Budget Stringency Affects Federal and State Budgets
A White House spokesman cites severe budgetary stringency due to built in increases in welfare education and other programs rising with headcount. The piece notes growing costs across federal and state budgets, with defense space and foreign aid consuming much of the federal share and population growth driving outlays.
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White House
Builtda
Johnson
Washington
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Cautionary Christmas Tree Safety Message
Seasonal alert urges care with holiday trees as potential fire hazards. Emphasizes keeping trees well watered and away from heat, avoiding overloaded circuits, turning off lights when away, and never stringing lights on metal trees to prevent fires and accidents.
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Scrooge
Recovery of an Elephant in Four Hour Operation
Frances the elephant underwent a four hour stomach operation in Blackpool England. The vet called it the biggest job he had tackled and the 436 pound animal recovered rapidly after surgery. The piece shifts to exhort readers to help the sick poor and lonely, reflecting on compassion and service.
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Frances
Blackpool
England
Dolin
Not Like Christmas Hal Boyle Substituting for Hal Boyle
In Atlanta, a substitute columnist recalls a slow Christmas season for his family. Work and travel shrank gift exchanges and card sending, yet the search for a Christmas tree reveals meaning when they discover two cedars sheltering a bird's nest within their branches. The nest and the children’s hopeful searches rekindled the season's spirit.
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Ron Autry
Hal Boyle
Atlanta
Bill Terry
Stone Mountain
Terry
Wilds
Tim
Mark
Jottings From Yesteryears 40 Years Ago
Police investigated a break in at William H. Beachley shop as thieves took over a hundred dollars of gum cigars shoes and fruit. A gang of eight men stoned a Black Oak Methodist Church during a Christmas festival injuring two members who tried to intervene. Debutante Elizabeth Ann Prather scheduled a New Year’s Eve society bow at the Assembly Club. Federal agent Charles Cushwa destroyed two mash barrels north of Hancock after bootlegging reports but found no stills. Edward Hajek, head of Hagerstown Business College, plans to run both institutes after purchasing a Town of Jamestown business school. Prominent Hagerstown figure John Marx Miller was found dead near McConnelsturg. Revere E. D. Plummer and Sons awarded a Chambersburg contract for a new elementary school site as a state education board vacancy was filled.
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Black Oak
Hancock
Issac Bishop
L.A. Richards
Elizabeth Ann Prather
Perry F. Prather
The
Assembly Club
Birds and community actions in a cold season letter
A letter from The Voice Of The People in The Mail urges feeding winter birds with cracked corn scraps and seeds, noting the cold, snowy weather. It discusses political ideas like creating a superagency for county water and sanitation and a five year moratorium on new projects to focus on police, garbage, and services. It praises giving over receiving and laments loneliness in the season.
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the Mail
George Snyder
Water Department
Suburban Sanitary Commission
Det
Make Changes To the Editor on Hagerstown Crisis
Letter urging drastic action in Hagerstown cites desperate finances and proposes selling the Municipal Electric Light Plant to Putnam Edison under initial terms, with proceeds directed to completing Burhans Boulevard and funding city water needs.
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Hagerstown
Putgmac Edison
Burhans
Voice of the People letters to The Daily Mail
Community readers request publication of letters to the Voice of the People. Writers ask to keep names private and address letters to Voice of the People The Daily Mail Harpers Town Maryland.
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Voice of the People
Daily Mail
Haperstow
Maryland
How To Keep Well Impetigo In Infants And Children
Impetigo is a highly contagious skin infection in infants and children. It spreads easily via contact, often starting on the face or hands with a small blister that dries into a golden crust. Treatment includes isolation, hygienic care, antiseptics, and antibiotics such as erythromycin or neomycin based ointments, with oral options for resistant cases.
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Theo
Eepiad
New England Journal of Medicine
Denial at Public Meeting Sparks Community Alarm
Gregory D Shawyer claims December 19 mayor council action banning press and public from a meeting infringed rights. He argues press access is essential to monitor city governance and urges accountability.
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Couneil
Gregory D, Shawyer
President Johnson mediating Otepka dispute in Washington
The President attempts a backstage compromise between the State Department and Otto Otepka, offering Otepka another job at prior pay while the department rejects it. Senators Eastland and Dodd back Otepka’s security evaluation program but oppose reinstatement. Rusk resists, aiming to avoid public detail before an election year.
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Washington
Johnson
Une Tong
State Department
Otto Ctepka
Otepka
Rusk
Patent Judiciary Committee
Otepke
Dodd
Eastland
Oipa
Olepka
Senate
Regulathong
Cherie
Veid
John McClellan
D-Ark
Hasland
McClellan
Appropriations Committee
Ont
Alger Hiss
Sihanouk of Cambodia clashes with United States over aid and policy
Washington reports that Cambodia's Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk has withdrawn U S aid including gasoline and jute bags for rice exports, expelled American reporters, recalled ambassadors, and severed diplomatic ties. He accuses U S policy of meddling, cites Communist influence, and fears a shift in Vietnam policy may threaten his regime.
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Washington
Nawapapar
Adan
NEA
Cambodia
United States
Norodom Sihanouk
Phoom Penh Stadium
Sihanouk
U.S
Comtral
Viet Nam
Peking
Council of Ministers
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Prines
Just Folks AT CHRISTMAS TIME And Common Sense
A fragment poem reflects on Christmas time and the tension between holiday cheer and financial balance. It contrasts business concerns with holiday generosity and questions where joy and prudence meet amid festive spending. The text references Christmas trees toys girls curls and a vague speaker wondering about Christmas figures.
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Christman
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Paramount
Charles Cushwa
Edward J. Hajek
Collene
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McConnellstuirg
E. D. Plummer and Sons, ‘A
Chambersbur
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T.R. van Dellen
M.D
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Abe
Réya
Barkem
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Allen-Scott Report
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Bill Don Moyer
Peace Corps
Shriver
Moyer
Teodoro Mo2rasp
Alliance For Progress
Kennedy
Congress
Joint Chiefs of Staff
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McNamara
Joint Chiefs
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