Editorial urges pruning nonessential programs before marketing funds
West Virginia Agriculture Commissioner Gus R. Douglass seeks a 50000 boost to the marketing program to hire more market specialists as farm product flow nears 2.5 million biennially. The editorial supports the idea but calls for trimming costly, politically driven items like the Market Bulletin and other luxuries before approving expanded funding.
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Gus R. Douglass
West Virginia
Board of Public Works
Douglass
Market Bulletin
Agriculture Commissioner
Any Answers Any Answers Mr Mayor
An editorial praises Mayor L McIlwain of South Charleston for restoring volunteer status to Civil Defense Director John Hover after a $250 monthly salary and questions a $7500 salary and a $14000 portion of a $28000 department budget. It asks Mayor Shanklin for answers.
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L. ©. McIlwain
South Charleston
Civil Defense
McIlwain
John Hover
Charleston
Charleston Civil Defense Department
Shanklin
Drive Carefully And Arrive Alive New Year Safety Message
A New Year warning urges drivers to be careful on New Year’s Eve. The message notes many motorists may be intoxicated and emphasizes that others on the road pose the main risk. It urges readers to drive cautiously tonight for a safer celebration.
Khrushchev Fall Spurs New Soviet Leadership Signs
The London Observer assesses post Khrushchev era in the USSR. Brezhnev Kosygin Mikoyan lead a cautious, reform minded shift with emphasis on consumer goods, agriculture loosening, and de´tente with the West while avoiding nuclear escalation. A new generation under Shelepin and Semichastny gains influence amid a cautious but hopeful mood among educated Russians.
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London Observer
London
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Alexsei Kosygin
Mikoylayed
Communist Front
Mao Tsetung
Chou En-lai
Kkhrushchev
Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
Kosygin
Mikoyan
Komsomo
Committee of State Security
Serov
Shelepin
Komsomol
Vladimir Semichastny
Russia
al- Khrushchev
Violence and the Year 1963 in America
Ralph McGill analyzes rising violence in 1963 64 noting brutal hitchhiker killings and the Kennedy era era crime surge. He cites gun sales ease regulation fights and Brandeis University study with Karl Menninger, linking violence to urban growth unemployment and social ills while urging moral civic action.
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Lee Oswald
Brandeis University
United States
Eoance
Karl Menninger
Menninger Clinic
Topeka
Kansas
Menninger
Brandeis
Rivalry Among U S Military Services Ends With Pentagon Quip
A top secret Pentagon meeting shows a comic clash among Gen Patent of the Army Gen Wings of the Air Force and Adm Bilge of the Navy as they debate flying submarines undersea planes and ICBM protection. The secretary of defense finally uses a computer to suggest closing the Pentagon.
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Pentagon
Gen. Patent
U. S. Army
United States Army
Air Force
Adm
Bilge
U. S. Navy
U. S. Marine Corps
Patent
Army
United States Air Force
Wings
Navy
Adm. Bilge
Gen. Wings
Secretary of Defense
Lipppmann on national interest limits in Asia Africa
Lippmann argues America overreached by projecting Cold War aims into Southeast Asia and Africa. He says vital interests are Europe and the Americas, while Congo and Vietnam demand restraint. He urges a cool, calculated approach and warns of isolationism if we ignore national interests.
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Silom
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Africa
Asia
Netherlands
Southeast Asia
Korea
Europe
Americas
Oath Taker George C H Smith Letter on Inauguration
A reader named George H C Smith from Beckley writes that the real swearing in occurs after the inauguration and signs as an Oath Taker. The note appears in the INTERCEPTED MESSAGE column dated December 31 1964.
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H. C. Smith
Beckley
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Edward Crankshaw
Ussr
Alexander Shelepin
Ralph McGill
Florida
Georgia
Chicago
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Sea
Goldwater
Phoenix
Ariz
America
Art Buchwall
Washington
U. S. Air Force
Walter Lippmann
Far East
Viet Nam
United Nations
CSS
S—S
Hulett
Yours
George
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