New Training Plan Aims to Raise Failing Recruits
The Pentagon unveiled a October start for a special program to elevate poorly educated or physically deficient youths to minimum military standards. About 40,000 will receive supplementary schooling this year and 100,000 annually, with up to 8 percent kept for service. Trainees would be sworn in or discharged as unqualified if still unable to meet standards.
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Washington
Pentagon
Robert S. McNamara
Defense
McNamara
New York
Armed Services
State highway map highlights Erie area road work
A Journal survey notes state focus on major highways with limited work on lesser roads. It lists concrete paving projects on Interstates 90 79 and routes 20 6N 832 and 430 along with segments between Erie Weeleyville North East Edinboro Middleboro and local corridors.
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Erie County
Erie
Corry
Weeleyville
North East
Edinboro
Middleboro
Bolte Denies County Fault in Corry Highway Conditions
Erie County Roads Superintendent Elmer Bolte called Lawrence C. Nichols remarks after his Corry area highway foreman resignation half truths. Bolte said it was unfair to blame the county bureau for poor highway conditions, in remarks to an Erie newspaper.
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Erie County State Highway Department
Erie
Corry
Elmer Bolte
Lawrence C. Nichols
Nichols
Department
Bolte
Journal
State Highway Department
Henry Harral
Harrisburg
Harral
Raymond Burrows
North Center Street
Columbus Avenue
Civil rights marchers clash with mobs in Chicago South Deering
About 200 demonstrators hurled bricks and bottles in a Southeast Side confrontation before a MLK Jr rally. Police formed a 450-strong cordon as 16 were arrested. King planned to march in Cicero Sunday. Leaders announced a West Elsdon march amid tense conditions downtown.
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Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
Cicero
South Deering
King
Chicago Freedom Movement
West Elsdon
Gage Park
50c Pay Rise Demonstration At Chrysler Headquarters
UAW skilled tradesmen from 22 Detroit locals staged a four hour protest at Chrysler in Detroit to press for reopening labor contracts for a 50 cent hourly raise. Chrysler GM and Ford refused talks on revamping skilled trades wages as contract expirations loom on Sept 6 1967. The effort led by the $1 an Hour Now Steering Committee aims to prevent broader wage renegotiations by unskilled workers.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Joe Zapha
UAW
Detroit-area
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Christopher J
Mariner Plans Another Atlantic Attempt After Rescue
Capt. William Willis, 72, who sailed alone in an 11 foot boat from New York on June 2, says he will try again after a hernia and storms forced his rescue by a Coast Guard cutter about 1,000 miles east of Newfoundland. He arrived in New York with pain and uncertainty about surgery and was greeted by his wife in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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New York
William Willis
Atlantic
Willis
Coast Guard
Newfoundland
Plymouth
England
Saint John
N.B
Johnson urges restraint on prices and wages amid growth
President Johnson asked both capital and labor to hold wage demands and price rises within reasonable bounds as inflation trends edge upward. He cited 10 percent price, 17 percent wage, and 83 percent profit increases since 1960, and noted probes into medical costs and rising transportation expenses. He also commented on Nixon and delivered remarks alongside a Luna 11 satellite launch report from Moscow.
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Washington
Johnson
United States
Labor Department
Congress
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Explosion at Texas church wounds 40 plus victims
Rescuers search the Church of God in Christ in Plainview Texas after a gas explosion collapsed the building killing one woman and injuring more than 40 worshippers. AP Wirephoto.
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Church of God In Christ
Plainview
Texas
Wayne, Ind
Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corp
Earl Smith
Organic Research Laboratory
Military Political Clash Brings On East Germany Crisis
The row between West German military and political leaders grew to crisis levels as a third general asked to retire. Defense Ministry said Maj. Gen. Guenther Paper, commander of the Third Military Region, asked to be relieved after opposing a ministry decision.
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Germany
BOM
Defense Ministry
Guenther
Third Military Region
Defense
Kai-Uwe von Hassel
Ludwig Erhard
Heinz Trettner
Armed Forces
van Hassel
Public Services and Transport Workers Union
Trettner
Air Force
Werner Panitzki
Panitzki
Bundestag
Helmut Schmidt
Social Democratic Party
Free Democratic Party
Erhard
von Hassel
Bonn
Communist Bloc
Marines Attack Camp Southwest of Da Nang in Heavy Battle
U S Marines fought into a Communist training camp 20 miles southwest of Da Nang as other units engaged North Vietnamese regulars farther north. Reports say 211 enemy killed, 44 Communist dead counted at the camp with a large cave complex uncovered and 10 buildings burned. A separate 12 hour action along infiltration routes near the DMZ left 17 enemy dead and about 150 more killed as attackers withdrew.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang
Victor Ohanesian
New York City
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Map First UF Organizational Session For 67
L Richard Fuller campaigns chairman of the United Fund of the Corry area will preside at the first full organizational session for campaign leaders at a noon luncheon in Room 111 at the Hotel Corry. The meeting will align division chairmen and outline preliminary plans and procedures for the 1966 campaign.
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L. Richard
Dick) Fuller
United Fund of
Corry
Hotel
Fuller
Ten Cubans Swim To Exile From Guantanamo
Ten Cuban refugees swam toward exile near Guantanamo Bay after long swims and were flown to Miami by U S military craft. Osmundo Frometa, 38, said he spent 12 hours in the water waiting to slip past Castro's patrols to the base. The group had lived near Guantanamo before the crossings.
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Miami, Fla
Guantanamo Naval Base
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Osmundo Frometa
Frometa
U.S
Miami
Guantanamo
Deluge Danger Spreads in Southwest as Rain Threat Lingers
Silt filled floodwaters recede from Dell City and Carlsbad farms while more rain looms over West Texas and southeast New Mexico. Army helicopters from Ft. Bliss deliver food water and medicines to Dell City and nearby Carlsbad region as searches for missing man Joe Little continue amid flood losses estimated in the hundreds of thousands.
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Associated Press
Texas
New Mexico
Dell City
Tex
el Paso
Ft. Bliss
Carlsbad
M.M
Carlsbad Caverns
Paris
Weather Bureau
Pecos
Carlabad
Joe Little
National Guard
KPBM
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