Interior
Walter Hickel
Alaska
Hickel
Carlsbad Caverns
National Park Service
Michigan
George ‘Rom‘ley
Housing and Urban Development
Norvell Names Heads of House
Rep. David Norvell D Curry named 1969 house speaker and announced chairmen for key committees. Ralph Hartman D Dona Ana will lead Agriculture, succeeding Alva Parker who did not seek re election. Frank Brown D Eddy will head Labor, succeeding Mel Eaves who did not seek re election. Bob Martin D Grant is reappointed to Privileges and Elections.
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Santa FE
David Norvell
D-Curry
House
Ralph Hartman
Dona Ana
Agriculture Comittee
Alva Parker
Roosevelt
Frank Brown
D-Eddy
Labor Committee
Mel Eaves
D-Bernalillo
Court Appeal Seems Likely Over Los Alamos Suspension
Sterling Black Jr faces a five day suspension from Los Alamos High School after a student article criticizing dress and hair policy. His father State Sen. Sterling Black considers an appeal with ACLU backing possible if consent is given. The district and board upheld the sanction after a crowded public hearing.
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LOS Alamos
Sterling Black Jr
Los
Alamos High School
Sterling Black
D-Los
Alamos-Santa Fe
Black
Paul Phillips
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Bob Loar
Los’ Alamos
IC. R. ‘Richard
Presidents to Meet in Paso for Chamizal Exchange
President Johnson and ex President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz will meet Friday at the Chamizal boundary ceremony in El Paso to unveil commemorative markers and watch a dynamite charge divert the Rio Grande into a new $6 million concrete channel forming the international boundary. The leaders will walk the Santa Fe Street Bridge and later dine with Diaz Ordaz. a private meeting and gifts exchange will precede the luncheon.
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Santa Fe St. Bridge
Rio Grande
Johnson
Diaz- Ordaz
el Paso
Juarez
Acros
U.S
Mexico
Santa Fe
Stanton St
Cuban hijackers delay Trans World Airlines flight to Havana
On the Nashville to Miami TWA inaugural, 32 passengers endured a 9 hour stay at Havana airport as the hijackers a couple in their 20s, detained, waited for release while Cuban authorities fed travelers steak grapefruit juice and sandwiches. Tex Ritter and Mason Rudolph met the group upon return. FBI questioned passengers. Eldridge Cleaver’s wife was interviewed by the Times in New York.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Havana
Trans-World Airlines
Tex Ritter
Mason Rudolpa
Ritter
Varadero
FBI
Eldridge Cleaver
Black Panther
Nashville
Cleaver
Kathleen
Matthattan
The
New York Times
Dennis Maloney
Trans World Airlines
Caroline Lizza
Kennedy's Widow Mrs Kennedy Delivers Eighth Girl
Mrs. Kennedy Ethel Kennedy wife of Senator Robert F Kennedy gave birth to an eight pound four ounce girl at Georgetown University Hospital by Caesarean section at 8 40 a m. The child joins seven brothers and three sisters aged 17 to 18 months to 17 years. Senator Edward M Kennedy and family attended the birth and both mother and child are reported well. The birth comes after she was hospitalized for false labor in October and had been confined to bed since then.
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Washington
Ethel Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Georgetown University ‘Hospital
Caeseréan
Caese
Kennedy
Famed Actress Tallulah Bankhead Dies at 65
New York AP reports Tallulah Bankhead the gravelvoiced star of stage and screen died at 65 after a brief illness. Pneumonia followed flu, per business manager Ezra Schine.
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New York
Tallulah Bankhead
Siron
Miss Bankhead
Ezra Schine
El Paso Natural Gas forecasts higher 1969 earnings
The chairman of the board of El Paso Natural Gas Co. said on Wednesday the company foresees a significant increase in earnings for 1969.
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EL Paso, Tex
el Paso
Natural ‘Gas’ Co
Space agency denies Apollo 8 first stage leak claim
CAPE KENNEDY Florida AP officials said no leak exists in the first stage of the Saturn V rocket for Apollo 8 and that the December 21 launch date remains. Engineers found a leak during a fueling test but tests showed drainage only occurs when fuel is pumped out, not during launch conditions.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space ‘Agency
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
William A. Anders
Space Agency
NASA
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