Winter fuel relief urged for elderly poor in face of price hikes
Senate Aging panel heard that high fuel costs threaten elderly and low income Americans this winter. Alvin Arnett warned shortages in fuel tanks stoves and furnaces will hit the poor hardest as prices rise 100 to 400 percent. Ford Foundation and OEM programs aided some seniors last season, with Project Fuel in Maine winterizing homes at about 100 dollars per house. nationwide expansion would cost around 80 million to widen insulation and energy relief efforts.
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Senate Committee On Aging
Alvin J. Arnett
Office of Economic Opportunity
Arnett
Sen
Lawton Chiles
Dfla
Ford Foundation
David Freeman
Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project
James L. Felderman
Consumer Federation of America
Maine
State clerical workers face poverty despite public aid
In Sacramento UPI reports that many state employed female clerical workers rely on Food Stamps Medi Cal or AFDC due to salaries in a poverty category.CASE organizer Dharma Pipersky cited up to 15 percent receive aid while many are sole providers. Authority disputed figures noting scale transparency and labor market factors.
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UPI
Dharma Pipersky
San Francisco
Clerical and Allied Service Employes
CASE
Joint Committee On Legal Equality
Pipersky
More states seen legalizing gambling
Quebec City report notes a US gambling expert predicts a wave of state action. Thane Burke of NSW Advisory told 250 delegates that within five years about 20 states would run lotteries, seven would add sports and numbers betting, and three would ease gambling. He argued legalization shifts billions from crime to legitimate proceeds.
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UFIFA
United States
U.S
Thane Burke
NSW Advisory, Inc
Boca Raton
Fla
International
Nevada
Burke
Soviet official kritizes Swedish prisons during visit
Soviet minister of justice Vladimir Terebilov, visiting Sweden for eight days, voiced shock at five pictures on prison walls and argued pimps cannot aid inmates. He favored work for rehabilitation but called Sweden’s leniency an interesting experiment. Swedish minister Lenart Geijer proposed widening lawyer and judge exchanges after talks on legal systems.
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Stockholm
API
Vladimir Terebilov
Sweden
Terebilov
Terehilov
Lenfiart Geijer
Toy guns used in Bank of America heist in Burbank
Bank of America branch in Burbank was robbed when suspects, armed with toy guns, threatened three tellers who stuffed a white pillow case with cash. Investigating officers displayed the makeshift weapons as they pursued a waiting car, with about $3,230 missing.
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Bank of America
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