Need to Reform Taxes Strikes Home in Minnesota
Wednesday, June 15, 1966. The Minnesota tax climate hurts industry as Libby Owens Ford Glass chose Mason City over Austin. The piece argues for a new sales or excise tax to ease heavier property taxes, noting tourism potential and political hesitation to act.
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Austin
Minnesota
Libby Owens Ford Glass Company
Mason City
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa
Freeman
Florida
Drafting Bedbugs Alarm System For Viet Nam Warfare
Army scientists explore using trained bedbugs as silent advance scouts to detect enemy movement in Vietnam. The bugs would emit audible cries via a device, carried in a capsule, to alert troops two blocks away, while smelling out targets. The project aims to improve jungle warfare surveillance despite the odd method.
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Viet Nam
Army
Savings Bonds sales rise as payroll plans grow
U S Savings Bonds sales increased last month from a year earlier amid higher post February rates and a payroll savings push. May marked the silver anniversary of the Series E bonds, now part of many Americans’ savings. About one in four or five owns bonds, with more than three billion dollars sold each payday and a total near fifty billion dollars held.
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U. S
U.S
Austin Daily Herald
Thomson
Austin
Minnesota
Frank C. Miles
Bineeley
United States
A.P.O
N.P.O
Vealbaee
Opinions of Others on Dairymen and Butter Prices
Editorials from Hoard's and other dairy publications protest Johnson administration milk price policy. Gardner Ackley quotes claim raised supports may trigger lower actual milk prices, upsetting dairy farmers. The Red Wing Republican Eagle questions Democratic candidates in dairy districts.
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Great Society
Dairymen
Hoard’s
Johnson
Farm Bureau
Gardner Ackley
Supermarket Institute
Chicago
Ackley
RED Wing
Republican Eagle
Turn Back The Clock And Tiny Town News Highlights
Turn Back The Clock features Jack Caseby recounting a 13 pound northern fish at Big Sandy Lake resort run by Mrs. Jack Armstrong. The Austin Herald reports soft ball charity game vs Albert Lea Tribune carriers, police sobriety warnings, school diplomas mailing, and staff appointments in local education and utilities groups.
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Jack Caseby
Big Sandy Lake
Jack Armstrong
Peewee Kelley
Adam's Apple Diedrick
Austin Herald
Albert Lea Tribune
European Grocery
Odd Fellows
Minnesota urged to speed interstate work via bonds
A Minnesota clipping urges quickening interstate highway construction with bonds to be repaid as federal funds arrive. Gov Rolvaag backs speeding projects, noting lives saved and economic gains, but resists a special-session bond vote. Also notes pay growth in legislatures and Pearl Harbor Survivor group efforts.
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State Highway Department
Rolvaag
Austin
Minnesota
Labor Chiefs Raise Funds and Plan Cadre for 1964 Fight
Labor leaders, meeting with George Meany at the White House, agree to marshal unions for reelecting a Democratic majority. They establish a special fighting fund financed by a nickel per member from 13.7 million unionists to counter anti-LBJ momentum and bolt risks.
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D.C
Lyndon Johnson
George Meany
Labor Hisself
White House
Meany
Johnson
Congress
Dirksen
Labor drive targets 1968 by mobilizing voters nationwide
Labor groups plan a nationwide political effort to prevent a Republican presidential victory. A special fund totals about 850000 with COPE seeking matching funds, aiming to raise nearly 1.5 million for aggressive registration. They target freshmen districts and Gov Rockefeller in New York, hoping to realign support for Democrats.
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National Labor Committee On Political Education
COPE
Boondocks
Labor Chiefs
Washington
Johnson
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
New York State
Rockefeller
Hilton
Laborite Liberal Party
Robert Kennedy
Labor
Hall Syndicate, Inc
Today in History June 15 1966 Highlights
June 15 marks Arkansas admission as 25th state in 1836 and Magna Carta signing in 1215. Notable events include the 1846 Oregon Boundary Treaty, 1940 German outflank of the Maginot Line, and postwar disclosures in 1945. Recent years note RAF crash deaths in Malaya, UN personnel expulsion, and disarmament talks proposals.
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Arkansas
John of England
Runnymede
United States
Great Britain
Maginot Line
Joachchim von Ribbentrop
Hamburg
Royal Air Force
Malaya
U.S
United Nations
New York
Timely quotes from educators and leaders
Quotes from Albert H. Bowker on city funding and clerical support, The Rev Wayne Dehoney advising successors, Jerome Frank on ideological coercion, and Nguyen Van Tao on the unequal nature of modern war.
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Wayne Dehoney
Southern Baptist Convention
Nguyen van Tao
Saigon Daily News
Elite Rule Red Roost With Wealth Power
Swe dish studies warn the Soviet party and government are not led by peasants. A strong self perpetuating upper class grows as inherited wealth and elite benefits shape policy. High officials control land, education access, and unearned income while workers and peasants remain underrepresented in delegations.
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Ray Cromley Washington
NEA
Soviet Communist Party
Swedish Ministry of Defense
Russia
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Moscow
Ukraine
Ward Cannel Reflects on Reality and Fiction in Blooming Solstice
In a 1965 column Ward Cannel muses on the gulf between civilization and nature during a Blooms day party. He recalls Joyce's Leopold Bloom and compares memory, fiction, and reality, citing writers like Hemingway and Lardner while pondering discernment between mind and world. He ends with a Q&A on Moses meaning and the first circulating library founder.
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New York
NEA
Ward Cannel
Leopold Bloom
Dublin
Mr. Bloom
Ulysses
James Joyce
Senior Citizen Reflects on Driving and Training Shortfalls
Editor notes letter from Robert W. Due l Austin Minnesota recounting a long driving life marked by changes in driving pedagogy. He urges more coaching and driver training, argues the car is a lethal instrument, and calls for improved education for all drivers to reduce fatalities.
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the Herald
Robert W. Due
2Nd St. SE
Austin, Minn
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