Sharper Tool Promotes Danville Location Factors Brochure
The Virginia Division of Industrial Development and Planning with Appalachian Power and the Norfolk and Western Railroad produced a Danville brochure detailing location factors to attract industrial prospects. Howard Hyron notes it updates prior materials and helps busy executives decide quickly on expansion potential in Danville. the brochure is a handy Chamber tool stressing useful information and timely updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Division of Industrial Development and Planning
Appalachian Power Company
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Danville
Pittsylvania
Howard Hyron
Chamber of Commerce
Dorman Miller
Appalachian
Protests Over UNC Speaker Ban Frays Campus Debate
A UNC Chapel Hill episode sparked NAACP pickets opposing the administration's ban on speaker Carl BraDEN. The old Speaker Ban law barred known Communists and those who invoked the Fifth Amendment from campus forums. The piece notes Braden’s HUAC contempt history, links to SCEF, and calls out university and state officials while praising some editors for their stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Brapen
Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc
NAACP
Brapen
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Braden
Daily Tar Heel
UNC
South
Carl Braden
Braaden
North Carolina
Braven
House Committee On UN
Congress
HUAC
Southern Conference Education Fund
Old
Southern Conference of Human Welfare
SCEF
James A. DomBrowski
Daily
Tar Heel
Frank Graham
Moore
General Assembly
William E. Horner
Sanford
Virginia
Danville Register subscription rates and policies
The Danville Register outlines daily and Sunday subscription rates, including in city and suburb carrier payments and mail options. It notes rates for one year, six months, three months, and one month, with mail and city delivery distinctions and renewal reminder practices.
Beauty as a Federal Rail for Highway Billboards
A Washington conference weighs making America more beautiful through highway billboards. The challenge is hiding the motorcycle policeman from view while preserving scenery. Indirectly, it argues scenery distribution should reflect states fairly, akin to dams and defense plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
America
Radio Sets Per Capita: A Hundred Per Hundred
A remark states the United States has about 100 radio sets for every 100 people. The jokey aside notes the idea of all sets being switched on at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Noteworthy firsts and humorous takes in lightcolumn
The quip column notes the season’s first fish beside a sunburned back joke. It cites a movie star praising a sense of humor in women while suggesting it’s essential for less handsome men. A travel note jokes about a 1-dollar tourist cabin and a cigar. A friend shows a college grandson photo beside a policeman.
Dandelions vs Space Echoes Speak in a Curbside Debate
A resident laments modern communication and muses that if born a millennium ago the nation might be a sea of dandelions, contrasting everyday talk with space-borne signals in a reflective, period voice.
Publisher Letter Corrects Editorial On Campus Ban
A reader challenges the May 18 editorial headed Speaker Ban Law Applied, asserts NAACP protest at UNC campus, and furnishes UNC Daily Tar Heel article and leaflet to illustrate campus picketing, predicting the paper will not print a retraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ban Law
NAACP
University of North Carolina
UNC Daily
Heat in Washington Kitchen as LBJ Pushes 14b Repeal
Ralph de Toledano assesses the political heat in Washington over President Johnson's push to repeal Taft Hartley Section 14(b) allowing states to prohibit compulsory unionism. He notes the White House leverage, party nerves, and voter stakes, with Meany and Reuther pressing for action and Congress wary of alienating voters.
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Harry S. Trumar
Washington
Congress
State of the Union
White House
Johnson
Peking
Moscow
Mr. Johnson
Hoyle
House
Senate
Union Treasuries
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Walter Reuther
Labor
LBJ
Meany, Reuther & Company
The Expense Account Age and Its Wake of Waste
A professor questions the rise of expense account affluence in major cities. He notes diners and travelers flaunting lavish costs, which inflate prices for self paying patrons, and wonders if tax scrutiny will curb deductions. He urges vigilance, conscience, and value for money.
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W. L. Burn
Durham University
Manhattan
New York City
Paris
London
Rome
Ayl
Amsterdam
San Francisco
Internal Revenue People
Treasury
Congress
Internal Revenue
Taft Built Peace Faces Repeal Clash in 1965 Labor Debate
Holmes Alexander argues the Taft Hartley Act created two decades of labor peace but predicts renewed conflict if Section 14-B is repealed. He cites Kennedy era labor bills, Wirtz testimony, and state variations in union membership rules, warning against undoing the balance that restrained labor bosses and preserved industrial stability.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Jack Kennedy
Senate
Holmes
Jack
Great Society
Willard Wirtz
Rayburn
House Education Labor Committee
Wirtz
National Right-To-Work Committee
Requiem for the States on Federal Preemption
John Chamberlain argues federal overreach may push billboard and junkyard bans, boxing controls, and federal commissions, highlighting Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and California as examples. He notes Hart Tunney bills pushing national boxing oversight and predicts Johnson support, while cautioning that state efforts to curb roadside blight may be overwhelmed by federal action.
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Oregon
Pennsylvania Roadside Council, Inc
Appalachia
Lady Bird Johnson
Congress
Los Angeles
California
Massachusetts
Tony Gaiento
Boston
Maine
Lewiston
Philip A. Hart
Michigan
John Varick Tunney
Gene Tunney
U. S
Lyndon Johnson
Jim Farley
Jim
New York State Athletic Commission
Sonny Liston
New York
Wiliam Muldoon
Tings
Petrified Forests Found Across States In Fossil Treasures
National Geographic notes petrified forests in many states from New York to California. Arizona safeguards the largest reserve, with trunks up to 200 feet and millions of years of fossil history. Fossil logs reveal climate, growth rings, and even worm borings, while souvenir theft prompts park officers to seize thousands of pounds of chips in tourist seasons.
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Washington
Arizona
New York
California
Gilboa
Catskill Mountains
America
Ihe
National Geographic Society
Piggott
Arkansas
Coskocton
Ohio
Santa Rosa
Calistoga
Natonal Park
Painted Desert
Colorado
Mississippi
North Dakota
Yellowstone National Park
Oregon
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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Association
Southern Association
Horner
Professors’ Union
Fuse LoyLe
THE
Danville Register
Associated Press
Branham Company
Chicago
Atlanta
Detroit
Dallas
St. Louis
Charlotte
Miami
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Kansas City
Outer Space
Idominigar Republic
Ralph de Toledano
Expense Account Society
Russell Kirk
Holmes Alexander
John Chamberlain
National Geographic News
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