Thought For Today Of Plain Sound Sense
A brief dispatch notes a quotation from Young reflecting on life's current coin and practical wisdom. The line emphasizes honesty and grounded thinking as guiding values for everyday conduct.
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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1960
Page
4
A brief dispatch notes a quotation from Young reflecting on life's current coin and practical wisdom. The line emphasizes honesty and grounded thinking as guiding values for everyday conduct.
A federal and labor backed warning warns that up to 500 Americans could die over the Labor Day weekend from highway crashes drownings and beatings. Authorities urge seat belts avoid peak travel periods and sober driving as the AFL CIO banners a safety campaign to curb the deadly holiday.
Oak Ridge Oak Ridger describes newsroom constraints as editors pick items to print. Faces of neighbors and readers appear in decisions to omit or include stories, illustrating selective printing amid limited space and evolving news flow.
Hal Boyle laughs at middle age in New York, tracing the gradual shifts after forty. Jokes about shifting habits from tennis to shuffleboard, insurance mail, medical columns, sipping martinis, weather woes, diet, and dressing comfort reveal a universal struggle with aging and a sly fondness for the idea that wisdom grows with years.
Khrushchev probes a summit option or blockade as the US presidential race unfolds. He attacks Nixon and Kennedy while West Berlin faces a limited border closure and movement restrictions. The piece notes past crises, the Berlin question, and possible motives amid Cold War tensions.
In Washington last spring the White House Conference on Children and Youth drew 7 500 delegates 1 400 of them aged 16 to 21. The report notes widespread support for more government at both state and federal levels with 670 recommendations for expanded funding in housing education welfare and related services. Critics warn of tax waste federal controls and loss of liberty arguing the proposals amount to a free lunch and socialism. The Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Earl Wilson recounts a London trip filled with queues from Calais to Victoria Station. He and his companions endure passport and train-seat queues, cab queues, and a long taxi line, noting Britons’ frustration with crowding and the joke of being a foreigner caught in the system. The column also lists pop culture blurbs about Beverly Belli Marilyn Monroe and other entertainers.
The patriotic group based in Washington DC traces its 1783 founding to Continental Army officers. Named for Cincinnatus, it emphasizes virtue and peacetime service, with 13 state chapters plus one in France. First president was George Washington.
Reader questions and curiosities fill the Junior Editors Quiz page. From beards on Indians to the origin of checks and why grasshoppers spit tobacco juice, a long list of asks spans history animals astronomy and everyday terms.
A prayer asking for a clean heart and pure mind, acknowledging impure thoughts and lips in the generation. It asks for renewal of a right spirit through Jesus Christ and is attributed to Conrad Bergenford, president of Augustana College in Rock Island Illinois.
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