Britain shifts to a permissive society amid sweeping reforms
A half decade of Labour rule has dismantled Victorian restraints. Instant adulthood follows on Jan 1 1970 granting 18 year olds major rights including voting and marriage. Despite liberalization many Britons fear moral decline while a 200 male survey shows entrenched Victorian gender norms and preferences persist.
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Britain
Queen Victoria
Roy Jenkins
Exchequer
Labor
Tilt on credit card crooks
A break may be forthcoming in the Great Credit Card Robbery as Cubic Corp of San Diego develops a compact data processing system for instant credit card verification at checkout. The unit uses an imprinter and a verifier to compare card data with stored credit information, instantly flagging lost or forged cards. The verifier can be updated remotely.
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Cubic Corp
San Diego
Letters to the Editor and Subscription Rates Details
A garbled Pontica Daily Leader page prints letters to the editor section rules and subscription pricing. It lists signed letters under 300 words and shows rates for Cartier Delivery and mail within Livingston County, including yearly and short-term plans, with military and nonlocal rates and single-copy pricing.
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Pontiac
Etd
Wedeniee Co
Minois
Livingston Cou
Terome Pearre
John Plesko
Arch Elizabeth Harris
Edi
Cartier
Ponting
Livingston County
Tlinels
Youth favor lower welfare rolls in NEA poll
Gilbert Youth Research surveyed 3000 youths ages 14 to 25 nationwide. It found 41 percent support public aid for those unable to support themselves while 33 percent back job placement or job application requirements to reduce welfare rolls. Readers are urged to stretch the family budget with bargain pages in the Daily Leader.
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Gilbert Youth Research
Ccollege
Lincoln
Neb
The
Daily Leader
Fairbury Homemakers Christmas Dinner Highlights
Fairbury Fifteen women of the Homemakers Extension unit met at the Old Susannah restaurant for the annual Christmas dinner. Mrs. Ruth Glennin and Mrs. Janice Perkins hosted. Mrs. Lillie Herndon offered a prayer and led a lesson on serving groups at holiday time. Mrs. Ernest Bess demonstrated glass etching as gifts, with plans for a January joint meeting with Belle Prairie. Nostesses named include Mrs. Lillian Hall and others.
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Fairbury
Homemakers Extension
Ruth Glennin
Janice Perkins
Lillie Herndon
Delma Freed
Elizabeth Askew
Don Perkins
Ernest Bess
Dominy Memorial Library
Belle Prairie Homemakers Extension Unit
Lillian Hall
Gladys Thompson
R. McGuire
Rapid 30 day courtship seals quiet Kansas wedding
In OLATHE Kansas AP a groom ended a long engagement with a 30 day courtship and wed Monday in the probate judge's office witnesses were the bride's son and daughter with the bride's mother 89 present. The couple Mrs Nela A Bulgem 71 and Charlie F Kinney 82 plan to live in Kansas City after Kinney's 1947 retirement as a banker.
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Olathe
Kan
Mattie M. Puckett
Nela A. Bulgem
Charlie F. Kinney
Kansas City
Honest man found daughter’s lost Christmas money
A reader thanks Mr. Ronnie McCoy of Bell Avenue for returning a 12 year old girl’s lost savings after a newspaper ad ran. The family expresses gratitude for his honesty and kindness, noting the tearful Saturday and happy Monday.
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Pontiac
Ronnie McCoy
Bell Avenue
Dianne
David McCullough
N. Main
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Merrie
Old England
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Tae
HEA, Inc
Joliffs
Carl
Vennetta
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John and Paul
Jolliff
Central Christian Church
Ilinois
NEA
Fairbury Homemakers
MATL
D&s Rexall Drug Store
Mary
Jesus
Ted
God
Christ
Bill
Bill Mattox
W. Madison St
Spurgeon’s
Aationa Oaaracandy
Fogarty Electric
D&s
Victor
Babe” Selot
Leo Eisele
Lloyd Johnson
J.C
Bee’' Wolff
Irwin Brown
John W. Hayes
Charles P. Young
Thomas M. Duffy
A. E. Markgraf — Lloyd Wright
C. L. Herbst
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