Administration Finding Farm Campaign Rough
Washington AP Kennedy administration faces a rough path in pledges to raise farm prices. By 1961 they inherit 80 percent parity, now 78 percent, while overall farm income rises about 10 percent due to subsidies. Prices for crops edge higher, livestock prices lag, and Congress balks at production controls.
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Washington
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Ezra Taft Benson
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
Congress
Unusual Foods Await Tourists
Tourists are drawn to American folk festivals featuring exotic dishes and dances from Pennsylvania Dutch outings to Ashland Kentucky and Gallup New Mexico. Celebrations highlight pork, shoo fly pie, ponhaws, and native rituals including the Hopi snake dance and Navajo fire dances.
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America
United States
New York City
Ireland
Ashland
West Virginia
Glenville
Hoteville
Ariz
Gallup
N.M
Air Academy Hosts Brides-to-Be at Graduation Week
At the U S Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs a spring tradition brings future wives to a week of talks and seminars begun in 1962. About 105 brides and fiances attend, many married to cadets during June Week, as the golden brides of a second lieutenant’s budget of 423.92 monthly.
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AIR Force Academy
Colo
U.S. Air Force Academy
Colorado
The
New Academy
Air Force
Klatch
Academy
Robert H. Warren
Academy Super
Air Base
ZIP Code System To Cut Mail Time In Alabama
Decatur Postmaster I E Self says Alabama will begin using the ZIP Code system July 1 as one of the first states and promises faster delivery. The five digit code identifies regions and local areas with 356 as the Decatur prefix, adding 01 for city delivery to form 35601 or 02 for post office boxes to form 35602.
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U.S. Post Office Department
Memphis
Post Office Department
Alabama
Decatur
I. E. Self
United States
Florence
Athens
Russellville
Eva
Self
Bank Street
Ulum
Post Office
Growth in Asia Poses Threats, Roberts Says
Kansas City Star chairman Roy A. Roberts reports in a series from Asia that Red China and population growth threaten U S security and world peace. He notes the massive Asia population and a mixed Far East balance of pluses and minuses, but sees no hopeless outlook. He praises Hong Kong as a shopper’s paradise and warns husbands about traveling there with wives.
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Kansas City
Far East
Roy A. Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
United States
Star
Roberts
Orient
South Pacific
Red China
Russia
Asia
Hong Kong
All Set For Sex Debate In Parliament
Susan Harris a 24 year old secretary began queuing for a gallery seat in the House of Commons as a debate on the government sex scandal loomed Monday. She brought apples nuts and a flask of tea for the wait as public seating for 150 was available.
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London
Susan Harris
House of Commons
Miss Harris
Ignition Coil Used In Missile Camera
In Huntsville NASA Marshall Space Flight Center engineers repurpose auto ignition coils to trigger a 16 mm camera strobe system for filming Saturn I second stage separation. Two coils will drive two strobe bulbs on one of eight first stage cameras parachuted back to Earth for recovery. The coils were chosen for low cost and reliability.
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Huntsville
Ala
Nasa-Marshall Space Flight Center
Earth
Atlantic
Area Accidents Injure Four Involving Car and Motorcycles
Four people were hurt in two weekend crashes on U S 31. In Decatur county a 1959 Oldsmobile driven by William A Borden and a Harley Davidson ridden by C L Giere and Leon Dudley collided at Deer Springs. Giere and Dudley were listed in critical condition later, with serious injuries. Borden's status was unavailable. The Flint City Police investigated. A second collision near Athens involved a 1962 Chevrolet driven by Jacqueline Buffaloe and a 1962 Harley Davidson ridden by Douglas Holt. Holt suffered head lacerations and was treated then released. Troopers cited improper turn as the cause. damages were listed at 200 dollars for the car and 100 dollars for the motorcycle.
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Deer Springs
U.S
Decatur
William A. Borden
Tuscumbia
C. L. Giere
Valhermoso Springs
Leon Dudley
Giere
Dudley
Decatur General Hospital
Borden
Hartselle Hospital
Flint City
Athens
U.S. 31
Jacqueline Faye Buffaloe
Hialeah
Fla
Douglas Holt
Holt
Athens-Limestone Hospital
Largest hailstone recorded in Potter Nebraska in 1928
The world's largest officially measured hailstone fell in Potter Nebraska on July 7, 1928. It measured 5.41 inches in diameter.
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Potter, Neb
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Patterson
New Decatur
Kutztown
Air Academy
Bill Chilton
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W. R
Bill” Haffner
J. H. Butler
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