Unemployment in January Drops First Time Since June
UPI reports unemployment fell in January for the first decline since June. Labor officials cite seasonal adjustments and weather factors, with a 110,000 drop in jobless figures and a 400,000 increase in employed persons. The White House sees signs of a new downtrend toward 4.7 to 5.2 percent in the coming year.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
James D. Hodgson
Labor Department
Hodgson
White House
Senate
Hugh Scott
Harold Goldstein
Labor Statistics
Federal welfare rule change targets 6000 families
Washington proposes tightening work hour rules to cut about 6,000 families from federally financed unemployment assistance for fathers and 30,000 people from Medicaid. The change defines unemployed as under 160 hours monthly, shifting eligibility in 24 states plus DC and Guam. HEW notes working mothers remain eligible. Critics warn welfare rolls may rise as fathers leave.
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Washington
John D. Twiname
Health, Education and Welfare Department
HEW
Weather Outlook With Windy Saturday and Cold Temperatures
Variable clemainness and windy Saturday with highs in the upper 20s to upper 30s. Clearing and cooler tonight with low near 18. Sunday to be partly cloudy with highs mid 20s to low 40s and westerly winds 18 to 25 mph gusty then diminishing. Rainfall totals to date shown for Middletown Monticello and Newburgh with last year comparisons.
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Middletown
Monticello
Newburgh
Welfare debate quoted by Teamsters official
Nicholas Kisburg, legislative director of the Teamsters Union Joint Council, says expanding welfare programs clashes with a Protestant work ethic. He argues working and earning a weekly check solidifies a man’s sense of supremacy, and seeing others receive checks for doing nothing provokes anger among workers.
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Nicholas Kisburg
the Teamsters Union Joint Council
Kennedy presses recognition of China and Taiwan policy clash
Senator Edward M. Kennedy urged U S recognition of Communist China and UN seating, while Edwin O Reischauer warned such move could jeopardize Taiwan and provoke Japanese militarism. In Cincinnati the government appealed a ruling barring wiretap logs without court orders, seeking to preserve executive eavesdropping rights amid a bombing probe.
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Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
U.S
China
United Nations
Taiwan
Edwin O Reischauer
Japan
United States
Peking
Cincinnati
Ohio
U.S. Court of Appeals
Central Intelligence Agency
Ralph Guy Jr
District of Michigan
Amusement and Ads Shopping Listing 1971 Middletown Weekly
A fragment from a 1971 Middletown newspaper shows an amusement index and an ad section. It lists Heloise Art Landers eerie Satenday Pubrenry date, and a Tata ope tackle for Br eeces Inc at 40 Mulberry St. Home delivery by carrier is 75 cents weekly, newsstand single copy 25 cents, with paid portage at Middletown.
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Satenday
Pubrenry
Etn
Tata Ope Hake Breeces Inc
Mulberry St
Cannes
Portage
Middletown
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