Blue Cross Posts Its Most Successful Year Yet
Walter J. McNerney of Chicago, president of the Blue Cross Association, reported a year of record enrollments and benefits paid. Blue Cross provided coverage for 39,141,262 persons in the nation, with hospitalization benefit payments totaling 2.07038.78 million, and coverage extended to about 668.1 million people across the U.S. The organization doubled enrollment in 15 years from 30 million in 1948 to 306 million by year end 1968. Blue Cross expanded benefits in ambulatory and nursing home care, extended hospitalization days, and contracted with four states under Kerr-Mills, now eight nationwide.
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Minneavpolles
Blue Cross
McNerney
U.S
Samilton
Blue Cross General Motors
Ford
U. S. Steel
Western Electric
DuPont
Standard of New Jersey
Glue Cross
Permits For 6 New Wells In Nebraska
Notices of intent to drill six oil wells in Nebraska for the week of June 29 1964 filed with the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission list operators Midwest Petroleum Inc Kingwood Oil Company Sun Oil Co Toltek Drilling Co Chandler Associates Inc and their wells with names locations sections townships ranges field names and estimated depths in Cheyenne and Kimball counties.
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Nebraska
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Midwest Petroleum Inc
Goodwin
CSWSE
Cheyenne County
Toltek Drilling Co
Clayton Olk Co
Midt
Kimball County - Wildcate
Notlet
Kingwood Oil Company
Deaser
Cheyenne County - Eddy Fielde
Murfin Drilling Co
Sun Oil Co
Clemans Elias
Cse
Kimball Co
Wildcate/Notlet
Haack
Chandler & Associates, Inc
CSW NW
Owl Field c
Vancouver pays students to observe garbage collection survey
The city hires 10 university students for the summer at 13.37 dollars daily to ride along with garbage trucks in Vancouver. They will tally can counts and describe contents as part of a British Columbia Research Council study.
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U.S. Sixth Fleet
Mediterranean
U.S. Navy
Vancouver
British Columbia Research Council
Certificates Out Soon For Wheat Growers
Washington Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman said cooperative wheat farmers will soon receive marketing certificates and land diversion payments under the new wheat program by mid month. Growers within allotments will get about 47.5 cents a bushel and 80 percent of normal production. payments average about $6 an acre for land held out of production. He expects 1964 wheat crop income to total about $2.1 billion, down from $2.3 billion the previous year.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Bluffs Monument Road Closed for Rock Slide Mitigation
Scotts Bluff National Monument will close the summit road for several days starting Monday to remove rock. Supt. Keith Miller said cracks behind a cliff require scaling back the area to prevent a slide. About 40 truckloads of rock will be removed, with hopes to reopen by July 11.
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Scottsbluff
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Keith Miller
Miller
I May Be Slow But I’m Ahead Of You Sign
A battered truck struggles up a hill near Monticello Kentucky bearing a rear bumper sign that reads I may be slow but I am ahead of you. The scene captures a humorous local moment reported by AP.
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Monticello, Ky
Monticello
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Bluffs Monument
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