The Big Fight Over Social Security
The piece outlines a national clash in Congress over Social Security policy. It contrasts supporters who want need based benefits with automatic eligibility advocates and Townsend Plan adherents, detailing earnings ceilings, tax implications, and possible funding sources. It notes unions resist drastic changes, while the public debates age 62 65 eligibility and benefits for widows and the disabled.
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Eddie Cantor
Cantor
Congress
Idaho
Florida
Townsend Clubs
Francis E. Townsend
Dr. Townsend
Towsendites
U. S
Afl-Cio
Social Security
Nelson Cruikshank
Frances DeBerry
Louisville
America
Labor
Senate panel proposes payroll freeze to cut federal costs
The Senate Civil Service Committee votes a three month payroll freeze and allows only one in three vacancies to be filled, aiming to save about 1.2 billion dollars annually. The plan says no workers would be laid off while reducing expenditures and bureaucracy.
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Senate Civil Service Committee
Fort Worth
Ford
Perennial Sweet Sudangrass Developed at College Station
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station announces a 15 year breeding achievement yielding Perennial Sweet Sudangrass a tetraploid hybrid of sudangrass and Johnson grass. The new grass offers sweet stalks good fertility and a shallow perennial root system with low pest risk seed will be available to growers in summer 1958 via commercial seed firms and the Agricultural Information Office College Station L-346.
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College Station
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Agricultural Information Office
Texas
Time and Tithe Durango's gambler church tale
In Durango during the early 1880s a church was maintained largely by cattle rustlers and roisters. The minister was well liked and a gambling casino displayed a box marked Dont forget Parson Hogue. Casino patrons contributed generously. The note also mentions wood fuel use since prehistoric times and charcoal known by 1800 B C.
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Durango
Colo
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Star-Telegram
State OF Texas
Grayson
Denison
Grayson County
Tison Independent
Judicial District of Texas
Loraine
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PD. Loraine
P. D. Loraine
G. W. Blanton
Lester Day
Sherman
Whitewright Sun
A. Dix
He Denwvening
Columbus
Social Security Office
the Sun
Feed
Pascal Farley
Price Daniel
W. C. Marshall
Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association
Bartlett
Daniel
Everett Harding
Manor
Lewis B. Taylor
Austin
Sudan
Stephens & Bryant
United States Auto Club
S. Bond SI
Red Moore
Whitewright, Texas
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