Monopoly pressure and New York papers strike impact
The piece argues that newspaper consolidation isn’t inevitable and shows how rising costs and a New York City strike threaten multiple papers. It notes unions seek large pay increases, publishers face about 40 million dollars yearly in higher costs, and the industry’s losses suggest survival is in jeopardy for at least two papers if the strike persists.
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United States
New York City
Sntake
Newspaper Guild
Iowa Tax Revenue Rises in 1962 Amid Growth Signals
Iowa State Treasurer Abrahamson reports preliminary 1962 tax receipts near 297 million dollars, up 15 million from the prior year. Individual income tax and sales tax drives fueled the gain, with economic growth estimated at about 4 percent, suggesting healthier revenue prospects for the 1963 65 budget deliberations.
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Iowa
Abrahamson
Cedar Rapids Youth Driver School Aims to Reform Offenders
A Cedar Rapids based driver education program for youths under adult supervision opens soon. It focuses on improving driving skills and legal attitude, using psycho physical testing and personality insights to foster responsible habits. The local Insurance Adjusters chapter funds the first five weeks, with officials praised for backing the experiment.
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Cedar Rapids
National Association of Insurance Adjusters
Cedar Rapids Library to lend 1500 record collection
Civil era memory and local items from 1953 1943 and other years note librarian I Archer Eggen announces Cedar Rapids Public Library will open its $1 500 record collection for lending to the public tomorrow Dave Johnston small college star tops among U S players for free throws Iowa dairy association sets aside 6000 to fight colored oleomargarine sale in the state 1943 Cedar Rapids City Lines reports buses handling 5 o clock rush well 1953 Lt Lloyd C Judd Dean and Lt James C Sprague visit Syracuse army base 1933 John R Weber dies at Cedar Rapids age 7 recounts Lincoln snfew. Rex the Great Dane dies as Iowa mascot five years after joining university.
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Otto B. Linde
Mann
Cedar Rapids
Call to reshape labor law to protect national interests
A Washington column argues for new labor legislation to curb union power after Taft Hartley. It cites ongoing East Coast dock and New York newspaper strikes, warns of broad economic and foreign policy damage, and urges rational checks on unions like the Teamsters and publishers.
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Congress
Taft-Hartley
Cleveland
Teamsters Union
American Newspaper Guild
New York
United States of America
Times Change Phrase Reframed From Cigars To Policy
A Nashville Tennessean reflection notes how the term sophisticated has broadened from a simple image of smoking a cigarette in a long holder to describe wide ranging topics from foreign policy to an electronic brain.
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Nashville
Castro's ransom and Castro's Cuba bombshell
A critique of U.S. policy tying Castro to a global morphine trade and a pledge from President Kennedy. It alleges a high level manipulation of news, cites Kefauver's crime committee, cites a Swiss seizure of morphine, and questions the non invasion guarantee amid Bay of Pigs fallout and U Thant minutes. It argues officials used tax money for ransom and links Donavan and Kennedy to a secret deal.
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Estes Kefauger
Cuba
Castro
United States
Switzerland
Washington
Miami
Kennedy
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
James B. Donovan
Donovan
Latin America
United Nations
U. N
U Thant-Castro
Havana
U Thant
Bay of Pigs
Mr. Kennedy
Guantanamo
Justice Department
Florida
Khrushchev
G O P Old Guard Challenged in 1963 Senate
The piece notes a GOP division between liberal moderates led by Kuchel Javits Hatfield and Morse and conservative Old Guard figures Dirksen Hickenlooper and Halleck. It also questions Sen Tom Dodds Congo stance and possible undercutting of Kennedy policy, reflecting intra party tensions and foreign policy battles.
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Ashington
Nelson Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
California
Tom Kuchel
Kennedy
Jacob Javits
New York
Mark Hatfield
Oregon
Wayne Morse
Hatfield
Morse
Homer Capehart
Indiana
G.O.P
New Hampshire
South Dakota
Clifford Case
N. J
John Sharman Cooper
Javits
Kuchel
Old Guard
Sen
Everett Dirksen
Ill
Bourke Hickenlooper
Iowa
Charlie: Halleck
Ind
Senate
Tom Dodd
Connecticut
U.S
Congo
United States
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Cornell
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Newton
Tohn R. Weber
Lincoln
W. J. Turner
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B. L. Scott
William Hoffer
Rex
Great Dane
University of Iowa
George Clark
Pia
William S. White
Tew
East and
Gulf
Ane
Henry J. Taylor
Fidel Castro
Robert Kennedy
G.O.P. Old Guard
JFK
Drew Pearson
Dodd
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Katanga
Pearson
Tshombe
Rodd
Guatemala
Elizabethville
State Department
Ed Guilion
U.N
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