Editorial Calls For Legislative Service Agency In West Virginia
The editorial argues that a nonpartisan legislative service agency is essential to provide impartial analyses for lawmakers. It warns that political considerations may undermine the agency’s professional staff and credible research, risking costly favoritism and reduced public benefit. The piece condemns crony appointments and stresses the need for independent expertise.
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Legislative Service Agency
West Virginia
Joint Committee On Government and Finance
West
Cipal
Service Agency
Education Needed To Read the News
The Raleigh News and Observer argues that reading newspapers requires understanding history geography science and economics. It says schools should emphasize background knowledge century by century to truly grasp current events and that yesterday belongs in today’s understanding.
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Raleigh
N.C
News and Observer
BPW Could Join Motor Pool First
State Finance Commissioner Truman Gore pushes a state motor pool but faces resistance from departments and the Board of Public Works which have long used luxury cars. The board may oppose relinquishing cars even as Burl Sawyers across the Department of Transportation proves a pool works, having driven his own car to work for almost a year.
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Truman Gore
Gore
Board of Public Works
Charleston
Burl Sawyers
Crime Problem Urgency Shown
The Savannah Morning News argues crime is an urgent national issue and uses city-size population comparisons. Violent attacks exceed the population of Shreveport, robberies match Bridgeport, rapes equal Fort Smith females, and murders could depopulate a town larger than Gettysburg.
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America
Shreveport
Bridgeport
Conn
Fort Smith
Ark
Gettysburg
Savannah
Potomac Project Commentary Sparks Editorial Debate
Readers praise editorials on Potomac Project and urge balanced multi state cooperation. Letters discuss equitable solutions, tree preservation in Montgomery West Virginia, and reactions to Liston Clay fight and state official appointments.
Public schools need federal aid, says Washington note
Ralph McGill argues poverty of mind and purse cripples schools in southern counties with dilapidated buildings and overcrowded classrooms. He cites 7 million students under fire hazards, 12.6 million in overcrowded rooms, and 28 million attending unlabeled buildings without sprinkler systems or proper lighting, calling for federal support despite local resistance.
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Washington
Office of Education
America
Barry Goldwater and Johnson on Foreign Policy Choices
The piece argues President Johnson imitates Republican foreign policy in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic but risks edging toward Democrat compromise. It warns coalition urges with Communists threaten independence, urges steadfast alliances and a clear, independent Johnson policy.
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Lyndon Johnson
Viet- Nam
Dominican Republic
Johnson
Congress
Latin America
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Why Do Books Fail to Score Best Sellers
A reader was mailed 57 books to gauge why some fail as best sellers. Only nine were read, with 23 unopened. Title and author choices repelled him, while a few books and several works by well known figures drew his interest.
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New York Times
Washington
Anne
Krishna Menon
Adam Clayton Powell
Sihanouk
Sargent Shriver
McNamara
Subject
Cecil Beaton
Peking
Moscow
Barry Goldwater
Kennedy
Melvin Mayer
Real Voice
Richard Harris
Kefauver
Pauline Kael
Leon Harris
Nat Mentoff
North
Mississippi
Nicholas V. Hoffman
South
Unhappy Doctors Analyst Pens Note From Morgantown
A 1965 letter from Dr. Robert L. Vosburg of Morgantown West Virginia argues that money cannot buy happiness. The informal note appears to reflect concerns about wealth and wellbeing. Page 13 carries the story.
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Robert L. Vosburg
Morgantown
W. Va
Clay Liston shuffle fuels secretaryless minute miss
The piece mocks confusion over the Clay Liston shuffle and notes missing minutes due to lack of a secretary. References to Liston seeming finished in the ring imply critics question Clay career prospects. Princess Margaret visits noted alongside unrelated local items about billboard plans and barbers.
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Liston
Margaret
Tony
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Charles Town
Montgomery
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State Road Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sara R. Applestine
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Lincoln
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Fairview Dr. City
Russia
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Triad
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Government of the People
Kenneth Keating
Robert Kennedy
Harold Wilson
the Jade Sea
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William
Snaith
Robert L. Zimler
Gibbon
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