Editorial Page Thought for the Evening Injustice and belief
The Supreme Court ruling allowing an atheist to hold public office without taking a God oath raises questions about perjury penalties and moral obligation. The piece argues for equal accountability, notes church state separation, and emphasizes freedom of religion as essential while affirming the national motto In God We Trust.
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Supreme Court
United States
Ezra Stiles
Yale
Tax Exemption Battle Affects Oklahoma Utilities
Oklahoma REA cooperatives push tax exemption laws to keep urban service, avoiding city licenses and permits. Editorial notes the policy freezes private utilities from expanding with city growth. Cooperative taxes include a $1 per 100 customers fee and 2 percent gross receipts. no sales tax. Investor utilities pay about 10.9 percent, cooperatives 2.2 percent.
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Oklahoma
Tulsa
REA
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Frail weapon of foreign aid in Cold War Italy
National Review essay argues poverty not sole cause of Communist risk in Italy. E V Kuehnietoeidihn notes living standards high across classes, with wealth concentrated in Po valley south regions. Foreign aid is criticized as an expensive frail weapon in the Western defense strategy.
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National Review
E. V. Kuehneit- Ieddihn
Italy
West
NATO
Domestic violence and crime rise highlighted by Hoover
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover notes 1950s to 1960 crime surge with a 98 percent increase in serious crime while population grew 18 percent. In 1960 murders occurred every 58 minutes and forcible rape every 34 minutes. Juvenile arrests more than doubled though youth population rose modestly. A man pled insanity after proposing to eight girls.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington Doldrums and Campaign Echoes Reported
Washington faces social quiet as August heat lingers and Congress endures air conditioned strain. President Kennedy plans longer Hyannis Port weekends while Vice President Chen Cheng visits. A Senate subcommittee volume of campaign speeches sits by the President, while Balewa cites wisdom from small nations. Admiral Burke retires after 42 years, sharing quips, and a new medical association chief promises focus on issues over tissues. A chain letter warning surfaces from the National Press Club.
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Jerry Bennett
Senate “Freedom of Communications
Nixon
Nigeria
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
United States
Leonard W. Larson
American Medical Association
Leigh A. Burke
Naval Operations
Navy
Burke
Pentagon
National Press Club
John Cosgrove
Cuba’s Castro Takes Confiscations Hit on Private Wealth
AP analysis notes Cuba’s post takeover moves confiscate private holdings and cash, distorting the peso, driving assets into the U S, and leaving refugees bearing losses. It cites estimates of $861 million in American-owned property and $58 million in Cuban-held refugee assets, with trade shrinking and the peso weakened.
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AP Business News
New York
Castro
Cuba
U.S
United States
Boyle on homesickness as a family grows through absence
In a New York column Hal Boyle writes about how an empty house feels when a child visits relatives and the parents confront quiet, missed noises, and the sense of growing up as children become adults. The piece blends personal detail with a meditation on family, memory, and the to-be-expected ache of kids leaving home.
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New York
Nothi
Tracy Ann
God
Nina
Leila Palmer
Frances
Tracy
Dottie
Mommy
Old Berlin standoff echoing in Moscow and Washington
AP analyst notes the Berlin dispute stalls as Russia and the West repeat the same talks. Khrushchev offers a free city of West Berlin with East German control of access routes, while the West rejects recognition of East Germany and distrusts any Soviet-backed settlement.
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Associated Press News
Washington (Ap
Russia
Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
West Germany
West
Germany
Europe
Khrushchev
Old Oak in Pepperell Park Inspires Local Poem
In the Biddeford Saco Journal, a letter notes Pepperell park’s large boulder and the local Old Oak. It mentions a book in McArthur Library containing a poem about the tree and data on its age, plus another poem set in Pepperell park from William Grant Books Stories in Song, Haswell Press.
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Old Oak
Biddeford-Saco Journal
Pepperell Park
Saco
McArthur Library
William Grant Books
The
Haswell Press
Non interfering in law tips by Ruth Millett
Ruth Millett offers practical advice for husbands to shape their wives into non interfering mothers in law. Tips include setting visit limits, guarding against criticism of in laws, defending money matters as the couple's, and keeping the wife focused on making the husband happy to reduce meddling.
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Ruth Millett Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Social Security Q and A From Ray Henry
A reader's questions about marriage and longevity pensions and payments are answered. Topics include whether marriage extends life, pension income limits, lump sum death payments, treatment of investment income, retirement ages, spousal benefits, and medical care options under Old Age Assistance, with guidance to obtain Ray Henry's Social Security Handbook.
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Amarillo
Tex
University of California
F.D.S
Hackensack
N.J
Veterans Administration
B. N
Lewiston
Social Security
S.M.S
Houston
Texas
N.T
Stamford
Conn
D.A
Bay City
Mich
Michigan Welfare Office
Ray Henry
Massachusetts Ave
N.W
Washington, D.C
The
Hall Syndicate, Inc
Daily Crossword Puzzle Clues From Woollcott
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Woollcott
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