Congress Raises Pay Amid Lincoln Reverie
A column mocks Congress for a pay raise from 22500 to 42500 despite inflation. It notes Lincoln birthday reflection and cites opposition by Orval Hansen Len Jordan Frank Church and Mike Mansfield. It quips about a proposed 8800 percent rise every five years and criticizes elected officials’ priorities.
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Orval Hansen
Len Jordan
Frank Church
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett Dirksen
Land of Lincoln
Tax talk prompts idle fantasies on welfare and wages
A reader recalls a tale of an employer who posted unemployment and welfare taxes on a board and showed that removing these costs would let him raise each worker’s pay by at least a thousand dollars annually without extra cost. The letter contrasts legislative efforts in Boise and Washington with this idea, urging skepticism of grand schemes for the poor. The note ends with a personal aside about a furnace breakdown derailing the paper's production.
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Boise
Congress
D.C
Courage Beyond the Falls in Virginia Rescue
An 18 year old youth among surveyors in northern Virginia dives into roaring rapids to save a drowning boy. Both disappear over the falls but the mother and onlookers believe they are saved as the youth and boy reach the bank exhausted. The woman proclaims divine reward for the rescuer.
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Virginia
Legislative Pace Quickens as More Bills Reach Floor
The House adopted afternoon sessions to move bills off the calendar and committee meetings shifted earlier, with night hearings increasing. The session targets mid March completion, with major bills pending including proposed voting law revisions and a 64 page volume studied by the State Affairs Committee.
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House
State Affairs Committee
Senate
Governor’s Office
Legislative Council Election Law Review Committee
Senate Education Committee
Finance and Appropriations Committee
Lewiston
Bankers Association
Idaho
Education Committee
FFA Week Highlights Opportunity for Youth Leadership
FFA provides youth in agriculture with chances to learn, do, earn, and serve. Through local state and national participation members grow in leadership, citizenship, and vocational objectives, applying classroom lessons to real farming issues and community service. FFA Week runs February 15 to 22 with the theme FFA an opportunity for youth.
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FFA
America
Future Farmers of America
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Abe
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Select Committee
Abe Lincoln
U.S. Press Ass'n
Mark Hart
Bulletin Board
United States of America
George Washington
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