Peacetime Progress Profits Mark Nation Upturn
AP reports the peacetime economy showing its longest upturn with rising profits, sales, and dividends across many sectors. Steel earnings peak this week with some firms off year-ago levels, railroads mixed, oil majors profiting, and the Big Three automakers setting records.
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AP Business News
NEW York
Republic
Armco
Allegheny Ludlum
Chicago & North Western
Missouri Pacific
Chicago
Great Western
Soo Line
Monion
Maryland
Milwaukee
North Pacific
Central of New Jersey
Socony Mobil
Texaco
Shell
Indiana Standard
Continental
Tidewater
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Conference For Tomorrow's America Moral Standards Meeting
A 1100 student gathering at Mackinac Island Michigan this month and next aims to strengthen moral standards. Attendees include over 100 American Indian students from Arizona and New Mexico, Black students from the Deep South, Appalachian youths, and urban advocates. Dororthy Ensor notes unity and creative output as the goal.
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Mackinac Island
Michigan
Dorothy Ensor
West Frederick High School
Chinese Youth To Visit Charles Town
Charles Town West Virginia will welcome a foreign visitor next month. Robert Hu a 14 year old Chinese youth living with his parents in Thailand will arrive August 26 to further his education. His father an officer in the Chinese Nationalist Army is stationed with the Chinese Embassy in Thailand. Robert will live with Paul T Stone attend Charles Town Junior High School and later senior high school and possibly Shepherd College.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Robert Hu
Thailand
Robert
Lee Bushong
Tarzan
Paul T. Stone
Shepherd College
Beef Import Quotas Face House Vote in Beef Prices Row
Washington administration hopes the House will overturn a Senate move to cut beef, veal, and lamb imports by about 30 percent. The clash pits the Johnson administration against a powerful cattle industry seeking protections amid a long price slump since 1963 and rising domestic production.
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Washington
Johnson
House
Senate
Administration
Geneva
Australia
New Zealand
Ireland
Mexico
Ballpoint Pen Tax Debate Highlights Value and Luxury Image
Witness Alford P. Ditte of the Writing Instruments Manufacturers Association told the House Ways and Means Committee that a 11 cent ballpoint pen sold to a schoolchild as a necessity resembles a luxury. He argued the tax on writing instruments yields about seven million dollars annually and should be repealed. Softball is described as a game of American origin, said to have started in 1987 in Chicago.
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Washington
Alford P. Ditte
Writling Instruments Manufacturers Association
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rotary Tells Castro Is Liar in Cuban Uprising View
John Joseph Mullins, a State Department employee, told the Rotary Club of Frederick that Castro misled people about Cuba’s revolt being a typical communist uprising. Mullins described Castro’s rise, U.S. efforts to counter him, and the danger of political indoctrination abroad.
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Castro
Cuba
Foreign Service
Rotary Club
Frederick
John Joseph Mullin
California
Kensington
State Department
Washington
Rotarians
United States
Mullins
Charles 8. V. Sanner
Riley Housewright
Rotary
Jack Davis
Charles Price
J. Ralph Austin
Rotary meeting attendees introduce visiting Rotarians
The session featured introductions of visiting Rotarians from Silver Spring Friendsville Aberdeen Eustis Fla Madison Wis and College Park. Guests included Dr Housewright and George Wood along with Don Stickler and Dick Burgee.
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Paul McAuliffe
Silver Spring
Ralph H. Beachley
Friendsville
W.F. Bittiko
Aberdeen
Grover Michael
Eustis
Fla
Howard Hubbard
Arbutus
Ira Baldwin
Madison
Wis
Housewright
Elmer E. Eshleman Jr
George Stevens
College Park
George Wood
Don Stickler
Dick Burgee
James McSherry
No Opposition In Water Works Deal and Charter Change
Westminster weighs water works sale as Maryland Water Works Company seeks PSC approval to transfer the Westminster facility to the city. No opposition voiced at a public hearing in Baltimore, with Mayor Hahn optimistic for a timely Commission response amid a $400000 expansion aimed at doubling the filter plant capacity. The city charter change would authorize bond issuance to fund the deal.
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Scott
Bair
Water Works Purchasing Committee
Hahn
The
Water Works Company
Public Service Commission
Maryland Water Works Company
Westminster
City of
Josephs. Hahn Jr
State
Baltimore
City
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ILBJ
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Atlanta
Henry M. Snell
Fulton County Medical Examiner
Jerry Maxey
Robert Maxey Sr
Jerry
Posen
Nyton
Morgan - Jones
Morgan-Jones
Men‘’S Department
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