Youths Spruce Up Public Property in New York State
Near 2 009 New York State youths will be hired this summer under a 657 00 appropriation to improve roadside areas beaches and parks. 64 communities will employ 30 youths each for eight weeks 1 25 per hour 35 hours weekly. Other items include a Tennessee appeals ruling on passenger damages a protest over Canadian wood chopper use in New Hampshire timberlands a $5 million suit against NASA over sputtering and Baltimore fireflies used in a Johns Hawkins University project at 35 cents per hundred.
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Albany
N.Y
New York State
Concord
N.H
James C. Cleveland
Rn.h
W. Willard Wirtz
New Hampshire
Cleveland
U.S
Baltimore
William D. McElroy
Johns Hawkins University
McElroy
History Today Highlights Pacific Flight and Notable Dates
June 23 1965 marks the 38th anniversary of the Oakland to Honolulu flight by Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenberger in 1927 after a 25 hour 15 minute journey. The piece notes earlier milestones from 1541 Coronado to Quivira, 1776 Virginia constitution, 1858 Panama Canal engineer Goethals birth, 1943 New Georgia landing, and a 1965 Brookfield Zoo tiger encounter with Secretary Freeman.
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Lester Maitland
Albert Hegenberger
Honolulu
Pacific
Oakland
Calif
Coronado
Arkansas River
Quivira
Kansas
Virginia
Patrick Henry
George Goethals
Panama Canal
Colorado River
Saltan Desert
New Georgia Island
Solomons
Chicago
Orville L. Freeman
Brookfield Zoo
Freeman
Ronald Blakely
Blakely
Sobering Moments Involving Laughs From Bob Hope
Hollywood comic Bob Hope recalls sobering episodes from a life in entertainment. He describes eye trouble six years earlier, a blood clot behind the left eye diagnosed after a trip to Germany and Iceland, treatments to restore vision, and a warning to avoid golf. He also recounts a tense Viet Nam Christmas Eve drive past a bombed hotel and the nerve racking task of delivering a high school commencement address where his student audience expected Ringo.
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Bob Hope
Cynthia Lowry
Is On Vacation
Hollywood
Frankfurt
Germany
Keflavik
Iceland
New York City
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Nasvhille, Tenn
Tennessee Court of Appeals
Allison B. Humphreys
San Diego
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Rev
B. Mecker
Physics Technology Laboratories, Inc
Mesa
Meckel
NASA
Telegram
Jim Sloar
Garden City
S. Main
Lennox
Farm Delivery Service
Great Plains Oil Co
N. Mein
Trudy
Rakes Weereed
Guy Mareoise
Oakland-Hawaii
Herbert Hoover
Texas Co
Santiago
U.N
Congo
Buick
SIP
the Western Motor Co., Inc
Fulton
Vick Exhibit
Viet Nam
Saigon
Nora
Ringo
Betty Pepis
Tims
Wes Dacote
Noor
Sears
Dalman
Sears and Save Earsh
Seareana
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