Peace Corps Seeks Tractor Mechanics Recruiters Visit Cedar Rapids
Three Peace Corps representatives visited Cedar Rapids discussing needs for trained tractor mechanics. They cited Liberia and Africa as target posts, noting the value of mechanized farming to raise rice. Training lasts about 13 weeks, with two-year service and potential third year, and Iowa area vocational schools including Kirkwood College hosted farm machinery programs.
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Corpa
Cedair
Liberia
Iowa
Kirkwood College
Cédar Rapids
Sioux City
Ft. Dodge
Calmar
Peace Corps
Peace’ Corps
United States Courthouse
Deg
Maines
India
Heshaned
Remmel
Voloshen
UNICEF Projects In CoR Raise Total Of 8789
UNICEF activities in Cedar Rapids during 1968 raised a total of 8789 toward programs for children worldwide. Card sales and the Christmas shop at the Cedar Rapids Art Center netted 3950, with 55 volunteers in the fundraiser and a Halloween collection of 4839.53, up 850 from 1968, chaired by Mrs. Kollmann and Mrs. Popinger.
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Unicef
Cedar Rapids
Katherine Kollmann
Avenue
Cedar, Rapids
Kollmann
Cedar Rapids Art Center
F.C. Popinger
Ray Appeal Rejected by Tennessee Supreme Court
The Tennessee Supreme Court unanimously rejected James Earl Ray’s appeal for a new trial in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The opinion, read by Special Judge Erby Jenking, held Ray knowingly and intelligently entered a guilty plea and cannot delay justice while violence and disorder grow.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Supreme Court Court
James Earl Ray
Lin
Dr. Martin
Luther King
Erby Jenking
Spanish Youth Blames Cognac for Hijack Attempt
A mild mannered 18 year old Spanish student, Mariano Rodriguez, tried to hijack an airliner en route to Albania, claiming he drank four cups of cognac and did not know what he was doing. He held a plastic pistol to the pilot's neck, demanded to fly to Albania, and released passengers after three hours. He said he wanted asylum and admired Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, but no harm was done. The plane landed in Zaragoza and police restrained the passengers without incident.
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Spain
Rodriguez
Polical
Albania
Mariano Rodriguez
RedgeTleet
China
Balkan
Theria
Jeft
Convair
Madrid
Torfather
Fidel
Castro
Che Guevara
Maria del Mar
Luis Bernal
Ochoa
Bernal
Farm Boy Stafford Demonstrates Rubber Tapping
In Sungei Buloh Malaysia ex farm boy Stafford guides Agnew a city slicker to tapping a rubber tree at the Malaysian Rubber Institute experimental station near Kuala Lumpur. Apollo astronaut Stafford notes potential earnings as latex flows, while Agnew reflects on U.S. commitments in Southeast Asia during talks with Malaysia's leaders. Security remains tight with helicopters and Marine escorts.
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Sungei Bulch
Malaysia
Stafford
Agnew
Malaysian Rubber Institute
Kuala Lumpur
Apollo
Thomas Stafford
Onne
Research Institute
Sungei Butoh
Husla Lumpur
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tun Abdul Razak
Southeast Asia
U. S
Tunku
U. 5
U. 6
America
U. S. Marine
South Vietnam
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Town City
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New York
McCormack
Grand Jury
Nathan Voloshen
Martin Swelg
Sweig
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House
Aloo
Milo Ano
Roma Ag
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Wei
Amy
Guy Man
By Carl Leubsdorf
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Washington
Nigen
Britain
Priia
3Rd Avenue
Second Street SE
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Pencale
Fortral
Oxford
Collar Medal of
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Walsband
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