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...Peoria?" chuckled...
...limousine at Ligonier, Pa. Still undecided was whether Smith would resume his old status as senior wire service correspondent, regain the perquisite of ending presidential press conferences with "Thank you, Mr. President." But for the time being, Newsman Smith was glad enough just to be back from Peoria...
...river towns and cornfields. In Chicago, where temperatures were 5° below normal last month and rainfall 2 in. above, only the hardiest take to Lake Michigan's chilly waters. Des Moines' Ashworth swimming pool has had 34,000 fewer customers so far this year than last. Peoria's "Heart of Illinois Fair" was almost washed out of the heartland last week; dripping dairy princesses sloshed to the judging under plaid umbrellas. And in Quincy, Ill. Librarian Caroline Sexauer reported that the combination of unemployment and rainy weekends has made more people borrow more books than ever...
...reported California Republican Bob Wilson. "I found more insistence upon tax cuts in Washington than at home," said Maine's Coffin. That old tax cutter, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, found the support he was looking for, but Republican Congressman Robert Michel of hard-hit Peoria (farm machinery) changed his mind, said he would vote against an immediate cut. Said Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills: "Everyone would welcome a tax cut, of course, but I haven't detected any great demand." Added Nebraska's Arthur Lewis Miller: "I was against a tax cut before I came home...
...half its work force, have helped peak Michigan's unemployment to 415,000, or 14.3% of the labor force, and the highest figure since the war. Lorain, Ohio, where U.S. Steel laid off 3,500 of its 11,000-man National Tube Division, is also in deep recession. Peoria, Ill., where Caterpillar Tractor Co. laid off 6,000 of its 23,000 men, is getting ready to dispense free groceries to jobless workers. But in bigger, more diversified cities such as Chicago, Toledo and Cleveland, retail sales, housing and other economic indicators show little serious decline...