Alaska Matanuska colonists become lasting settlers
The 1935 Matanuska Valley colonization project sent 350 families from Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan to Palmer and Anchorage Alaska. They built tents and log cabins while the valley was developed. Over decades their descendants carry on farming and industry, transforming a relief program into enduring communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangeline Atwood
Alaska
Anchorage Times
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Associated Press
Michigan
Palmer
Wera
Neers’ Lodge
Sion
Alaska,tent City
Matanuskal
Midh-Valley
An-Idy
Igan
St. Mihiel
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Seward
Anchorage
Matanuska
Matanuska Valley
Washington
Viet Nam Prisoner Farmers Drafted By Viet Cong
Nguyen Huu Danh, 28, a POW held in Hue, says he was drafted in North Vietnam and sent south to fight Americans. He lived as a farmer in Ha Tinh Province and was captured after a Viet Cong attack. He and another captured North Vietnamese say they were instructed to kill Americans, with life in the South seen as better though families remain in the North. Military observers note growing Viet Cong recruitment in the South and mixed outcomes for captured prisoners amid ongoing controversy over treatment and propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hue
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Huu Danh
Danh
North Viet Nam
Dank
Ha Tinh
Here
U.S
Nguyen van Thu
Tanh Hoa Province
Alfense
Robert S. McNamara
Nam
Stockboth
Pristhe
North Vietnam
Peace Corps Idea Mirrors India U S Exchange Plan
Five Indians, among the first Peace Corps volunteers in the United States, train at St John’s College for three months to aid U S poverty programs and teach Hindi to American trainees. The group may later aid in antipoverty work and help launch an Indian Peace Corps if successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Stuckey
Annapolis
Peace Corps
United States
America
St. John's College
U.S
India
Harris Wolford
Wofford
Vista
Stawant B. Singh
Delhi
S. D. Tyagi
Etawah
Uttar Pradesh
L. K. Gupta
Lucknow
M. K. Pathik
New Delhi
Krishna Paitankan
Bombay
Sargent Shriver
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Suwicegood Suneral Home
Anville
MAIN
the Treasurer's Office
Danville
Frank W. Bates
City OF
E. H. Marshall
Virginia
Marshall
City
Frank Bates
Viet Nam
Viet Cong
Peace Corps’ From
Miskaken
Batesville, Ark
Paul Buchanan
Batesville Guard
Missouri
Bob Carter
Carter
Sears
Hom
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