Unemployment's Hard Core Softening But Worsening Long Term
Sylvia Porter notes a drop in long term unemployment but cautions the hard core is growing into permanent unemployables. She cites Armour & Co data on plant closures, retraining limits, and regional jobless rates among older workers, African Americans, and the unskilled.
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Arthur Goldberg
Washington
Armour & Co
Byta
Tion
Ito
Copperaad
Lems
America
Detroit
E. L. Heckler
Art
Armour
East St. Louis
Columbus
Fargo
Armour Committee
Uncle Ray seeks questions for encyclopedia prize
Fourth to 12th graders urged to have teachers pick five top questions on science history or geography for a chance to win a 20 volume World Book encyclopedia. The note includes camel questions and trivia from Uncle Ray with a mail response offer and a leaflet giveaway.
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St. Rose of Lima
Massapequa
N.Y
Uncle Ray
Soviet Life Calls Kennedy Delusional on World Communism
The Soviet weekly Literature and Life ridiculed Kennedy's claim that the Soviet Union seeks to communize the world. It labeled this as political delusions in a controversial Izvestia interview. The piece praised dialogue with the United States but warned Kennedy’s remarks misstate Soviet aims.
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Moscow
Literature and Life
Kennedy
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Alexei Adzhubei
Life
U.S.S.R
Dream Link Opens Between Wisconsin and Minnesota
The 1.5 mile Superior Duluth Interstate Bridge, built at about 20 million dollars, will open with federal, state and local officials including Governors Nelson and Andersen. The four lane span rises 120 feet above St. Louis Bay and links Highways 53 and 61, joining the Lake Superior interstate system.
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Superior
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Superior- Duluth
Gaylord Nelson
Elmer Andersen
St. Louis Bay
U. S
St. Lawrence Seaway
Ontario
Canada
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Minnesota Mental Hospital Population Drops to 25 Year Low
Minnesota welfare commissioner Morris Hursh reported 9,467 patients in state mental hospitals, including 9,204 mentally ill and 263 inebriates, down 41 from the previous month and 560 from Oct 31 1960. He noted a 19 percent drop since September 1954 and described shifts in admissions and discharges. The mentally deficient and epileptic institutions rose by 41 to 6,362 in October.
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ST. Paul
Morris Hursh
Commissioner of Welfare
NSP Files $273000 Suit Against Government
North ern States Power Co sues the federal government for 273000 arguing a tax deduction for accrued liability to employees for earned but unused vacations between 1949 and 1953 was improperly denied. Company lawyers filed the Federal Court action Thursday.
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Minneapolis
Northern States Power Co
Retired Teacher Dies Leaving $6 Million in Kansas
Margaret Baker a Washington Kansas teacher who died Nov 21 at 79 left an estate valued at six million dollars. The widow owned IBM stock valued at 50 million, 12 farms near Washington and land in Thomas County Kansas and Hayes County Nebraska. Her will names 166 relatives and 40 farm tenants as heirs.
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Washington, Kan
Kansas
Margaret Baker
F. R. Lobaugh
Kan
Hayes County
Neb
Lobaugh
Five Thousand Baby Chicks Die In Brooder Fire
A Mequon Mequon suburb fire at Herbert J. Bellin poultry farm killed about 5000 baby chicks later estimated loss at 25 000 to 40 000 dollars. Fire may have been started by gas brooders destroying five tons of feed and 3000 bushels of oats.
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Milwaukee
Herbert J. Bellin
Mequon
Bellin
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