Alaska Legislature Targets Welfare Agency Over Questionnaires
In Juneau Alaska lawmakers threaten to cut funding to the agency distributing aid to dependent children after revelations that forms ask unmarried welfare mothers about their sex life and partners. The dispute centers on the controversial questionnaires and their privacy implications.
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Juneau
Alaska
Steve Cowper
Hugh Malone
Jay Hammond
National Association of Social Workers
Phil Nash
Anchorage
State Department of Law
Nash
County debate on growth and courthouse site plans
City officials debate growth management, courthouse use, and library site needs as they consider relocation plans. Mayor Young favors courthouse as library site with renovations and argues against buying all vacant property, while stressing energy conservation and multi year grant prospects for the Carroll Creek project and historic sites.
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Young
Tam
Weinberg
Court
West Patrick Streets
Library Board
Chevrolet
Sears- Roebuck
Blair Lee II
Citizens Electric
Potomac Edison
Maryland Municipal League
MML
Asbury Methodist Church
City Hall
Carroll Creek
B&o
Agricultural Department
Eastalco
University of Maryland
Fire calls and elder aide openings listed in county log
Fire log reports twenty four hours ending at 10 a m with calls at 9 54 p m for gas spill at 207 South Market Street 8 56 a m grass fire at Jefferson 2 09 p m truck fire at Molesworth Drive 6 24 p m house fire at New Market and Mount Airy 8 40 p m auto fire at Picnic Woods Road plus ambulance calls. Four senior aide jobs open for low income adults 55 plus funded by Title IX providing up to 20 hours weekly at 2 90 per hour with car allowances and 12 cent per mile reimbursement. applicants must meet income limits and call Division of Elder Affairs at 278 1057.
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City
South Market Street
Uniteds
Schamnel's
Jefferson
Libertytown
Woodsboro
Molesworth Drive
New Market
Mount Airy
Picnic Woods Road
Middletown
Montgomery County
Office of Human Resources
Division of Elder Affairs
Treasure from a trash pile in Williamstown
Ed Bohl found a seven inch unguentarium bottle from ancient tombs in a trash pile. A note inside dated 1933 claimed it was buried with mummies about 2000 years ago and colored by earth. Experts at Williams College and museums dated it to 150 to 90 CE, Syria or Palestine, in excellent condition.
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Edwin €. Bobi Jr
Williamstown
Maas
Williamstown Mass
Ed Bohl
Llike
Ed Boht
Patricia
Miss Harris
Grace C. Parcella
Grace Parcella
Williams College
North Adams State College
Corning Museum of Glass
New York
Nutrition spending questioned by GAO audit
Washington AP report says the federal government spends about 70 million dollars a year to inform the public about nutrition but auditors cannot judge usefulness. The GAO notes many consumers are confused and lack confidence about their diets. In 1976 USDA spent 63.5 million and HEW 5.8 million on nutrition materials, with no clear assessment of consumer needs or effective informing methods.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
Congressional
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Fluoride standards split Adamstown concerns rise
Oregon scientist Dr Clancy Gordon questions Eastaleo testing practices as Maryland trims fluoride rules. AQC director George Forrest backs a middle path, while Adamstown farmers push for lower limits near 20 ppm and stricter two month samples up to 60 80 ppm. The debate centers on health environment tradeoffs with Eastaleo expansion and a third potline amid 300 daily fluoride emissions.
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Clancy C. Gordon
Oregon
Adamstown
Eastaleo
Maryland
Eastalco Co
James L. Shupe
William B. Buck
AQC
Baltimore
Edgar C. Wirts
George P. Forrest
Carroll Manor
Shupe
Buck
Eastaloslong Manor Woods Road
Ballenger Creek Pike
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Daddy Grabber
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Boyer
R. W. Boyer
Agency, Inc
Church
Christopher Street
Allen Bernard
Eustako
D. B. Watson
Ed Blumenauer
Frederick and Suburban
Kiwanis
Frederick Armory
Watson's
Janice Currens
Brederick Brick Works
Frederick Brick
East South Street
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