Military leader takes command at Indiantown Gap
Maj. Gen. Harry L. Hillyard, a three time Silver Star winner and 1934 West Point graduate, assumed command of the XXI Army Corps and the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation. The Falls City Nebraska native has wartime service in North Africa Italy France Belgium Holland and Germany and replaces Maj. Gen. Van H. Bond who was reassigned and later retired. Hillyard currently headed the Joint U.S. Military Aid Group at Athens Greece. He is married with three children including a son serving in Vietnam.
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Hopeful Swartz seeks debate with Shafer and Shapp
Edward S. Swartz of Hummelstown heads the Constitutional Party and challenged Lt. Gov. Raymond Shafer and Milton Shapp for a gubernatorial debate. The party formed last March as a conservative group and its ballot petition was denied for insufficient signatures. the bureau's decision was appealed to Commonwealth Court, with the suit still pending.
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Press Search For Slayer Of Go Go Girl
Pittsburgh police pressed a search for the killer of 21 year old Nancy L. Rei Bard of Natrona Heights. Her body was found in a wooded Penn Hills area and she had been strangled with a knotted rag around the neck and throat cut. Police said no sexual assault occurred.
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Americans Learn, Laugh, and Live in Everyday Facts
New York AP column surveys quirky data and social trends from 1960s America. It notes rattlesnake warning behavior, future population growth, cheetah speed myth versus pronghorn, education spending, smoking habits, teen nutrition, census history, daily word use by women, TV viewing time, dental aid tips, and a wartime-era adage from James Roche.
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Today In History highlights Aug 15 milestones
This Aug 15 entry notes Will Rogers and Wiley Post’s 1935 Alaska crash death, Panama Canal opening in 1914, London Airport hit in 1940, Allied invasion of southern France in 1944, Tokyo War Cabinet resignation after surrender in 1945, and later political and civil events through prior decades plus Watts unrest with National Guards.
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