Hebert Joins POW Exhibit With Families in Capitol
Rep Edward Hebert of Louisiana, chairman of a congressional subcommittee, toured a Vietnam POW exhibit in the Capitol with wives of missing servicemen. The display showed a bamboo cage prisoner's silhouette as Mrs Mearns, Mrs White and Mrs Hanson stood nearby. The women are part of the National League of Families of American Prisoners Missing in Southeast Asia.
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Edward Hebert
D.la
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Capitol
Cage
Arthur S. Mearns
Los Angeles
Calif
James Blair White
St. Petersburg
Fla
Hebert
Stephen P. Hanson
el Toro
National League of Families of American
Florida Group Urges Smaller Families To Curb Population
Zero Population Growth leader Dr. Seymour Block argues Florida should attract business without boosting population. He cites global space limits, praises humane solutions to overpopulation, and proposes tax incentives or penalties to limit births. ZPG lists chapters in Jacksonville Gainesville and Palm Beach with plans for Satellite Beach.
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Gainesville
Fla
Chambers of Commerce
Sunshine State
Seymour Block
University of Florida
ZPG
Florida
Ourustrial
Block
Jacksonville
Palm Beach
Satellite Beach
Supreme Court appeal sought in Charlotte school desegregation
Civil rights lawyers plan to ask the U S Supreme Court to hear the Charlotte-Mecklenburg desegregation case before summer adjournment. Julius L Chambers of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund says filing will argue to reinstate the elementary order requiring busing 13 000 additional students to promote integration.
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Charlotte, N.C
U.S. Supreme Court
Charlotte-Mecklenburg County
Julius L. Chambers
Charlotte
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc
Washington
Suprem Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S
James B. McMillan
Supreme Court
Chambers
Appeals Court
North Carolina
Nixon
Justice Department
McMllan
Playgrounds to Open Under Thom asville Recreation Dept
Thom asville Recreation Department will open playgrounds Monday with a full summer program schedule. Supervising areas include Liberty Drive Turner Street Carver Park Kings Row Amazon Doak Park and Wallcliff. Hours run 9 30 a m to noon and 1 30 p m to SP each weekday.
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Thomasville
Liberty Drive
Turner Street
Carver Park
King’s Row
Amazon
Doak Park
Wallcliff
Italians tilt toward center-left in regional elections
Italy's regional vote boosts Premier Mariano Rumor's center-left coalition to controls in 12 of 15 legislatures with 58.2 percent of 32.7 million votes. Communists and allies win 31.1 percent, hold Emilia Romagna majority, but fail to secure Tuscany and Umbria.
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Rome
Italy
Mariano Rumor
Rumor
Proletarian
Socialist Party
Emilia - Romagna
Bologna
Tuscany
Florence
Umbria
Spill Probed After Herbicide Threatens Siler City Water
North Carolina health officials investigate a spill of 2 4-D and 2 4 5-T herbicides into the Rocky River upstream from a reservoir supplying Siler City. Officials cite fish kills, note dilution by 220 million gallons of water, and link the spill to Aerial Services Corp. crews applying herbicides by helicopter near Randolph County Electric Membership Co. rights of way.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Board of Health
Rocky River
Siler City
Randolph County Elec
Tric Membership Co
Aerial Services Corp
Roanoke
He's Normal Except For Being Genius
In Newton Massachusetts Gerald Antione, age 14, finished four years of high school in one year and earned 52 college credits before graduating with his class. His father, a Northeastern mathematics professor, says his son is mostly self taught and plans to study electrical engineering at Northeastern this fall while pursuing engineering technology at night. He plays piano guitar and baritone horn and enjoys swimming and ice skating. He speaks fluent French and plans a summer visit to France.
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Gerald
Newton High School
Northeastern University
Northeastern
France
Antione
Seven Green Berets Killed in Fort Bragg Demo Blast
An accidental electrical connection to 20 one pound TNT charges during a Fort Bragg demolition drill caused a blast that killed seven Green Beret soldiers and wounded five others. The explosion occurred as the group stood on a training field to observe the blast from a distant knoll. Army officials expect a full investigation while halting further demonstrations.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
Green Beret
Army
Womack Army Hospital
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America
Czechoslovakia
Sears and
SAVE
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and CO
S. Wrenn St
High Point, N.C
State Department of Water and Air Resources
John Freezen
Board
Newton
Mass
Roger Antione
Ernest J. Bryan
Fayetteville
Phillip N. Schnicke
Madison
Wis
Michael Keller
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Ronald E. Puckett
Smyrna
John D. Pierce
Flint
Mich
Edward M. Flanagan Jr
Training School
Civic Southern Factors Corporation
North
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High Point
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State
Zip
High Point Enterprise
P.o.box
Harold Dixon
Dixon’s
N. Main
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