Food stamp hikes meet opposition from welfare group
The Agriculture Department will boost food-stamp benefits by four dollars a month for a family of four starting July 1, a change critics say will raise grocery prices. Mrs. Johnnie Tillman of the National Welfare Rights Organization counters the claim, noting stamps aid large families and are limited by shopping twice a month. The USDA agency reports rising but still small complaint letters about the program, which now serves about 12.4 million people and has expanded since 1969.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Johnnie Tillman
National Welfare Rights Organization
Food and Nutrition Service
USDA
Tillman
Congress
McAdams Resigns Roswell BLM Post for Freelance Writing
Ken McAdams area manager with the Roswell Resource Area resigns from the Roswell District Bureau of Land Management to pursue full time freelance writing. He plans to stay in Roswell with wife Mary and three children, and has articles accepted or under editors for Ford Times. He studied the business side of writing and plans to illustrate work with photographs. He enjoys guitar, travel and camping.
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Ken McAdams
Roswell
McAdams
Mary
Jim
Nixon imposes ceiling on wholesale meat prices
President Nixon announced a wholesale meat price ceiling effective at 9 p.m. EST, freezing beef pork and lamb prices at current levels to curb inflation. The move excludes poultry and seafood and requires posted ceiling details by April 9 with IRS enforcement, while farm prices remain untouched to spur production.
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Richard M. Nixon
Internal Revenue Service
Denton’s POW Memoir Details Torture and Resistance
Captain Jeremiah A. Denton Jr recounts his year as a North Vietnamese prisoner starting July 1965 and the brutal torture phase in 1966 during the Battle of Hanoi. He describes confinement, forced biographies, daily abuses, brave acts like Bob Purcell’s attic food drops, and leadership efforts to maintain resistance and policy against providing classified information.
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Bobby Risner
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Thanh Hoa
Zoo
Robby Risner
U.S
Bob Purcell
Bob
Air Force
Robert B Purcell
Louisville
Denton
Hilton
Nixon at a Glance Key Points From Broadcast
Washington AP summary of President Nixon's Thursday night address highlights meat price controls to freeze near current levels with potential drops, a Vietnam warning to North Vietnam about troop and material infiltration, and missing in action accounting. He also urged resilience from POWs to inspire peace efforts and pledged to veto bills that threaten the budget to prevent higher taxes or prices.
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Washington
Vietnam
Hanoi
Congress
Nixon
June Donovan
Los Angeles
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
William Proxmire
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
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Health & Beauty Salon
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USN
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Meng
Jim Stockdale
Navy
James B. Stockdale
Jane
Indochina
Baa Areaan
South Main
BOV
Monterey Shopping Center
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