Billion-Dollar Price Tag for Old Age Hospitalization Plan
The Social Security Administration forecast that adding old age hospitalization protection would cost at least one billion dollars annually at start. A minimum half percent hike in the payroll tax would be required, with the current rate at 2 percent on earnings and employer shares. The estimate accompanied no recommendations and comes as hospital care proposals await action. The note also references the historic St. Luke's Church in Smithfield, Virginia, founded in 1662.
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Washington
Social Security Administration
House
Ways and Means Committee
Secretary of Welfare
Arthur S. Flemming
Sales Tax Grows Wild in Hypothetical 1960 Shopping Day
A Star Telegram opinion piece imagines broad tax hikes under House Bill 727 affecting purchases from cars and meals to cigars and watches. It portrays higher costs across households including hotel rooms gas and entertainment, with added percentages and luxury levies impacting daily life.
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Joe
Pierre
Star Telegram
Fund Started for Spurned Texas Woman
Salisbury Maryland officials have launched a fund to return Alma Black to Gainesville Texas. The 52 year old widow left her home to marry a Maryland man who then refused after learning she weighs 270 pounds. She traveled here April 3 and is under Salvation Army care.
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Alma Black
Gainesville
Texas
Peoples Court
Fanny Murphy
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Lonely Hearts Club
Salvation Army
Slouch Vancouver says back pain tied to posture
An authority argues posture changes in civilized life could end back troubles and warns against sleeping with feet straight out. The column promotes Sun Want Ads as a results source.
Methodists Put In Two Classes
Rev Edgar L Huffstutter of First Methodist tells of a new member who attended his first monthly family night supper and noted many new faces. The member asks why some attendees are at worship and others at family night, suggesting two kinds of members Methodists and worshipping Methodists.
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Plano
Edgar L. Huffstutter
Atomic clocks prove extreme accuracy in 24 hours
American and British atomic clocks were compared and found to differ by only one twenty thousandth of a second in each 24 hour period. The clocks, built to different standards, show time based on atomic inner workings as the most precise system yet devised. The note mentions Pope Gregory XIII's 1582 calendar reform.
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New York
Older Americans share of population tops 65 ranks by state
Census data for July 1 1957 shows one in seven adults is 65 plus and 15 million Americans. Vermont leads with 11.6 percent, Iowa 11.2 percent, New Hampshire 11 percent. California has many seniors but ranks low in percentage. New York has the most seniors in total, 1.5 million, while Arkansas and Oklahoma sit low in percentages. Only the president and Massachusetts governor hold the title Excellency.
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Census Bureau
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Vermont
Alaska
California
Florida
Iowa
New Hampshire
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Midwest
New England
Disabled Workers Advised of Change In SS Requirements
Sherman District office reports 260 disability benefit claims in seven months under 1958 amendments. Relaxed work rule now requires five years of work in ten before disability, replacing the prior year and a half in three. Campbell urges those who may now qualify to apply. no change in substantial gainful activity rule. Baker's dozen note ends piece.
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Sherman Social Security Office
Charles J. Campbell
Sherman
Campbell
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