Women join the cigar trend amid new smoking report
Joy Miller reports in New York that after a government cigarette study more men face social pressure to light their wives' small cigars or pipes. Stores note rising female cigar purchases, celebs reemerge as smokers, and Dunhill plans a women’s smoking boutique on Fifth Avenue.
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Joy Miller
New York
Joan Fontaine
Hermione Gingold
Lauren Bacail
Fifth Avenue
Alfred Dunhill
London
World Day of Prayer Service Observed at Williamsburg Methodist Church
The Williamsburg News reports the annual World Day of Prayer Service held Friday afternoon at the Williamsburg Methodist Church with a lesson by Mrs. S T Thornton and readings by Mrs. Wayne Reichard Mrs. Frances Coppoe and Mrs. Mildred Decker Sheri Wallace daughter of Mr and Mrs Don Wallace swallowed a small wire staple and was rushed to St Luke s Hospital in Kansas City where the item was removed and she and her mother stayed overnight Neighbors also staged a surprise birthday party for Hal Trabert with eighteen attendees
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Lyle Sutherland
Williamsburg Methodist Church
S. T. Thornton
Wayne Reichard
Frances Coppoe
Mildred Decker
Sheri Wallace
Don Wallace
Sheri
St. Luke’s Hospital
Kansas City
Hal Trabert
Plane Cost Estimates Soar Higher
Air lines eyeing supersonic transport designs hear planes may cost up to 33 million each, nearly double earlier FAA estimates. Major manufacturers presented designs in an FAA sponsored competition with prices kept secret. TWA indicated Lockheed quoted 32 to 33 million, Boeing outlined two designs at about 26 million and 27 to 28 million, with TWA first to order by depositing 100000 each for 10 planes. The SST would fly about 1500 mph, range 4000 miles, with service planned by the mid 1970s.
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Vern Haugland
Washington
Federal Aviation’ Agency
FAA
Thomas B. McFadden
Trans World Airlines
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Boeing Co
TWA
Estate of Mark Twain finally settled in probate
In Redding Connecticut probate court judge Hjalmar Anderson approved a voluntary settlement over Twain estate proceeds from the 1910 trust. The total estate now 867565 plus undistributed income about 61000 will fund a Mark Twain Foundation after trust beneficiaries Clara Clemens Samossoud daughter Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch receive shares.
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Redding
Twain
Samuel L. Clemens
Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch
Anderson Fri
Mark Twain
The Soaring Sixties Economy Struggles to Take Off
The 1960s show steady modest gains with no sharp swings. Production rose from $502.6 billion in 1960 to about $600 billion in 1963 onward, while personal income grew from $401.3 billion to $475.2 billion, as analysts search for catalysts to ignite stronger growth.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
New York
Why the 1960s Look Better Now
A 1960s economic snapshot explains why 1960 dipped despite rising profits. Overbuilt capacity and inventories, slower consumer demand after postwar gains, and a large reliance on younger and older workers tempered growth. By 1963 personal consumption rose to 375 billion while jobs stayed steady, yielding cautious but steady gains rather than booming expansion.
One Good Deed Echoes Across Texas Wallet Return
C. C. Green of Wichita Falls returned a wallet with 1100 dollars found in Brownwood to the police. In an unexpected twist, Wichita Falls police then located Green’s own wallet containing 430 dollars and returned it to him. The chain of good deeds underscores honesty across Texas communities.
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Wichita Falls, Tex
C. C. Green
Wichita Falls
Green
Brownwood
Tex
Lane News Mrs Gail Chambers and Homecoming Crowned
Lane High School homecoming crowned Gail Chambers queen with Bill Wheeler as king. Lane beat Welda in basketball before the ceremony. Faculty and high school teams scheduled to play Thursday with LHS girls facing Princeton. Several locals received hospital care or injuries. others attended YFF bridge party.
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Gail Chambers
Pat Ellis
Mset
Don Ellis
Japan
Florence James
YFF Club
Esther Lombard
Ja Owens
Emma Kavanaugh
Bula Brownlee
Jessie Stevenson
Edith White
Hazel Stevenson
Eva Morris
Effie Metzger
Clara Hiles
Martha Kinery
Fanchon Christian
Gladys Henderson
Ida Kimball
Melvin Schulz
Anderson County Hospital
Garnett
George Snow Sr
Duane Cleveland
Garnett Hospital
Bob McDaniel
Pat Bail
Rantoul
Lane High School
Bill Wheeler
Mike Rutler
Bonnie Hase
Phillip Stevens
Donna Lash
Lane
Welda
Lane School
LHS
Princeton
John Rutledge
Saigon
Viet Nam
Interpace
U. S
Public Works
APO
San Francisco
Calif
Catherine McKenzie
Helen Cole
Guy Edwards
Man vandal announces dislike of shopping centers
Disruptive incident in Littleton Colorado ends with 46 year old Lewis McClung arrested for malicious mischief after he threw a soft drink bottle through ten plate glass windows at a mall. He reportedly told officers he doesn’t like shopping centers.
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Littleton
Colo
Lewis McClung
McClung
Weatherwax Brothers Sing The Church In The Wildwood Narrative
Lester Weatherwax recalls how The Weatherwax Boys brought fame to The Church in the Wildwood. The Iowa quartet formed 1910 to 1921, toured the U S and Canada, then settled in Wichita. The church near Nashua rose with their performances, Asa and Tom died, Bill at 90, Lester retired as Wichita minister of music in 1962.
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Joe McKnight
Wichita, Kans
Lester Weatherwax
Lester
Bill
Asa
Tom
Iowa
Wildwood
Weatherwax Boys
United States
Canada
Wichita
St. Louis
Nashua
Little Brown
Bradford
America
Weatherwax
William
First Methodist Church of
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