McNamara Abandons Army Reserve Plan Prompts Guard Shift
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announces abolition of the Army Reserve and its functions and personnel to be folded into the National Guard. He reveals aims to remove about 100 congress members and roughly 5,000 other senior officials in the transition.
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Ecretary OF
Robert 5. McNamara
Army Reserve Organization
National Guard
Congress
Armed Services
McNamara
Reserve Officers Association of the United States
Johnson
Army
Reserve
Navy
Air Force
Laurels Earned In Coal Branch
The Kanawha County Board of Education plans closing Airport School as soon as practical, transferring students to Fruth School. The move honors the Neighborhood Worker's AAY program and the Hilltop Improvement League, which fostered community projects and a new sense of pride.
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Kanawha County Board of Education
Airport
Fruth
Action For Appalachian
AAY
Hilltop Improvement League
Coal Branch Heights
Walter Snyder
Coal Branch
Readers Forum Jews Not Guilty in Crucifixion
George R. Smith argues against blaming Jews for Christ’s crucifixion and urges readers to understand Jewish beliefs. He contends Jews are not responsible for ancestral acts, notes Christian roots would not exist without Jewish people, and calls for reframing teaching on divine foreknowledge.
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the Gazette
Marcus Kornstein
Kornstein
George R. Smith
Bowen St. City
Politics of Conflicts of Interest in West Virginia
Gov erecr Hulett Smith assigns a special task force to draft conflict of interest legislation. The article surveys past WV laws on state dealings, insurance, liquor licenses, and the risks of overreach, noting gaps and the need for competitive bidding and ethical restraint to prevent personal profit from public office.
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Erecr
Hulett Smith
Smith
West Virginia
Legislative Branch
State Board of Insurance
Woard
State Department
Eisenhower proposal on Republican consensus and leadership
The piece discusses Gen. Eisenhower’s plan for a party consensus led by a nonpartisan spokesman and a professional chairman. It weighs the risks of deep factionalism in the GOP, naming Ray Bliss as a possible replacement and noting the difficulty of unifying diverse conservatives and liberals under a single platform.
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Dean Burch
Sen. Goldwater
Republican
Burch
National Committee
Richard M. Nixon
Eisenhower
Ray Bliss
Ohio Republican Organization
Senate
House
Sen. Dirksen
Winds
Rep
Halleck
Indiana
Rockefeller
Scranton
Smylie
Evans
Romney
Chaffee
Nixon
Goldwater
William Miller
Thomas KE
Dewey
Alf M. Landon
Congress
California
Johnson
New_York Times Co
Washington
Barry Goldwater
Sam Rayburn
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic Advisory Council
Paul Butler
Rayburn
Poets and Sandpaper Ads Reach the Supreme Court
Russell Baker reports the Supreme Court case against Ted Bates & Co regarding an advertising claim about shaving sandpaper. The piece critiques marketing exaggeration and the line between illusion and fact in television ads, noting consumer reaction and the ethics of hard selling.
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New York Times Co
Washington
Supreme Court
Ted Bates & Co
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Bates Agency
B. J. Brown
Bates
Intercepted Message from 1964 Dec 15 to Bernie
Intercepted message dated December 15, 1964 suggests a minimum approach calling for competitive bids on sellouts. George signs the note advising Bernie to recommend selling via the lot of competitive bids.
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Bernie
Your
George
Potomac Fever and Mars Geiger Counter Debate
Sen Williams calls for Bobby Baker investigators to probe the female angle amid party girl speculation. Mariner 4 heads to Mars with a Geiger counter as Congress decries waste over Geiger counts. Tech students riot abroad. Moscow cops halt damage at the embassy while Khrushchev is depicted as hunting bullets.
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Sen. Williams
Bobby Baker
Mars
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Brown
AJ Jones
Jones
Kyle Rote
B. H. Jacobson
Jack Wilson
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U.S
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Cairo
Mosccow
Rf We
Moscow
Sergei Mikoyan
Khrushchev
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