Worth of One GI in War as Proof of Value
In Vietnam there are 370000 service members and a sergeant named Smith is missing after a patrol was overrun. Evidence suggests he was kept alive for propaganda use, with leaflets offering 50000 piastres for his safe recovery and a larger reward possible. A large search force was deployed but found no trace, underscoring the high costs and stakes of one man’s fate. Separate item: John W. Proctor of Minneapolis pleads innocent to drunk driving and failing to stop, seeks jury trial.
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Saigon
Vietnam
NEA
Smith
United States
U.S
Secret Service
Minneapolis
John W. Proctor
Minneapolis Civil Service Commission
Proctor
Deaf Cadets Lead With Hand Signals At Cadet Flight
In Amherst Nova Scotia 24 members of Royal Canadian Air Cadets No 154 Squadron are deaf. Flight commander J H Wells teaches by hand signals with himself positioned 342 steps to the left so all cadets can see. Wells is a staff member at Interprovincial School for the Deaf and started the auxiliary flight as an experiment this year and expects it to be permanent.
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Amherst
N. S
Royal Canadian Air Cadets
J. H. Wells
Wells
Interprovincial School For the Education of the Deaf
Juvenile Court Keeps 14-Year-Old Suspect in Red Lake Case
In Remidji Minnesota a 14 year old girl from the Red Lake Reservation accused of knifing Elaine Jourdain TM outside an Island Lake tavern on November 26 will remain in Juvenile Court. The decision came Thursday.
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Remidji, Minn
Red Lake Indian Reservation
Elaine Jourdain
Redlake
Island Lake
Australian Grows 250000 Pound Mushroom Crop
Dutchman Hank Young, a 16 year migrant from Indonesia, runs one of Victoria's largest mushroom farms in Melbourne. The operation yields about 250000 pounds annually as part of Australia's nine million pound national crop. Beds use soiled bedding from Melbourne stables, enriched by an English import composting machine, then pasteurization, peat moss from Ireland, and staged growing sheds before harvest. Eight women and one man staff the farm, with Young's wife handling office work.
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Melbourne
Australia
Hank Young
Indonesia
Victoria
Young
England
Ireland
U.S. Denies Bombing Civilian Targets in Hanoi
The United States rejects Communist claims that it bombed civilian targets in Hanoi during December attacks. State Department spokesman McCloskey says all targets were in military areas outside the city, but adds they cannot rule out accidental civilian damage and regrets any such harm.
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Washington
United States
Hanoi
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Sial
Minnesota S&L Changes Name to Midwest Federal
Minnesota's second largest savings and loan association Minneapolis Federal has renamed to Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Savings and Loan Association
Minneapolis Federal
Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association
Man’s Free Entrance Sparks Sunday School Tale
Albany Kentucky hears a Sunday school tale as A B Gibson met a youngster returning from services with the same amount of money he was to give in the plate. Gibson asked why and the boy replied I got in free today echoing the moral about generosity and honesty.
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Albany
A. B. Gibson
Gibson
Hungry joke follows Nunn campaign buffet
In Glasgow Kentucky a crowd at Louie B. Nunn's gubernatorial bid buffet overloads plates with home cooked fare. Nunn overhears two men remarking at his seat about his large serving showing a hungry devil.
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Glasgow
Louie B. Nunn
Nunn
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