Census Bureau projections reshape House seats after 1970
Projections show five states gaining and ten losing seats in the 1970 apportionment as population shifts push California, Florida, New Jersey, Texas and others upward while Pennsylvania New York Ohio Michigan Wisconsin Oklahoma Iowa North Dakota lose. With 435 total seats fixed since 1912, shifts threaten dislocations unless Congress adjusts representation.
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Congress
Census Bureau
Maryland
Kentucky
Supreme Court
California
Florida
New Jersey
Texas
Arizona
Pennsylvania
New York
West Virginia
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Iowa
North Dakota
Polls on Presidential Race Seem Uncertain 13 Months Out
The piece weighs how accurate polls are with a year to go. It cites Gallup figures showing Rockefeller-Rockefeller with Reagan would beat Johnson-Humphrey 57 to 43, Romney-Reagan 51 to 49, and notes Rockefeller denies candidacy while Reagan supports Romney. Johnson’s approval stands at 38 percent with 47 percent disapproval. It cautions polls reflect momentary opinion, not long term results, and recalls Truman’s 1948 reminder that voters decide, not pollsters.
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Gallup
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Ronald Reagan
California
Johnson
Humphrey
George Romney
Michigan
Reagan
Rockefeller
Gov. Romney
United States
Harry Truman
Most Valuable Scavengers Coyotes Warn Off Backwoods Youths
The piece extols coyotes as valuable destroyers of harmful rodents while noting they raid small farm animals. It urges keeping the canids at a distance, describes their tawny fur and black tipped tails, and recalls how rural children glimpse them from country roads and hillsides during early winter.
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Nature
Foreign Service aims for wider duties and fair promotions
The 7000-member U S Foreign Service seeks more responsibility and pay at lower grades, with a fairer promotion system for upper grades. Balloting elected a new board that reaffirmed Foy D Kohler as president. Young directors, average age 36, push for lifetime diplomatic careers and an elite cadre of capable public servants on the nation’s first line of defense.
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U. S. Foreign Service
State Department
Agency For International Development
United States Information Service
Securitg
Foy D. Kohle
Lannon Walker
Senate
Foreign Service
Washington Insight: Kraft on Scrambled Politics
The piece argues that urban problems force a shift in roles from business and workers, with business leaders becoming city reform advocates while workers resist welfare spending. It highlights Kennedy Percys housing and tax subsidy plans, contrasting Reagan and Rockefeller in the Republican race as enmeshed with these urban and welfare debates.
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Congress
Republican Party
Babbitt
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Charles Percy
Commerce Department
Washington
Roosevelt
Truman
James Tate
Philadelphia
Louise Day Hicks
Boston
Ronald Reagan
Nelson Rockefeller
Manageable Bedlam In Britain Over Wilson Struggles
William F Buckley Jr surveys UK politics as Harold Wilson faces leftist pressure over economy and Vietnam policy. He notesFoote’s seven demands for change, Wilson’s tactful defenses, and the left’s push for anti US stances amid church criticisms, while predicting resilience in Britain.
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London
Harold Wilson
Scarborough
Labor Party
England
Wilson
Michael Foote
Commonwealth
Canute
United States
Vietnam
George Brown
Brown
State Department
Woolwich
Pike
Canterbury Cathedral
America
British Isles
25 Winners Named in Junior Commando Poster Contest
Pomeroy School Superintendent W. A. Smith announced 42 winners in the poster slogan contest linked to the Junior Commando scrap drive. First place earned 25-cent War Stamps, second place 10-cent stamps. Governor Cox granted a Columbus Day pardon to Genardo Guai of Youngstown, previously sentenced to life for second-degree murder in 1912. Athens recorded its first snowfall of the season, brief and quickly melted.
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Winston Churchill
United States
Russia
China
Britain
Hitler
Pomeroy
W. A. Smith
Kennedy plan would pay seniors for community service
Service Corps proposed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy would fund a program paying older adults to work as hospital aides, receptionists, visitors in hospitals, day care center assistants, and classroom aides where volunteers now fill roles. The idea aims to replace unpaid volunteer labor with paid service that matches senior interests.
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Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
New York Sanitation Chief Tests Quiet Garbage Bags
New York City's sanitation commissioner experiments with large waterproof bags to collect trash and reduce the nuisance of tin cans clanging in the streets, a problem less severe in smaller communities.
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New York
Mailbag miscellany sparks from a busy mind
HAL BOYLE surveys daily life and trivia in a light mailbag style. He notes the snail pace of the average person, tax realities for 1965 couples, unmailed desk debris, and Russian consumer woes. He also cites life insurance growth, paid-off mortgages, and a Greek chorus of old quotes.
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U. S
Uncle Sam
Letters Farewell To Chief Editor In The Messenger
A reader from Athens praises coverage of crime including shoplifting arguing for front page visibility. The author argues shoplifting harms property and that news should reveal wrongdoing to deter it. Catherine DeWitt cites penal codes and societal impact in her farewell letter.
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the Messenger
Athens
Catherine DeWitt
Congress St
Fair Price at Athens County Junior Fair Sale Questioned
A letter from Fd Duffle Route 2 argues junior fair members of Athens County receive too little for their livestock. He notes 24 cents per pound at the Athens fair versus higher prices at the Meigs County fair and urges support for better prices for the youth.
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the Messenger
Athens County
Meigs County
Athens
Fd Duffle
The Athens Messenger Publishing Co. Ad Rates
Daily and Sunday mail rates listed for Ohio and West Virginia, and elsewhere in the US. Rates include weekly, three weeks, six weeks, 15 weeks, six months and yearly options. Address listed at 43 W Union St Athens Ohio 45701.
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West Virginia
US & Possessions
Athens Post Office
Secon
the Messenger Publishing Co
Union St
Athens
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