United Nations celebrates twenty years of humanitarian effort
Guest editorial lauds United Nations twenty years of cooperation among nations. It highlights WHO malaria programs reducing cases, UNICEF Libya feeding programs, and the wide impact of 14 specialized UN agencies. The piece notes peacekeeping challenges, costs, and urges continued support to resolve global problems.
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United Nations
United Nations Day
World Health Organization
John Atwood
WHO
United Nations Children’s Fund
Libya
Unicef
Middle Eest
Suez
Congo
Cypress
Kashmir
Viet Nam
U.N
United States
Crawfordville and the fading rural South symbolized
In Crawfordville Georgia the town’s decline mirrors many rural Southern communities. Once cotton wealth fueled hotels and theaters, now boarded stores and a private club restaurant mark a struggling economy. Low wages and job loss push residents away, while resistance to federal aid persists.
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Crawfordville
Cotton
Commissiore
Artificial margin fades in House rent-supplement vote
Evans Novak notes a split in Congress as 23 Democrats flip on funding for the Johnson administration rent-supplement proposal. The June 30 authorization passed 208 to 202 without funding, but the October 14 appropriation bill was rejected, showing the limits of an artificial majority in Congress.
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Washington
Johnson
Bethesda Hospital
House
Congress
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Uncle Sam
Johnson plan faces House defeat over rent-supplement vote
The June synthetic majority collapsed in October as only two Republicans joined 160 Democrats to approve 6 million for the plan, far short of the President’s 30 million request. The 185 to 162 defeat followed top Republican leaders’ absence at Eisenhower dinners, signaling administration miscalculation. Johnson seeks 10 to 12 million in the Senate with a House compromise in conference.
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Evans Novak
House
Johnson
District of Columbia
Mr. Johnson
Senate
Slips and Notices From Various Localities
Fragmentary notices about a marriage at Walmfield United Church and a rector carrying John Smith at St. Agatha's Church in Charlottetown. Mentions call for early marriage licenses and a New York newspaper strike mediator hoping for progress with reflection before a final conclusion in Providence.
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Walmfield United Church
Charlottetown
P.E.1
Canada
Guardian
Miss Blank
John Smith
St. Agatha’s
Woonsocket
R.J.) Call
New York
Strike Mediator
Billboards on highways spark debate over federal policy
A columnist critiques the AAA highway committee stance on billboards and federal aid. It argues billboards will vanish if states face highway-building funds, notes Johnson’s bill would fail to curb signs, and calls for closing loopholes in anti-billboard legislation while asking readers for their views.
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Johnson
Congress
AAA
State Fish Bid Sparks Legislature Debate
Opinion items note that Brook trout could become Pennsylvania's official fish amid talk of state symbols and cost concerns. The column mocks excessive government spending and lampoons modern life with jokes on aging and mental health.
Know Nothings Seize Pope Stone In Washington Plot
Bob Considine recalls the Know Nothings anti papist movement of the mid 1800s. They raided a stone from the Papal States intended for the Washington Monument, claiming it as a popish plot. Three fate theories exist for the stone, with suspects claiming they knew nothing.
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Paul
Know Nothings
Considine
Know Nothing
Papacy
Washington, D.C
Washington Monument
Washington National
U.S
Pius IX
Papal States
Roman Temple of Peace
Washington
St. Matthew's Church
Potomac River
Potomae
Scottsdale Daily Progress personnel and publication details
The Scottsdale Daily Progress in Scottsdale Arizona lists Jonathan Marshall as Editor and Publisher Dan Byrne as Managing Editor and T Frank Stewart as Advertising Director. The paper is published every afternoon except Sunday by Scottsdale Publishing Company with offices at 302 Ball Park Plaza Scottsdale.
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Dan Byrne
T. Frank Stewart
Scottsdale Daily Progress
Scottsdale Publishing Company
Ball Park Plaza
Scottsdale
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