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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1963
Page
2
An editorial laments Christmas highway carnage with over 200 deaths in a nine hour period. It urges stricter traffic laws, better enforcement, and self restraint from drivers to protect others on the road during holidays.
Minutes magazine reports four 1924 predictions from the Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science. Farm to city migration may slow as farmers visit cities freely. Driving may substitute walking with steering and roadside repairs building muscle. Cars could keep families together for recreation. A good used car might stabilize near two hundred dollars.
Say Howdy In Dolphinese Men may not have to go beyond their own planet or their own solar system to make contact with an alien form of life. The dolphin, a mammal near human size and complexity, may possess a language. Sperry Co engineers use miniaturized computers called Sceptrons to record dolphin noises and build a vocabulary. If successful, humans could exchange information with dolphins enabling oceanographic research and sampling, highlighting an exciting challenge in cross species communication.
HAL BOYLE warns that a Russian sleep device could soon force people into two hours sleep per night. he depicts a world where production lines churn out sleep machines and society grows increasingly sleepless and subversive. He envisions exhausted soldiers students and workers unable to justify lateness or awakenings as nights darken with endless fatigue.
Jottings from yesteryears note Mayor Charles E Bowman refused to accept a new city comfort station citing a leaking d inch concrete roof. Armour acquired Elizabeth Street plant of Maryland Smelting for 65000. Chewsville Farmers and Fruit Growers elect Yessler Koogla Funk as officers at oyster supper. San Mat children enjoy Christmas Eve with Leiter's Santa and local bands. AFL leader Butler says War Labor Board set wage increases for trades. Thurmond promoted to first lieutenant in Maryland State Guard. Dagenhart fire destroys Boonsboro home. ashes recovered worth 150 dollars. Sharpsburg elects fire chief in a tie between Lata and Davis. Carnahan retires. A drunken woman jailed causes police chaos with a parakeet on the loose.
Sheriff Edward Rowland dispatched two deputies to the Federal Silk Mills in Williamsport at 4 p.m. to stand by after a request by owner David Goetz. The move aimed to avert possible violence following a recent walkout.
A reader requests help tracing ancestors tied to George Washington Shryock born c1800 and connections to Henry Shryock of Hagerstown, plus lineages to Jeremiah Jack and Rowland Cornelius. She offers Shryock data and invites descendants to contact from Ollale California.
Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition with silvery scales and patches that worsen with stress obesity or alcohol. Treatments include removing scales applying lubricants salicylic acid sulfur and modern steroids or ultraviolet light with careful guidance. severe cases may use a tar/UV regimen or aminopterin under strict supervision. A health note warns temper effects and includes a reader question on thrombophlebitis.
French technicians deploy a sounding device that helps save seven lives after an earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia. An eight-man French team searches for additional survivors as the piece of equipment is praised for its potential to benefit humanity, though warnings about tech misuse persist.
The FRU investigation notes Mrs Oswalds father is a Soviet military intelligence colonel with activity in the Mink region during Oswalds time in Russia. It cites Oswalds Mexico trip and Cuba transit visa attempts, details the FBI six-book study on Oswald and Ruby, and mentions public hearings after Jacks Ruby trial. It also covers Jordanian aid, King Hussein, and U S policy amid Nasserism, with Macomber and Gruening noting continued U S support for Jordan.
A fragmented reminiscence compares Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. It details their hopes for peace, limits with the South, family life, personal traits, and security concerns. The piece recalls Lincoln’s and Kennedy’s struggles with opposition, private faults and public duties, ending with a garbled note on succession.
The passage urges seeing the good in every person and recognizing shared humanity beyond caste or clan. It emphasizes brothership, using one’s life to help others and to greet the day with joy, sharing laughter with children and valuing fair treatment for all.
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