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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1969
Page
3
Nixon prepares a welfare package to overhaul the 1935 system amid rising relief rolls. AFDC growth drives costs with 6.2 million recipients in January 1969 and a $266.7 million price tag for that month, while total 1968 welfare outlays reach $9.8 billion across five cost-sharing programs.
The article reviews Aid to Families with Dependent Children details including recipients, payments, and federal shares, compares state variances, and cites 1960s spending trends. It notes Kerner and Urban commissions findings, and surveys guaranteed income proposals by Friedman, Theobald, and Nixon era Family Security ideas including work incentives and deductible changes.
In Uganda, Pope Paul VI ends his three day trip with a shrine dedication to 22 Ugandans martyred in 1886 and a call for Christian unity. He met Nigerian and Biafran delegations seeking peace talks and pressed for mediation by international institutions amid the Nigeria Biafra conflict.
A dusty catalog item list offers sock dolls from pattern 1454 using men’s size 12 socks, plus doll faces and sleepwear patterns. Prices around 50 cents per pattern with 15 cents extra for mailing. include address for Alice Brooks in New York and catalog details for new Needlecraft offerings and quilt books.
Virginia Education Association directors propose a 1,046,621 budget for 1970-71 up from 823,000 and seek a 5 dollar dues increase for 1970-71 and another 5 for 1971-72 to fund expanded services and new divisions. The plan follows a 133 recommendation NCSEA report to overhaul structure and power, and to strengthen legal services and political action.
A naturalist explains that gulls barely skim the water to land while fish break the surface, contrasting their behavior with dippers like terns, gannets, pelicans, and cormorants that can dive.
President Saragat summoned Italy's political leaders to address the 27 day crisis after Mario Rumor resigned as premier designate for failing to form a cabinet. Dissolution of parliament and fall elections loom, with likely gains for the Communists and losses for the divided Socialists.
Scientists at Lick Observatory after 12 days locate the Apollo 11 reflector on the moon and fire 500 red light pulses to confirm it. aims include measuring Earth moon distance to within six inches and tracking Earth's wobble and continental shifts. Other observatories will continue tracking from McDonald Observatory and West Texas facilities.
Ira Tyler, 43, a Hanover County laborer, died from a crushed chest skull fracture and internal injuries when a 16 foot ditch collapsed at a Richmond construction site. He was the sole occupant of the trench at the time of the cave-in.
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