Your Money's Worth Dollar Losing Across Parties
Sylvia Porter analyzes the postwar dollar record by administration from Truman to Johnson, showing continual loss in purchasing power from 1948 onward. She notes rising 1966 living costs, inflation comparisons, and argues neither party can claim better fiscal stewardship.
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Sylvia Porter
New York
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Eisenhower
Johnson
Kennedy
White House
Britain reports births fall and cancer deaths rise
Britain’s birth rate declined for the first time since 1955, while cancer deaths edged higher, driven by lung cancer in men. England and Wales’ mid-1965 population stood at about 47.76 million, with infant births down 13,000 from 1964 despite record infant and maternal health indicators.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Health
England and
Wales
United Kingdom
Extension Voted For School Aid
The Senate labor committee approved a 6.2 billion two year extension of the federal school aid program by a 14 to 1 vote. The panel trimmed about 2 billion from July’s subcommittee version while keeping 1.9 billion over two years beyond the 4.3 billion requested by President Johnson. The panel dropped Kennedy civil rights language and sent it to the floor as a separate bill.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Johnson
Edward Kennedy
Mass
Senate
Kennedy
Quotes Advocate Sperm Banks and Preventive Medicine
Nobel laureate Dr. Hermann Muller urges immediate creation of sperm banks from outstanding men for artificial insemination. Dr. John Millis, chairman of the Citizens Commission on Graduate Medical Education, extols preventive medicine as the wave of the future.
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Hermann Muller
John Millis
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Citizens Commission On Graduate Medical Education
Judiciary panel to review over sixty anti riot bills
The House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings next week on more than 60 bills aimed at curbing racial riots. The package targets protest activity and rioting with new penalties and procedural changes.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Cigaret Use Seen Rising Amid Tax Hikes and Caution Labels
A U S Department tobacco report notes American adults 16 plus average nearly 215 packs a year, second only to 1963. Factors include more smoking age people, higher income, and more overseas military shipments. Cigars decline while 1966 forecast near 8.5 billion. New taxes push up prices. only North Carolina lacks a tax.
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Washington
UPI
Surgeon General
Agriculture Department
Ment
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Oregon
North Carolina
Integration Drive Faces Negro Reluctance in Philadelphia Schools
Philadelphia AP report notes delays in school integration as Louis Ballen cites reluctance of Negro teachers to join white faculties. Only three white transfers remain to balance elementary staffs, but 412 Negro teachers must move. Ballen cites fear of not being welcomed and efforts to recruit nearer to home and in the northeast.
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Philadelphia
Louis Ballen
Ballen
Why Change Heralds Old Mill in Aymer Ontario
AYLMER Ontario AP report on the White family mill where water power has ground flour for over a century. Albert White says the ancient machinery has run 80 years without servicing and he sees no motive to update.
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Aylmer
Ont
White
Albert White
French Somaliland Parade Boycotted Over Governor Saget
About 35,000 natives in French Somaliland boycotted a military parade honoring the new governor Louis Saget. Tension rose after rioting on Aug 29 sparked by calls for independence or union with Somalia or Ethiopia following President de Gaulle’s arrival.
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Djibouti
Five Die As Truck Plunges From Fence into River
In Belgrade, a truck with five passengers in the rear left the road near Rijeka, crashing into a retaining fence and tumbling 130 feet into a river. All five riders died. the driver escaped injury.
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Belgrade
UPI
Rijeka
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