Social Security Revision Emerges as Major 1956 Issue
Washington reports major plans to revise Social Security shaping next Congress session. Proposals affect private industry workers, armed forces, and federal employees with Senate Finance Committee hearings to follow recess. Measures include retirement age changes, survivor benefits revamp, and a push to bring federal workers under Social Security.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Vacationing Families and a Local Church Service
Local notices list families vacationing at Lake George Caroga Lake Cape Cod Ocean City Maine Lake St. Catherine and Bolton plus visitors from Farnhem Quebec Dumont NJ and New Jersey. A special church service at the Reformed Church featured Rev Henry Burggraf with a reception for the Burggraffs and their two children.
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Everett Hall
Lake George
Francis Long
Caroga Lake
Robert Wyman
Cape Cod
Mary Hinchcliffe
Farnhem
Quebec
Canada
Chester Robdan
Everett Dickin
Mr. Dickinson
Colton
Barbara Kircher
Robert
Farmington
Mass
John Nichol
East View Road
Ocean City
Maine
James Magilton R
James Magilton ,Jr
Lake St. Catherine
Oscar Kraker
Henry Burggraf
Burggraff
John Wall
Westfield
N.J
Martin J. Schweninger
Wilson Sawtelle
New Preston
Odense’s Little Mermaid statue tribute to Hans Christian Andersen
Junior Editors visit Odense birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen and view the bronze Little Mermaid monument facing the sea. Sailors gift flowers for good voyage, while readers are invited to color and assemble a paper mermaid keepsake. Tomorrow features Folk Dancing At Rebild.
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Denmark
Odense
Hans Christian Andersen
Hansel and Gretel
Andersen
Copenhagen
Banner From Anti Rent War Returns To Grafton Library
A muslin banner carried in the Anti Rent Wars by Peter T. Hydorn is given to the Grafton Library by Mrs. Mina Stuart. The banner bears a long inscription supporting the Anti Rent Party. The piece recalls the 1839–1842 conflict over leasehold tenure in New York’s Rensselaerwyck manor and the Van Rensselaer efforts to enforce quarter sales.
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Peter T. Hydorn
Grafton
Mina Stuart
Rensselaerwyck
Thomas Dongan
Colony of
New York
Rensselaer County
India Sets Up New Councils for Electrical Industries
New Delhi reports the Indian government will establish development councils for heavy and light electrical industries. The councils will recommend production targets coordinate programs set standards and review progress periodically. Some context mentions earlier constitutional debates on feudal tenures in the 1846 convention.
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New Delhi
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