City leaders seek urban funding as growth accelerates
At a New York meeting the United States Conference of Mayors debated financing booming urban services. Officials warned that suburban migration and higher incomes could erode tax bases, urging state leadership, revised real estate charges, and better welfare cost shifts to federal and state levels. Dr Luther Gulick proposed city income taxes as a potential, though controversial, remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United States Conference of Mayors
New York
Averell Harriman
Luther Gulick
Mitchell Addresses Graduates On Opportunities And Aptitude
Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell writes to about 1.4 million graduating high school students urging pursuit of aptitude tests and consulting State Employment Services to learn about openings at home or elsewhere. He emphasizes that jobs are plentiful but vary by community and that work can start a lifelong career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
Truth For Today Lets Ask The Bible Florence Heaven Thoughts
Florence urges keeping thoughts on Heaven while staying focused on work. The piece cites Psalm 72 and urges recognizing the Holy Ghost presence to aid daily tasks. It notes nine days of prayers before Pentecost and shares a Holy Spirit prayer asking for dwelling within the soul and life in grace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
God
Holy Ghost
Democratic split looms over Shivers Stevenson 1936 bid
Washington insiders report Democratic leaders push to heal rift with dissident southern governors including Allan Shivers while Adlai Stevenson remains the top 1936 hopeful. The party faces a dilemma as Shivers vows to oppose Stevenson unless he shifts course. Big Four talks boost Ike’s image but offer little GOP leverage. Senate action hints at a 12 member commission on federal employee security with Johnson backing, aiming to strengthen employee rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Allan Shivers
Eisenhower
Paul Butler
Shivers
Adlai Stevenson
Ilinois
Stevenson
White House
Shivers-Stevenson
CIA
Russia
Great Britain
France
Walter F. George
Georgia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
GOP
Hisenhower
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
House
Five Moral Emphases Set for National Awakening
Five thousand delegates from thirty states voted to organize a national moral revival at a Miami convention. The program outlines personal regeneration, honest living in relationships, clean speech and sex, public life morality, and abstinence from alcohol for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Virginian Man Named Clarksburg City Manager Glen Roy Peterson Jr
Clarksburg council hired Glen Roy Peterson Jr., 32, former Richmond assistant city manager, as city manager at 6500 dollars a year. He will assume duties June 20 after a 8-1 vote with Pete Morrison the sole dissenter. Peterson, a Jersey City native, has served in Richmond since 1952 as principal budget and management officer following Army and Syracuse roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
Glen Roy Peterson, Jr
Richmond
Peterson
W. J. McFarlin
Pete Morrison
Jersey City
N. J
Army
Germany
Syracuse, N
Governmental Research Bureau
Birth Certificates Needed for Babe Ruth League Players
Officials of the Taylor County Baseball Association said many youths in the Babe Ruth League still lack required birth certificates. The county youth baseball season opens May 30 and June 1. Association member Thomas Mathews urged parents to promptly provide copies of their sons birth certificates bearing a state seal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County Biseball Association
Thomas Mathews
The
Association
Hood College Women Study Astronomy Under Woman Mentor
On Hood College campus in Frederick Maryland Miss Leah B Allen guides astronomy courses from the John H Williams observatory. About 30 Hood students pursue astronomy as part of a rare program for women with Allen noting limited opportunities in the field and praising pupil Martha Star Carpenter who studies radio astronomy at Cornell while husband pursues graduate work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Haughton
Central Press
Frederick
Hood College
Leah B. Allen
Allen
Hood Girls
John H. Williams Observatory
Baltimore
Washington
Pittsburg
Hood
Smith
Wellesh College
California
Miss Allen
Red Cross
Venus
M. Janet Willams
Brown University
Wellesley College
Brown
Martin Kellogg
Lick Observatory
Pepper
University of Pennsylvania
Miss.Allen
Martha Star Carpenter
Cornell University
Carpenter
Cornell
TRY and STOP ME VASSAR
A sophomore bound for Palm Beach frets at Penn Station forgetting her bathing suit while her mother reassures mail delivery by air. A fragment from a Bennett Cerf collection reflects on Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz with fan antics and various humor bits about Columbus and Ring Lardner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vassar
Palm Beach
Penn Station
Florida
Chicago Cubs
Ring Lardner
King
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Britain reels from stormy campaign chatter and odd notes
A scrambled page lists jumbled items from weather to politics, mentioning Britain in a heated campaign, a Chinese visitor with Swiss watches, grandmothers elected to a village council, a North Carolina congressman disputing Crockett’s birthplace, and a language study of quaint phrases, plus a cryptic crossword.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Scotland
Britain
Ibd
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grafton Sentinel
Sentinel
Latrobe Street
Grafton
W. Va
Aince
Metional
Bottenelli-Kimball, Inc
Lexington Avenue
Chestnut Street
Detroit
W. Lafayette Street
Chicago
Michigan Street
Pittsburgh
Fourth Avenue
West Virginia
Virginis
Abis
Virginias
Taylor
Barbour
Preston
Ednesday
B. Carroll Reece
Internal Revenue Bureau
Reece
Bureau
Congress
Tokyo
International Chamber of Commerce
J. L. Steel
Jean Valgrain
Crusade For Morality
DOLS, OR_MUSI
Globe Syndicate
Gov. Allan ‘Shivers
Virginian
Collegiennes
Williams Observatory
Anne Lamerin
Betsy McCain
New Englander
Mount Holyoke—and Mills
Domestic Furnance CO
Jone
Eleanor Harris
Lucille Ball
Lucille
Desi
I Love Lucy
Christopher Columbus
Fitts
Queen Isabella
William Ritt
Ev Ley
North Carolina
Davy Crockett
Tar Heel
Tennessee
Aim
CCQ
Virginia Éaxbbry
Tunisis
Aterday
Batali
Rel
British England
Main St
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!