Presidential campaign grows brisk toward 1964 contest
Austin Daily Herald notes the 1964 presidential race moving fast with Goldwater and Rockefeller active through upcoming primaries. It mentions a possible new Freedom Now party and Kennedy’s aggressive political stance as campaigns heat up for more than a year.
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Barry Goldwater
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New Hampshire
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Wisconsin
Freedom Now
Tighten Rein on Spending Calls Amid Election Talk
President Kennedy urged a tighter rein on federal expenditures while critics say current controls are insufficient. The piece notes bureaucratic spending, waste, and the timing suggesting political motives for the 1964 election. It mentions McNamara and the New Frontiersmen in context of budget restraint.
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Kennedy
McNamara
Nuclear Power Nears Commercial Breakthrough
Time magazine notes that since Hiroshima scientists and businessmen have promised affordable peaceful nuclear energy. It reports progress with reactors growing in cost range from 30 to 100 million dollars, contigoing under construction or planned across regions, with advances in efficiency and new technologies. Utilities and manufacturers work with the Atomic Energy Commission to push breakthroughs toward near equality with fossil fuel costs.
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Time Magazine
Hiroshima
Time
Atomic Energy Commission
Wiggle Case Highlights Ill. Disorderly Conduct Limits
A Davenport woman, 25, had a disorderly conduct charge dismissed by a Rock Island police magistrate after insufficient evidence that her street movements were obscene. The judge warned her to stay away, noting no Illinois city law bars Iowans from visiting Rock Island.
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Rock Island, Ill
Davenport
Rock Island
Illinois
DES Moines Register
Quotations on Discretion and Temper from Classics
A brief selection of wisdom notes cites Proverbs and Joseph Addison praising self control and discretion. The passages highlight patience, restraint, and the value of overlooking offenses as a mark of character.
Postal rates and delivery zones for Austin area
A historical notice lists mail rates by zone and distance from Austin, detailing post office delivery within 50 miles and 150 miles, plus rates for one week to one year. It also references payment in advance and delivery to military personnel nationwide and overseas areas served by A P O and N P O.
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Austin
U. S. Armed Forces
United States
A-P.o
N.P.O
Seopa
Gasoline Price Increase and Local Elections Highlight Austin Notes
The item notes a half cent per gallon gasoline price hike effective in Austin this Saturday. It also reports Paul Keith Chatfield elected president of the First District Editorial Association in Stewartville. In Austin 6,726 voters will decide on repeal of the 18th amendment in the September 12 election.
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Austin
Paul Keith
Chatfield
Chatfield News
First District
Stewartville
Ameri can teacher profile and social facts excerpt
A summary of public education and social trends: NEA sample of 1,881 teachers suggests women dominate the profession, average age about 45, higher marriage rates, one child typical, and many moonlight. The piece also notes cigarette tax changes, ragweed hayfever, rocket physics basics, college attendance gaps, rising car births, and links extroversion to cancer risk in a British study.
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National Education Association
Fidelistas Seek Dominican Base for Caribbean Moves
In a Dominican Republic assessment, President Bosch and advisers see Cuba’s Fidelistas using the island to spread influence across Caribbean nations. They warn of a shift from urban terror to covert labor and political infiltration to topple the Bosch government and threaten U.S. interests.
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Fidelistas
Dominican Republic
Caribbean
Santo Domingo
Juan Bosch
Hispaniola
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Fidel Castro
British Guiana
Bosch
Castro
South American
Dominica
U.S
Congress of Labour
Osmond Dyce
Jamaica
Bermuda
Bahamas
Granada
St. Kitts
Santa Lucia
Antigua
Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean Congress of Labour
Castroites
Congress
Florida
Venezuela
Latin America
Hall Syndicate, Inc
First international yacht race sails in 1851
The event occurred on August 22 1851 when the yacht America out raced the British yacht Aurora. The report notes starfish have no real economic value being mainly ornamental. The Amazon River length cited as 3900 miles and abalone producing pearls regularly.
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Aurora
Schools Can't Rent Rooms Says Atty Gen Hultman
Iowa Attorney General Evan Hultman ruled it would be illegal for a public school board to rent a classroom from a Catholic parochial school citing church state separation. The Carroll County Board sought space at Saints Peter and Paul School in Carroll. The opinion notes parochial spaces are typically unavailable and raises questions for suburbs using church facilities for emergency quarters amid enrollment surges.
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Des Moines
Evan Hultman
Hultman
Carroll County
Robert S. Bruner
Iowa
Saints Peter and Paul
Carroll
Northern Bays Propane Firm Buys United Petroleum Gas Co
Northern Propane Gas Co a unit of Northern Natural Gas Co Omaha has purchased United Petroleum Gas Co Minneapolis for an undisclosed price United a wholly owned Diversa Inc Dallas subsidiary operates in Minnesota the Dakotas Arkansas Texas and Wisconsin Northern Propane serves Nebraska Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois Indiana and Michigan Northern Natural buys United distribution systems in Detroit Lakes Ada Minnesota and New Hampton Iowa to be run by Peoples Natural Gas retail division of Northern Natural.
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OMAHA
Northern Propane Gas Co
Northern Natural Gas Co
United Petroleum Gas Co
Minneapolis
United
Diversa, Inc
Dallas
Tex
Minnesota
Dakotas
Arkansas
Texas
Wisconsin
Northern Propane
Nebraska
Iowa
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
Northern Natural
United’s
Detroit Lakes
Ada Minn
New Hampton
People’s Natural Gas
Do You Dream In Black and White or Color
Dr. Brandstadt reports University of Chicago sleep studies show dreams can be colored or black and white depending on hormones. Pituitary extract yields vivid, colorful dreams while adrenal extract causes colorless, frightening dreams. Animals may dream and the blind dream based on sensory input. Dreaming appears essential for sleep balance.
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W. G. Brandstadt
M.D
University of Chicago Sleep Laboratories
August 29 History Highlights From 1901 to 1963
On this date Carrie Nation’s temperance campaign targeted a New York City saloon run by John L. Sullivan. Civil and political milestones include the 1782 Royal George disaster in Portsmouth Harbor and Britain’s 1842 Hong Kong possession after a China treaty.
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Carrie Nation
New York City
John L. Sulivan
Portsmouth Harbor
England
Britain
Hong Kong
China
30 Days to Better Grades Overview and Study Tips
A reading guide explains to summarize textbooks starting with the table of contents. It recommends viewing the book as a sequence of units from pre Revolution to World War II and identifying childhood to maturity phases to map growth and relationships between periods.
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Allergy Foundation of America
Haskin Information Bureau
Earth
Surrey
By Victor Riesel
John Martin
Dominican Union of Organized Workers
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