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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1971
Page
10
Editorial notes a quiet Illinois law requiring fire and casualty insurers to hold cash and securities in a policyholders security deposit account. The measure aims to protect auto insurance policyholders and third parties from company insolvencies, aiding regulators and potentially reducing costs for insured drivers nationwide.
Archaeologists in Iraqi Kurdistan report Neanderthals as communal beings who buried the dead with flowers and cared for the crippled, suggesting a social and religious sense. Ralph Solecki of Columbia University cites the findings in Intellectual Digest.
Johns Hopkins nutrition professor Drave G Graham suggests future meals could be a single hand food like a vitamin fortified sandwich containing all nutrients. He predicts social and economic shifts including less kitchen use and cheaper housing, though he cautions against abandoning real food and cooking.
HAL BOYLE cites examples of men saying one thing and thinking another to illustrate widespread verbal hypocrisy. He compares male and female double talk, noting common phrases followed by candid inner thoughts and concluding that men still lead in this behavior.
The World Almanac notes 29,906 miles of the 42,500 mile Interstate Highway System were open to traffic as of March 31 1970 per the Federal Highway Administration's Bureau of Public Roads.
A jumble of social trivia and aphorisms notes the differing effects of absence on romantic attachment, a trolley past from Chicago to New York, surname trivia, a Pat Boone lineage aside, and a solemn obituary-like moment with a dying rancher. The Walter Savage Landor lines echo memories and art in late night reflections.
Sen. Russell Long pushes to separate welfare reform from Social Security changes in H R 1 and delay welfare action. House Ways and Means Chair Wilbur Mills plans to reattach welfare features in conference. Nixon hints at delaying the welfare provisions, while the package could prompt 1972 effective dates and a $3.685 billion boost in Social Security payments for the elderly disabled and widowed. Medicare changes include higher hospital deductibles as costs rise and hospital stays trend downward.
Gov Preston Smith and Comptroller Calvert dispute when to call a second year budget session. Smith favors delaying until after June primarys to gauge revenue, while aides warn delay could miss September 1 state fiscal year funding. A session may align with redistricting if needed.
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