Light Draft Test Turnout Tied to Hershey Remark
Washington AP reports low attendance at the second selective service deferment quiz session. Draft Director Hershey said few collegians will be drafted unless quotas rise over 30 000. About 250 000 students were expected to take the Newport News Va exam at Christopher Newport Port college but only a few showed up.
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Christopher Newbeen
Saturport College
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Monkey space cruise to test long flights next year
Pasadena experts say a monkey will be orbited for 30 days in 1967 to study weightlessness effects on brain, blood vessels, and bladder. A 1,200 pound biosatellite with a 15 pound key is aboard a Cape Kennedy launch to carry out the test amid broader spaceflight concerns.
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Vietnam
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Associated Press
Birling championship, log rolling roots and exam turnout notes
The piece notes Birling as a lumberjack sport born in Maine with water‑edge strategy after log drives. It mentions the first Birling championship in 1898 at the Omaha exposition and lists mixed attendance data from several universities for a test, with final tests set for June 3 and 14 and a film cast mention for Jubilee Trail on TV.
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Maine
Omaha Exposition
Virginia Union University
Richmond
University of Kansas
Sixty Rescued From Sunken Vessel Off Cebu After Typhoon
In Manila authorities report sixty survivors from a trading vessel sunk by Typhoon Irma. Twenty others from Banca Alex remain missing in shark infested waters off Cebu. No trace yet of over one hundred missing from the inter island steamer Pioneer Cebu which capsized last Monday. one hundred thirty survivors have been found.
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Manila
Cebu
Two Crashes at Same Site Six Die in I 79 Collision
Six people died and nine were injured in two crashes at the same scene on Interstate 79 near Monroe Michigan. Wallace Dupree 25 of Romulus and Patricia Wood 20 of Monroe died in the first crash into a foreign-made bus. Livonia residents Mr and Mrs Hartley and two of their children died in the bus occupants. A second collision nearly half an hour later injured six, including Deputy Sheriff Dallas Rod 28 who was directing traffic.
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Interstate 79
Wallace Dupree
Romulus
Dupree
Patricia, Wood
Johns Hartley
Livonia
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