Local Voter Restraint Shapes School Bond Decisions
The Pittsburgh Swan-Telegrah reports James F. McCarthy shows local voters repeatedly approve school bonds amid rising debt costs. In 1956 voters backed 423 million of 448 million and later approved 148.8 million of 231.8 million, while rejection rose to 35.8 percent as interest rates climbed. Property owners face higher taxes, prompting calls to save or borrow to cover costs.
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Pittsburgh Swan-Telegraph
James F. McCarthy
McCarthy
Many Faces of Money and Family Strife
A booklet by Human Relations Aids notes money as a social factor in family trouble. It argues money fuels nagging behavior, control, and insecurity, but can also guide families to balance expenses and find importance beyond wealth.
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Human Relations Aids
Mental Health Materials Center
New York
Eisenhower orders slow‑down on mortgage stimulus as Fanny May funds surge
President Eisenhower in late August barred par purchases to cool a flood of housing demand spurred by a billion dollar government mortgage guarantee. Fanny May commitments reach 826 million with only 2.765 million in foreclosures, signaling that most loans will be issued as houses are completed. Veterans housing benefits prove especially strong, while some builders may secure private financing and transfer mortgages to Fanny May.
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Congress
Eisenhower
Federal National Mortgage Association
Fanny May
Columnist Mailbag: Surprising Odds and Ends of Knowledge
A miscellany of trivia blends psychology, dentistry, history, religion, and science. The column notes Lincoln loved Dixie, Genesis popular in the Far East, Buddhism lacks a creation tale, and the Boeing 707’s speed and fuel claims. it also recalls Rome’s baths, Europe’s harbors, England under Rome, blue natives, and shifts in milk and television usage.
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Abraham Lincoln
Dixie
Southland
Far East
New England
Europe
England
Rome
U. S
Hippocrates
George Meredith
Court forces Eisenhower to act on school integration
Supreme Court ruling last Friday upheld the ban on public school segregation and pressed the Eisenhower administration to enforce the order. The article notes rising southern defiance, Virginia and Arkansas school closures, and the administration's evolving legal approach with extra U.S. marshals and potential court injunctions.
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Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Little Rock
Central High
Richard C. Butler
Justice Department
South
Arkansas
Virginia
William P. Rogers
Herbert Brownell
Rogers
U. S
Brownell
Orval E. Faubus
Eisenhower-Brownell
Doctor Crane's Personal Cases on Gender and Advice
Dr Crane discusses why male advisors remain popular with both men and women, noting high readership for his column and arguing women prefer male professionals. He cites psychology, societal norms, and his own credentials, urging readers to send for his booklets via the newspaper.
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Eileen
Dorothy Dix
Leon Parkinson
Muncie
Indiana
Crane
Job outlook improves as student-outflow lowers unemployment
Government figures show a temporary drop in unemployment between mid July and mid August driven mainly by students leaving the labor force. The overall jobless total remains higher than a year ago, with adults still facing scarce steady work as production rises through productivity gains and longer weeks.
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
A fragment from Bennett Cerf and ERB Stein features a polite bank robber scene and social quips. Mrs A comments on a Jaguar birthday gift to her mother in law, while Mrs B jokes about motives. The piece mentions Alaska, Texas, and a Juneau plutocrat amid light gossip.
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Bennett Cerf
Texas
Juneau
Dallas
King Features Syndicate
Horoscope Forecast for Tomorrow and Birthday Subjects
The Stars Say for Tomorrow offers cheerful influences and a calm, resourceful approach for a satisfactory day. For those with a birthday, twelve months ahead promise unusual achievement, rising finances, and productive job prospects, with harmony but some emotional tension late in November and mid-February.
Maine to Florida and California in a national election preview
A political overview surveys Maine’s early voting influence and Gov. Muskie’s popularity, Florida’s Claude Pepper setback, California Knowland’s high‑stakes governor bid, and the search for a new Republican Senate leader. It notes taftian leadership traits and current New York and Connecticut campaigns with Thomas Dodd challenging Senator Purtell.
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Edmund S. Muskie
United States Senate
Maine
United States
New England
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Muskie
Bernard Goldfine
Boston
Sen
Frederick Payne
Goldfine
Florida
Claude Pepper
Washington
Senate
California
Knowland
William Knowland
Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Taft
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Taft
New York State
Thomas Dodd
William Purtell
Dodd
Anon
Cyanide Poisoning Facts and Emergency Care
An overview explains how cyanide poisons cells by blocking oxygen use and discusses fatal doses, symptoms, and differences between inhaled and swallowed forms. It stresses rapid treatment with amyl nitrite and sodium nitrite, plus hospital readiness in industrial settings.
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Villian
Pfizer
Jap Teachers Stage Half Day Walkout
About 250,000 elementary and high school teachers across Japan staged a half day walkout to protest the government's new teacher efficiency rating system. Principals must regularly submit efficiency reports on teachers to higher authorities under the plan.
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Tokyo
Japan
The Athens Messenger Publication Details
The Athens Messenger and Sunday Messenger publish daily and Sunday editions. Rates shown include mail and carrier options for Ohio and West Virginia with weekly, monthly and yearly pricing. The paper is a member of the Associated Press and mailed from 43 W Union St Athens Ohio.
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Athens Messenger
Sunday Messenger
Ohio & W.va
Ohio & W. Va
Athens
Ohio
Associat
the Messenger Publishing No
W. Union St
Athens, Ohio
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