Harrisburg Relief Boost Draws Skeptical Reader
A Sunbury Daily Item reader clips The Christian Science Monitor to note Pennsylvania raises relief payments by 11 percent as of New Year, aiding about 585 000 recipients. The plan costs taxpayers around 4 million yearly and follows a July bill amid a $50 million budget shortfall, while debates loom over relief abuses in Philadelphia and cross state flows.
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Harrisburg
Sunbury Daily Item
Christian Science Monitor
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Shafer
Executives Shun Cities by John Cunniff
The piece outlines reasons rising young executives avoid big cities citing crime pollution congestion and poor schools. It adds the shift toward balancing family life with work and resisting company control over private affairs as a key factor. It contrasts the old one world executive with the new focus on intimate personal relationships. It also reports Navy actions amid a controversy over an antiwar newsletter by seaman Roger Priest and requests from Rep Mendel Rivers for an investigation.
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New York
Eugene Jennings
Michigan State University
Philadelphia
Washington
Navy
House Armed Services
Mendel Rivers
Navy orders Priest court martial amid Railpax clash
The piece details Roger Priest facing a pending court martial with eight charges, two dismissed in November, amid high level controversy over Navy actions. It cites Admiral Koch overruling a judge, ICC criticisms of Railpax, and the Transport Department’s campaign to save passenger trains, noting political figures like L Mendel Rivers and Senator Hartke.
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Koch
Corry Chamber Set Meeting March 2 1950
The Corry Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual membership meeting at the Hotel Corry at 6 p.m. on March 2. President Charles Bracken announced the detail. An all day Spencer Ladies Aid meeting was held at the RD 3 home of Mrs Ralph Bailey with a tureen lunch for workers and families. Mrs Louis A Rossin hosted card games with canasta and bridge as part of the vanishing bridge program by Corry Hospital Ladies Auxiliary.
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Corry
Spencer Ladies’ Aid Society
RD 3
Ralph Bailey
Louis A. Rossin
Franklin Street
Ladies Auxiliary
Corry Hospital
Computers Get Old Too in Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge National Laboratory retires the 1604 computer after seven years of service, burning out from 1400-man workload. Replacement with two newer, costlier models at $9 million total promises more efficiency and no singing, as 1604’s musical legacy ends with carols.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL
Minneapolis
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