Business plan urged to rescue Social Security system
Congress urged to consider a Chamber of Commerce plan to avert Social Security collapse by adding 156 billion over five years, funded mainly by public employees joining the system and by cost cuts. The proposal ties benefit increases to CPI, raises full-benefits age, and extends coverage to government workers while opposing raiding pension funds.
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Chamber
Business Federation
Jones
Richard §. Schweiker
Department of Health and Human Services
Schweiker
Washrington
Energy independence within reach says oil expert
Edward J. Walsh reports that U S energy independence could be achieved in 30 years thanks to aggressive drilling by independent firms and new fields in Alaska Dakota Williston Basin and the Gulf of Mexico. Expansion in fields like Prudhoe Bay and Tuscaloosa Trend plus enhanced recovery may add 5 million barrels per day. Cooperation and national will are cited as essential.
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
United States
Saudi Oil Ministry
Reagan
U.S
Hughes
Robey H. Clark
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Clark
Gulf of Mexico
Oklahoma
Anadarko Basin
California
Soviet Union
Letters to the editor dog’s death and plea for kindness
A reader recalls burying her nine year companion dog named Boy after a stomach infection left him paralyzed. She urges readers to show kindness to good dogs daily and shares how she found Boy at the Brunswick pound with the care of Charles Gessinger.
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Boy
Brunswick
Charles Gessinger
Gessinger
Caribbean nations favored in Reagan trade push
Reagan administration outlines a Caribbean Basin plan offering one way free trade with the United States to boost agriculture and industry over 10 to 15 years, excluding Cuba and possibly Nicaragua and other nations, funded by up to 35 million annually for three years plus 100 million from other governments.
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Reagan
United States
Jose Lopez Portillo
Helmut Schmidt
Pierre
France
Britain
Venezuela
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Ortillo
Portillo
Herrera Campins
Uncle Sam
U.S
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U.S. Virgin Islands
Caribbean
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Cuba
Grenada
Nicaragua
Guyana
Surinam
South America
Water hydrant device aids city kids cooling off
Frank Keefer devised a long pipe fire hydrant system carried on the firetruck to spray six pointed showers for Frederick City children to cool off without leaving their neighborhood. City Forester C Cyril Klein supervised a program benefiting 226 youngsters across neighborhoods.
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Frank Keefer
Frederick City
William D. Zimmerman
William Davis
C. Cyril Klein
City Forester
Olson brothers cross country trip delayed 1961
Mechanical problems slowed Eric and Nils Olson during a cross country trip that began in July 1961. After reaching Kansas City they stayed briefly at the jail by suggestion of a detective, the door later found unlocked as they posed in a photo. They planned to travel about 100 miles daily, averaging around 70 miles. Next stop Colorado Springs. AYATTSTOWN Methodist Youth Fellowship adopted 14 year old German Isolde Butscher to live in Pestalozzi Seidling home in West Germany. The group funded via candy and napkin sales and donations. 10 minute cloudburst saturated Frederick City with 1.10 inches of rain, total rainfall 1.60 inches. area returned to normal soon after.
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Pestalozzi-Seidling
West Germany
Isolde Butscher
Isolde
Hyattstown Group
Frederick City
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