Senior Citizens Plentiful On Local Draft Boards
Ohio's draft boards include many senior citizens, with one official noting a large portion in the 70s and 80s. Board members serve for life, work unpaid, and appeals boards exist in two districts with five members each.
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Robert E. Miller
Columbus
Ohio
Selective Service
Col. W. L. Klare
Congress
U.S. District
Ohio Supreme Court
Common Pleas
Maj
R. J. Thomas
Amerson Becomes South’s First Negro Sheriff Since Reconstruction
Lucius D. Amerson takes office January 16 as Macon County sheriff, the first Black elected to the role in the South since Reconstruction. He pledges no bias, aims to integrate the office and jail, and seeks white deputies amid a county that is 83 percent Black.
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Tuskegee, Ala
Lucius D. Amerson
Macon County
Amerson
South
Tuskegee Institute
Macon
Alabama
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Ohio
McDivitt and Borman Named Apollo Command Pilots
NASA announced that astronauts James A. McDivitt and Frank Borman will serve as command pilots for two key Apollo training missions ahead of the moon landing. The prime crew for the second Apollo flight includes McDivitt, Air Force Lt. Col. David R. Scott, and civilian Russell L. Schweickart, with tests planned for the lunar excursion module in orbit.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
James A. McDivitt
Frank Borman
America
Air Force
McDivitt
David R. Scott
Russell L. Schweickart
Borman
Michael Collins
William A. Anders
Virgil I. Grissom
Edward H. White II
Navy
Roger B. Chaffee
Viet Cong War Bond Drive Expands As War Costs Grow
U S officials report the Viet Cong have intensified bond drives and levied taxes on peasants and merchants to fund their war. The AID study says bonds now fund 40 percent of the Viet Cong budget, with another 40 percent from roadblock taxes and 20 percent from outside South Vietnam. Families pay 7 000 to 10 000 piasters in villages. The civilian budget is about 7 million dollars annually, with military costs triple that. Up to three-fifths of South Vietnam's 14 million people support the Communists financially, and farmers may lose up to half their crop to Viet Cong taxes.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
U.S
National Liberation Front
Hanoi
Liquor Stores Close Mondays For Holidays
Department of Liquor Control stores and offices will be closed Monday for Christmas and January 2 for New Year holidays. Director Donald D. Cook announced. A ghost belief tied to candle flames and letters arriving from the candle’s spark is noted as local superstition.
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Department of Liquor Control
Donald D. Cook
Solons To Probe Steel Scandal
Senate investigators will probe charges that U S military contractors bought supplies for Vietnam from Hong Kong firms controlled by Communist China. The inquiry could lead to public hearings when Congress reconvenes January 10. Senator Ernest Gruening will pursue the matter through his foreign aid expenditures subcommittee. The Pentagon says no information supports the London Observer report of $1 million in steel from Red China for bases in Vietnam.
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Washington
P— Senate
U.S
Vietnam
Hong Kong
China
Congress
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Senate
London Observer
United States
Pentagon
Twenty two cops become Bobby Cline's godfathers this Christmas
Cincinnati story describes how Patrolman George Reis gathered a Christmas aid network after finding Bobby Cline in a dirty upstairs room. The boy, living with his father and seven siblings, enters Glenview School for indigent boys after his Kentucky trip ends. He will return to eighth grade in January.
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Cincinnati
Bobby Cline
George Reis
Child Welfare Department
Kentucky
Bobby
James
Reis
Glenview School
Charles Denham
James Combs
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Earth
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Anders
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Solons
Upper Vine Street Area
Glenview
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