Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What provokes my grandmother are the headlines in the Laurel (Mississippi) Leader-Call blaring about the tug-of-war in Washington over decontrol of oil prices. President Ford's position is that oil prices need to go up so that we'll use less oil and eventually become energetically independent from imported oil. This seems suspect to my grandmother. Why, just the other day she heard him and Mr. Kissinger on the TV jawboning at the Arabs about how bad it would be for the world economy if they were to raise their prices this fall...
...prove to be the worst in a decade. Hundreds of suspected cases of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE)* have been reported by health officials in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and New Jersey. The disease has reached epidemic proportions in two other states. In Mississippi, encephalitis has afflicted some 200 people and killed more than 30. In Illinois, the disease has struck more than 100, and is suspected in three deaths...
Until improved insecticides destroyed many of the mosquitoes that transmit encephalitis, the disease often hit thousands each year. Despite improvements in mosquito-control methods, encephalitis still persists, particularly in humid, swampy areas. Of the 100-odd victims in the hardest-hit Mississippi town of Greenville (pop. 40,000), many live in the poorest part of town. Of those infected in Illinois, most live near cemeteries, where mosquito larvae have been flourishing in water-filled flower vases...
...reasons that are still not understood, this year's St. Louis encephalitis seems to have bypassed the young and hit hardest at the elderly. In Mississippi, for example, the median age for SLE victims is 70, and there have been relatively few cases in people under 40. SLE's younger victims usually suffer nothing worse than a moderate fever, stiff neck, severe headaches and some lassitude. The aged are more likely to run high fevers, have convulsions and, especially if already debilitated...
...staggering $2.6 billion a year in benefits, while Chicago, with an even higher rate of unemployment, pays only $9 million (the state of Illinois carries most of Chicago's burden). The average payment per case in general welfare assistance early this year ranged from $15.05 a month in Mississippi to $203.34 in Hawaii...