Pruning military costs spurs healthy savings
The editorial notes Secretary McNamara announces closing or reduction of many bases depots arsenals and offices to save 68 million dollars yearly. It focuses on consolidating separate contract supervision offices and predicts 18.8 million in annual savings, with civilian jobs cut by over 10 000 to reach 81 600 including military assignments. It questions wartime poverty aims but supports savings and notes potential land and plant sales releases. It warns of regional outcry and wonders if defenses weaken.
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McNamara
Army, Navy, Air Force and
Defense Supply Agency
Annual splurge pays off for career girls on vacation
A banking firm survey finds 48 percent of today’s unmarried young women follow a thrifty year of saving then two weeks of glamorous travel. They pack lunches skip movies and use rides to save, then spend 500 to 1000 on vacations in glittering spots aiming to attract wealthy husbands, while maintaining long term thrift goals.
Canal survey begins for possible new Central American route
A joint Columbia United States resurvey expedition surveys a 104 mile route across Colombia for a potential two lane canal 600 feet wide and 50 feet deep. Officials weigh need location and funding while nuclear blasting debates surface but face scientific hurdles and political stakes.
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America
Washington
Congress
Colombia
Panama Canal
Hemisphere
United States
Panama Canal Zone
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
Break-through on flu pill hailed by researchers
Medical researchers report a pill that may prevent flu, a breakthrough celebrated as revolutionary. The piece humorously notes that if people never catch viruses, no one would miss work, and imagines a future pill that prevents all infections.
Washington talks shape railroad labor deal backing Johnson
Washington insiders describe the Johnson Wirtz negotiations as high risk. Rail workers win concessions on holidays and expenses while reducing some crew numbers. Supporters say the agreement aims to push work-rule changes and leverage possible HR 9903 passage and future mergers, with Supreme Court views likely to weigh on arbitration.
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Ray Cromley
Washington
Enterprise Assn
Johnson
Willard Wirtz
Sunset goals for retirement plans by Hal Boyle
New York columnist Hal Boyle notes retirement dreams are common across ages and prompts readers to set sunset goals. He lists ambitions from simple joys like playing the ukulele and learning horseshoes to lighter aims such as building bird houses, enjoying long vacations, and seeking sly twists on social habits.
Auto sales eyed for eight million in 1964
AP reports optimism in Detroit that U S auto makers may reach about eight million passenger cars in 1964 including imports, with about 1.4 million trucks. Through the latest week production reached 2.79 million cars, boosted by May forecasts and Ford plants on overtime amid strike fears.
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Detroit
George Russell
General Motors Corp
Russell
Ford
Biddeford Lace Journal Publication Details
Biddeford’s Lace Journal lists Adams Street offices and staff credits publisher W Paul Casavant editor E P Ingalls with contact numbers. Subscription prices are posted: monthly 1.85, six months 10.50, yearly 21.00. It notes Associated Press membership and second class postage status in Biddeford Maine.
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Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
E. P. Ingalls
Associated Press
Hollywood pen man turns talent hunter at Lindy Opera House
Sidney Linden, once CBS staff singer and contrast to Bing Crosby, built a pen-making empire and now runs Lindy Pen Co. He funds the Lindy Opera House at Wilshire and Labrea, hosting auditions to showcase nonyoung talent. Linden, 34 as cutoff, argues many capable singers in their late 30s and 40s are overlooked by Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Sidney Linden
CBS
Linden
Bing Crosby
Lindy Pen Co
Lindy Opera House
Wilshire and Labrea
Opera House
Let them go fishing says Ruth Millett
Ruth Millett argues wives should accept husbands need for occasional escapes with the boys as a harmless outlet for freedom from routine. She says both spouses require change and that denying it may harm marriages, encouraging shared opportunities for novelty and balance.
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Ruth Millett
Journal article warns against overreaction to pesticides
In a April 24 editorial Francis D. Chapin argues that small pesticide levels in the Mississippi River are exaggerated. He compares contamination to a teaspoon in a 100-car train of water, urges respect not fear, and notes wild fish may be even more sensitive than humans.
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Journal
Mississippi River
DANCERS ON THE SHORT By William Melvin Kelley
William Melvin Kelley collects 16 stories showing skill in character delineation under stress. Early tales probe childhood fears, followed by a vignette of two aged men clashing. The Dunford family figures prominently including Chig Pete Connie and a homecoming that reopens old tensions. The collection closes with Cry For Me about Uncle Wallace Bedlow a folk singer in New York.
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William Melvin Kelley
Doubleday
Kelley
Charles Dunford
Chig
Pete
Connie
Beasons
Carlyle
Mance
Pete Dunford
Uncle Wallace Bedlow
New York
Miles A. Smith
Divorce case highlights welfare incentives in Los Angeles
Paul Harvey notes a Los Angeles Superior Court scene where a husband and wife with six children seek a divorce. The husband argues he loves his wife but the state aid for dependent children plus lower earnings could lure a divorce. The judge sends them to Conciliation Court amid broader critique of Aid to Dependent Children creating financial motives to separate. Johnson family appears in New York show business with infant son Brian at off Broadway rehearsal.
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Superior Court
Los Angeles
Roger Alton Pfaff
National
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
A.D.C
New York
Bian Johnson
Bian
Bernard Johnson
Cleo Quitman
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