Dream Made True in Currie Nevada’s frontiers town
A San Francisco couple, both Pacific Telephone and Telegraph employees, spent 85 000 to buy the 76 acre Currie Nevada town including a few homes and businesses. They become mayor sheriff fire chief and landlord aiming to keep frontier character while rebuilding the town. They believe happiness comes from pursuing bold dreams despite risks.
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San Francisco
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co
Nevada
Currie
Weather speaks loudly in war zones at Da Nang
Hal Boyle reports Capt. Norman F. Jacobs of Detachment 9, 30th Weather Squadron, forecasts weather for Da Nang operations. He leads 22 American and Vietnamese helpers and uses balloons and a high tech observation shack to provide hourly, sometimes minute by minute, weather data. He explains the monsoon system and local variation with dry periods in Da Nang despite broader rainy seasons.
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DA Nang
South Viet Nam
Norman F. Jacobs
30Th
Jacobs
Big da Nay
Los Angeles
Southeast Asia
Saigon
Delta
Donna Highfill Wichita victim in one-car crash
WICHITA AP Donna Highfill 16 of Wichita died after a one car crash Friday night. Carl A. Medley 18 of Andover died when the car struck a bridge abutment.
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Wichita
Donna Highfill
Carl A. Medley
Andover
Kan
Pearson Report on Thomas Power and Houston Prosperity
Texas congressman Albert Thomas, longtime Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, is credited with steering space and base contracts to Houston, boosting the city while battling illness. The piece also frames a looming political contest around New York mayoral politics and the Kennedy family’s rising influence.
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White House
Albert Thomas
Houston
Thomas
House Appropriations Committee
Cape Kennedy
South
Congress
Deay
Mendel Hivers
South Carolin
House
Senate Armed Services Committees
Herbert Hoover
Far West
Johnson
South Carolina
Franklin
Bobby Kennedy
New York
Harlem
Adam Clayton Powell
Bronx
Charfew Buckley
Fdr Jr
John Lindsay
Bob Wagner
Kennedy
World splits widen in GOP over Vietnam policy
James Marlow reports that four GOP leaders and strategists reveal growing fault lines in the party after 1964, with Rep. Melvin Laird warning Johnson faces eroding Republican backing on Vietnam, Dirksen defending support, Goldwater urging military leadership, and talk of a Free Society Association to boost GOP funds.
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James Marlow
Associated Press News
Washington
Johnson
Melvin FR. Laird
Wisconsin
House
Laird
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Viet Nam
Barry Goldwater
Republican
Goldwater
Congress
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Dirksen
Asia
United States
Joint Chiefs of Staff
The
Free Society Association
Republican Party
GOP National Committee
FSA
780 Die in Assam Gastroenteritis Epidemic
In eastern India state of Assam at least 780 people have died during a two month outbreak of gastroenteritis. Officials say the disease continues to spread as authorities race to control it.
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India
Gauhati
East India
Assam
Distaff Side takes a history through American cookery
Pat Fishback highlights the American Heritage Cookbook by American Heritage Publishing and Simon and Schuster. The volume blends a pioneer era history with recipes such as Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump and Chicken Corn Soup, recounting frontier life and early homemaking shifts with notes on Catherine Beecher's guidance.
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Pat Fishback
Distaff Side
American Heritage Publishing Company
Simon and Schuster
Louisa May Alcott
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Garden City Telegram
Hal Boyle
Télegram Publishing Company
N. Ith
Garden City
Kansas
Marvin Smith
Associated Press
Associated Eran
Gardan City
Finney, Lane
Scott
Greeley
Ham ‘Iton
Kearny
Grant
Haskell
Gray Counties
Telegram Motor
Pearson Report
Texas
Florida
Cape Canaveral
Florida Sands
Congressman Thomas
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Teddy Kheel
Debs Meyers
Wagner
David Karr
Torney
Frankling
Frank Hogan
Frank O'Conor
Queens
Ed Cavanaugh
Barbara
Fdr Dr
Kennedy Brothers
Johnson-Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
West Virginia
John F. Kennedy
Luther Hodges
Commerce
John Smith
Ers
Catherine Beecher
New England
Cadillac
America
Aduac
Schreiber Motors, Inc
North Main
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