Solon Urges Truth In Packaging
Washington AP report notes Rep. Robert Kastenmeier D Wis. argues truth in packaging aids consumers and honest businessmen. A NFIB poll in his district shows 123 of 149 ballots favor the measure. Hart introduced the Senate bill to standardize package sizes and contents for price comparison.
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Washington
Robert Kastenmeier
D-Wis
Kastenmeier
National Federation of Independent Business
Congress
Senate
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
House
Judiciary Committee
Fishing tackle giveaway announced with weekly prize
Doerre Howe offers a $150.00 fishing tackle prize as part of a fish contest with weekly wins. The ad mentions aerial maps of top fishing spots and free delivery from 302 Pearl Avenue in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
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Doerre Howe
Pearl
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Flora Waldorf 86 Mother of Pappy Waldorf Dies
Flora Irish Waldorf aged 86 widow of a Methodist bishop and mother of Lynn Pappy Waldorf former Northwestern University football coach died at home after a brief illness in Auburn New York. Ernest Lynn Waldorf was bishop of Chicago.
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Auburn
N.Y
Flora Irish Waldorf
Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf
Northwestern University
Ernest Lynn Waldorf
Chicago
India Is Bharat Official Name Honoring Legendary Emperor
The official name of India is Bharat, chosen to honor a legendary emperor. The designation reflects historical and cultural ties central to national identity.
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India
Bharat
Day After 4th Adopts Tales Of Holiday Mishaps
New York AP reports a holiday hangover mood as office staff recount bizarre misadventures from a sunny day off. A secretary rescues a swimmer who asks for nightly dates, a mail clerk limps in after a home plate collision, and a golfer claims a lucky hole in one amid a long highway tie up.
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New York
Franz Kafka
Hint Tax Budget Bill May Be 10 Days Away
Madison AP reports Gov John W Reynolds signed a bill extending the State Mental Health Advisory Committee on a temporary basis. The measure states the panel continues until the 1963 65 executive budget is enacted. A fiscal note estimated the extension would cost no more than 900 dollars to extend to July 15.
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Madison
John W. Reynolds
General Freyberg Dies in Windsor at 74
Gen Lord Freyberg, 74, famed in the British army as the general with the charmed life, died Thursday night in Windsor. Bernard Cecil Freyberg, English native and Victoria Cross recipient, also held four Distinguished Service Orders for gallantry.
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Windsor
England
Lord Freyberg
Bernard Cecil Freyberg
Britain
Indiana Band Tops Milwaukee Parade In Competition
Horace Mann High School Gary Ind won first place in the Day in Old Milwaukee parade band competition. The Cavaliers of Chicago and the YMCA Royals of Racine tied for first among drum and bugle corps. The Madison Explorer Scouts finished third.
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Milwaukee
Horace Mann High School
Gary
Ind
Cavaliers of
Chicago
Ymca Rolties
Racine
Madison Explorer Scouts
Electronic Computers Lead A Double Life
Manchester England AP reports that electronic computers work unseen at night, composing letters, poems, music, and playing games like checkers while people sleep, also solving chess problems. The piece notes a secret nocturnal computer activity that parallels daytime uses.
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Manchester
England
Computers at night create music and poetry across Europe
Ferranti engineers like Dr. D G Prinz show how Atlas type machines at Manchester University and Stockholm Bureau of Statistics can compose music, write love letters, and even generate new surnames, while highlighting the high cost and research value of using computers beyond pure calculation.
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Alan M. Turing
Atlas
Manchester University
Christopher Strachey
M.U.C
Manchester University Computer
Stockholm
Central Bureau of Statistics
Executive turnover costs burden middle managers
Sylvia Porter reports that 41 percent of American middle managers quit their last job within 24 to 36 months, with 78 percent leaving before 10 years. The piece quotes Donald Wright and Hardy Jones on why executives depart, citing reorganizations, poor management, stagnant firms, blocked promotions, poor direction, and ceiling limits. The article links turnover to rising costs for recruiting firms and warns of a drift toward mediocrity amid mergers and centralized control.
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Donald Wright
New York
Antell, Wright & Nagel
Association of Executive Recruiting Consultants
Wright
Hardy Jones
Ward Howell Associates
Executive Recruiting Consultants Association
Laughing kookaburra and related birds puzzle scientists
A report describes dawn and noon calls as wild laughter from the kookaburra and other birds. It notes the name humor, the bird’s crow like size, and its brown white and blue green plumage. It adds similar laughing birds in New Zealand Asia Canada and Europe and remarks no proof of amusement.
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Australia
Jackass
New Zealand
Asia
Canada
Europe
Mexico
Uncle Ray
Publishers Newspaper Syndicate
Hansen named Clark County register of deeds
Gov Reynolds announced the appointment of Vernon Hansen age 37 of Withee as Clark County register of deeds succeeding resigning Henry E Rahn. Hansen was the Democratic candidate for Clark County treasurer in 1962.
Ten Hurt As Skyrocket Crashes Into Crowded Fireworks Display
Buffalo police report ten people injured in a city park fireworks display when a skyrocket aimed to explode at 500 feet fell to 30 feet and plunged into a crowd of about 15,000. None suffered serious injuries.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Men urge early specialty to beat trends on plateau
Wright and Jones name cities and families and warn of a plateau phase. They insist the trends endanger the individual man and seek a way out, asking driven individuals to develop a specialty as early as possible.
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Jones
Wright
Jones Voice On Sons Choosing Paths After Life in Industry
In a July 5 1963 RFC delivery Jones states his two sons will pursue medicine and newspaper work rather than industry. He insists they won’t be caught in the daily grind he describes, highlighting a personal turning point in career guidance amid broader concerns.
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Jones
The
Hall Syndicate, Inc
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