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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1971
Page
3
Washington AP: Congressional overseers of the Postal Service say they will wait for results before judging the sweeping reorganization of the mails. The report notes lawmakers plan to assess performance and efficiency once the changes take effect nationwide.
The Nixon administration wins a one week delay in a Senate clash over a 30 percent troop cut by end of 1971 for the 300000 U.S. troops in Europe. Javits and Stennis back another plan to shift burden to allies with regular reports to Congress. Postal changes cut regional mail centers from fifteen to five, affecting 3500 older workers but protecting 640000 unionized staff.
The House Ways and Means Committee revived President Nixon’s family assistance plan to reform welfare with a federal takeover and a 2400 dollar income for a four person family. The measure would, by 1973, add about six billion dollars to Social Security pensioners and welfare, raise payroll taxes, and fund 200000 public service jobs while creating day care for working mothers.
Washington AP report traces a House move to restart SST funding, reversing an earlier anti SST vote. Proxmire vows to kill it or talk it to death while Magnuson Jackson cite unemployment and global pressure as factors. Nixon praises the step as workers face layoffs and production implications loom for Boeing and GE.
The Agriculture Department defends proposed Food Stamp Reform Act rules as expanding eligibility while noting protests. Assistant Secretary Richard Lyng cites 350,000 currently eligible to lose benefits and 1.7 million in states with lower ceilings gaining stamps. Six Republican senators challenge the household definition citing a ban on unrelated individuals.
The FTC ruled grocery stores must stock enough items at sale prices and cannot rely on disclaimers or rain checks to meet demand. Effective July 12, the rule targets deceptive ads and may extend to departments and hardware stores. Violations could incur civil penalties.
The administration restores a 15 million rat control program for fiscal 1972 after congressional criticism. The plan, dropped earlier, aims to exterminate rats and destroy breeding sites in cities like Baltimore New York Chicago Atlanta Cleveland Milwaukee and Seattle while educating the public.
A federal judge directed the construction union to compensate Black workers deprived of work due to discriminatory practices. Judge Marvin E. Frankel also found Local 46, Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers Union, AFL-CIO, in contempt for failing to follow a consent agreement to equalize job opportunities. A separate Labor Department session recessed with no progress toward averting a nationwide rail shutdown threatened by the Signalmen's union.
South Vietnamese troops repulsed two major North Vietnamese assaults in the A Shau Valley campaign. About 200 enemy soldiers were killed with U.S. air support as base camps and arms depots were destroyed. Sixty to ninety South Vietnamese Marines were killed or wounded across the two battles, with additional enemy losses verified and a weapons cache uncovered.
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