Retail Sales Rise Despite Heat and World Series
A mid autumn business digest notes consumer optimism and solid retail activity. Warm weather and World Series viewership limited gains but overall sales advanced about 3 percent in early October. Car sales surged late September with year totals up strongly. Christmas promotion ideas from major retailers target early shoppers and gift returns.
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Fairchild News Service
University of Michigan Survey Research Center
Wall Street Journal
National Retail Merchants Association
Muller's
Lake Charles
Hecht Co
Washington, D.C
H. Leh Co
Allentown
Styletex Co
Meriden
Conn
Seasons Greetings
Kaufman's
Colorado Springs
Colo
Postal veteran Otto Hunzicker retires after 26 years
Otto Hunzicker of 2045 Vermont Street retires from the U S Postal Service after 26 years serving Lawrence. He distributed mail at Kansas University for 26 years and was honored Wednesday morning at the local Post Office with a citation from Postmaster J H Parsons.
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Otto Hunzicker
Vt. St
U.S. Postal Service
Lawrence
Kansas University
Hunzicker
J. H. Parsons
A. O. Grover
Hunzicker Career at Post Office and University Ties
An obituary or notice recounts Hunzicker receiving a luggage item from the local National Association of Letter Carriers chapter and outlines his career: temporary substitute carrier starting July 1, 1916, promoted to regular clerk two years later, then transferred to the city force as a regular carrier on July 1, 1919. He later joined the Kansas University Post Office under Chancellor E. H. Lindley and mentions three more chancellors following.
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National Association of Letter Carriers
Hunzicker
Kansas University
E. H. Lindley
Postal worker Hunzicker reflects on a career and plans travel
Lawrence Postmasters record his 26 years distributing mail on campus. He served under Charles Seewir Charles Finch C B Hosford Roger Williams and Parsons. Hunzicker, a past president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, plans to rest and travel in retirement and will visit the World’s Fair in New York next year with his wife.
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Lawrence
Charles Seewir
Charles Finch
C. B. Hosford
Roger Williams
Parsons
Hunzicker
National Association of Letter Carriers
New York
Cuba Orders Workers to Rebuild After Flora Damage
In Havana the Cuban Workers' Federation orders bar staff night club workers and restaurant workers to move into the severely damaged fields to repair hurricane Flora destruction. No reopening date is given for the establishments in the Friday announcement.
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Havana
Cuba
Cuban Workers’ Federation
Civilian Chiefs Of Service Lose Another Round
The House Armed Services subcommittee approved a bill to set a four year term for Joint Chiefs of Staff members, challenging civilian control over the military. The measure, backed by Rep Hebert, passed 9-4, despite Kennedy administration opposition.
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Washington
Pentagon
House Armed Services Committee
Armed Services
Defense Department
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Subcommittee
Kennedy
George W. Anderson
Naval Operations
Anderson
Congress
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Carl Vinson
Hebert
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
K C Menorah Center Receives Major Grant Aid
Kansas City AP report says Menorah Medical Center will get a 710000 dollar grant over five years from the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Trust created from an oil fortune in Texas. The funds support researchers and educators to launch a pilot program in postgraduate education to shorten the gap between discovery and bedside use.
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Kansas City
Menorah Medical Center
Joseph
Sadie Danciger
Texas
Simon Danciger
Arthur May
Menorah
Drought Threat Persists Across Eastern United States
A persistent drought continues to raise alarm as croplands wither and water supplies dwindle from New York to New England. Fires burn across Pennsylvania New Jersey and Rhode Island while communities haul water and hunting and open burning bans spread. Weather forecasters predict light relief next week as flood risks loom in several states.
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Chicago
United States
U.S. Weather Bureau
New York State
New York City
Long Island
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Narvin Green State Forest
New England
Rhode Island
Farmers Seek Dry Weather to Harvest Record Crops
Farmers hope for a dry spell after a wet season that kept fields soggy delaying harvest of corn and soybeans, with yields trending toward record highs if better weather cooperates.
White House Denies Asked Korth to Resign
The White House and Pentagon declined to confirm reports that the administration asked Navy Secretary Fred Korth to resign. Capitol Hill sources noted the sudden departure Monday from the Navy post appointed in 1961, with details remaining unclear after a late-afternoon press briefing.
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White House
Pentagon
Korth
Washington
Times - Post
Navy
Fred Korth
Administration
Capitol Hill
Eorth
Navy Post
Korth Asked to Leave Job Amid DC Stock Suit
White House press secretary said he had no new information on Mr. Korth’s departure as reports surfaced near Bethesda Naval Medical Center where Korth is recovering from ear surgery. Meanwhile a civil suit in Dallas accuses Korth and seven others of conspiring to fraudulently manipulate stock to enrich insiders of the Professional and Business Men’s Insurance Co.
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White House
Pierre Salinger
Korth
Salinger
Bethesda Naval Medical Center
MD.1
Washington
Navy
Dallas
Men's Insurance Co
Texaco Service Advertises Auto Tune-Up and Repair
Art Nease Texaco offers tune-up brake service muffler and tailpipe wheel balancing aligning generator and starter service with pick up and delivery and road service. Located at 9th and Miss phone VI 3.9897.
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ART Nease Texaco
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