Vets Watch Service Pay Cut Proposal
Washington AP reports Nixon plan to trim veterans pensions and cut education and medical programs faces opposition from Congress and veterans groups. The plan targets VA hospital funding, college recruiting aid, medical research, and payroll cuts possibly consolidating 57 regional offices into 10. It also proposes changing pension calculations to include a wife’s income, reducing benefits for higher earners.
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Washington
Congress
Veterans
Donald E. Johnson
Iowa
Veterans Administration
White House
Johnson
House
Senate Veterans Affairs
Veterans’ Organizations
National Association of Collegiate Veterans
U.S. District Court
Disaster Aid Bill Passes House Amid Veto Clash
The House voted 269 to 95 to revive a disaster relief loan program for farmers, with a possible veto threat from President Nixon. The measure extends emergency farm loans at five percent interest, as Congress duels with the White House over spending and approvals.
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Washington
Nixon
House
Gerald R. Ford
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
Clifford P. Case
Rn.j
Indochina
Congress
White House
Ford
House Agriculture Committee
Rapid City
Bob Bergland
D-Minn
Gerald Ford
Rose Hulman Adds 3 Alumni to Board
Three Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology alumni were elected to the Board of Managers during the Winter meeting. Terre Haute natives Dr. Abe Silverstein NASA’s first director of Space Flight Programs Dr. C Chester Stock Sloan Kettering Institute NYC and Clinton native Burt F Raynes Rohr Industries Inc were named to the board.
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Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology
Aerospace
Cancer Research
Terre Haute
Abe Silverstein
NASA
C. Chester Stock
Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research
New York City
Burt F Raynes
Rohr Industries, Inc
Chula Vista Calif
Benjamin G. Cox
Rose Hulman
Silverstein
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Nasa-Lewis Research Center
Cleveland
Ohio
Langley Research Center
Hampton
Lewis Research Center
Congress
Lewis
Washington
Stennis Improves After Washington Holdup Injuries
Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi is making steady progress in recovery from wounds suffered in a Washington street holdup on January 30. An aide said he is eating a regular diet, is up in his room at Walter Reed, and walking more each day.
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Washington
UPI
John CC. Stennis
D-Miss
Washington Street
Stennis
Mississippi
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Weather Map: Terre Haute Forecast and Conditions
River stage five point six feet stationary. Local conditions show yesterday high forty four and low twenty three with no precipitation. Forecast for Terre Haute and vicinity partly cloudy with mild cold and highs near fifty. Illinois fair with highs fifty to fifty six.
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Terre Haute
Illinois
Souvana Phouma hints at resuming air strikes in Laos
Premier Souvana Phouma says he will ask the U S to resume air attacks in Laos if the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese violate the cease-fire. He believes Washington would bomb at his request, signaling potential escalation in Southeast Asia amid stalled talks.
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Vientiane
Laos
Souvana Phouma
United States
Pathet Lao
Washington
Amazon River Flow Freshens Atlantic Waters 200 Miles Off Brazil
The river’s immense discharge shifts salinity far into the Atlantic, making coastal waters unusually fresh for about 200 miles, a rare phenomenon observed along the Brazilian coast.
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Amazon
South America
Brazilian
Terre Haute Council Approves Ft Harrison Road Project
The Terre Haute City Council approved a 233000 appropriation toward the Ft Harrison Road Project linking Fruit Ridge Ave and U S 41. The plan calls for a four lane throughfare with major intersection upgrades and drainage, starting this summer and finishing by year end.
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Ft. Harrison Road
Fruitridge Ave
U.S. 41
Terre Haute
Lafayette Ave
N.13th St
Council Finance Committee
Kenneth Thomas
Eugene Butts
Terre Haute Transportation Utility
William Jarvis
Ugene Trummer
Grass roots bid to sustain OEO programs in Vigo County
Vigo County Council heard a plan to use part of federal revenue sharing to fund three OEO programs after federal cuts. John Feuquay and Jean Conyers urged continued administration planning, low income housing rehab, and emergency food medical aid with a total $231 028 budget.
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Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Vigo County
John Feuquay
Jean Conyers
Nixon
Chicago
Feuquay
Conyers
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Richard E. Chaddock
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Merton Wheeler
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Burt F. Raynes
National Weather Service
News Digest
THE
Associated Press
China
U.S
Taiwan
Peking
Mainland
London
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Saigon
International Commission of Control and Supervision
James L. Scroggins
Mulberry Grove
Ill
Leland Scroggins
Vietnam
United Press International
Ft. Harrison
William J. Brighton
Jarvis
Thomas Lenehan
Brighton
Meade-Johnson
Lenehan
Well Child Clinic
Evansville
Well Child
Tribune
League
James
Hahn
Jeff
Gus Sacopulus
League of Terre Haute
Georgia Cole
Vigo County School Corporation
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