Two Women Run For City Mayor In Historic Race
Opinion notes growing interest in city elections and asserts the two party system will sharpen debate. It highlights the mayoral race featuring two women as announced candidates, the first such instance, and hopes candidate participation boosts voter turnout. It praises those who offer time and talents to seek office.
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Ibbers
Harold Sweet
Travelers’ Insurance Company
Sweet
Raymond Manufacturing Company
CIA Seeks Unedited Galleys From The Secret Team Book
A CIA library bid for ex Air Force Col L Fletcher Prouty's critical book The Secret Team led to a sting by Prouty who secretly recorded a bookstore emissary. The piece ties CIA tactics to past covert actions in Vietnam and references the Pentagon Papers era. It notes no plans to suppress the book and highlights other political notes on Wallace Harris and government films.
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Air Force
Col. L. Fletcher Prouty
Pentagon
CIA
Sidney Kramer
White House
Prouty
South Vietnam
Kennedy
Joint Chiefs
Vietnam
Victor Marchetti
Mail opening potpourri by Hal Boyle
New York AP column touches on curious facts from health to wildlife and welfare. It notes obesity linked to anemia and diabetes, vampire bats spread rabies, and odd anecdotes from history. It cites welfare reform efforts, job training, and tracking absent fathers amid rising relief costs.
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New York
Mexico
Argentina
Jacob Klatzkin
National Geographic Society
Polio cases rise in Pa as epidemic tapers in 1952
The State Health Department reports 12 poliomyelitis cases in Pennsylvania since January, doubling last year's figure for the same period but noting the decline since the 1952 epidemic. Dr. William Schrack says the numbers reflect the tapering phase and warns that earlier figures remain a guide, not a verdict.
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State Health Department
Pennsylvania
William Schrack
Health Office
State pension critique delays compensation commission actions
The Economy League found Pennsylvania state retirements for legislators and judges far too generous. Pension figures for lawmakers, including former Rep Hamilton at 22129 yearly and Rep Rybak at 3016, illustrate incentives to preserve pay scales. Lawmakers fear a downgrade if the Compensation Commission proceeds, and momentum to kill it persists.
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Pennsylvania Economy League
Robert K. Hamilton
Beaver
Hamilton
William C. Rybak
Northampton
General Assembly
Compensation Commission
Economy League
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Corry
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FDR
Fred Harris
Aluminum Company of America
Alcoa
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Hal Boyle
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Murray Dickson
St. Louis Cardinals
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Nixon
New York City
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Ernest Emmons Jr
East Main Street
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Texaco
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North Center
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Ruth Bennett
John D. Flanigan
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