Shame On You O Hara FDR Had The Idea First
In Our Opinion O Hara argues for a Guaranteed Employment Act H R 12280 costing about 4 billion annually. The piece critiques the plan saying unemployment is not as dire as claimed and warns it would resemble ongoing welfare and increased government burden. It portrays the bill as a new make work program adding to tax burdens.
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O'Hara
FDR
United States
Stevenson
Korea
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs
Clemson University
Tika Chase
Friedrich Hebbel
Shafer’s Gubernatorial Pledges Falter in Harrisburg
Harrisburg report notes Governor Shafer often claims 90 percent of his 1966 platform fulfilled though critics cite unpassed bills and unstarted programs. It highlights stalled education bills, nonpartisan school director elections, a dormant Department of Transportation, highway concerns, and limited law enforcement reforms despite a Crime Commission.
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Shafer Ama
House highway bill shows lobby dominated ethics code ignored
Drew Pearson reports that the Public Works Committee rushed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1968 behind closed doors, expanding 3000 miles of interstate at a $15 billion cost. He cites lobbying groups and lawmakers pressed to override courts, protect billboards, and reduce enforcement funds, while Congress pushes education cuts elsewhere.
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Washington
House
Representatives
House Public Works Committee
Congress
Public Works Committee
House of Representatives
Subcommittee
John ‘Kluczynski
Chicago
William Cramer
Florida
Joel Broyhill
William Scott
Virginia
Gilbert Gude
Hervey Machen
Maryland
George Fallon
Baltimore
Highway Lobby
Train delay and local sports win headline Corry notes
Twenty years ago on July 15 1948 the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train 971 ran over five hours late due to a minor derailment between Spring Creek and Garland. In Corry a makeshift Merchants Church Sunday School picnic featured a baseball rally scoring four runs in the ninth and tenth to beat Reno firefighters before a small Loveland Field crowd. Forty years ago on July 15 1928 no paper today.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Spring Creek
Garland
Corry
Jim Bishop Summer Shines In Full Flower
Reporter Jim Bishop paints summer as vivid, sensory landscape from sunlit fields to city heat. vivid images of cornstalks, bicycles, lakes, and seaside scenes frame a season described as transformative and endlessly alive.
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Jim Bishop
Summer
Sunniest dangers of life and light hearted quips
Hal Boyle surveys health and humor in a Sun column. He cites the American Cancer Society on sun exposure as the leading skin cancer risk, notes fashion and office breaks, and recalls a Scottish golfing caddie hanged in the 17th century. He touches on nutrition, waste, a Clemson bottle concept, and quotes from Tika Chase and others.
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New York
American Cancer Society
France
Scotland
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Michigan
Mason Denison
Harrisburg
Shafer
Department of Transpor
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Sxtetsin
CMIT
Pennsylvania
Hut
Senate Education Committee
Autonomous Council of Higher Education Ith
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Erie
Drew Pearson
Harold Wirth
Firestone Rubber Company
The
American Roadbuilders Association
American Automobile Association
Asphalt Instiute
National Association of Auto Dealers
Portland Cement Association
National Association of Motor Bus Owners
Transportation Department
District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals
D.C
White House
LBJ
Pork Barrel
John Congressmen
Blatnik, Minn
Bob Jones
Senate
Thruway
Nixon
Richard Nixon
Paris
Adlai Stevenson
Presbyterian
Qld
Laughr
Boston
Hal Boyle Sun
the Corry Evening Journal
Siggnee Way
Accor
West South Street
Seco
Cony
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