Lighter Side: Five News Items and a Real One
Dick West reveals five satirical items with one real event. The real item features Rep Otis G. Pike proposing a harbor project doubt and a congressional test, while four are stretched fictions. The column lampoon contrasts policy shifts and inflation remedies.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
Washington
National Petroleum Producers Association
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Otis G. Pike
D-N.y
Rhodes Family Ties Highlight Wayland Convocation
Everett L. Corbin, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Rhodes of Tell, earned a BA in elementary education at Wayland Baptist College in Plainview. He plans a Master of Divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His wife Sarah Beth will pursue a master’s in religious education and church music.
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Rhodes
Tell
Everett L. Corbin
H. B. Rhodes
Wayland Baptist College
Plainview
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Sarah Beth
Indications of ADA shifts toward Communists influence
Morris Higley argues that the Americans for Democratic Action now mirrors Communist goals after Hubert Humphrey founded the ADA. He cites a resolution demanding disarming Americans and storing firearms publicly to combat crime, predicting Humphrey would disavow or endorse such moves if returned to politics.
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Morris Higley
Americans For Democratic Action
Hubert Humphrey
Hhh
United States
Paducah Cemetery Association Names Directors in Meeting
Mrs John E Norris Jr was re elected a director of the Paducah Cemetery Association Dal las Love Willie Ruskin and J O Pete Stanley were also elected Mrs J W Gibbs Jr and Mrs Helen Fry remain as holdover directors Officers will be elected at the July quarterly meeting spokesman said
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John E. Norris Jr
Prague Radio
Prague City
Communist Party Committee
Liberal
Interior Ministry
Vera Blackwell
U.S
London
Czechoslovakia
Republic
CTK
Prague
Paval Tigrid
Svedectii
Paris
Miss Blackwell
Radio Free Europe
Munich
Vera Lunackova
Elizabeth Lassen Rites Held Today
Elizabeth Lassen 81 died Sunday at Mt. Pleasant Memorial Hospital in Texas. Rites at King Memorial Methodist Church with Rev. A N Motes, burial in Childress Cemetery. Survived by two sons Raymond Lassen, sister, seven grandchildren, nine great grandchildren.
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King Memorial Methodist Church
Mt. Pleasant
Texas
A. N. Motes
Childress Cemetery
Newberry’s
Childress
Lafayette
Willie Bolding
Pittsburgh
Raymond Lassen
Income maintenance grants eyed for rural areas and work incentives
The administration funded a 510000 research grant this month toward guaranteed income experiments in two rural regions as part of a broader push by Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch and aides to test effects on work incentives. The plan blends income payments with training and food stamp reforms, while critics warn of reduced work effort under guaranteed benefits.
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Robert H. Finch
Finch
Nixon
Daniel P. Moynihan
Arthur F. Burns
Political and legal debates span wage controls to Vietnam aid
The article cites AFL-CIO opposition to wage controls unless profits are curbed, Nixon administration denials of wage price controls, and calls from Patman for protest steps against banks and tax deposits. It covers Vietnam policy, Midway communique support for elections in South Vietnam, and a Bryan Texas murder case with suspect Stultz.
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Executive Council
Nixon
Patman
John N. Mitchell
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury
David M. Kennedy
U.S
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Paris
Midway
Roberts
Stultz
Kubat
Karen Lyn
Oklahoma
Texas
Bryan
Decker
Grand Prairie
Becky Baker
Karen Lynn
Miss Baker
Laird eyes larger aid for South Vietnamese military forces
The plan would raise annual South Vietnamese equipment funding to 1.25 billion dollars if Congress approves. It covers troop carriers trucks trailers radios and night vision gear plus guns and ammunition. South Vietnamese forces rose from 650000 in January 1968 to 857000 by April and are set to reach 875000 by year end 1969.
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Pentagon
Congress
Laird
United States
Three teens report finding a young woman’s body near route 23
Three teenage brothers encountered the nearly nude body of a girl, estimated to be 17 to 20, behind a bush on an abandoned farm near U.S. Route 23. The autopsy showed multiple fatal wounds including gunshot and stab injuries. The scene was described as a frequented lover’s lane.
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Dale Higley
Here
Higley
Ruby’s Department Store
Kalamazoo
David Christie
Lover’s Lane
Park sighting prompts mystery in Mary case
Mrs. Gloria Cogswell described a white car and a white man near a park cabin where Mary was last seen. Dr. Joseph Mount of IBM later questioned her, as 18 police, FBI agents, and state troopers pursued leads. Rewards total 25000 dollars. neighbors bring food as family endures distress. John F. Kennedy is noted as survived by both parents.
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St. Mark’s Church
Gloria Cogswell
Mary
FBI
Connecticut
William Loeb
Connecticut Sunday Herald
Mount
Dr. Mount
Billy
Joseph
David
Liyt
Ancient vegetables and peculiar quotes in a quiz
A collage of trivial questions and facts discusses cabbage cultivation dating back to prehistoric times and Edward E Cummings using lowercase signatures. It cites sea turtles caring for eggs, a Soviet educator Eduard Kostyashkin, Archbishop Ussher’s 1654 date for creation, and U S lumber production exceeding 40 billion board feet.
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B.C
Ussher
Ireland
Smothers Brothers feud with CBS continues in Look
Tom Smothers claims CBS censored 75 percent of 26 Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour shows. CBS rebuttal notes Look piece and possible NBC or ABC interest. Smothers accuses anticipatory censorship and argues affiliates decide censorship locally.
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New York
UPI
Smothers
Look Magazine
CBS
NBC
ABC
Robert D. Wood
Cbs-Tv Network
Smothers Brothers
Lubbock Printer Arrested for Counterfeit Checks
Benny Gene Murray a 29 year old Lubbock printer was arrested on counterfeit state check charges after a secret shopping photo led to the case. Authorities found twenty seven counterfeit checks including seventeen blank in his Lubbock apartment and set bond at ten thousand dollars. Murray was on parole from Colorado for an unrelated offense.
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Austin
UPI
Irving
Dallas
Department of Public Safety
Benny Gene Murray
Lubbock
Murray
DPS
Irving Department
Colorado State Penitentiary
Rain and faith echo in a rock‑solid parable
A biblical verse speaks of storms revealing a house built on rock as opposed to sand, while a sermon quote from H. W. Beecher emphasizes practical application of church teachings in life’s tests.
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H. W. Beecher
Gambling bulk of U S wagers hits fifty billion
United Press International notes about 50 billion dollars is wagered annually in the United States on gambling and roughly three quarters of that total is paid back to gamblers as cash or prizes.
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United Press International
United States
Chemical shells would have armed Britain and Germany
Britannica notes that if World War II continued both Britain and Germany planned to load all artillery shells with toxic chemicals, reflecting wartime chemical weapons planning.
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Great Britain
Germany
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Carter Glass Father of the Federal Reserve
Virginia statesman Carter Glass, recognized as the father of the Federal Reserve system, earned lasting acclaim for shaping early U S monetary policy and financial reform.
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Carter Glass
Virginia
Federal Reserve System
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