Overhauling Needed for FCC Regulatory Practices
The piece argues Congress must push an inquiry into FCC and similar agencies amid claims by lawyers with commission experience that the process is lengthy costly and prone to arbitrariness. It cites multi year delays in channel allotment mountains of testimony and final opinions written by staff rather than commissioners. It calls for an exhaustive top to bottom overhaul to curb influence and fraud in licensing and rate decisions.
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Congress
FCC
New York Times
Foreign Aid Protests Grow Over US Aid Lobbying
Amid ongoing protests, Eric Johnston’s National Conference on Foreign Aspects of US National Security launches a large lobbying drive for foreign aid. Critics label the campaign propaganda and accuse officials of sugar coating aid as defense spending. House panel calls the effort a top selling job, urging focus on factual program details.
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Eric Johnston
House
America
Spain
Congress
Johnston
Passman
The One Most Likely To Succeed Porter
Dorothy and her blind husband Captain Alexander Porter visit the narrator at the Fairmont. Al Porter’s rise to major and later decline through war service, disability, and unemployment highlights a fallen military career and fragile hope as Dorothy supports him.
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Dorothy
Fairmont Hotel
Gladys Wallace
Alexander L. Porter
U. S. Army
al Porter
Alexander Porter
New York Life Insurance Co
Dumont
N. J
165Th Field Artillery
Fort Sill
Pearl Harbor
Porter
Palm Beach
Far Pacific
Tokyo
Army
San Antonio
Texas
Market Street
Jimmy
Randolph St
Case History Praises Dean Sweetland as Motivating Educator
Dr George W Crane lauds Dean Sweetland of Cecil's College Spartanburg South Carolina for using practical psychology in class. He cites 126 Compliment Club diplomas earned by students and notes the program requires daily genuine compliments.
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Dean Sweetland
George W. Crane
Cecil's College
Spartanburg
South Carolina
Ancient History Brain Game Quiz Answers
A brain game with ancient history questions covering Brutus first name Caesar's sister Octavia Caesar's killer sack of Rome 410 AD emperor married Messalina Aeneid author Socrates death Rubicon foe Ulysses residence. Answers given unclear cipher text at end.
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Socrates
Caesar
Rubicon
Ulysses
Things a Columnist Might Never Know
Odds on diabetes as a leading cause of death in the United States are explored with quips about women’s mortality, a caveman wife, and car crash odds. The note includes curiosities on seals learning to swim, bulimia in 1743, fashion bells for men 500 years ago, and a paleography of a boss raise request. Abraham Lincoln quote ties the piece to faith.
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United States
Europe
Sign Brings Order On Traffic Near Girls School
A New Orleans girls school dean could not curb a dangerous crossing habit until a sign reading Cattle Crossing was placed in the middle of the block. The sign stopped the traffic risk as students redirected to the corner under policeman supervision.
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New Orleans
Rex Lemley Buys Rupe Store Merchandise and Building
Rex Lemley and his wife have purchased the Rupe store merchandise and the building from Claude Rupe. The Rugbe family previously owned the business since 1956 after buying it from Carl Lemley, with earlier operations at Tuppers Plains. Various relatives and friends from Ohio and West Virginia attended funerals or visited in recent weeks, including Nelle Werner and Nancy Rupe. The article notes a White Pelican described as one of America’s largest birds with a nine foot wingspan.
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Rex Lemley
Claude Rupe
Lemley
Rudie Skeen
Rupe
Carl Lemley
Tuppers Plains
Bess Rupe
Tom Rupe
Richard Rupe
Tommy Wright
Columbus
Nelle Werner
Middleport
Nancy Rupe
Charles Tipton
Flora Shaw
Marysville
James Shaw
Stevie
Circleville
John Hodge
Reed
W. Va
Arlene Moles
Cheshire
Carl Taylor
Rutland
Elmer Moles
Elizabeth Athey
Muriel Spires
Henry Hood
Kananga
Mayo Bales
Roysall
Luella Bradbury
Robert Ball
Rodney
Bill Durst
Lowell Swisher
Little Kgger
Need for PAL funds to steer youths from gangs in New York
The speaker urges a robust civic push to fund PAL centers to keep youths from gangs. He notes gangs are now mainly Black and Puerto Rican in New York, with few Irish or German roots, and argues politicians dodge the issue for votes. He calls for a strong, properly financed citizens' effort to direct unruly youths into constructive teams rather than crime.
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New York
J. Edgar Hoover
United States
PAL
The Easter Seal Campaign Spotlight on Crippling Causes
The Family Doctor notes the Easter Seal Campaign and the focus on research grants to uncover the causes of crippling and to find ways to reduce births of children with disabilities. The piece highlights attention to research during the campaign period.
Horoscope Review and Easter Seals Appeal
Tomorrow offers good prospects for business and family plans with long range gains possible. If your birthday falls today, strong job and money progress are forecast in the next six months with initiative and enterprise. The Easter Seals program notes broad services and yearly impact aiding thousands with rehabilitation and education.
13 Frantic Foxes Flee as 125 Hunters Engage
QUINCY Illinois The Sun day fox hunt in Melrose township by 125 hunters netted 13 foxes. Meeting at the Melrose Chapel the hunters divided into groups of 30 or more and trucks took the groups to the first section a mile square to be hunted. Lin ing up on the four sides of the section the hunters walked toward the center. Shotguns were permitted. In trying to break through the lines the foxes would get within shotgun range and often a half dozen guns would explode at one time.
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Melrose Chapel
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