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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1970
Page
7
The House and Senate exchanged vast anti crime and narcotics bills with conference to iron out differences. The anti crime bill passed 341 to 26 in the House and 54 to 0 in the Senate while the narcotics measure moved forward with amendments for treatment and rehabilitation funding.
Richmond AP reports a plan to shift welfare decision making from the state to seven regional offices. Regional directors will oversee staff in each region with first offices to open in Richmond and Roanoke around November 1 during the 1970 72 biennium awaiting appointment of an assistant state welfare director. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is noted as the first Boy Scout to become U S president.
Marblehead resident Frank H. Wetmore hired a professional mover to relocate his house from an urban renewal area in Salem to a new site. After hours of careful turning, the structure scraped paint but cleared a narrow corner with only minor damage.
Testifying before a House panel, Cochran urged creating an emergency Rural Home Development Administration to aid 25 000 population towns and smaller with housing sanitation and clean water. He criticized rural neglect, citing bad housing and water as threats. Congress and the Nixon administration show renewed interest in rural improvement.
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