Tough five hour exam tests Peace Corps candidates
Washington AP report notes 120 of 18 applicants took a tough five hour test in 30 centers across the country to select the best from 700 for the Peace Corps. The exam emphasized English history and leadership plus fields like agriculture health sciences and mechanical skills. Officials expect nearly 1 000 volunteers overseas or in training by year end.
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Washington
United States
Ila Peace Corps
U.S
Jailia
Tuch
Peace Corps
U. S
Television Schedule Fragment for May Weekend
A dense page outlines channel lineups and time blocks for Saturday and Sunday schedule. It lists NBC ABC CBS color codes, movie slots, sports, comedies, and public affairs programs across multiple hours with numerous show titles and times, including news, sports and entertainment blocks.
Flag Realtors Warn on Proposed Real Estate Tax Change
Willard Turkey urged that Congress consider administration plans to raise capital gains taxes on real estate profits. The proposal would replace high ordinary rates with lower capital gains rates on depreciation eligible property. It would affect trade or business use properties including apartments and rental houses and deter further real estate investment and development.
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Congress
Willard Turkey
Flagstaff
Markey
Property deeds and marriage licenses listed in Flagstaff records
Northern Arizona Title Company Trustee transfers to Donald C Pendley and others while Northern Arizona Tile Co Trustee conveys to Ramage. George B McCullough deeds and City of Flagstaff to Curtis Johnson. Marriage licenses issued in Coconino County include Robert Wyatt and Disana Caffey both of Flagstaff. Billy Adair of Valley Farms Arizona and Janice Owens of Florence wed May 25 by justice of the peace James F Briecley.
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Northern Arizona Title Company
Donald C. Pendley
J. R. Babbitt
George B. McCullough
Norther Arizona Tile Co
Wiliam O. Ramage
J. FR
Babbillon
Flagstaff
Curtis C. Johnson
Superior Court
Coconing County
Robert Ernest Wyatt
Disana Joan Caffey
Billy Ray Adair
Valley Farms
Ariz
Janice Elaine Owens
Florence
Guiding It to Controlled Landing Space Expert Predicts Man Could Fly
Tulsa AP report quotes Robert R. Gilruth of NASA predicting a manned moon flight using retractable wings. The plan involves a lightweight winged moon ship that glides from high altitude back to a controlled landing after lunar return. Gilruth stresses challenges of a craft operating in space, air, and water and reducing onboard equipment to essentials.
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Tulsa
Okla
Robert R. Gilruth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Gilruth
Alan B. Shepard Jr
U.S
Shepard
Udall Pushes Land Trade At Wupatki Monument
Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona urged Congress to authorize Interior to exchange about 900 acres inside Wupatki National Monument for an equal area of privately owned land. He testified before a national parks committee, describing courtroom experience that guided his remarks.
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Washington, D. C
Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
Congress
Interior Department
Wupatki National Monument
Keig
Ouge National Parks Sid Committee
Lawsuer
Chaffin Case Details From Page One Trial
Photographs show the vestibule of Car 768 and the elder Chaffin’s cane and Mrs. Chaffin’s purse as trial witnesses describe the missing man. Jurors viewed the scene near the Santa Fe line and depot to learn the elder Chaffin’s last moments before he died from injuries at Flagstaff Community Hospital after being found near the Santa Fe mains line in Winona. The elder Chaffin died about five hours after his son reported him missing.
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Chaffin
Caconino County
Santa Fe Avenue
San Francisco
Santa Fe
Scout Camp At Geronimo Explained By Scout Leader
Bob Bishop of the Grand Canyon Council of the Boy Scouts of America spoke at a parent and scout gathering at the Flagstaff Second Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He outlined the Geronimo Camp program Aug 12 18 leased by the council including swimming boating fishing horseback riding archery rifle and skeet shooting crafts nature studies and conservation. Attendees included Scouts and committeemen such as Bobby Raban Robert Houston Billy Derryherry Ronnie Smithson and others with parents Mrs. Robert Houston Ms W Dertyberry and Horace Smithsen present.
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Boy Scouts of
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Flagataff
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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Geronimo
Bobby Raban
Robert Houston
Billy Derryherry
Ronnie Smithson
Bucky Edgar
Dale Black
Bobbyfield
Jim Stocks
Wes Rehan
Leo Gardner
C. J. Rateh
Dale Walker
Dick Ingerton
Bud Greer
Bill Tuckfield
Ms. W. Dertyberry
Horace Smithsen
Today's Weather Snapshot With Temperature Extremes
The report lists high of 72 and low of 31 with no precipitation. It notes normal daily highs around 9 and lows near 37, while record highs and lows span 1951 and 1916 respectively.
Area Highway Contracts Are Awarded
PAGENIX Special Hal Perry Consmbutors Phoenix awarded 42 035 for sealing 14.6 miles of U S 66 from 21 5 miles west of Holbrook east and 12 9 miles on Arizona 260 from four miles east of its junction with Arizona Ti east. B J Gustafson Phoenix awarded 86 999 for seal coating 1 7 miles of Shasta 69 from 2 75 miles south of its junction with Arizona 79 north, 14 5 miles of Arizona 6 starting at its junction with Arizona 7 5 and extending northwest, five miles of Arizona 69 starting 15 5 miles northwest of its junction with Arizona 74 north, 5 75 miles of US 89 starting eight miles north of Yarnell and extending north, and 12 2 miles of US 89A starting at its junction with US 89 and extending toward Jerome.
