PTA Is Here to Stay Serving Schools and City
Guest editorial extols the PTA for 67 years and a 12 million member base, highlighting its role in guiding parents, supporting Scottsdale schools, and fostering community projects. It notes past bond issues, district challenges, and the council's coordinating work while urging broader engagement and continued volunteer effort.
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PTA
Scottsdale
Citizens Advisory Committee
Scottsdale Ptas
Ptas
Scottsdale Council of Pta
United Planning
Council
Ptaers
Eskimo youths aid Alaska quake relief during summer training
Bob Considine reports from Considine Camp Denali as Alaska National Guard Scouts including Timothy J. Williams of Akiak helped dig for the injured and dead after the earthquake. The Eskimo troops patrolled streets and deterred looters while aiding widespread rescue efforts before returning to remote villages from Point Barrow to the Aleutians.
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Washington
Timothy J. Williams
Akiak
Alaska
U.S
Alaska National Guard
Considine Camp Denali
Anchorage
Vilages
Point Barrow
New York
San Francisco
Eskimo National Guard Scouts Brace Alaska Frontiers
Eskimo Guardsmen patrol vast Arctic reaches mainly via hunting and fishing life. They train wives to operate radios and drill weekly on Little Diomede near Russia to spot any intruder. They support Air National Guard C 123s with relief drops and medevac. a VIP once startled by a Russian telescope sight.
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Soviet Union
National Guard
Little Diomede
Russia
Big Diomede
Rowan Takes Hard Job as USIA Director Under Johnson
In Washington, Carl Rowan assumes leadership of the United States Information Agency succeeding Edward R. Murrow. The transfer comes as the Kennedy era fades, with Rowan backed by President Johnson and facing pressures from Congress and bureaucracy while guiding a largely youthful, diverse USIA.
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Rowan
Washington
Johnson
Kennedy
Carl Rowan
United States Informatation Agency
Edward R. Murrow
Childs
State Department
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Need Collective Guarantee Against Aggression
Southeast Asia can be kept free from Chinese Communist control through a mutual non interference pact between the United States and the Soviet Union. A linked defense backed by both East and West would deter aggressors while respecting Southeast Asian nations independence and avoiding colonial impression. The plan envisions Khrushchev weighing Peking's expansion and aims for peaceful coexistence with careful, phased implementation.
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Singapore
United States
Southeast Asia
China
Peking
Soviet Union
West
Moscow
Khrushchev
Red China
Kennedy Memorial at Runnymede to Honor John F Kennedy
An acre at Runnymede will be ceded as a Kennedy memorial with a stone square and steps. Scholarships will fund British students to Harvard MIT and Radcliffe, linking Kennedy’s ideals with defense of representative government and human rights. King John is portrayed as corrupt and power hungry.
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Britain
Runnymede
John
John F. Kennedy
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Radcliffe College
Kennedy
Runnymede Memorial Links Kennedy with Magna Carta Spirit
The piece recalls the 1215 Magna Carta and King John, noting baronial unrest, the sealing battle at Runnymede, and the charter’s reaffirmation of liberties. It urges American visitors to honor John Fitzgerald Kennedy and rededicate to his ideals at the site.
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Britain
Normandy
Runnymede
John
France
Leiden
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Juin F. Kennedy
Reuther Plan Seeks Cost of Living Pension Immunity
Washington window column urges against UAW leader Walter P. Reuther pushing contracts that shield retirees from dollar inflation. It argues such immunity would boost union wages and pensions as purchasing power falls, harming the public and masking fiscal excess. The piece urges UAW to oppose big-spender politicians and protect its own wages by rejecting inflation guarantees.
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Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Afl-Cio
U.S
Auto Workers
Organized Labor
Treasury
Labor Department
Reuther
UAW
Johnson NATO anniversary speech sparks wary, outward policy note
President Johnson marks 15th NATO anniversary with a firm defense of alliance cooperation while Sen. Russell B. Long denounces civil rights legislation urging restraint on interracial dating. The remarks reflect national tensions over security and integration during the era.
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Washington
Johnson
NATO Alliance
Russell B. Long
D-La
Senate
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Progress Platform
Maxine Davis
PTA Council
Bob Considine
Eskimos
Marquis Childs
Murrow
USIA
Cuba
USIR
Voice of America
National Security Council
NSC
Roscoe Drummond
Ussr
Drummond
Indonesia
Burma
Ies
Far East
Ralph McGill
McGill
By Lyle’ C. Wilson
United Press International
Olympus
Interlands
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