Rightist Keep America Committee Attacks Many Causes
A skeptical column criticizes the Keep America Committee for broad prejudice and anti social positions. It accuses the group of opposing mental hygiene and polio serum while alleging conspiratorial plots and denouncing various charities and leaders as too liberal. The piece notes the California origin and links to GOP figures and laments the movement’s money driven appeal.
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Keep America Committee
California
Joseph C. Shell
GOP
Federal controls crippling America’s transportation system
President Kennedy warned Congress that nearly 80 years of federal control over air rail motor and water transportation have produced a chaotic patchwork of outdated laws and regulators. He argued detailed agency decisions stifle managerial initiative and costly regulation shows the failure of government intervention in industry.
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America
Kennedy
Congress
Life under communism seen in student survey
A midwestern city surveyed high school students asking how life would change under communism and many replied there would be no change. The passage notes widespread ignorance of how economics religion family and politics would be altered under a one party system.
Illiteracy Tries the Pace of Global Independence
The piece argues that rapid world independence risks democracy without an informed electorate. It cites UN figures showing 97 of 198 nations with over 50 percent illiteracy and notes 20 countries with 95 to 99 percent illiteracy, questioning what the uneducated masses can consent to in self government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United Nations
Opinions of Others ILLITERATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
Des Moines Register questions how four Iowa State University seniors are denied diplomas for failing a freshman essay test after multiple attempts. Eighteen seniors failed, fourteen passed on a fourth exam. The piece questions language standards used in grading and warns of implications for graduates in other fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State University
Guage
DES Moines Register
Turn Back the Clock and Local Civic Notes
A 30 year look back reports the annual Farm Bureau picnic at the B J Huseby grove near Adams. Ralph Campbell addresses Kiwanis. Col George Anderson conducts six day revival at Salvation Army Citadel. Mrs Inger Hanson of Austin has five sons in service and a five star service flag. Russell L Thompson files for Mower County clerk of court. O H Dahl, 71, ex legislator, dies at Lyle. Austin housewives register for a 30 day sugar allotment at the high school cafeteria. Rev and Mrs C Gordon Beale travel to Claremont California for a General Council meeting. John Holmes of Austin sees an object over his home at about 5000 feet. CIO United Packinghouse Workers announce contracts will be terminated in August.
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B. J. Huseby
Adams
Ralph Campbell
Batten-Barton- Durstine & Osborn General Advertising Agency
Kiwanis
Col. Geo. Anderson
Salvation Army
Inger Hanson
Austin
Russell L. Thompson
Mower County
O. H. Dahl
Lyle
C. Gordon Beale
Claremont
Calif
General Council of
The
Congregational Christian Churches
John Holmes
CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America
Hormel Employes
Defunct Minnesota College Records Sought by Ex-Student
Baltimore woman Josephine Viktorec, later Mrs J Jeffries, seeks her 1915 1916 grades from the now closed University of Southern Minnesota and Normal College Austin. Records may not exist as the school closed in 1925 after 28 years of operation with 1200 students.
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University of Southern Minnesota and Normal College
Austin
J. Jeffries
Baltimore
Josephine M. Viktorec
Maryland Institute of Arts
Hormel Institute
Money's Worth Shrinking Profit Margins Across Industries
Sylvia Porter outlines a broad economic squeeze as profit margins narrow. Rising production costs, stagnant prices, and a shift to higher paid workers shrink per dollar profits, risking reduced capital investment and slower growth unless tax cuts and cost restraint boost profits to spur modernization.
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Sylvia Porter
U.S
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
William F. Butler
New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Butler
Kennedy
Hall Syndicate, Inc
Man's Excuse Proves Valid in Odd Goat Captivity
In Newport England an unidentified man claimed he could not reach work because a goat held him captive. Police found the man inside a phone booth in St James's Square with the goat outside battering the door. The animal was impounded and the man still went to his job.
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Newport
England
St. James's Square
Castro Cocaine Ring Fueling Hardware Smuggling
An FBI briefing portrays Castro operatives running field HQs in major cities to flood the U.S. with cocaine valued at over eight million dollars. Cash from drug sales finances Cuba’s import of spare parts, while food relief is diverted or withheld, with enforcement actions at the Mexico border seizing shipments bound for Havana.
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New York
Cuba
U.S
Vera Cruz
Harry Anslinger
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Castro
Pablo Guerra
Guerra
Woodside
New York City
Havana
U. S
Anslinger
Munist
Mexico
Dept. of Commerce
Customs Bureau
Mexican
Canada
Russia
Hong Kong
Kennedy's tax plan fails to ease economy fears
President Kennedy shows no awareness of the economy's serious plight as labor costs rise and stock markets slump. The plan hinges on delayed tax cuts and selective credits, risking voter disappointment and a delayed recovery.
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Kennedy
Prescriptions Abbreviations and Simple Sleep Tips
Dr Molner explains why medical abbreviations persist in prescriptions and their meanings. He notes tid for ter in die three times daily and aqua for water, O.D. right eye, O.L. left eye, and post cibos after eating. The piece also offers brief medical advice on blurred vision in the elderly and simple nonpharmacological sleep aids like counting leaves or sheep.
Sears to Include Paintings Drawings in Catalog
New York AP report states Sears Roebuck will offer original paintings drawings and more via catalog and stores. Vincent Price has been commissioned to source oils water colors drawings collages etchings and sculptures from nationwide and international providers.
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Sears
New York
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Vincent Price
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