Postal Service optimism under Blount targets five-year national utility
Postmaster General Winton Blount adopts a brave optimistic stance as the newly formed Postal Service seeks to become an effective national utility within five years. He acknowledges current shortcomings and warns rates may rise to fund reform, while praising a new performance oriented structure and independence from Congress.
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Winton M. Blount
U.S. Postal Service
Post Office Department
Blount
Congress
Postal Service
Noise and family life strained by household sounds
Senate committee hears Dr. Westman on unwanted sound eroding family life. Electric mixers garbage disposers shouting and TV noise raise arousal and tension, surface submerged tensions and cause conflicts at home. Individual action offered as remedy.
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Senate
University of Wisconsin
Jack D. Westman
Westman
Community Resources Workshop at Miami University Opens
The Armco Foundation funds a six semester hour graduate credit workshop in community resources at Miami University in July 1952. Leaders and staff guide local teachers through field trips and hands on projects, creating a county handbook and newsletter The Open Hearth for other schools to adopt. The program aims to spread nationwide and will conclude with a final session and public showcase July 26, 1971.
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Miami University
Armco Foundation
Armco Steel Corp
Community Resources Workshop
Armco
McGuffey
Amno DeBernardis
Portland, Ore
Warren Nelson
Hill- Knowlton Co
New York
Ruth Bodenham
Robert Nelson
Butler County
Nixon ignores labor money risk in 1972 race
The piece argues Nixon underestimates AFL CIO influence and labor funding potential for Sen. Scoop Jackson if he becomes Democratic nominee. It cites unions spending in 1970 elections and urges support for the Fannin Tower campaign reform to strip tax exemption from labor groups using dues for politics.
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Nixon
Aonor
Meany
Afl-Cio
White House
Sen
Henry
Jackson
Washington
Boeing
Soviet Union
Southeast Asia
Jakson
Sun Belt
McGovern
Americans For Constitutional Action
John Tunney
Senate
California
Missouri
Stuart Symington
New Jersey
Harrison Williams
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Adlai Stevens
Illinois
Gore
Tennessee
Yarborough
Texas
Scoop Jackson
George Meany
Fannin-Tower
Hugh Scott
Sens
Fannin
Tower
Rules and Administration Committee
Commerce Committee
Mitchell Aides Promote Nixon Re-Election Amid Economic Strain
The piece argues President Nixon faces a wartime downsizing and rising unemployment as troops leave the Army. It cites Atty. Gen. John Mitchell backing re-election, notes Camp David budget talks with Connally Shultz and Haldeman, and outlines a fear that inflation endangers national survival while government spending tightens.
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John Mitchell
Nixon
Camp David
Congress
Connally
Shultz
McCracken
Briefly Noted from Iron County Record on Civic Rifts and War Economics
Highlights discuss a Supreme Court ruling on fines and imprisonment for the poor, implications for crime deterrence, and a sweeping critique of dollar value and war economies. The piece also notes White House views on GI job security postwar, and calls for economic discipline amid Nixon’s policies.
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Supreme Court
Get Record Straight On Soap Box Derby Track Credit
Mrs. George E. Frye of Middletown demands correction of track record credit for the 1965 Soap Box Derby. She states her son David won the Class A championship and fastest heat, with a trophy shown at the awards dinner, and asks the Optimist Club to acknowledge the rightful holder.
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David
Middletown
Optimist Club
George E. Frye
Inland Drive
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Details
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