Harrisburg and Chester Face Industrial Shocks and Hope
An Eve ning News editorial contrasts Harrisburg's steel plant shutdown with Chester’s recovery after Ford's departure. It urges local pride, notes state and federal job losses, and praises Chester for quickly finding new tenants while warning Chester residents to support local industry and avoid criticism of aid.
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Chester
Evening News
Harrisburg
Commonwealth
Harrisburg Evening News
Ford
State Capitol
Letters on fighting Communism through knowledge in schools
Martha MacDuffee argues that understanding Liberalism, Socialism and Communism is essential to resist communism. She compares the fight to polio and cancer, saying educated citizens have the tools to prevent communist spread. Address Woodlyn, 213 Crim Creek Drive.
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Times
Martha Macduffee
Crim Creek Drive
Woodlyn
Reader Calls Out Patriotism Editorial Critique
Letter from Ocean City New Jersey reader decries low Memorial Day parade turnout criticizing veterans groups and urging public protest. Congratulates Daily Times for editorial on patriotism.
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Ocean City
N. J
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
The
Daily Times
Kennedy Plans and Welfare State Ideas Criticized
A writer questions Kennedy’s four month push for job training and relief programs as stopgap charity rather than practical solutions. He argues for real market reforms and notes misgivings about relocating workers and reliance on government funds.
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Miami
Durban
Pennsylvania
Joy Clark
Elmer Holland
Pittsburgh
Labor Department
Uited States Unemployment Service
Spain
Picker
Kennedy
Hamtramck
Pasadena
Rotary Club Marks Charter And Delaware Ceremony
Marcus Mook Rotary Club No F8OL joined 7960 clubs in 83 nations with District Governor Joseph S. Neidig presiding. Delegates from 11 clubs of the 265th District attended the ceremony by the Delaware riverfront to witness the event and the new member family addition. The piece mentions a major real estate sale nearby, the Irving estate at Twenty-fourth and Providence showing the northern city’s largest recent transaction. A fourth annual Boys Division event at the YMCA Auditorium is set for next Saturday at 7 45 PM with Frank W. Ogden Philadelphia, famed ringer of bells, providing entertainment for all attendees.
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Marcus Mook
Joseph S. Neidig
Quakertown
Rotary International
Naamans-on-the-Delaware
Rosary
Neidig
Twenty-fourth and
Providence Ave
Irving
First Ward
Edward D. Irving
Providence Avenue
Association Auditorium
Frank W. Ogden
Philadelphia
Let's Put Sleeping Hours to Work
A Times editorial surveys sleep education experiments and the potential for teaching via overnight conditioning. It notes limited U S funding and growing interest from Russia and the teaching machine industry while highlighting laboratory results that suggest rapid learning from ten minute taped lessons and airborne broadcasts.
U.S. to Expand Insurance Aims for Foreign Investments
The Kennedy administration seeks up to 2 billion in all risk guarantees to back U.S. ventures abroad amid rising political risk. The plan, managed by the foreign aid agency, target Latin America Africa and Asia to spur private investment and protect against expropriation riots and sanctions.
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Washington
U.S
Kennedy
Congress
Latin America
Africa
Asia
Foreign Aid Agency
Philippines
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Frank Coffin
Development Loan Fund
Coffin
Korea
Pakistan
Turkey
Iran
Brazil
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Far East
South Asia
Middle East
Europe
Argentina
Maui
Colonia
Guatemala
Chile
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Ecuador
Era
Honduras
el Salvador
Paraguay
Will teaching machines replace teachers
Readers question whether machines can replace teachers as ads tout a machine course for two high school students completed in 84 hours, far less than a semester. The passage examines skepticism about automation in education and the speed of learning claimed by such programs.
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Pennsyvania
Machines Can't Replace Teachers
An analysis of programmed learning argues machines can boost early results but cannot replace teachers. Experiments in Roanoke show faster initial algebra gains yet questions remain on long term retention and the need for master teachers for discussion and interpretation.
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Roanoke
Virginia
Surrey Tax Proposals Terrify Washington and Natives
The letter condemns Stanley Surrey for tax ideas tied to income taxation of rental value of owner occupied homes, Social Security benefits, capital gains at death, interest on life insurance, and bonds. It argues such moves would erode home ownership, penalize savers, and empower the federal government at the expense of states, warning of alarming implications for liberty and fiscal policy.
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Stanley S. Surrey
Surrey
U.S. News & World Report
Reading
United States
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