LeVander’s Veto Over-ride Triggers Quiet Temper in Minnesota
Governor Harold LeVander rebukes the legislature after conservatives overruled his veto on the excise tax. He declines to deliver the customary adjournment remarks, a virtually unprecedented move signaling deep irritation. The session passed notable highway safety bills and a $100 million highway program, but party friction remains.
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Harold LeVander
Minnesota
Elmer L. Andersen
Andersen
Karl Rolvaag
Rolvaag
DFL
School is out Drive with care
Alertness Needed NOW THAT SCHOOL is out. Motorists must be extra alert as thousands of youngsters are on bicycles in streets play grounds and pools. Children may not understand braking or reflex time. teach to stay out of streets but actions differ from lessons.
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Mankato
Europe
Seaboard
Walt Whitman
Hartford Courant
New York
Walter Lippmann
Superhighways Co
Tax to Boost Sales in Minnesota Ahead of Aug 1
An unplanned excise tax set for Aug 1 may trigger a sharp rise in retail sales before the levy takes effect. Big-ticket items like automobiles, televisions, appliances, and furniture could see early purchases as consumers anticipate higher costs. The public reacts quickly to expected price increases and acts to buy now.
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Minnesota
Facelifting Downtown Mankato Boosts Business and Pride
A Mankato Free Press opinion urges downtown improvements after a neighboring business reports a 25 percent sales increase following renovations. The piece praises the regional facelift and argues for expanded, larger vocational facilities in North Mankato while noting the Minnesota Board of Education's ruling on new schools.
Time to be born and die and to plant and pluck
A Bible quotation opens with Ecclesiastes verses. The piece cites Bishop Thomas Horne and notes distribution by Thomson Newspapers with Austin Minnesota addresses and a subscription rate table for home delivery. It lists ZIP 55912, publishing staff, and subs details for various zones.
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Thomas Horne
Austin
U. S
United States
A.P.O
N.P.O
AFL Victory At Gas Machine Co. Vote Shifts Labor Coast
The American Federation of Labor secured a union victory at the American Gas Machine Co in Albert Lea as workers cast ballots to join the AFL in collective bargaining. The record recalls past local events including a college reunion and civic projects in the Austin area.
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American Federation of Labor
American Gas Machine Co
Albert Lea
AFL
Southern Minnesota Normal College
University of Southern Minnesota
Todd Park
Tax laws and bonds lure industry and editor baiting tips
The piece notes tax reform and exempt revenue bonds as tools to attract industry, cites Austin Utilities' sales tax handling, and warns retailers cannot absorb the tax. It lists editor baiting tactics from Ken Berg of the Mankato Free Press and ends with a sketch about Viet Nam era hawks, Senator McCarthy, and a squeaking lost golf ball inventor.
Teachers Seek Money in Drive to Unionize 2
In Madison Square Garden a mass meeting draws 7 000 teachers and 12 000 workers as Al Shanker outlines a drive to expand the American Federation of Teachers into a national union. He cites arrests in New Jersey and Baltimore and targets Los Angeles San Francisco Portland Buffalo Milwaukee and Minneapolis as key cities for organizing new members and parochial and private schools. The plan relies on poverty area assistants and broader community outreach, with a Washington convention to unveil tactics. Money from the AFL CIO Industrial Union Department remains uncertain as organizers push for rapid growth and field staff.
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Victor Riesel
New York
Madison Square Garden
American Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
al Shanker
National Federation
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Buffalo
Milwaukee
Twin Cities
Long Island
Shanker
American Federation of Teachers’ National
Chicago
AFT
Federation
Washington
Hotel
Hilton
St. John’s University
New Jersey
Baltimore
New York City
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Illinois
Charles Cogen
Afl-Cio Industrial Union Dept
IUD
Lippmann Retirement Echoes Through Cannel Column
Walter Lippmann’s retirement from daily newspapers prompts a nostalgic reflection by Ward Cannel. The piece recalls Lippmann’s influence, their shared origin in New York journalism, and features Franklin Pierce Adams’s old poem on his departure, closing with a light note on the era ending.
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Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
United States as lone world policeman amid Middle East crisis
Bruce Biossat argues America bears the burden of policing the free world as Britain and France decline in influence. He notes Britain's military pullout east of Suez by 1975 and the greater US role in countering Egypt, Nasser, and Hanoi. He insists U.S. leadership is now essential and unavoidable.
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London
Vietnam
Middle East
America
Free World
Britain
France
United States
Charles de Gaulle
Suez
Indonesia
Malaysia
Far East
Hong Kong
Singapore
Aden
Bahrein Island
Persian Gulf
Asian
Asia
Indian Ocean
U.S
Egypt
Nasser
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
United Nations
Woman frets on night out as husband calls scoutmaster
In a curious report the wife counts the minutes after she says it’s time to go. He responds that as a scoutmaster he must supervise and allow him weekly outings with the men. The exchange highlights a domestic note tied to social duties.
Teaching machines face grim future for schools
A University of Chicago scientist warns that teaching machines and television instruction threaten dehumanization of schools. Dr. Philip W. Jackson says designers miss what teaching is, fearing machines will add clerical work for teachers.
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University OF Chicago
Philip W. Jackson
Jackson
World History by McNeill: lucid, balanced synthesis
R J Cappon reviews William H. McNeill’s One Volume World History from Oxford. The work builds on The Rise of the West using four centers Indus Valley Europe Near East and China as autonomous yet interacting hubs. The narrative is thematic lucid direct and empathetic across Ottoman India Western reforms in Russia.
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McNeill
Russia
Peter the Great
Catherine
R. J. Cappon
On This Day June 6 1967 Highlights
Today in history the Allied D Day landings in Normandy are noted for 1944. Nathan Hale born 1755 and Patrick Henry dies. 1871 Alsace annexed to Germany after Franco Prussian War. 1934 SEC established. Yorktown sunk 1942. Naha airfield captured 1945. Gemini 9 splashdown. Otis brothers install first electric elevator 1889.
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Normandy
France
Nathan Hale
Congress
Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S
Yorktown
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