Pleasure Boats May Soon Use TV for Navigation
The Coast Guard unveils RATAN a radar and television navigation aid for civilian boats. It uses a shore radar image broadcast over UHF TV to boats enabling continuous position fixes and awareness of nearby vessels. The system centers on a scan conversion tube that converts radar sweeps to TV format and stores intermittent targets in the image.
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U.S. Coast Guard
Radio Technical Commission For Marine Services
Coast Guard
Sandy Hook
N.J
Pownal Selectmen Extend Junkyard Law Deadline
Pownal residents received letters from Selectmen Lee H Barber Norman R Strobridge and A Coleman Mason extending the junk yard law deadline to June 15 1962. The notice outlines annual license fees and requirements with penalties of 10 dollars per day for violations and a possible injunction.
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Pownal
Board of Selectmen
Vermont
State Junkyard Regulations Define and Restrict Yards
The text outlines definitions and rules for junkyards including four or more unwanted vehicles, fencing requirements, prohibited materials, and environmental safeguards. It bans sites near schools, churches, hospitals, and public buildings within certain distances, and prohibits operation by anyone with a theft conviction.
Whooping Crane Hatches Fifth Egg at Audubon Zoo
Crip and Josephine, two rare whooping cranes at Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, hatched their fifth offspring Sunday, boosting the species to 48 in captivity. The pair incubates a second egg likely to hatch by week’s end, with keeper George Douglass noting a healthy, early-stage chick under watch and concerns over aspergillosis.
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New Orleans
Josephine
Audubon Zoo
Zoo
George Douglass
Douglass
Audubon
Four Faiths Enter Talks on Possible United Protestant Church
Four major Christian denominations begin joint sessions to explore a potential merger. The Methodist Church, Episcopal Church, United Presbyterian Church, and United Church of Christ account for about 19 million members. No decisive actions are planned. organizers aim to establish procedures for continued negotiations with possible future invitees. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake sparked the effort in 1960, and merger could take at least a decade.
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Washington
America
Methodist Church
Protestant Episcopal Church
United Presbyterian Church
United Church of Christ
Congregational Christian and
Evangelical and Reformed Church
San Francisco
Episcopal Cathedral
Eugene Carson Blake
Philadelphia
Blake
New York City Hotel Boom Surges Ahead for 1964 World Fair
New York's first hotel boom since 1938 accelerates for the 1964 World’s Fair with eight new motor hotels and skyscraper hotels in midtown and the West Side. The $230 million expansion adds about 8,000 rooms and large garages, including the 50 story Americana and the New York Hilton, boosting airport and transit connected sites near Lincoln Tunnel and Times Square.
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New York
UPI
New York City
Tenth Avenue
Hudson River
Midtown Manhattan
Twelfth Avenue
Eighth Avenue
Rockefeller Center
Loew’s Hotels
New York Hilton
Lexington Avenue
New West Side
Hotel Association of
Five Boroughs
Airport
West Side
William B. Rasor
Knott Hotels
Midtown Inns
Idlewild
Rasor
Lincoln Square
Air Force Academy produces Rhodes scholars four times
Scholastic Flyboys at the U S Air Force Academy in Colorado have produced four Rhodes scholars in six years. This year two Class of 1962 members and a recent graduate earned the honor. Among 800 cadets entering as Class of 1965, 32 percent were student body presidents or vice presidents, 31 percent earned outstanding student awards, with 42 percent lettering in football, 27 percent in basketball, 20 percent in baseball, and 27 percent in track.
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AIR Force Academy
Colo
UPI
U. S. Air Force Academy
Science Shrinks Piles Without Surgery New Remedy
New York report describes a new healing substance called Bio-Dyne, used as Preparation H in suppository or ointment form, that allegedly shrinks hemorrhoids, stops itching, and relieves pain without surgery. Cases claim noticeable shrinkage and statements that piles are no longer a problem.
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New York, N. Y
Parked Car Damages Minor After Bennington Collision
Police report a 2:50 p.m. Saturday crash on Main Street in Bennington involving a 1957 Pontiac driven by an unnamed woman owned by George Driscoll of Hoosick Falls New York and a 1959 Chevrolet driven by Edward Masin Jr. of Windham College Putney. The Pontiac backed from the westbound Chevrolet and the driver left the scene unaware of the contact. Driscoll later agreed to cover minor damage to Masin's left side. Driscoll's car was undamaged.
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Bennington
Main Street
George Driscoll
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Edward Masin Jr
Windham College
Putney
Driscoll
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LaGuardia
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