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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1963
Page
2
A reflective meditation on finding inner peace through faith. It contrasts the search for peace with occasional frustrations and emphasizes renewed hope after hardship, drawing on a verse from Philippians and a note attributed to John Foster Dulles.
The piece surveys impulse buying types from Pure to Planned and links self service retailing and ads to easier purchases. It notes a flood of neologisms like definited and linguacide, cites NASA usage, and ends with John Morris commenting on Congress’s slow action on tax and civil rights.
San Francisco features cable cars bridges Fisherman’s Wharf and Chinatown in a vivid tour by Harold Streeter substituting for Hal Boyle. The piece notes aging transport, high tolls and bridge deaths, ferry dependence, and a Chinatown souvenir snag while cheekily correcting a misnomer Frisea to Frisco.
A roundup of past local events notes the Public Service Commission denying Hagerstown bonds for a light plant, a photo contest awarding winners from Dewey and Potomac Avenues, and the lowest yearly stables building permits on record. It mentions wage orders for trades, Postal Telegraph’s closure, 4H Pig Club officers, Who's Who recognitions, and a 1963 traffic collision with no injuries.
A letter from A Roy Crider responds to a mother of three and other readers, arguing Haperstown’s City Light Plant is financially modest but reliable, provides good service, and employs workers at prevailing wages. He criticizes selling to a private competitor and praises the City Water Dept for steady supply, urging local residents to back municipal utilities and oppose outside takeover.
Practical notes on heart attack care stressing hospital treatment, prompt pain relief with Demerol or morphine and oxygen, bed rest, gradual activity, and diet. Advises on visiting limits, especially with elderly or easily upset patients, and mentions future columns on arthritis and childhood experiences. Includes reader questions about arches, odors, and cat scratch fever.
A narrator recalls stealing into a sleeping child's room to replace a tooth with a dime. The scene blends secrecy and tenderness as the tooth is swapped while the child sleeps, all while hinting the culprit is the father. The moment promises the child waking to a small reward.
A scrambled fragment notes an Indianapolis couple avoiding a holiday trip to dodge a traffic accident. They took a short car ride, returned to fetch a second wrecked vehicle, and faced consequences for attempting to alter their fate.
A joint congressional inquiry reports a massive Communist blackmail operation tying refugees to tens of thousands seeking U.S. visas and passports. The ring operates from Geneva with agents behind the Iron Curtain and in the United States, extorting funds from refugees and relatives. Findings urge funding for further probe as immigration policy debates span Kennedy and Johnson era reforms. Former presidents Truman and Eisenhower feature in ensuing political notes, with hints of succession changes and a Royal Employment Opportunity dispute.
Washington report notes uncertainty on timing and content of civil rights reform legislation in 1964. Judge Howard Smith signals hearings while Democrats and Republicans debate compromises and strategy to move a House bill through to the Senate amid pressure from civil rights leaders and diverse political blocs.
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