Doctor Hits AMA for Avoiding Cigarette Warning
Palm Beach Shores AP report notes surgeon Dr. Alton Ochsner charges the American Medical Association with dereliction in not urging health hazard warnings on cigarette packages and ads. AMA executive Blasingame counters that tobacco health links remain debated and not all answers are settled.
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American Medical Association
Alton Ochsner
Tulane University
American Cancer Society
Ochsner
Chicago
F. J. L. Blasingame
AMA
Dr. Blasingame
The Truth About Nerve Deafness
This free booklet explains nerve deafness, its painless symptoms, and how it interferes with hearing. It covers whether surgery or a hearing aid helps and offers self help steps. Request your copy by writing Box 200 The Berkshire Eagle.
Gruenther to resign Red Cross role after 4 decades
General Alfred Gruenther, veteran soldier statesman, turns 65 and will retire March 31 as president of the American Red Cross. He urges Americans to uphold self discipline education and voluntary service while noting a decline in local campaigns and younger engagement in civic drives. He praises a Boston teenager for five years of Red Cross work as the right example.
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Alfred Maximilian Gruenther
American Red Cross
Rome
John
United States
Community Chest
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Boston
St. Patrick’s Day
Red Cross
Federal Employees Increase Slightly in 1963
Washington reported 2,465,805 federal employees last year, up 3,543 from 1962. Sen. John L. McClellan attributed the rise largely to expanded hiring by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Washington
UPI
John L. MccClellan
McClellan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Big Food Chains Face Federal Probe
Washington action probes buying practices of large chain stores as Sen. Gale McGee urges a FTC inquiry. He cites producers and canners who claim chains set prices to the producer while withholding concessions from consumers. FTC member MacIntyre says support possible if scope includes suppliers to chain operators.
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Gale McGee
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Senate Commerce
Federal Trade Commission
Wyoming
California
Texas
Alabama
A. Everette MacIntyre
FTC
Milk Market Merger Urged in New England
Sen George D Aiken urged Secretary Freeman to consider merging New England milk marketing order areas on economic necessity not political pull. The proposed merger covers Boston Worcester Springfield Massachusetts Connecticut and Southeastern New England markets. Proponents in southern New England back the plan while Connecticut and southern areas oppose it. Aiken emphasized data showing New England as a cohesive market and argued against independent pricing in parts of the region.
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iGeorge D. Aiken
R-Vt
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville _L. Freeman
New England
Boston
Worcester
Springfield
Mass
Connecticut
Aiken
Senate Agriculture Committee
Freeman
Largest forked leaf white oak in America grows in Kentucky
MARION Kentucky experts regard the Roe Williams farm tree as the nation’s largest forked leaf white oak still standing. The massive specimen measures 644 feet in diameter at the base, soars 118 feet high, and is estimated to be about 1,000 years old.
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Roe Williams
America
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