Readers stamp debate on postal costs and commemoratives
Q O R Norman questions the post office policy of printing 15 five cent commemoratives yearly, selling 1.8 billion stamps at 90 million, with production costing 360 thousand. He notes a third of annual output goes to collectors at 30 million, arguing deficits stem from selling stamps below cost rather than from quirky designs.
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Cupid Tax Haven and a Columnist’s Christmas Gift
A columnist jokes about government luxury taxes turning bachelors into couples. He reveals his dog Pepper and a mysterious d with many possible meanings, praising joint returns while noting his wife’s likely reaction. The humorous piece blends tax humor with domestic life.
Asthma questions contrast with emphysema and asthma types
Dear Dr. Mole oper and reader letters discuss how asthma differs from emphysema with airways constricted versus loss of lung elasticity. True and intrinsic asthma are outlined with allergy linked atopictic type and adult onset intrinsic type, plus cardiac asthma from heart disease.
Auld Lang Syne and Local Holiday Notes
Fifty years ago readers learned of a cock fighting talk by Richard Geiger at a Future Farmers of America meeting. Twenty five years earlier Dr W L Jacobus of Ottawa became assistant team physician for Southern California in the Rose Bowl. A Elk City teacher Miss Doris Barnes visited her parents Mr and Mrs Emile Barnes. Harold Grimes wed Mildred Gaines as Mr and Mrs Charles Grimes hosted a reception southeast of town. The Second and Elm residence sold to C A Divens for $3000. Prof Marion Hume of Udall spent the holiday with his father G R Hume.
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Kennedy hosts You Dont Say amid pilots and wardrobe notes
NBCs You Dont Say continues with Tom Kennedy guiding studio contestants and celebrity guests through a word game. He recalls making bad pilots and notes his wardrobe routine of eight jackets to stay stylish on air. Lizbeth Scott surprised in sequins and jeans as the show rolls on with Steve Allen’s era imagined distant but likely to endure.
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CBS
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Steve Allen
Duke Takes Car Tour Of Houston
The Duke of Windsor, 70, left Methodist Hospital for a one hour automobile tour of Houston. Upon return he said he enjoyed the outing very well. It was his first time leaving the hospital since abdominal surgery on December 16. He was accompanied by the Duchess, hospital administrator Ted Bowen, nurse Pat Temple, and the driver. Doctors report excellent progress and say he is expected to leave the hospital soon.
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Television Log Dense with Daytime to Late Night Fill
A sprawling TV schedule lists programs from 6:00 p.m. through midnight and beyond, detailing News, Talk, Sitcoms, Dramas, Game Shows, and Movies. Names of hosts and series appear across periods, with multiple time slots and channel notes embedded.
Today in History Dec. 29 1964 Associated Press
On December 29 1964 the Associated Press lists events from history including Texas admission to the Union in 1845 as the 28th state Savannah Georgia captured by the British in 1778 birth of Andrew Johnson in 1808 White House gas lights in 1848 Arizona organized as a territory in 1863 the OPA announced a 4 percent cut in used car prices in 1945 Dag Hammarskjold to Peiping in 1954 Eisenhower announced resumption of nuclear tests in 1963 and a Jacksonville Florida fire tragedy in 1963 with 21 dead and 62 injured in 1963.
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Rasleigh
N.C
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Johnson Dodges Conflicts at News Conferences
President Johnson relies on informal, surprise chats with reporters to avoid open conflict. He limits attendance, uses on the record, off the record, and background options, prompting confusion among audiences and reporters about what he actually said or meant.
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White House
Variety
Tides May Influence Weather, Say Meteorologists
U S Weather Bureau scientist Glenn W Brier and colleague Max A Woodbury report evidence that atmospheric tides driven by the moon and sun may affect weather. Analyzing over 60 years of U S records, they caution that even if proven the concept could not reliably forecast day to day rainfall.
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American Association For the Advancesment of Science
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Max A. Woodbury
New York University
Three Held For Robbery In Kansas
Three men arraigned in the $3,500 December 13 robbery of the Mce Dermed food mart. Leslie Winters 28 of Lyons Roy Adamson 29 of Alden Kan charged with first degree robbery Thomas Wetuski 30 of Lyons charged as an accessory after the fact. Preliminary hearing set Jan 5. About $700 recovered.
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Wetuski
Lyons
Dee Doughty
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates and AP Note
Ottawa Herald lists subscription prices for trade area by mail with monthly and yearly options and lower outside rates. It notes Associated Press rights and exclusive local news use including AP dispatches.
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