News At A Glance From Lincolnton Georgia and Beyond
Rural Lincolnton Georgia sees local Negroes block a civil rights march while nationwide headlines note congressional probes into Klan activity and time bomb training. Viet Nam unrest grows as AFL-CIO leadership urges action. International talks risk a Rhodesia showdown. UNICEF fundraisers rise as Halloween ghosting continues. Cubans await U S airlift to Florida after sea route closure. Gemini teams face two manned orbit rendezvous within 10 days. A 74 year old handyman pursues education for his ten children. House Speaker McCormack urges Republicans to keep Congress record a 1965 election issue.
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Viet Nam
Afl-Cio
Harold Wilson
Rhodesia
Unicef
U.S
Florida
Daniel Elmore
Washington House
John W. McCormack
Wilson And Smith Near Showdown Over Rhodesia
SALISBURY Rhodesia British Prime Minister Harold Wilson warned Ian Smith that a unilateral Rhodesian declaration of independence would trigger a total oil embargo and a Berlin style air lift to Zambia. The two leaders met at a dinner amid deadlocked talks on majority rule and independence.
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Salisbury, Rhodesia
Harold Wilson
Ian Smith
Rhodesia
Smith
London
Wilson
U.N
Britain
Zambia
North
United Nations
Africa
West Point-Pepperell plans expansion near Shawmut Alabama
West Point-Pepperell Inc unveils a $17 million expansion creating two new textile mills near Shawmut Alabama a sheeting mill and a fine goods plant. The project aims to add 500 jobs and $2.5 million annual payroll with 1 178 looms and 69 336 spindles across the facilities. Construction starts early next year and involves modernization spending totaling $113.6 million through 1967.
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West Point
West Point - Pepperell, Inc
Shawmut
Ala
Joseph L. Lanier
Homer M. Carter
Lady Pepperell
Opelika
Abbeville
Lanier
Interstate 85
George C. Wallace
Carter
West Point - Pepperell
Biddeford
Maine
Chuckle on age jokes from a humorous quip
A joke about asking a woman her age comparing it to buying a second hand car with a faked odometer. The quip notes you may not know how far the setting was adjusted. TM WRR Gen Fea Corp.
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Fea. Corp
Escape Route From Cuba Slammed Shut
Key West reports Fidel Castro shut the water escape route from Cuba as the U S airlift to Florida looms. Coast Guard rescues continued with 82 Cubans saved from eight boats while the U S presses for a formal evacuation plan and talks with Cuba proceed.
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Cuba
Key West
Fla
Fidel Castro
U.S
Florida
State Department
Castro
Camarioca
Florida Straits
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Miami
United States
Havana
Emil Stadelhofer
Washington
Navy F8 Crusader blown up over North Vietnam pilot missing
A U S Navy F8E Crusader was blown up 60 miles southwest of Hanoi by a likely surface to air missile and the pilot is missing. Earlier, six U S aircraft losses were confirmed by missiles. Air strikes across South Vietnam and near the capital continued with heavy sorties and ground actions.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Defense Department
Washington
101St Airborne Division
South China Sea
Perkins Grange Elects Maine Master in Augusta
Arthur M Perkins of Wells was elected master of the Maine State Grange succeeding J Merrill Hatch of Minot who did not seek re election. Perkins' wife Isabel was chosen Flora the top office for a woman. The new master is a former loverseer of the Grange.
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Augusta
Arthur M Perkins
Wells
Maine State Grange
J. Merrill Hatch
Minot
Perkins
Isabel
Flora
The
Grange
New Decrees Signal Vatican Council Renewal Drive
The Vatican issued five new decrees under Pope Paul VI, advancing John XXIII’s renewal plan. The measures urge openness to non Christians including Jews Moslems and Hindus, reject collective deicide labeling of Jews, and urge missionaries to show Christ’s values rather than denigrate other faiths.
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Eugene Levin
Vatican City
Vatican Ecumenical Council
John XXIII
John
Paul VI
Paul
Christ
Vatican Curia
Civil Rights Forces Prepare Another March In Georgia
civil rights groups plan another Lincolnton Georgia march after a Thursday confrontation with about 40 Negro men who blocked demonstrators. King's aides gather in Selma for strategy talks on a dramatic action plan while a federal court approves bus desegregation for Taliaferro County children.
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Georgia
Associated Press
Lincolnton
Martin Luther King Jr
Selma
Ala
King
Atlanta
Taliaferro County
Massachusetts
Boston
State Education Board
Gemini Team Faces Toughest Space Assignment Yet
Cape Kennedy AP The Gemini launch team must orbit two two man spacecraft within 10 days to fly in formation in space. If successful the nation moves toward the moon. Gemini 6 and 7 aim to rendezvous within feet after earlier Agena failure.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
Frank Borman
Air
James A. Lovell Jr
National Aeronautics and Space
Walter M. Schirral
Gemi Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Schirra
Stafford
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Pepperell Mfg. Co
Camile Garon
Merilda Rousseau
Bernard Brady
Henry Truslow
Dorothe Gregoire
Francois Lariviere
Napoleon Ruel
Ku Klux Klan
Pepperell
Electrolux
Joseph Durfee
Wilbur Avenue
Register & Win
Russell’s Shop & Save
Storer Street
Saco
U. S. Navy
Guam
Tay Ninh
Cambodia
Qui Nhon
Song Am Valley
Sai
Hau Nghia
South Viet
Perkins Grange Master
Curia
Holy Office
Alfredo Ottaviani
Jos. T. Letellier & Sons
Pool Street
Royal R. Chretien Sales Rep
Youland
House
Tion
Willie Bolden
Gemini
Air Force
Biddeford-Saco
John R. Gibson
Clarence Lapierre
George Butler
William Smith
Clayton Cartmill
Maurice Roux
Lapierre
Rotary Club
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