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Hal Perry Consmbutors
Phoenix
U.S
Arizona
B. J. Gustafson
Shasta
Yarnell
Jerome
Williams Fundraiser In St Josephs For Pool
Williams special event Sunday to raise funds for the swimming pool will be held tomorrow at 4 pm at St Josephs All are invited Father Johny Faustina from St Josephs Catholic Church will be the soloist and will be accompanied by Mrs Donald Del Ree.
Freedom Riders Stay in Jail amid Alabama tensions
The article notes ongoing confinement of 21 Freedom Riders in Alabama with six threatening a food strike. It reports supportive statements from NAACP leaders in New York and calls by SNCC for intensified rides to end bus and station segregation. References to King, the SCLC, and desegregation efforts in Atlanta and Arkansas accompany broader national hopes for rapid race-relations progress.
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Freedom Riders
Alabama
Congress of Racial Equality
New York
United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Atlanta
Deep South
Ladne Marlin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Lille Teck
Arkansas
Gav
Orval Faubus
NAACP
Charleston
D. C
Robert F. Kennedy
Voice of America
Washington
Phoenix Bank Robbers Face FBI Charges
Federal bank robbery charges are filed against two men, James Taymond Nell and James Harvey Thommen, arrested minutes after an Armist Northeast Phoenix branch of the Hirst National Bank of Arizona was robbed. The FBI said $8,486 was taken at gunpoint and later recovered. Both suspects are from Dallas, Texas.
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Phoenix
Hirst National Bank of Arizona
Eritay
FBI
Edward Boyle
James Taymond Nell
James Harvey Thommen
Dallas
Tex
ASC to Host 294 Youths At Boys State
ASC to host 294 youths at Boys State with legal advisors from Arizona attorney general and staff. Executives include Wesley Bolin secretary of state and Dr. Meister Tinsley DeBalske. FBI special agent Edward Boyle joins as staff. Speakers include Wayne Warrington Robert Neely Governor Fannin and others.
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Clyde Phillips
Hostel Cloks
Merle Denning
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Ross Steck
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Coolidge
Ohn Wright
Wickenburg
Richard Spadani
Tempe
George Tafs
Scottsdale
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Hagan
Glendale
Legislar
Lee Dover
Winslow
Robert Prockton
Flagstaff
Jack Cummard
Mesa
Tred Undine
Wiliams
Louise Brimhall
Ruby
Robert Pickerell
Arizona
Clark Kenney
Wesley Bolin
Charles Meister
William Tinsley
Jub DeBalske
Arizona Municipal League
Edward Boyle
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Wayne GB. Warrington
Eisenhower
Robert Neely
Garrett Corp
Paul Fannin
American Legion
Carl ¥. Nelson
Bisbee
West Point
Michael Prothero
Douglas
Auto Exhaust Fume Fatal To College Football Star
West Texas State College football player Robert Norman Drake, 22, died from carbon monoxide fumes in a leaky car on a Friday trip. Three companions were hospitalized, with Dean West 20 in critical condition. Drake, from New Kensington, PA, had recently transferred to the Texas school from California Junior College. Justice of the Peace Clysse Shute noted a hole in the floorboard near the back seat allowing fumes to enter.
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Texas State
Robert Norman Drake
Arizona State University
Toe Drake
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Wick Lhase
Drake
Texas School
Palo
Verde
Calif
Junior College
West
Bakersfield
Justice of the Peace
Clysse Shute
Hale
Whipple Seeks Nursing Aides for VA Center Posts
Applicants for nursing assistant positions at the Veterans Administration Center in Whipple are invited to apply. Exams will be conducted in Flagstaff Winslow and Prescott offices. Starting pay is 33 50 per year. applications accepted from Wednesday until further notice.
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Flagstaff
R Winslow
Prescott
Civil Service Board
10Th UW. 8
Civil Service Region
Building
Denver Federal Center
Denver
The Coconino Sun and Daily Sun Publication Details
Flagstaff publishing info lists Coconino Sun founded 1882 weekly and Daily Sun founded 1946 published daily except Sundays and holidays. Mail rates by region vary with counties Coconino Navajo Yavapai inside and outside rates. Second class matter post office 1873 act.
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Flagstaff Publishing CO
Postoffice
Wagstaff
Arizona
Platt Cline
Arizona Daily Sun
Coccaino
Navajo
Yavapai
Flagstaff
Ariz
Coconino Sun
Daily Sun
Job Service Expands Indian Placements in 1960
Phoenix special report shows 130,500 placements of Indian workers with Arizona and out of state employers since expanded Employment Service for reservation Indians. In 1960, 24,517 placements, 19 percent of the 12 year total, per James A. Bork. Navajo Reservation gains work via Glen Canyon Dam project, including a new plant in Four Corners by Arizona Public Service Co. with coal power, creating jobs. Arizona State Employment Service operates multiple Navajo, Hopi, Ft. Apache, and San Carlos branch offices.
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Arizona
Employment Service
James A. Bork
Glen Canyon Dam
Pingo
Dam
Cbs
Arizona’ Pull Service Co
Four Corners
Navajo Reservation
iThis
Arizona State Employment Service
Ganado
Chinle
Kayenta
Tuba City
Oratbl
Ft. Apache
Whiteriver
San Carlos
Epiphany Church Picnic Sunday at Fort Tuthill
Epiphany church school picnic set for May 24 at Fort Tuthill near the first picnic grounds north of the road. A pot luck meal will be served and all parish members are invited.
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Ephiphany Church School
Pic Vnc
Fort Tuthill
Siuthas
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