A Pail Is Filled Medicare Thoughts After Six Months
Six months after Medicare began hospital administrators nationwide report more paperwork than bed shortages. An AP survey finds rising elderly admissions and longer stays, with some delay in government payments. doctors largely accept changes but fear expansion while nursing home bed shortages for long term care emerge as a concern.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Edward J. McGeaschey
Maine Medical Center
Portland
Uneder
Ronald Boyington
Tampa
Fla.) General Hospital
Medicare
Pete Gerlich
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Tex
Milton Berle defies setbacks with ongoing shows and plans
Hollywood AP reports Milton Berle remains active after ABC dropped his Friday night variety. He defends unions, criticizes picket lines, and plans future work in night clubs and film. Berle cites missteps in contract length and time slots as causes for the failed ABC run, insisting the formula still works.
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Hollywood
Milton Berle
ABC
Network
Berle
Hollywood Palace
NABET
National Association of Broadcast Employes and Technicians
Uncle Milk
Liberal mood ends as 89th Congress gave way to 90th
AP News Analysis outlines how the 89th Congress with Democratic liberal dominance yielded a record-legislation era after 1964, while the 90th Congress, shaped by 1966 elections, leans conservative with a Republican Dixiecrat coalition. Key events include Powell’s seat removal pending investigation, Rule Committee reform defeat, and filibuster killing moves. Senate leadership under Dirksen rising as a conservative force.
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James Marlow
Washington
Harlem
Adam Clayeton Powell
House
House Rules Committee
Senate
Congress
Johnson
Eversett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Mansfield
New York
Emanuel Celler
Kansas Pirate Loves His Job
London AP profiles Bob Read an 18 year old from McPherson Kansas who serves as a radio engineer aboard Radio Caroline anchored off the Isle of Man. The pirate station broadcasts pop music to listeners on the English coast despite official opposition.
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London
Bob Read
Irish Sea
McPherson
Kan
Bob
Radio Caroline
Isle of Man
Deadly Types Now Serving As Soldiers
Granite City AP reports seven members of the black widow brigade, claimed as the deadliest soldiers, will see only stateside action. The spiders are used for silk strands at the Granite City Army Depot. each lives about six months and is worth $25 per 100 feet. Recruits are trapped at the post and fed meager rations. Other items describe a former Kansas disc jockey traveling with Radio Caroline, experiencing sea life, and plans to study international law at the University of Kansas after his stint aboard the ship.
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Granite City
U.S. Army
Black Widow Brigade
Donn Kinney
Topographice Electronics Division
Granite City Army Depot
Kansas
McPherson
England
Radio Caroline
Scotland
Read
Paris
Barcelona
Robert Read
Septemeer
University of Kansas
Ottawa adopts dog control ordinance effective May 1
A new Ottawa ordinance requires all residents with male or unspayed dogs over six months to vaccinate for rabies by a licensed veterinarian and display a rabies tag. Fines range from 10 to 100 dollars, plus potential jail time. Female dogs must be spayed unless they are registered pedigrees with written police approval. Pedigree females must be vaccinated yearly, licensed at $8, and kept in a kennel or yard on a leash when exercised. Vicious dogs must be restrained at all times.
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Ottawa
Legal Booze Helps Out Mississippi
Jackson Mississippi AP reports legal liquor is a financial bonanza versus the old bootleggers tax. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Division says Mississippi took in 6,140,570 dollars in liquor revenue in six months after statewide prohibition ended, compared with about 2.5 million annually from the former black market levy.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Alcoholic Beverage Control Division
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Strand
Roxy
Vegas
Miami
Jackie Gleason
CBS
tAfter
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Business and Professional Guide
Optometrists
Arvid Berglund, O.D
Optometrist
A. G. Madison, O.D
Olin G. Wollen, O.D
Rodney McClay, O.D
Medical Directory
J. F. Barr, M.D
Medical Arts
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D.C
S. M. Brockway
W. 15Th St
Internal Medicine and Diagnosis Medical Arts
S. Main
J. C. South, D.C
Louis
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Chiroptratic
East
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D.O
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R. A. Gellier
Medical Arts Building
C, H. Strehlow, M.D
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Sylva Lofgreen, M.D
Physicians and Surgeons
Walnut
Henning Bros
Anthony Clinical Laboratory
Gladys Anthony
David L. Young, D.O
Physical Medicine
Briscoe
Richardson’s
Ottawa, Kansas
Stylart Beauty Salon
Joe
Judy Hamilton
Grace Allard
Goldie Daugharthy
Beauty Land Styling Salon
Main
Eloise Milton
Marion Maxwell
Shirley James
Wilema Babcock
Everett’s
Everett Stark
John W. Rea Walkein
Joseph B. Mickey
Tacile Prunty
Hickory
Towner’s
J, Rodgers—I, Jones
Hess, Franklin
Main-Bell Drug Store
A-1 Cab Co
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