Old Landmark Soon To Fall Naval Gun Plant Faces Closure
Editorial notes that Washington's Navy Yard, formerly known as the Naval Gun Plant, will close permanently in six months after 161 years. Once a major defense site employing 24,000 during World War II, it now ends operations as missiles and electronic components cannot be produced there. 87 acres of foundries and shops will be left idle with 2,400 workers to be dismissed.
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Washington
Naval Gun Plant
Navy Yard
Lincoln
Madison
Navy
Congress Weighs Pay Hike For Members As Inflation Bites
Congress weighs a salary increase for members amid inflation concerns. Senators and Representatives now earn 22500 dollars plus a 2500 dollar expense allowance yearly. House action added about 6750 dollars per office for staff and pay hikes.
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Congress
Washington
Capitol
House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Coffee Break Scrutiny Highlights Efficiency Debate
Government efficiency experts again question the coffee break practice as a drain on time. The piece notes USDA leaders, including Orville Freeman, are coffee drinkers, contrasting with Ezra Taft Benson’s milk push to move surplus dairy.
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Orville Freeman
Department
Ezra Taft Benson
Public unemployment debate cites nuns comment story
During a House debate on extending unemployment compensation Rep. Mike Kirwan cited a tale about two Catholic nuns and a motorist to illustrate distortions in public perception. The nun remark accused Republicans of harming the nuns as they entered an unemployment office.
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House of Representatives
Mike Kirwan
Ohioocrat
Trishman
Lightweight student soars on aluminum membrane kite mishap
Syracuse AP report says Dick Suarez, 22, Richfield New Jersey, graduate student, and Douglas Deeds of San Diego built a 20 foot aluminum kite for an industrial design class. Suarez rode the craft as winds lifted it to about 50 feet before it collapsed and he and the membrane wing crashed to the lawn outside Marshall Hall.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Dick Suarez
Earth
Suarez
Richfield
N.J
Douglas Deeds
San Diego
Calif
Syracuse University
Marshall Hall
Baytown Newspaper Masthead and Rates Listing
The document shows names and roles in the Baytown publication including Fred Hartman, Wim Boone, Preston Pendergrass, Beulah Mae Jackson, T. Bowling, John Wadley, Corrie Laughlin and others. It lists editorial and advertising departments, office manager, and management structure. Subscription rates by carrier and mail rates on request are noted, along with postal filing information and a statement about the Associated Press.
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Fred Hartman
Wim Boone
Preston Pendergrass
Beulah Mae Jackson
T. Bowling
Texas
Baytown
Desalinization Plant Opens Amid Global Water Hope
Washington report traces Alexander Zarkin a Russian refugee origin story and Fairbanks Whitney ties to a first desalinization plant in Elath opening today. The plant aims about 250000 gallons daily at 40 cents per 1000 gallons while further facilities emerge in Beloit Wisconsin as a potential global arid region breakthrough. The piece also surveys Laos Vietnam era policy notes with De Gaulle Kennedy tensions and territorial governance shifts in Guam and Samoa led by native governors.
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Washington
Israel
Alexander Zarkin
Siberia
Zarkin
Russia
David Karr
Fairbanks Whitney
Fairbanks-Morse
Elath
Gulf of Aqaba
Red Sea
Nigeria
Fairbanks-Whitney
Beloit
Wis
Fountain Wish Itself in Northern Italy Town
A tourist and his wife visit a famed Northern Italian fountain said to grant wishes. The wife falls in, splashing into legend fulfilled, prompting the husband to exclaim disbelief. British novelist Nancy Mitford, living in Paris, comments on Britain’s bestseller taste, noting animal biographies often lead.
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Italy
Nancy Mitford
Paris
Britain
Miss Mitford
Elsa
World History Quiz and Local Figures Featured
A vintage page item blends trivia on nations at the League of Nations and the United Nations with notes on historic tariffs and Korea’s geographic split. It also salutes a prominent medical figure, outlining his civic work, leadership in medicine, philanthropy, and future plans.
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League of Nations
United Nations
North
South Korea
Notable medical figure linked to A M A in Los Angeles
NAN JONES Control Press Writer profiles a surgeon born in Sligo Pennsylvania who earned BS from Allegheny College and MD from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1924 he practiced in Los Angeles and served on education boards and as speaker of the AMA House of Delegates at one point. The column also hints at fate and prospects for the year and includes a fragmented trivia list.
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Thia
Sligo
Allegheny College
University of Pennsylvania
Los Angeles
Board of Education
House of Delegates
A.M. A
Eee
How Do You Stand Sir Federal Aid and Control Debate
The author argues against federal control tied to funding for education and highways. He cites the National Defense Education Act and Smith Hughes Act as examples of mandated outcomes. Arizona highway projects show costly grade separations demanded by federal participation, questioning the premise of money without oversight. The piece ends by asking the reader to answer how they stand on federal influence through federal funding.
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Washington
Arizona
Black Canyon
Prescott
Flagstar
Grand Canyon
Arizona Highway Commission
Best Male and Best Female Singers Named in 1960 Poll
In Sumter Daily Item the 1960 poll results name Filvis Presley and Connie Francis as Best Male and Best Female singers. The piece questions whether such titles carry exaggerated weight in national perception.
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Sumter Daily Item
Filvis Presley
Connie Francis
102 Year Old Son May Outlive His Father
AMORET Mo AP Joe Lasure aged 102 today grows confident he will outlive his father who died at 103. Lasure moved from Kentucky to Kansas and worked 22 years for the Kansas City Southern Railroad. He has voted for every Republican president since Rutherford B. Hayes and, though a bachelor, handles his own housework and gardening. A brother James Lasure lives in Pittsburgh.
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Joe Lasure
Lasure
Kansas
Kentucky
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Lasure
Cold war forecasts split with bankers and voters in 1960s
BABSON PARK Mass March 3 1960s column warns the cold war fuels employment profits and stock optimism while labor and employers rely on it. It urges caution citing unemployment risks and the need for wage and price freezes, noting Kennedy and Birch Society as influential forces in the era.
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Tan
Dunn & Bradstreet
New York Stock Exchange
Isaac Newton
Kennedy
White House
John Birch Society
DAR
John Birch
Wi- Heenan
Ropert Welch
Belmont
Fine defensive play yields a bridge victory in duplicate event
In a duplicate bridge event East West defended crisply after an unusual two diamond lead. East played queen of diamonds to force West's reply, then cleared clubs to exhaust defense. Five card majors by North and a four spade contract by South led to a down one, with East West achieving a strong result through precise signaling and avoidance of a route to defeat.
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Weat
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South
West
East
King Foote
Jead
Baster
Hast
Dummy
Woeat
Geclub
Declarer
Ares Syndicate, Inc
Know Your Bridge Across Moslem and Other Clues
A cryptic style bridge quiz lists varied clues and numbers such as religious terms, geographic hints, and common nouns. It weaves across languages and references including Polish capital, Great vessel, Assam, Goering, Baltic terms, and chemical worm hints, posing a puzzle rather than a narrative item.
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Boise
Assam
Goering
Frees River
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