Scarce Silver Half Dollars See Mint Push Amid Hoarding
The Denver Mint produced 18.65 million Kennedy halves in November, about 20 percent of the $100 million legal ceiling, while Treasury officials note limited circulation as many remain hoarded. The Mint plans more output before Christmas as concerns over future silver value persist and nonsilver halves await Congressional action. The Philadelphia Mint will boost to 16 million coins daily by year end and shift to bonded copper-nickel sheets.
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Treasury Department
Denver
Roy S. Cahoon
Cahoon
Kennedy
Federal Reserve
Treasury
Congress
Senate
Philadelphia
Rossides
Farmers Livestock Market Prices for Monday Sale
Market listing shows hogs veal lambs and cattle with price ranges. Top hog 1907 pounds at 28.00 to 28.85. veal 200-260 pounds 40.00 to 46.00. cattle steers up to 28.00, cows 14.00 to 21.00, bulls 18.00 to 26.00, lambs 28.25 to 30.20. Feeder and stock cattle detailed by weight and grade.
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Choice & Prime
Choice & Prime Heavy
Choice & Prime Light
Good & Choice
Commercial
Fancy
Black Manifesto Tops 1969 Religion News Poll
Boston based Religious Newswriters Association announces the Black Manifesto and church responses as the 1969 religion story leader with 421 of 430 points. Second place goes to James Pike’s death in Israel while researching Jesus.
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Boston
Religious Newswriters Association
Dorothy Newell
Association
James Pike
Episcopal
Israel
Jesus
Kentucky starts first state study of black lung
Kentucky launches a state driven effort to determine conditions causing coal workers pneumoconiosis or black lung. State mine safety inspectors have been trained to use dust sampling devices and are now measuring dust levels in Kentucky coal mines.
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Brankfort
Kentucky
Mao Seventy-Six On Birthday In China Amid Power Feud
Mao Zedong turned 76 with no official anniversary celebrations reported in Peking and New China News Agency coverage. In Hong Kong sailors heard an underground station claim Chiang Ching was wounded in a sniper attack in Beijing amid a factional struggle involving Lin Piao. the radio said Mao ordered dusk to dawn curfews in affected Beijing areas.
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Tokyo
Red
China
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Hong Kong
Mao
Chiang Ching
Peking
New China News Agency
Radio Peking
Peking People’s Daily
Japan
Kyodo
Lin Piao
Lin-Piao
Shoaling
Christmas Music on TV Showcases Rostropovich Gilels
CBS presented Tchaikovsky with Rostropovich and Gilels in concert format, Hurok introducing the pair as audiences enjoyed a simple, music-first afternoon. NBC adds American Rainbow for kids, while CBS renews Young People's Concerts and LBJ discusses presidency with Cronkite.
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CBS
S. Hurok
Mstislav Rostropovich
Emil Gilels
Impressario Hurok
Chief Ironside
Fagin
Jim Nabors
Kay Starr
Superthief
NBC
Christopher
America
United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
Walter Cronkite
Lbj Ranch
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Minneapolis
N. Loudoun ST
Bankamericar Welcome
Winchester Evening Star
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Alexander Mundy
Eee
Athur, Inc
Boscawen Street
Ou Fumit
Winchester, Virginia
Montgomery
Oxfords
Wards
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