Why More Government In Business Facsimile mail debated by Post Office
The Post Office Department weighs a new electronic mail service using facsimile technology, a move that would place it in direct competition with Western Union which has led the field for decades. Critics warn of vast public investment and a tax free public enterprise crowding private carriers, signaling a broader retreat from limited government.
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Post Office Department
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Union
Star Service
Ost Office Department
New York Daily News
Juvenile Thinking Terry Plays The Man Or A Baby
A case titled Terry R dated 23 and living with parents shows a 23 year old working in steel mills who refuses to pay board and room. He spends on guns a car bowling and cigarettes while his mother says he should contribute. The piece argues his behavior reflects juvenile thinking.
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Terry R
Dr. Crane
Terry
Bill
YMCA
YWCA
America
Dr Brady's Health Advice and Family Finance Rules
A Connecticut reader recalls bursitis and calcium as food, not medicine, noting relief from daily capsules and milk. The column advises strict rules on adult children paying board and room, warning against parental subsidies and urging self-reliance and responsible budgeting.
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Connecticut
Election Law Reforms Urged Over Voter Residency Rules
About 70 million voters cast ballots in the recent general election with potential turnout near 80 million kept off the rolls by rigid residency requirements. The piece argues mobile Americans lose presidential voting rights when relocating, citing a transferee oil executive and his wife who could not vote due to state rules, urging state legislatures to address the problem.
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Oil Company
Arthur Godfrey
Christmas shoplifting boom feared as sales rise
The piece notes a festive surge in theft during Christmas, with expected sales to top 1959 records and shoplifting and pocket picking also likely to set new highs. It cites FBI data showing a 77 percent rise over five years and advises wallet and purse security and locking gifts away to deter thieves.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Stewart
Press Conference Techniques in Kennedy Era Debates
The piece explains press conferences as a tool for direct presidential outreach via media. It notes Kennedy's plans to modify format including occasional TV coverage, optional journalist identification, and mixed timing to favor both morning and evening papers, while contrasting Eisenhower and Truman practices. It also anticipates Kennedy’s skill with off the record questions and questions how often he may hold such briefings.
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United States
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Eisenhower
Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Indiana electors cast votes for Nixon in routine ceremony
Indiana 13 electors met in the State House to cast ballots for Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge after Nixon won Indiana by 97,182 votes over JFK. Gov Handley urged GOP unity as he prepared to hand over to Democrat Welsh. Electors’ pay and travel allowances noted. one elector late caused a short delay.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Harold W. Handley
Douglas MacArthur
Richard M. Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Charles C. Hendricks
Handley
United States
Matthew E. Welsh
John M. Dean
Decatur
Robert Fink
Senate
Washington
Savings and Loan Funds Hit $600 Million End November
Savings deposited with savings and loan institutions at the end of November totaled $600 million, up 23 per cent from a year earlier, the U.S. Savings and Loan League reported. The rise in savings over the first 11 months of this year increased by 14 per cent over 1959.
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Savings and Loans
U.S. Savings and Loan League
Telescope Maker's Tools Now In Museum
Henry Fitz born 1808 in Newburyport Massachusetts became the nation s first commercial telescope maker. He produced his first telescope in 1938. His shop tools, presented by granddaughter Louise Fitz Howell of Southold New York, were installed in a Smithsonian exhibit. Fitz s first shop was in New York City.
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Washington
Henry Fitz
Newburysport
Mass
Louise Fitz Howell
Southold
N. Y
Smithsonian Institution
Fitz
New York City
Kennedy Campaign Predicted by People Predicting Machine
Walter Lippmann reports that Kennedy used a bulky People Predictor or Simulatics Machine to forecast voter reactions. The device, funded by New York City Democrats and run for the DNC, analyzed 100,000 interviews to simulate what-if scenarios guiding campaign strategy.
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People
New York City
Democrats
Thomas K. Finletter
Democratic National Committee
Robert F. Kennedy
Sen. Kennedy
Harper's
Thomas B. Morgan
Look
Esquire
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Commerce
Senate
Simulatics Corporation
William McPhee
Columbia
Ithiel de Sola Pool
M.I.T
Robert Abelson
Yale
Edward Greenfield
New York
U.S
Roper Public Opinion Research Center
Williams College
Campaign reflections and Kennedy transition concerns
AP analyst notes letters urging better choices after conventions while 224,931 voters skipped the presidential race. Robert Kennedy will become attorney general amid integration tensions and nepotism claims. Congo fighting affects civilians as Dag Hammarskjold warns of mass hunger amid stalled transition to organized governance.
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John F. Kennedy
Robert
JFK
Congo
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
Ethiopians and the Lion of Judah in the Mussolini era
A commentator notes many adoring observers back the Lion of Judah out of respect for his resistance to Mussolini, even if they know little about current Ethiopian issues. The remark suggests a legacy of historical bravado influencing modern opinion beyond specifics.
