Longer School Terms Urged Without Funding Details
In Our Opinion the tempo for year round schooling gets strong push from Lt. Gov Broderick before the Pennsylvania Association of County Commissioners. The piece notes Senate Bill 836 allows year round use but lacks funding, recounts Oil City’s costly pilot program, and questions where extra money would come from.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond J. Broderick
Pennsylvania Association of County Commissioners
Broderick
Shafer
Oil City
Robert
Grass Roots Opinion Urges Parents to Watch Over Teens
In Glidden Iowa a graphic plea urges parents to keep their children with them and aware of their whereabouts. It warns that late night street activity leads to vandalism and emphasizes parental help to provide direction and supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glidden
Iowa
Middle Age is a Gentle Ride Beyond Youth
New York AP notes middle age offers calm pleasures and self restraint. It praises steadier conduct, practical dress, and wiser patience, with fewer social pretenses and fewer visits from relatives. The piece imagines later life as calmer, while warning against apeing youth as the sole path to happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Corry 1949 Preview Jamestown Game Benefit at Loveland Field
It Happened In Corry 20 YEARS AGO August 23 1949 reports the Corry Moose Bombers return to Loveland Field to play the Jamestown Steel Partitions in a Warren Mae benefit game. Milk price hearings forecast a rise of half a cent per quart by October 1. Grange No 55 held a regular session with six candidates initiated and a safety talk by Patrolman Newell Beckwith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corry Moose Bombers
Loveland Field
Jamestown Steel Partitions
Warren Mae
Corry
State Milk Control Commission
Corry Grange No.55
Roy Swart
Gty
Newell Beckwith
Las Vegas transition from mob era to clean image gains steam
The Las Vegas Strip shifts under Howard Hughes and others toward legitimate business. Caesars Palace, Bonanza, Stardust, and Dunes expand under new owners while old mob ties linger. Nathan Jacobson leads clean up and new entertainment, with hotel gambles growing alongside family oriented tourism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacobson
Caesar's Palace
Bonanza Hotel- Casino
Levin-Townsend Computer Corp
Six-Mile Strip
Nate Jacobson
Caesar’s Palace
Jerome Zarowitz
FBI
Zarowitz
Anthony
Fat Tony Salerno
Ruby Lazarus
New York City
Americans Should Mind Our Own Business on Foreign Conflicts
A reader condemns Irish American groups arming for Ireland's religious dispute and warns Americans should avoid sending military aid abroad. The writer favors humanitarian aid and UN peacekeeping, stressing allegiance to the United States and domestic concerns over foreign entanglements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Vietnam
Korea
Colombia
Brazil
Japan
South Africa
Greece
America
United Nations
Space Monkey Benny Debacle Fuels Ethical Debate
A reader laments the $92 million failure of Benny the space monkey mission to study weightlessness. He notes the animal died after a failed recovery and autopsy showed organ bruising. The piece urges humane research limits, condemns vivisection, and questions space program costs and ethics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shorty Powers
Benny
This Day In History Aug Twenty Third 1969 Highlights
On this date many historical events are noted from 1775 to 1969 including King George III declaring open rebellion in America, Columbus’ arrest in Haiti, a Mary Baker Eddy charter, Japan’s WWI declaration, the Happiness Boys radio debut, Valentino’s death, Allied Marseille capture, Tibet’s toll, Saigon radio station raid, and a Czechoslovak workers strike. State and U S legislators are listed with contact addresses in Harrisburg and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George 111
England
Christopher Columbus
Haiti
Spain
Mary Baker Eddy
Lynn
Mass
Church of Christ
Japan
Germany
Billy Jones
Earnie Hare
Happiness Boys
Rudolph Valentino
France
Marseille
Dalas
Tibet
India
China
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Hal Boyle
Olin Bracken
League of Third Class Cities
Reading
Grand Electric Shop
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
The
Coury Journal
Hughes
Vegas
Las Vegas
Glitter City
USA
Las Vegas Strip
Desert
Howard Hughes
Nathan S. Jacobson
Baltimore
Bonanza
Jess Marcum
Rand Corporation
King's Castle
Camelot
Lake Tahoe
Dale Robertson
Parvin-Dohrmann
Stardust Casino
Hy Goldbaum
Fremont
Aladdin
Parvin-Dorrmann Holdings
Edward Turnes
Torres
Bobby Baker
Senate
Baker
the Dunes
Continental Connector Corp
Sidney Wyman
Charles
Kewpie" Rich
Wyman
Rich
Israel
Willie” Alderman
Underworld
Desert Inn
California
Los Angeles
Nevada
Larry O’brien
Hubert Humphrey
Robert Mayhewl
Nixon
Bebe Rebozo
Don Nixon
Corry Evening Journal
South Street
George R Sample
William Eaton
Joan McLaughlin
Associated Press
AP News
Sy Mall
Mall
Carrlan
Ubin
Ubtreation
George Cooklis
Earth
Bonny
Pacific
Ocean
Angel
Saigon
Czechoslovakia
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