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Newspaper
El Dorado Times
Location
El Dorado, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1964
Page
2
June 25 1964 El Dorado Arkansas edition notes editor Walter Hussman publisher Nolan Deloughter and staff roles. It lists mailing and delivery procedures, AP and UP rights, and subscription prices for Louisiana and Arkansas residents, with per week carrier rates and single copy price.
The piece argues President Johnson cannot be fully protected and urges urgent steps to name a vice president. It warns one fanatic could harm him and notes the nation needs a successor to soften potential shock, insisting action be taken now despite political concerns.
Boyle’s Notebook recalls Al Gamby a card carrying hobo who rode the rails for decades before settling in Bradenton Florida. He distinguishes hobos from bums and tramps and cites his two key identities a membership card in the International Itinerant Migratory Workers Union Hoboes of America and a Knight of the Road title earned in 1939 at Milwaukee’s hobo convention.
The article analyzes 1963 data on American family income, noting that the average before tax was 7510 dollars while the income distribution midpoint stood at 6140 and the most common amount 5210. It compares prewar and postwar bases, shows regional variation, and cites Cleveland Trust Co figures: after tax purchasing power up 36.5 percent since 1947. It also notes the share of families earning 10000 or more rose from 9 percent in 1947 to 21 percent in 1963, while those under 4000 fell from 44 percent to 29 percent.
Beef remains a week end spotlight in supermarkets with top and bottom round roasts at 69 cents a pound and oven ready leg of lamb also 69 cents. Eggs down 2 cents a dozen in some regions. Abundant produce includes lettuce cabbage onions while rock cornish hens canned hams and smoked port ends shared the list. Brisk broiler fryers and turkeys offer strong weekend bets with canned pink salmon fish sticks and shrimps among top fish buys.
A retired florida hobos tale recalls Al’s youth on trains, a pullman roof ride on the Twentieth Century Limited, and a jolt of luck with a local brewery. Wayne Brandstadt’s column then offers simple cookout safety tips and answers readers’ health questions about Dramamine menstrual fibroids and Equanil use.
Muriel Lawrence advises that a child’s insistence on his own way reflects parents’ relaxed boundary setting. A nine year old and seven year old argue over bed time after a coin toss, and the parent learns to say No calmly to teach limits. The piece argues that reluctance to deny a child creates a sense of being unfairly treated and fuels further resistance.
President Johnson stakes tough stance against Communists in Viet Nam and names Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor ambassador, actions seen as political and strategic moves. Taylor, former Joint Chiefs chairman, replaces Henry Cabot Lodge as Scranton seeks GOP nomination. Johnson says no rashness but shows strength, while critics press for bolder action.
On this date in 1876 General Custer and the 7th Cavalry were defeated at Little Bighorn. Other events include Virginia ratifying the Constitution in 1788 and the 1798 passage of the alien and sedition acts.
Washington column notes anxiety among liberal lawyers over the June 15 decision requiring both houses of state legislatures to be apportioned by population. Critics worry the court overreached, preferring consideration of geographic and economic factors alongside demographic counts.
Noah Webster compiled the blue backed speller and the two volume American Dictionary of the English Language. His speller sold about 100 million copies in a century and ranks as America’s all time best seller after the Bible.
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