Voters Seek Write-In Tote For Soundproof Chamber
South Charleston residents urge a write-in tote to fund a soundproof council chamber. The letter to the editor from local voters advocates practical upgrades and improved meeting acoustics.
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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1962
Page
7
Randolph Awaits Satellite Report On Communications Bill
Senator Jennings Randolph waits for Commerce Committee findings before deciding on the communications satellite act. Editorials criticize the measure as expensive and caution against private monopoly elements. Party leaders discuss bipartisan foreign policy and the 1964 campaign for Goldwater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jennings Randolph
Commerce Committee
Explaining engine efficiency and presidential resignation
The article explains mechanical efficiency as the fraction of power from gas expansion delivered to the flywheel and thermal efficiency as the ratio of fuel input to power output. It also covers volumetric efficiency as air intake relative to piston displacement. It notes a president can resign by writing to the Secretary of State under a 1792 law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Congress
Potomac Fever and Foes in a Nation Fray
In a sharp Washington dispatch Fletcher Knebel notes doctors clash with businessmen over Kennedy era feuds and a growing political drift. Sen Goldwater predicts a conservative fall while McClellan probes the striptease industry impact. The piece wryly warns of prosperity with fewer enjoying it as stockholders loom large.
Editorial Attacks AGVA as Front for Underworld
The Senate probes into Calumet City and other sin centers reveals mob ties to strip venues and the American Guild of Variety Artists. Witnesses describe union officials protecting members while racketeers dominate contracts and performers are left to arrange deals themselves. The piece brands AGVA not as a union but as a front for the underworld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet City
Chicago
Miami
American Guild of Variety Artists
Afl-Cio
Mayor Should Disavow Political Tale Being Told by Some of His Supporters
A political tale about Interstate 64 and local figures Mayor Shanklin and Road Commissioner Burl Sawyers circulates. The letter urges the mayor to publicly disavow the story to avoid unfair implications, or continue quiet defense if facts justify it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Miller
Rep. Miller
California
Charles Halleck
Indiana
House
Shanklin
Burl Sawyers
Copenhaver
Sawyers
Cision
Party of Peace Imperative In These Troubled Times
Readers urge a new Party of Peace to unite diverse groups behind voting for peace. They cite U S foreign policy failures, urge peace candidates at local levels, and reference Voices from Nation magazine urging a new politics to sway Washington with votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GOP
Party of Peace Imperative
the Gazette
Washington
Administration
Cia-Pentagon State Department
Cuba
South America
Berlin
Congo
South East Asia
Party of Peace
Peace
Charleston
The
Nation Magazine
Carey McWilliams
Alliston Cragg
Elizabeth St. City
Alarm over Bible in God We Trust on coins
Letter to the Gazette questions Billy Graham and the critics who seek to remove In God We Trust from coins. The writer argues law and order exist without the Bible and denounces forced chaplains and religious oaths in courts, urging true freedom of religion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Evangelist Billy Graham
Mr. Graham
West Virginia MAA A Plan Pleasing Neither Side
The Kerr Mills Medical Assistance for the Aged program expands in West Virginia amid funding woes and political pressure. State officials and medical groups clash over costs and eligibility as the program nears a potential year-end surplus but faces uncertain future funding and care levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Jonathan Spivak
Charleston
W. Va
Congress
Kennedy
House
Ways and Means
American Medical Association
Cecil Underwood
State Welfare Department
Welfare Department
William W. Barron
MAA
Washington
Ney Welfare
W. Bernard Smith
Smith
Civil Service
DB. E. Greeneitch
Wes Virginia State Medical Association
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Yours
South Charleston
Mary Chilton Abbot’s
Ashington Watch
Randolph
Senate
Gazette
Kee
United States Information Agency
Paul Crabtree
Barron
USIA
Storer College
Harper's Ferry
Capitol Hill
Goldwater
God
Gazette Quiz
Fletcher Knebel
JFK
Sen. Goldwater
Nebraska
Kansas
Sen. McClellan
Agva
Underworld
Lincoln
Inez Robb
Kanawha
Elk Valleys
L. W. Johnson &Johnson Medicine Co
Bigley Avenue City
Dr. Graham
VANES
Wall Street Journal
Uncle Sam
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