Social Security Aide Seeks Big Old-Age Tax Hike
Wilbur J. Cohen, a leading social security expert and UM professor, urged substantial increases in benefits to 180 dollars for an individual worker at the 10th Annual Conference on Aging. He proposed funding via a 0.25 percent payroll tax increase for both employees and employers, applying to all income up to six thousand dollars, and establishing a contributory hospitalization program for those over 65.
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Ann Arbor
Mitch
Wilbur J. Cohen
Social Security Administron
Cohen
University of Michigan
Coher
Troops Guard Israeli Trenches Around Border Settlements
Israeli reinforcements manned trenches ringing border villages as word spread that Syrian troops converged on the frontier from the east and north. Families hid children underground after Monday night’s half hour shooting near Gadot and Mishmar Hayarden.
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Tiberias
Gadot
Mishmar Hayarden
United Church of Christ forms from historic merger
A big ceremony in Cleveland marked the merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Reformed Church, creating the United Church of Christ. About 1.4 million members in 3,300 congregations join under a pact allowing each group to keep its own church governance while sharing a common union. President Eisenhower commended the move as strengthening faith and service.
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Cleveland
Eisenhower
Woation
Reformed Church
Free Church
Milk Radiation Warning Says Los Alamos Scientist
Los Alamos scientist Dr Thomas L Shipman told the California Creamery Operators Assn that milk contains small radioactive potassium as well as strontium 90 and cesium 137 from fallout. He warned strontium 90 in bones would rise to only a fifth of today’s safe dose if atomic testing continues for 50 years.
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Lake ‘Tahoepl
Los Alamos
Thomas L. Shipman
California
Assn
Shipman
Los Alegnos Scientific Laboratory
Admiral Pearson to retire after 34 years of Navy service
Rear Adm. John B. Pearson of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics will retire Monday after 34 years. Capt. William C. Fortune will fill the vacated general representative post on the West Coast until a new appointee arrives, likely in September. Pearson has led aircraft and guided missile expediting and delivery to El Semundo since October 1955.
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Pearson
Navy
John B. Pearson
Navy Bureau of Aeroneutics
Iyvesferd
William C. Fortune
Adm
el Semundo
Hypnotized Woman Survives Caesarean at Milwaukee Hospital
A physician in Milwaukee announced he performed a successful Caesarean on a hypnotized patient. Mrs. Jean Gettleman of Menomonee Falls and her newborn were in excellent condition at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The doctor claimed hypnosis replaced anesthesia and felt no pain during the procedure after months of prior preparation.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Jean Gettleman
Menomonee Falls
St. Joseph's Hospital
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