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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1964
Page
4
The piece discusses what rights and responsibilities apply to a Wisconsin truck incident where two N F O pickets died under a livestock truck. It questions liability, anger, and legality, then commends Washington’s street department for new crosswalk markings and urges motorists to yield to pedestrians in marked crosswalks.
The Burlington Free Press notes wide accord between Hultman and Hughes on property tax relief, education expansion, abolishing taxes on household goods and credits, and accelerated highway building. Disputes focus on future tax revenue and possible new taxes. Hughes’s rhetoric resembles a modern progressive Republican amid his party.
A 1964 World Book Encyclopedia article traces opium’s global web from Turkey Laos and Burma to the United States highlighting smallholder farms as root sources of heroin and the global routes smuggling employs. It notes multilateral efforts by UN commissions and Interpol to map sources and curb cultivation while urging crop substitution and addiction care as components of a long term solution.
A column weighs carpetbagging in New York and California Senate races with Robert F Kennedy and Pierre Salinger. It argues residency requirements for Congress and cites Churchill as an example, proposing a constitutional amendment for a one year state residence before running. It notes potential shifts in national versus regional representation.
A McKeesport man Victor Robert D. Garner 32 says his German born wife Hildegarde forced him to eat food her dog refused and he gained 105 pounds after separation weighing 194 to 299. He described her as a large strong woman who hit and pinched him while driving. Garner, an Air Force veteran, married her in Frankfurt in 1951 and brought her to the United States six years later.
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