Who Is To Blame For High Food Prices
The Business Council session chaired by W B Murphy of Campbell Soup examined the housewife led rebellion against rising food costs. Murphy blamed inflation and labor costs across the retail–producer chain, noting no single villain and little room for price cuts. He argued trading stamps boost store profits and urged collective boycott action to pressure changes.
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Business Council
W. B. Murphy
Campbell Soup Company
Murphy
Federal move raises existing home loan ceiling to 20000
Congress added 54 billion for government mortgage operations. Fan ny May increases the government insured mortgage purchase limit on existing homes from 17500 to 20000, narrowing the gap to the 25000 level for new homes. Mortgage bankers welcome the step as easing financing vacuum. Higher rates and scarce funds had cut housing starts to a decade low. The raise aims to fix the bottleneck from selling old homes to buy new.
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Congress
Federal National Mortgage Association
Fanny May
Backlash and public anxiety shape 1966 political mood
The National Scene argues that 1966 saw widespread anxieties among Americans about Viet Nam inflation crime and civil rights, yet voters offered few clear actions. A notable exception was a white backlash in the South signaling a slow down in civil rights, while experts doubt any lasting political solution will emerge.
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Los Angeles
Chicago
Viet Nam
Johnson
Asia
Mao Tse-tung
Russia
Red China
United States
Lnft
Ho Chi Minh tactics eyed in Mao Ho theory analysis
U S military standards note Ho Chi Minh pursues three aims amid costly mainline expeditions. He seeks psychological impact by sacrificing troops, capture of U S equipment, and a war framing Americans versus Communists to undermine South Vietnamese resolve. Analysts caution on effectiveness. Vietnamese officers remain unsure.
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U.S
Ho Chi Minh
Giap
Dien Bien Phu
Mao Tse - Tung
Viau
Win
Mao
Hanoi
Namese
South Viet Nam
Red
Presidential Election Still In Doubt After Election Day
Fifty years ago the 1916 presidential race remained unresolved two days after ballots closed. Republicans claimed Hughes victory, but indications favored Wilson by a narrow margin with 36 electoral votes in doubt from West Virginia Minnesota and California. At noon Wilson held 256 to Hughes 242. Thanksgiving services drew crowds as Frederick County went dry by 951 votes with Prohibition leaders urging good sportsmanship.
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Charles E. Hughes
Wilson
West Virginia
Minnesota
California
Hughes
Frederick
Methodist
Evangelical Reformed
George Albert Snyder
Middletown
United Dry Forces
Evangelical Church
James ©. Wrightson
Plans for War Memorial to be Built at Mount Olivet Cemetery
Twenty years ago on November 9 1946 Frederick city officials announced a war memorial project to be placed at Mount Olivet Cemetery with a $5 000 set aside and no public solicitation. The semi circular 130 foot diameter site opposite Elmer K Ramsburg on New Design Road was laid out by Ray F Weyrick Des Moines Iowa, with construction set to begin soon. Trustees chairman Robert B Crothers G Hunter Bowers and Paul D Simpson named the plans and landscape details. Frederick city crews gather leaves using a hay baler devised by City Engineer W Raymond Walter drawing attention from sidewalk superintendents. The baler was hired from local farmer Austin Trout.
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Mount Olivet Cemetery
Elmer K. Ramsburg
New Design Road
Robert B. Crothers
G. Hunter Bowers
Paul D. Simpson
Ray F. Weyrick
Des Moines
Iowa
Where Do We Go Now With China In Missile Club
The editorial argues that Mao's confirmed nuclear missile test reshapes U.S. policy options. It notes China's rising military power and warns against wishful thinking about arms limits, urging reconsideration of China participation in the UN, a two China policy, and potential U.S. outreach to Peking amid Sino Soviet tensions.
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Red China
Mao
Manila
Moscow
America
Asia
China
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Ethel
Polis
By Ray Cromley
U. S
News-Post
Frederick City
W. Raymond Walter
Austin Trout
China In Missile Club
Peking
United Nations
Taiwan
State Department
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