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Ethiopia
Lion of Judah
Mussolini
Lumber Shipments Drop Below Output at Washington
US weekly lumber report shows shipments from 450 reporting mills down 0.7 percent below production while new orders rose 11.8 percent in the same period according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
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Washington
UPI
National Lumber Manufacturers Association
TV Sets Output Halted Temporarily
Philco Corp closed its television set manufacturing facilities in Philadelphia for two holiday weeks due to excess inventories and slow retail sales. The temporary shutdown affects production during the holiday period.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Philco Corp
Seven Indiana safety patrols receive yellow raincoats
The Utility Men's Club of the Delco-Remy Division outfits seven school crossing patrols at Frankton Orestes Pendleton Elwood Lapel and Summitville with new yellow raincoats and hoods. William E. Chambers of Anderson reports Louis Clemons and Robert Claus led the project. The club meets monthly and has supported the local industry for years.
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Frankton
Orestes
Pendleton
Elwood
Lapel
Summitville
Utility Men's
Delco-Remy
William E. Chambers
Anderson
Louis Clemons
Robert Claus
Highway user groups oppose extension of temporary gas tax
National highway user groups prepare to battle a potential extension of the temporary one cent federal gasoline tax rate. Congress convenes next month amid debate over keeping the tax in place beyond its planned expiration next year.
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Congress
Prisoners Escape From Madison County Jail
Reports say three prisoners pried free using an angle iron broken from a table. Officials question the jail’s security as the trio allegedly escaped from a cell block and then through an outside window, raising concerns of a potential mass breakout.
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Madison County
Sheriff reports pry-out and escape found Sunday morning
Police indicate they learned of the escape around 1 p.m. Sunday after the sheriff’s office reported the pry-out and escape were discovered early that morning.
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Sheriff's Office
Navigational Instruments and Their Functions
An azimuth circle takes bearings of celestial objects. A barometer registers atmospheric pressure. Anemometer measures wind velocity. Chronometer is a precise Greenwich timepiece to determine longitude. Fathometer echoes measure water depth. Gyrocompass determines true directions with a gyroscope. Pelorus, a navigational instrument, takes bearings with two sight vanes on a hoop around a dumb compass or gyro repeater.
Learn Instruments Before Captaining Ocean Liners
The text notes there are over fifty more instruments to learn before commanding modern ocean liners. It mentions Admiral Togo’s 1904 Japan Russo War victory over six Russian battleships and seven cruisers with over 10,000 Russians killed, while Japan lost three torpedo boats and fewer than 500 men. An “Irish Hurricane” is described as a dead calm, with a jab about the Irish’s good nature.
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Togo
Question on U S Navy flying saucer existence
The inquiry asks whether the United States Navy possesses a flying saucer. It seeks clarity on any official or documented aircraft projects, discarding speculative or unverified reports.
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U.S. Navy
Wabash Loan Co Sold to Indiana Finance Corp
Indianapolis AP sale of the Wabash Loan Co to Indiana Finance Corp Evansville was approved Monday by state securities commissioner Robert DuComb. The merger preserves Wabash officers led by Joseph E. O'Daniel with Peters, longtime president and board chair of Wabash, as part of the merged firm's leadership. Stockholders receive one Indiana share for each Wabash share.
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Indianapolis
John Peters
Indiana Highway Commission
Robert DuComb
Wabash Loan Co
Indiana Finance Corp
Evansville
William Hendren
Wabash
Indiana
Joseph E. O’daniel
Peters
Two Paper Firms Agree To Merge In Ohio Deal
Champion Paper & Fibre Co. and Paper Co. of Omaha have agreed to merge. Champion will acquire all 701,759 outstanding shares of Carpenter shares for each Carpenter share. Forests occupy 32 percent of Czechoslovakia and cover 49,371 square miles.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Champion Paper & Fibre Co. and Paper Co
Omaha
Champion
Carpenter
Czechoslovakia
Successful Investing For A Young Shareholder
A reader with 1600 earnings asks if Long Island Lighting and Eastman Kodak are sound picks for growth and dividends and if Dunhill International suits a Christmas gift. The advisor endorses LI Lighting and Kodak, questions Dunhill, suggests Barry Biscuit for growth, and urges holding Woolworth for steady yield.
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Long Island Lighting
Eastman Kodak
Kodak
Dunhill International
D. V
Long Island
NYSE
Barry Biscuit
ASE
Woolworth
R. L
Spear
General Features Corp
Quotation Nuggets on Life From Notables and Writers
A collage of quotes from Virgil Fox, John Nance Garner, anonymous, Groucho Marx, Lewis Mumford, John Young, and Josh Billings offers reflections on sound and paradise, duty and resilience, gender norms, soft times, urban affluence, television drama, and human frailty across dimensions of culture and public life.
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Paradise
Virgil Fox
Cesar Franck
Anderson Church of God
John Nance Garner
Wway
Groucho Marx
Lewis Mumford
John Young
Shaw
Josh Billings
Border clash near Sea of Galilee leaves one dead
Israeli border police confronted a group of men who entered from Syria north of the Sea of Galilee. One assailant was killed when border police fired in self defense according to an army spokesman.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Syria
Sea of Galilee
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