Laos Report Details Life Under Pathet Lao Regime
A UPI dispatch outlines life in Vientiane as the Pathet Lao push a self reliant, regimented society while hill tribes in the countryside face secrecy and fear. Refugees flee to Thailand amid reeducation campaigns and economic moves toward state controlled rice sales and collectivization.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPI
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Pathet Lao
Thailand
United States
United Nations High Commission For Relief
Luang Prabang
Voice of the People
Radio Lao
Kansas family joins Alaskan pipeline project in cold work
Emmett Kansas family members seven siblings work 10 hour days seven days a week for Perini Arctic Associates near Delta Junction Alaska. They relocate with Karen Bond’s transfer and describe harsh conditions from 60 below to wind chills of 111 below.
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Emmett
Kan
UPI
Eugene Bond
Perini Arctic Associates Pipe Construction Company
Delta Junction
Alaska
Karen
Perini
North Slope
Valdez Harbor
Kansas City
Kathy
Judy Bond Karns
Wayne
Dan
Larry
David
Big Delta
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Sheriff allows beards and starts $100 contest
Shawnee County Sheriff F. T. Chaffee reverses an order banning facial hair for deputies and launches a beard contest with a $100 prize. The bicentennial celebration invites beards judged on length style originality and overall appearance with a department party set for July 2. The judge remains unnamed and it is unclear if the beard ban will be reinstated on July 3.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Shawnee County
F. T. Chaffee
Chaffee
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