Mt Whitney Rename Proposed by Interior Board
AP reports a proposal to rename Mt. Whitney to Mt. Churchill as the Interior Department's Geographic Names Board considers changes. The item appears alongside other AP briefs from Washington New Jersey Connecticut Michigan and Alabama noting World Bank financing Chile education reform Yale alumni giving and Mobile sewer concerns.
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Washington
Mt. Whitney
California
Mt. Churchill
Interior Department
Board On ‘ Geographic, Names
World Bank
Chile
Trenton
N.J
Richard J. Hughes
New Jersey
Sandma Plans 0-Mile Hike through Africa
Los Angeles grandmother Jean Davis begins a 3000 mile hitchhiking trek across Africa from Rhodesia in search of a husband. She has received at least four marriage proposals and rejects them all, having sold an Hollywood apartment to travel. She hopes a suitable partner awaits in Egypt on the return trip or may continue through Europe.
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Bulawayo
Rhodesia
Los Angeles
Africa
Jean Davis
Hollywood
Morocco
Bussawayo
Jean
Liberia
Ghana
Green
South Africa
Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Egypt
Euroe
Tourism boom in President's Country spurs Texas towns
Johnson City and nearby Stonewall Fredericksburg ride a LBJ tourism surge as Lake Lyndon B Johnson and the nearby ranch draw visitors. Tourists buy Presidential Nectar water bottles, LBJ ranch rocks, and apparel while land values rise and park attendance climbs. Local business leaders upbeat about a sustained impact despite traffic and security restrictions on Ranch Road 1.
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Johnson City
Stone
Wall
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jack
Keaver Associated Press
Tex
Texas Hills
Austin
Stonewall
Fredericksburg
Lake
Lyndon 'B. Johnson
LBJ
President Johnson
Bluebonnet Acres
Harold Stehling
Chamber of Commerce
U.S. 290
Pedernales River
Secret Service
Charles Matus
Jonson City Chamber of Commerce
Charles’ Restaurant
Kermitt Hahne
Johnson
Lyndon
Hobbs
M. Farr
Hahne
Matus
Stoneiall
Ji Mrs. Johnson
La Porte Du Pont Plant Adds 7.7 Million To Area
Du Pont announced that its La Porte plant and other Texas operations added significant value in 1964. Local purchases totaled 4.133 million from about 600 suppliers and payroll ran high across Beaumont Sabine River Works Victoria and Houston plants. Additional Texas purchases exceeded 38.15 million outside local areas.
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la Porte du Pont
Anayerevu
du Pont
Texas
Beaumont
Sabine River
Victoria
Houston
Orange
Utah Helicopter Pilot Shot Down in Guatemala
AP reports James Green of Smithfield Utah and Luis Fernando Minondo a Guatemalan United Fruits crop dusting chief were machinegunned to death at a banana plantation near Bananera Guatemala. Government blames bandits and orders regional authorities to pursue killers after bodies were mutilated and the helicopter set on fire.
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Guatemala
James Green
Smithfield
Utah
Luis Fernando Minondo
United Fruits Company
Bananera
Green
United Fruit
Minondo
Fruit Company
Rockefeller Signs School Failure Evaluation Bill
Albany Gov Rockefeller signs a bill mandating special examinations for students who repeatedly fail. The act requires school districts to assess physical mental or social causes of failure to determine appropriate interventions and support.
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Albany, N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Valley cotton harvest expands across Lower Rio Grande
In Cameron Hidalgo Willacy and nearby counties cotton harvest runs in full swing pushing season total to 26 875 bales up from 20 007 a year earlier in the Lower Rio Grande Valley crop report notes and figures.
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Amundues
Rex
Rio Grande Valley
Cameron
Hidalgo
Willacy
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Brad Berger
Chicago
Ephrain
Wis
New Haven
Mobile
Ala
Sandma
Lb.j
Johnson Milae
Gillespie County
Stonewall Tank AM
The
Standard
Lyndon B
Altion
Peach
John
Fred Wood
Néer
Valley Cotton High
Jamaica
Muetanc
Akl
Service
Poplin
Chambray
Dacron
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