Summer heat and looming election fodder shape a long tense season
The piece reflects on a hot late summer in 1964 with forecasts of humidity and discomfort amplified by a charged political year. It notes San Francisco and Atlantic City cooling breezes contrasted by energetic rallies at Cow Palace and Convention Hall, warns of intensified demonstrations, and contemplates Vietnam, world tensions, and potential U S aid amid a summer of heat, conflict, and uncertain progress.
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San Francisco
Atlantic City
Cow Palace
Convention Hall
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
America
Irvington
Keating Faults Congress for Foreign Policy Facts
Senator Keating argues that Congress lacks full information on international affairs due to one party control. He says absence of comprehensive data hampers meaningful debate and leadership, noting reduced investigation and oversight in the 86th Congress.
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Congress
Executive Branch
Irvington Through The Years Highlights and Changes
A retrospective notes a large turnout for a zoning hearing on Columbia University and Immaculate Conception Church permits, mentions Duke University's new trustee Thomas Aldridge, and recalls graduations at Immaculate Conception parochial school and Irvington High School with large crowds. It also covers notable deaths, faculty retirements, scholarship awards, and local civic updates across decades, including past class commencements and public works planning amid village governance.
Irvington High Class of 1954 to Receive Diplomas
Ten years ago thirty five boys and girls of the Class of 1954 of Irvington High School will receive their diplomas at the annual commencement exercises on Saturday evening June 25 at Memorial Park. Four of the five surviving members of the Class of 1904 will hold a dinner for the fiftieth anniversary with former principal Robert A. MacDonald as guest of honor. The village population, estimated between 4 500 and 4 40 by a church census, is noted. A village traffic resolution makes one way traffic from Broadway to South Country to reduce the Aqueduct-Tynneon Station Road hazard. News reflects Southeast Asia, with criticism of U.S. war efforts and stalled Congressional action. estimates show about 2 million dollars spent daily and 231 American deaths as of June 1, with officials predicting long, hard struggle and ten-year timelines.
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Zoning Board of Appeals
Columbia University
So. Broadway
Immaculate Conception Church
Frederick J. Elder
The
Lord and Burnham Co
North Tarrytown
Elder
Irvington
Thomas A. Aldridge
Hudson Road East
Duke University
Immaculate Conception Parochial School
Irvington High School
Memorial Park
Robert A. MacDonald
Tynneon Station
Broadway
South Vietnam
Laos
Southeast Asia
Congress
Secretary of Defense
Irvington and area births deaths and notable events unfolds
A mix of community notices from Irvington and Dobbs Ferry areas covers Anne Lansing Keeler studying in Germany via the Goethe Institute, reporting for pre induction examinations, and local family births. It also notes the deaths of John Stanley Winkles Sr. and Frank Acker, plus various civic and wartime ties, including Herbert C. Dickinson in Paris and Captain H. T. Pennington’s wartime leadership.
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Europe
Anne Lansing Keeler
Lansing Herman Keeler
North Broadway
Trinity College
Goethe Institute
Murnau
Germany
France
London
New York
Miss Elvira Mangiacotti Weds Houston Dentist
Miss Elvira Mangiacotti and Dr Albert F Mikulenek Jr wed at Holy Rosary Church in Houston Texas. The bride wore white silk organza lace gown and was escorted by her father with Dorothy A Mikulenek and Brenda Pierson as bridesmaids. After a wedding trip to the West Coast they will reside in Houston. Mrs Mikulenek is a graduate of Marymount Academy and Heart Dominican College while the groom earned DDS at the University of Texas Dental Branch and will practice periodontics there.
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Elvira Mangiacotti
Houston
Texas
Elvira Houston
Tex
Broadway
Albert F. Mikuleneak Jr
Mikuleneak
Elgin
Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church
Wimston
Miller
Frank Limbrough
Jim Bownan
West Coast
Marymount Academy
Rel Heart Dominican College
University of Te Dental
Brownie to Junior Cadette Scout Uniform Reuse Plan
Gari Scout officials announce that all Brownie Junior Cadette and Senior uniforms in good repair should be kept for a warm fall reorganization by the Irvington Girl Scout Neighborhood Committee. The program urges reusing uniforms for relocations and future meetings within the reorganized Girl Scout structure.
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Gari Scout
Brownie Scout
Irvington
West Fall
Mage
Inif
Brownie
Mrs Knapp Died In New York City Funeral Planned
Mrs Elizabeth Knapp died last Thursday at 35 La Broad Way in New York City while visiting Tarrytown Hall where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 31, a Hav en native active in a Presbyterian Church for years. A son and two daughters survive.
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New York City
la Broadway
Tarrytown Hall
Haven
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Keating
Washington
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Frederick Kraner
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William McDonough
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Edward For!man, Jr
Edward Kerr
Mount Pleasant Lane
Hudson House
Edward J. Martin Jr
Frances G. Bolles
Strawberry Hill
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Philip A.gree
Martino
Radcliffe
Maurice Leon
East Irvington
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Ted
Thurber St. Bierce
Camp Devens
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Helen M. Goul
Thomas Owen
William Dongan
Arthur
Walter Elder
Ales Smith
Northfield
Town Mall
Jennie C. Smith
W. Arthur Elder
Anna Leonard
Maude . Patterson
Joseph G. Jacoby
Mount Vernon
Catherine Louise
Jacoby
Hildar Friberg
John Stanley Winkles Sr
Tarrytown
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Herbert C. Dickinson
Paris
Joseph H. Holmes Jr
Joseph Monroe Holmes II
LeRoy Sanatorium
Holmes
Caroline Miller
Carl Miller
Ardsley Park
Joseph Murray
Tarrytown Hospital
Dobbs Ferry
Philip H. Ekardt
Grinnel Street
HT. Pennington
Chicago
Pennington
Judson L. Radcliff
Natchez, Miss
Frank Acker
North Ferris Street
Dobbs Ferry Hospital
Mr. Acker
Dorothy Aeneak
Brenda Pi
Carpenter
Ricky Brass
Robert Zapalac
Mikulen
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Morrow
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Everrything
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Andy D'Arrigo
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Stephen D'Arrigo
Girl Scouts
Dan Berry
Muraca
Louis Muraca
Irvington Wines & Liquors
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Washington Irving
Albany Post Road
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Croton-On-Hudson
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Joseph Houghton
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