Miracle City of the Midwest Atchison claims title
Atchison Kansas boasts flood protection from storm sewers and dams after twin floods in 1958. A downtown mall project costing 260000 unites the shopping area with fountains and benches. Urban Renewal aims for June 1965 completion along with 25 flood retention dams totaling 2.8 million dollars to protect 9600 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Buckley
Atchison Globe
Associated Press
Richard B. Morley
Mangelisdorf
Army Corps of Engineers
Soil Conservation Service
Atchison
Robert Johnston
Ronald Ramsay
Tax Cut Benefits Filter To Many
AP reports that a Commerce Department survey of 1,200 large manufacturers shows expectations of sales rising through September at 2 percent or more. The tax cuts boost confidence and sales, with insurance, investment services, travel, and savings institutions all anticipating gains as consumers spend more. Factory sales rose from $106.2 billion to $109.1 billion in the first quarter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Dawson
AP Business News
NEW York
Commerce Department
Mikes
Memories Date People As Rings Date Trees
Hal Boyle reflects on midcentury life tracing memories by growth rings. He contrasts era features such as theater prices, straw cuffs, isinglass car curtains, home births, hospital roles, dieting, etiquette, and old slang with a vanished social landscape and political touchstones like Coolidge and Fairbanks Pickford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Calvin Coolidge
Ole Miss Prepares to Admit Third Negro Student
Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, moves to enroll Cleveland Donald, 17, as the university resumes as an effectively white institution. Federal Judge Harold Cox clears Donald to enroll with restrictions, amid a history of Meredith and previous civil rights protests and violent incidents.
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Oxford
Miss
University of Mississippi
Cleveland Donald
Jackson
Harold Cox
Donald
Carroll Gartin
Paul Johnson
James H. Meredith
Ole Miss
Johnson
Ross Barnett
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Meredith
Landscape Reflections From Moscows Green City Life
Landscape Reflections on Moscow describe lush parks and gardens around the Kremlin and apartment blocks hosting 6.4 million residents. The piece notes collective ownership dampening personal pride, private kitchen plots supplying half of private food, and a crowded subway while detailing housing growth rings and prefabricated towers as Moscow expands since 1939.
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Henry S. Bradsher
Moscow
Kremlin
Cepeter
TV Focused Eye On 'Old Glory'
AP reports NBC presented The Red White and Blue a color television salute to the flag. The sober hour featured Independence Day in Faith North Carolina and Memorial Day at Noank Connecticut, with Ellis Island ruins and questions about flag ownership. Narration notes only 20 percent own a flag and critiques flag waving by various groups, but offers no clear cause for apathy.
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New York
NBC
Faith
N.C
Noank
Connecticut
Ellis Island
America
Barbara Fritchie
Walter Brennan
Keratolytic T-4-L Foot Care Ad at Raney Rexall
An advertisement promotes T-4-L keratolytic liquid to slough infected skin for athlete’s foot and promises a 48c refund if not pleased within three days. It also touts T-4-L Foot Powder for sweat and odor and urges purchase today at Raney Rexall Drug.
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Raney Rexall Drug
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Midwest
Morley
Charles S. Brady
John H. Mize
Urban Renewal Agency
Brady
Mike
Ottawa Insulation Co
North Main
A. J
Andy’’ Mietchen
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Flexalum Aluminum
Kaiser—Siding
American Legion
Budge’s Hardware & Sporting Goods
Coast Guard
Cleve McDowell
Tougaloo College
Soviet Union
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