Unemployment patterns amid prosperity and aging life views
The piece notes overall unemployment around 5 percent with pockets of joblessness, highlighting the Shenandoah Valley as an exception. It details broken down rates by race, sex, and marital status, showing teen unemployment high at 14.7 percent for boys and 16.2 for girls, and discusses skills, education, and market factors shaping labor trends. It also surveys Latin American lending, U S role, aging studies, and retirement age debate, drawing connections between longevity, usefulness, and social planning.
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Shenandoah Valley
Soviet Union
U.S. Veterans Administration
Roy M. Hamlin
Danville
Mantle suffers left foot fracture may miss six weeks
Star Files notes star slugger Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees has a broken left foot and could be out for about six weeks. He leads the American League in pay. Separately, J Kenneth Rush Jr and Thomas G Miller graduate from Saint John Vianney Seminary High School as they pursue priesthood. Richard Grove, Randolph Macon College class of 1947, is named assistant professor in the physics department for the summer session. Apple trees in Appalachia have halved since 1920, yet overall apple yields rise compared with twenty years ago per Appalachian Apple Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mickey Mantle
New York Yankees
J. Kenneth Rush, Jr
Thomas G. Miller
Saint John Vianney Seminary
Richmond
Richard Grove
Randolph Macon College
Appalachian
Appalachian Apple Service
Daily Meditation The Unvanquished Soul
The Ninety-first Psalm offers strength during anguish. Faithful dwellers in the Most High gain a steadfast soul and courage to tread dangers. It promises resilience in both joys and sorrows, sustained by powers beyond self.
Winchester Fragrance of Spring and Civil War Echoes
A tribute piece dedicates to Senator Harry Byrd and secretary M. J. Menefee of Luray Virginia. The poem blends Winchester spring imagery with Civil War memories, invoking Old Glory, beauty queens, cannon fire, and General Stonewall Jackson walking among the city’s bleeding heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Flood Byrd, Sr
M. J. (Peachy) Menefee
Luray, Virginia
Pipeline Delay Sparks Cross Nation Debate
A group of Midwestern lawmakers presses for regional gains by delaying the trans-Alaskan pipeline, arguing the hold harms national needs. The piece blames eco activists for obstruction, cites lost oil potential, higher costs, and worsened balance of payments as consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Middle East
Nixon seeks White Hats aid for Cambodia war, budget clash
President Nixon meets with about a dozen conservative House hawks led by Edward Hebert to pressure for continuing Cambodia bombing and full defense funding. The talk comes as the Senate moves to ban bombing funds, signaling a widening Capitol Hill clash over Vietnam policy and the Paris talks. The White House coalition aims to block cuts while Kissinger negotiates in Paris with Tho.
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Washington
Cambodia
Nixon
House of Representatives
House
South
White House
Armed Services Committee
Edward Hebert
Louisiana
Democratic Congress
Eddie Hebert
Appropriations Committee
George Mahon
Texas
Jamie Whitten
Mississippi
Bob Sikes
Florida
Joe Waggonner
Dixie Bloc
Veterans Committee
W.J. Bryan Dorn
South Carolina
Omar Burleson
Bill Nichols
Alabama
Dan Daniel
Virginia
Goodloe Byron
Maryland
John Jarman
Oklahoma
Bob Stephens
Georgia
L.H. Fountain
North Carolina
Senate
Strs
Henry Kissinger
Paris
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
North Vietnam
Senators
Capitol Hill
Average Man Shaves 27 Feet Of Whiskers
Hal Boyle notes a comical view of daily life and trivia from mail, restrooms, taxes, and history. The piece covers shaving totals, misconceptions about Sitting Bull, trolley car transit, and a quirky trivia score section with memory questions. The tone is light and observational.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sitting Bull
Custer
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Crazy Horse
America
United States
San Francisco
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Boston
Pittsburgh
Newark
N.J
William James
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Congress
Chile
U.S
Inter-American Development Bank
Latin America
IADB
Winchester Evening Star
Jack F. Davis
Eugene P. Miller
Thomas T. Byrd
Douglas B. O’connell
Winchester
Hillcrest
Stewart Street
Stonewall Jackson
By James J. Kilpatrick
By Frank van der Linden
Joint Conference Committee
Indochina
Whitten
Leonid Brezhnev
Hebert
Louisiana Democrat
Alaska
North Slope
U.S. Court of Appeals For
District of Columbia
Valdez
Mike Gravel
Ted Stevens
Department of the Interior
Walter Mondale
Minnesota
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Canada
John B. Anderson
Les Aspin
Wisconsin
William E. Simon
the Treasury
Ottawa
Admiral Richard E. Byrd
General Jackson
Robert Service
Land of the
Midnight Sun
Richard Byrd
You
Omar Kyam
John Coleman Gordon
the Star
Elizabeth H. Curtin
Meadow Road
Glenshaw
I.Q
GSA
Africa
Venus
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