Medicare Doesn't Offer What Many Think It Does
Rep. Wilbur Mills outlines that Medicare under social security will not cover home or office doctor visits surgery drugs private nursing or most nursing home care. He warns elderly voters have inflated expectations and argues for careful consideration and flexible alternatives within a sound financial health care plan.
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Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
Little Rock
Rep. Mills
Johnson
Richard L. Durbin
Tucson Medical Center
Citizen
Congress
Open Forum Rounds of Praise and Letters From Readers
The Citizen publishes a Christmas letter from E W Baker of Green Valley criticizing the paper's editorial stance. The editors defend publishing letters meeting standards and note a flood of mailed praise and critique, closing with a seasonal greeting to all readers, including Baker.
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E. W. Baker
Green Valley
Baker
Wise up America to quackery and political promises
A Senate committee led by Senator Harrison Williams targets medical quackery while the Johnson administration pushes poverty programs. The piece argues for skepticism toward hype of cures and anti poverty schemes and warns against promises of eradicating death. It urges voters to demand truthful information and to beware political fakery in health and welfare proposals.
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Senate
Harrison Willams
DNJ
Congressional Committee
America
Post Khrushchev Kremlin hardens cold war stance
Roscoe Drummond argues new Soviet leaders escalate conflict while masking peace talk. He cites Vietnam, Indonesia, Africa and Congo arms supplies, United Nations statements, and Gromyko's policy shift, asserting a deliberate move to destabilize non Communist governments and back insurgencies.
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Kremlin
United Nations
Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
Viet Nam
Congo
United States
U.S
Is It A Probe Or A Witch-Hunt
Sydney Harris surveys how language signals political bias in debates over probes and investigations. The piece juxtaposes terms like probe fishing expedition witch hunt and critiques rhetoric shaping public perception while quoting remarks on tolerance and tradition.
Letters To The Editor On Free Speech In 1965
Readers debate the value of printing letters, defending free speech against critics and praising public discourse. A Green Valley correspondent defends Goldwater and warns of Communist influence while another writer apologizes for past remarks and pokes fun at heated exchanges.
Outlook for GOP Is Bleak amid intra party war
The piece argues the Republican Party faces deep fracture as governors clash over Dean Burch’s chairmanship and factions form around liberal and conservative directions. It predicts extensive ideological warfare before 1966 and 1968, with no clear unity among leaders and rising fringe influence.
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Dean Burch
Rhodes
Ohio
Mark Hatfield
Oregon
Cleveland
GOP
Birchers
Minutemen
Gifts of Christmas and the Anointing at Bethany
The Gospel account describes Jesus at a Bethany supper with Mary anointing him with costly spikenard. Judas protests the expense while Jesus defends Mary, noting she prepared his body for burial and that her act will be memorialized wherever the gospel is preached.
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Mary
Jesus
John J. Stewart
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