Charity giving tips from National Information Bureau
National Information Bureau director M C Van de Verkeen urges wise giving and outlines eight standards for charities. The bureau lists 106 organizations meeting these standards and notes several notable groups that do not provide adequate information or fail to meet requirements. He cautions against telephone solicitations and unordered merchandise and urges donors to verify where funds go.
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New York
National Information Bureau
M.C. van de Verkeen
NIB
American Council For the Blind
Church League of America
National Coalition To Ban
National Parkinson Foundation
Whale Protection Fund
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
American Freedom From Hunger Foundation
Father Flanagan
Epilepsy Foundation of America
National
van de Verkeen
Synanon founder Dederich starts three year love matches
Synanon patriarch Chuck Dederich, age 64, began new marriages for three year term couples after proposing an emotional surgery dubbed Changing Partners. About 230 couples filed for divorce to pair with new mates, under his tight reign at the California based cult with 1600 members.
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Badger
Calif
UPI
Synanon
Chuck Dederich
Dederich
Ms Shoren
Tulare County
Maggie Sorkin
Ginny
Marshall
Polanski ordered to report to prison for psychiatric exam
Roman Polanski won permission to enter a California state prison directly for a 90 day psychiatric examination after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. The director will be confined at China State Prison near Los Angeles with no surrender time set.
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Chino
Calif
UPI
Roman Polanski
Los Angeles
Polanski
Chinatown
China
Superior Court
Santa Monica
Jack Nicholson
Social Security tax bill passes Congress amid party split
Congress approved a 227 billion dollar Social Security tax increase over a decade, financing benefits to 2030 and balancing the fund to 2050. Democrats backed the measure while Republicans argued it burdens middle class workers and risks inflation and unemployment. President Carter voiced support as passage awaits his signature.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Carter
America
House
Senate
Robert Michel
Illinois
Barber Conable
R-N.y
Isle
Thomas O'Neill
O'Neill
Longest beard claimed by 85 year old Biswas in Bangladesh
Arshad Ali Biswas of Dacca, aged 85, says his 49 meter white beard is the longest in Bangladesh. He says it took six years to grow and credits his two daughters in law for daily washing and oil treatment. A past incident with Pakistani soldiers trimmed his beard to four inches.
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Dacca
Bangladesh
UPI
Arshad Ali Biswas
Biswas
East Pakistan
Chowchilla kidnapters sentenced to life without parole
Three wealthy San Francisco Peninsula men Frederick Woods Richard Schoenfeld and James Schoenfeld pleaded guilty to kidnapping with bodily injury in the Chowchilla school bus case. Alameda County Superior Court Leo Deegan ruled the victims endured an ordeal by terror and imposed life terms without parole for the bodily injury charge while the simple kidnapping carries a life sentence with potential parole in seven years. The abduction occurred July 15 1976 and the bus was buried with 26 children and the driver inside.
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Alameda County Court
Leo Deegan
James Schooenfeld
Fred Woods
Richard Schoenfeld
Chowchilla
Oaklans
Calif
UPI
Alameda County
Frederick Woods
James
San Francisco Peninsula
Ed Ray
Livermore
Deegan
Herbert Honowitz
Manila mental hospital blaze kills 32 patients
A fire at the National Mental Hospital in Manila destroyed one wing and killed 32 patients. Overcrowding was cited as the building housed 1,228 patients though it should hold about 400. Police and staff faced panic and resistance as they attempted rescues.
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Manila
Philippines
UPI
Precioso Saldana
Mandaluyong Fire Department
National Mental Hospital
Alfred Garcia
Metro Manila Fire Department
Doming Mago
Jaime Castaneda
General education labeled a disaster area by Carnegie report
The Carnegie Foundation report derides U S general education as a disaster area citing a 2 percent yearly decline in core subjects like English and math. It blames students faculty and society and urges fewer electives and more required courses plus stronger advanced learning skills to strengthen the undergraduate curriculum.
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Los Angeles
UPI
U.S
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Kerr
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Rebecca Reynolds
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Tuscon
Ariz
Carnegie Foundation Report
Clark Kerr
The
Foundation
Council’ On Policy Studies In Higher Education
University of California
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