Backache Follies at Carver Pump corner highway 61
Residents complain about a new concrete channelized intersection at Carver Pump corner on Highway 61. The long median curbs force an abrupt south turn that trucks struggle to negotiate. City officials seek state engineering review and possible removal or shortening of islands to prevent accidents.
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Carver Pump Corner
Highway 61
Hershey Avenue
Green Street
Yowa Highway Commission
Burns
State Highway Commission
4 H Clubs Move Into the City
John Chamberlain surveys the New Haven inner city 4 H Youth Program, detailing a lean, offbeat effort led by a university extension agent. He highlights the Hill District bike club, Green Thumb garden, and woodwork sewing and cooking clubs, funded on a tight budget with hands on work through discarded bicycle parts, tools, and local support. The piece contrasts urban 4 H with large farm programs and notes the program’s potential to empower slum kids through practical skills and enterprise while critiquing broader urban neglect.
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John Chamberlain
New York
America
Department of Agriculture Extension Services
Nassau County
New York City
Rochester
Syracuse
Providence
Milwaukee
Chicago
Cleveland
Hartford
Hill
New Haven
Conn
Robert Giaimo
Community Progress Incorporated
Cooperative Extension Service
University of Connectic College of Agriculture
City of
Green Thumb Club
New Haven Hill
The Mountain Rocker Reflects on Freedom and Time
A columnist at Things Sacred and Profane recalls resting at a mountain retreat after the Kennedy shooting. He contrasts a slow pace with a legal shift on obscenity, praising free speech and measure in change, while noting seasonal landscape changes and fox rumors in the hunt country. The piece laments overwork and urges holding to lasting values.
Liver health and cirrhosis management guidance
A reader asks which foods harm the liver and how to handle nonalcoholic cirrhosis. The doctor explains cirrhosis seriousness, diet basics, and ascites management, stressing no alcohol, balanced protein and carbs, possible fat restriction, vitamin/mineral supplements, and tailored activity limits. It notes salt restriction for ascites and diuretic use, with emphasis on individualized care.
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C.B
Laennec
Hen Pecking Their Problems at a New York Luncheon
An AP report describes a routine office ladies lunch at Chub Beanery where women vent about work and marriage in blunt, humorous riffs. A male bystander records snippets of modern female workplace prose, detailing attitudes toward bosses, husbands, and daily grind with sharp, wry wit.
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New York
Chub
River bather dislocates arm diving in front of city
A gentleman named Wenkel dislocated an arm while bathing and attempting a dive in the river in front of the city on Thursday night. Dr McKenon set the limb. Mrs L A Peasley traveled to Lone Tree for the annual convention of the second district W C T U. An all day picnic and afternoon program at Green Valley school near the 8 mile bridge marked the closing of the spring term there under Miss Kathleen Asp. 25 years ago naval cadet Richard C Bridges was transferred to Pensacola after primary flight training at Squantum. Pvt Richard Lange, son of Mr and Mrs Fred W Lange, promoted to lance technician fourth class at Ft Knox. 10 years ago Sue Meerdink trailed Sharon Fla doos by eight strokes in the Iowa Junior Girls tournament at Spencer.
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Wenkel
McKenon
Green Valley
8 Mile Bridge
Kathleen Asp
Naval Aviation
Richard C. Bridges
Donald C. Bridges
Park Ave
Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla
Squantum
Mass
Richard Lange
Fred W. Lange
Wallace St
Armed Forces Replacement Training Center
Ft. Knox
Today in History highlights from June 20, 1968
On this date events include the start of the French Revolution in 1789, the Maryland colony granted to Lord Baltimore in 1632, Victoria becoming queen in 1837, West Virginia’s 1863 statehood, Alaska purchase in 1867, Guam seizure in 1896, Taft nomination in 1908, and various Cold War notes. Also Tunisia Morocco Algeria condemned policy, hot line talks, and U.S. five point plan for Middle East.
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Maryland
Lord Baltimore
England
William IV
Victoria
West Virginia
Andrew Johnson
United States
Alaska
Russia
Guam
Chicago
William Howard Taft
Ohio
Tunisia
Morocco
National Front
Tunis
Algeria
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Brickman
Pame
Jorpan
Cas
Eye Seaay
Mountain Place
John Updike
Charles Rembar
Random House
Rembar
Lady Chatterley
Fanny Hill
Lawyers’ ’Club
Updike
Andike
Dreiser
James Joyce
Cavalry
Orion
James
Joseph G. Molner
M.D
Dr. Mother
Jeffers
Ony Sen
Mister Breger
Ces
Maude
Mabel
Ny-uss
Red Cross
Mildred
Salt Mine
Freddy
Agnes
Hal
Boyle
Lone Tree
Second District
W.C.T.U
Associated Press
Soviet Union
Washington
Moscow
Middle East
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