Welfare changes in the works by Bruce Biossat
Congress moves toward federalizing adult welfare categories starting 1974 with guaranteed minimums of 130 dollars per month for individuals and 195 dollars for couples. The change aims to enroll up to 1.5 million more recipients, boosting totals to about 4.8 million, while vast families with dependent children remain outside this shift. Social Security would administer the new program, leveraging automation and existing beneficiary overlap, though the plan adds about 1.5 billion to the 1974 budget with offset state savings estimated at 800 million annually.
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Washington
NEA
Congress
Nixon
Social Security
Robert Ball
Senate
Special Committee On
Brookings Institution
Medicare
U.S
United States
Editorial: A deer gets better break than a man
The Meigs County Ohio ruling on deer season violators shows two men fined and punished with suspended sentences and long hunting bans. The piece argues that while hunters back strict laws, traffic fatalities rarely trigger such penalties, unlike hunting violations. It compares hunting enforcement to driving licenses and notes public support differs.
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Meigs County
Ohio
Farmer Brown
Music men prove age is no barrier for top artists
Family Circle highlights more than 60 conductors composers and performers who remained active past 70 Leopold Stokowski turned 90 and Oscar Boult Klemperer Stolz Toscanini Stravinski Verdi and Friml are noted for vitality longevity and ongoing activity while Casals Heifetz and others kept performing practicing yoga or playing games well into old age
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Family Circle Magazine
Leopold Stokowski
Adrian Boult
Otto Klemperer
Robert Stolz
Pablo Casals
Jascha Heifetz
Toscanini
Igor Stravinski
Giuseppe Verdi
Rudolph Friml
Texans Cold War Shelter Craze Traced to Cuba Crisis
A Fort Worth Dallas area look back at the 1960s shelter boom driven by fear of nuclear attack and Castro’s Cuba. The piece notes ads for prefab shelters, rising enlistments, and the shift from federal stockpiles to personal preparation, with Miss Georgiana H. Sheldon saying shelter stocks ended and people must bring their own food and water.
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Robert E. Ford
Associated Press
Fort Worth-Dallas
Fidel Castro
Cuba
U.S
Marine Corps
CIA
United States
Castro
Agriculture Department
National Guard
Willard F. Libby
Life Magazine
Washington
Denton
Georgiana H. Sheldon
Defense Civil Prepaidness Agency
Office of Civil Defense
Uncle Sam
Miss Sheldon
Jumping to conclusions in Hal Boyles witty column
New York columnist Hal Boyle uses humor to poke at habits and foibles. He riffs on reputation versus money, passport photos after fifty, police called to arrest a fellow officer, talk shows, and bald generosity. He jokes about lawyers, dentists, undertakers, animal beauty, veal cutlets, and women's minds with light satire.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Letters to the Editor Guidelines
Readers are invited to send letters for printing with rules requiring signature and address, withholding upon request, brief casual letters, and rejection of those in poor taste. The notice outlines minimum length and formatting expectations.
Nixon trip reshapes Japanese Communist politics and alliances
The Nixon visits to Beijing and Moscow shift Japan's political landscape as China and the Soviet Union pursue closer ties with Japanese elites. The Japanese Communist party loses momentum, while ties with Mitsubishi and other Zaibatsu tighten under Beijing’s favor, weakening anti-US and anti-capitalist lines.
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Washington
NEA
Nixon
Peking
Moscow
Communist Party
Kakuei Tanaka
China
Japan
Mitsubishi Group
Zaibatsu
Choun-lai
Taiwan
Soviet Union
United States
Tokyo
Japanese Communist Party
Tanaka
Asia
Comintern
Japanese Socialist Party
Today in History highlights and notable events
This date marks Magellan reaching the Pacific in 1520, Panama's 1821 independence, Hawaii recognition in 1843, and the first national Thanksgiving in 1863. It notes 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire deaths, Tehran conference in 1943, and various brief anniversaries and a birthday for singer Rose Bampton.
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Associated Press
Ferdinand Magellan
Pacific Ocean
South American
Panama
Spain
Republic of
Colombia
Britain
France
Hawaii
House of Commons
Lady Astor
Cocoanut Grove
Boston
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Churchill
Tehran
Iran
United States
Pakistan
China
Wyoming Territory grants woman suffrage in 1869
World Almanac notes women gained suffrage in Wyoming Territory in 1869. It recalls New Jersey allowed some women to vote in general elections under a 1776 constitution if they were worth 350 pounds proclamation money with clear estate, a provision later reinterpreted in 1807 to restrict voting to free white male citizens.
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Wyoming
the World Almanac
New Jersey
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U. N. General Assembly
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Cairo
Rose Bampton
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