Controversy Over Morton School Board Nominee Sparks Debate
Delaware County editorial voices concern over political influence in the Morton School Board selection. They note perceived GOP bias, executive session secrecy, and urge voter protest at the polls. The piece also lauds local cultural efforts and jokes about personalized bank checks.
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Delaware County
Morton School Board
Mervin Thomas
Luzerne Livingston
Thomas
Republican Club
Charles Bullard
Bullard
Dr. Livingston
Donald Leonard
Board of Supervisors
Morton
Moscow Talks Seek Direct Air Link to United States
Aeroflot leaders in the United States pursue a direct Moscow New York air route with Washington landing rights. Pan American Airways lobbies for reciprocal access as U.S.–Soviet ties show signs of thaw. President Kennedy plans tentative Far East travel including Japan for 1963. Political maneuvers surround Senate committees with Ted Kennedy eyeing key posts.
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Washington
New York
Moscow
New Dulles International
Pan American Airways
U.S
Russia
Kennedy
Far East
Japan
White House
Masayoshi Ohira
Surances
Appropriations Committee
Clair Engle
D-Calif
Congress
Senate
House
Engle
Nixon
G.O.P
Sam Pryor
National Republican
Connecticut
Pryor
Hawaii
San Francisco
John Shelley
Shelley
The Negro in Chester and Delaware County Burden
A century after emancipation the article argues that despite legal rights in the North, Negroes in Chester and Delaware County remain second class. It cites James Baldwin and Medgar Evers, urges whites to lift the burden and blacks to prove themselves, ending with a call for full equality now.
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North
South
Chester
Delaware County
America
James Baldwin
New Yorker
Baldwin
Medgar Evers
Mississippi
NAACP
St. Luke’s Community Church
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Evers
The
Swarthmore College
We Need Peace Corps Here
The piece argues Peace Corps success, timing, and personal fulfillment for volunteers. It proposes a domestic youth service corps with job retraining and youth unemployment reduction, led by idealists like Sargent Shriver, to aid national and international needs and counter perceptions of Americans overseas aid.
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Peace Corps
Kennedy
Armer A
Asica
Asia
Latin America
William James
Sargent Shriver
Barry Goldwater Calls for Industrial Modernization
Senator Barry Goldwater argues that despite huge postwar spending on expansion and modernization, American industry remains burdened by obsolete plants. He cites $95 billion of aging facilities and urges tax depreciation reform to spur capital replacement, highlighting Hogan’s study and international comparisons with Japan, West Germany, and Italy.
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United States
Internal Revenue Service
William T. Hogan
Fordham University
American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research
Washington, D. C
Hogan
Sion
Japan
West Germany
Italy
Feldspar Magnate Declines 65 000 Sale Offer
John B. Boudwin refused a 65 000 offer from two New York capitalists for his feldspar mine in Upper Chichester. He had earlier bought 65 surrounding acres for 4500 after discovering the stone as a boy on an Upper Chi farm. Dense fog delayed ships City of Wilmington and City of Philadelphia, Wilson Line, forcing passengers to take trains home.
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John B. Boudwin
New York
Upper Chichester
Upper Chi
Enced
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PMC
Denver
Robert S. Allen
Paul Scott
G. 8. Schetchikoy
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A. N. Chizhov
Kremlin
Cuba
Eisenhower
Alaska
Okinawa
Philippines
India
Pakistan
Indonesia
Ted Kennedy
Robert
Don Murdaugh
Africa
Delaware
Robert Spivack
Spivack
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Barry
Feldspar
Riciey Township
St. Robert’s
Green Raiders
James Reese Bell
Co. B
6Th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
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