Labor dept to raise 1965 farming pay and limit braceros
The Labor Department announced higher prevailing wages for farm jobs and tighter rules for hiring Mexican braceros. Farmers must offer the jobs to U S workers first at set rates, with wages up to $1.40 an hour in some states, before foreign workers can be imported.
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Dington
UPI
Braceros
Mexico
Department of Labor
Willard Wirtz
Texas
Department
Congress
Labor Department
Wirtz
U. S
Wall Street Charter Advises Diversification For Capital
The Alexander Hamilton Institute urges protecting capital through cash or cash equivalents and top-grade equities. Wall Street voices expect rising stock reinvestment demand as institutions shift from bonds to stocks. Analysts foresee not a new all-time high yet but potential gains in special situations.
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New York
Leslie M. Pollack
Reynolds & Co
United Nations Postage Stamps Revenue Split Defined
United Nations stamps are valid only for mail at U.N. headquarters in New York. A U.S. U.N. agreement assigns all revenue from U.N. stamp sales to the U.S. Post Office, while the U.N. keeps revenue from philatelic sales per the World Almanac.
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United Press International
United Nations
U.N
New York
US U.N
U.S. Post Office Department
Beef futures begin under 1965 markets at Chicago Mercantile Exchange
College Station notes the start of cattle futures trading this year with contracts for 1000 to 1300 pound steers and delivery to sockyards in Chicago or Omaha. Ed Uvacek of Texas A&M explains hedging benefits and price risk shifting while futures offer a way to offset price swings in the beef industry.
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College Station
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Ed Uvacek
Texas A&m University
Uvacek
USDA
Chicago
Omaha
Avacek
Almanac: Key dates and celestial notes for December 22
The entry notes December 22, 1964 as the 357th day with nine to follow, mentions Venus Mars as morning stars and Jupiter Saturn as evening stars, lists notable anniversaries including Edward Robinson birth in 1869 and Alfred Dreyfus treason conviction in 1894, Wake Island fall report in 1941, the Nerva sinking in 1957 with 28 seamen lost, and a biblical thought of the day from Matthew.
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United Press International
Venus
Mars
Edward Robinson
Alfred Dreyfus
General Staff
Wake Island
Pacific
Japan
Nerva
North Sea
Weather Halts Harvest But Ginning Continues
USDA Memphis report shows subfreezing weather stopping harvesting while gin yards stay busy. Eight classers processed 20,000 samples, total season 84,000. White grades 16 percent, Light Spotted and Spotted 83 percent. bark and grass defects 5 percent. Pressley tests largely steady. Texas ginning strong with 85,000 psi level readings. Prices edge down. cottonseed near 49 dollars per ton at gin points.
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USDA
Agricultural Marketing Service
Memphis
K. E. Voekel
Wasty
Pressley
Temperature summary for December 22 1963 with highs and lows
The record shows the 24 hour period ending at 11 am had a high of 66 at 3 and 4 pm Monday and a low of 38 at 8 am today. For the same period on December 22 1963 the low was 25 degrees with a high near 66. Sunrise 7 44 Sunset 5 35.
Vast precolonial population estimate for native peoples
World Scope Encyclopedia cites that before European contact the indigenous population of the future United States was no more than 750000. This figure reflects early scholarly estimates of Native American demographics prior to exploration and colonization.
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United Press International
America
United States
World Scope
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