Street Skills Versus Jobs and a Nostalgic Orange Crate Scooter
A discussion by Nathan Caplan of the University of Michigan critiques job training failing inner city youths. He argues that highly motivated youths fail when forced to adopt street skills rather than marketable trades. A Chicago mail order house offers a wooden orange crate scooter for 12 dollars, symbolizing bygone days of work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Caplan
University of Michigan
Institute For Social Research
Caplan
Chicago
Yesteryear
Sourpusses Play Vital National Role
Washington columnist Kevin P. Phillips argues that Ebenezer Scrooge embodies a needed conservative counterpoint to holiday liberalism. He lampoons Christmas sentiment as biased while praising Scrooge’s discipline in maintaining economic productivity and budget vigilance amid festive rhetoric.
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Kevin P. Phillips
Washington
Yuletide
Santa Claus
FDR
North Pole
Salvation Army
Nicola Machiavelli
Prince Klemens von Metternich
Messrs
Herbert Spencer
Edward Banfield
Richard Herrnstein
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Hobbes
Ebenezer Scrooge
Scrooge
Ebenezer
Federal Office of Management and Budget
India
John D. Rockefeller
Poignant Christmas Past From A Labor Leader’s Son
By Bob Considine a memory of a father’s death at Christmas and a family’s frail hardship. The piece recalls a Washington upbringing with a Central Labor Union ally, a $600 windfall, and a mother who kept the family together while avoiding welfare.
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Central Labor Union
Press ethics and CIA ties in a global context
The piece argues that reporters should not be paid by any source but notes that gaining access and trusted sources helps inform U.S. policy. It discusses the New York Times and ABC News, CIA pay questions, and the fine line between collaboration and secrecy in wartime reporting.
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Washington
CIA
Nathan Hale
U.S
White House
Air Wilmot Lewis
London Times
New York Times
Castro
Cuba
Kremlin
Abc-Tv
The
New York
Elisberg
Watergate Committee
Hippodrome
American Civil Liberties Union
Nixon
America
American Republic
Identical Twins and Marriage Advice in Selections
A columnist discusses marriage harmony stressing a wife must please herself as well as her husband and children. It notes a sensitive husband supports a wife’s fulfillment and cites a gloved twins bloodhound test from The Body. The piece ends by reflecting on noisy children and maternal frustration.
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Anthony Smith
Walker
Christmas bonus paid to Memorial Hospital staff
Yesteryears recalls 176 Memorial Hospital employees receiving Christmas bonuses ten years ago. Other notes include R. L. Ray chairing Cache Lions Club Ladies Night, Joe Moody elected president of the Lawton Cosmetology Association, and 20 years ago Leon Copeland earned a 25 year service pin as Coca Cola bottling plant workers were given year end bonuses.
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Roger Salmon
Memorial Hospital
R. L. Ray
Cache Lions Club
Joe Moody
Lawton Cosmetology Association
Don Hawthorne
Community Home Demonstration Club
Art Runyon
Leon Copeland
Coca-Cola
Horoscope guidance by Sun signs and a Capricorn birthday note
The column lists daily vibes for each zodiac sign from Aries to Pisces with advice on contacts, travel, social life, and patience. It notes a born today profile praising intellect and versatility, suggesting careers in writing, art, editing, music, or advertising, and oddly references Jesus Christ and Sir Isaac Newton.
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Aries
Taurus
Devel
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Jesus Christ
Sir Isaac Newton
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Lawton, Oklahome
Ned Shepler
Bill F. Bentley
Shirley Shepler Bentley
May B. Shepler
Donald S. Bentley
Stephen F. Bentley
Ted Ralston
Wm. H. Sullivan
W.D. Hargraves
Alfred Wallace
Oklahoma Press Association
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Associated Press
By Bob Considine
Baltimore
Henry Mencken
Mencken
James Cardinal Gibbons
Labor
Sam Gompers
St. Joseph
Farrell's
Traphagen’s
Dugan’s
Costello's
Jim
St. Aloysius’s
Hanlon
Vatican
Ernest Cuneo
Junior
Sister
Yesteryears
C. Tom Bullock
Lawtonians
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