How to transfer draft board duties and related queries
Reader questions cover changing local draft board handling of classification and exam duties, declaring a missing person dead, ant control measures with listed chemicals and cautions, traffic island lighting plans, oil tinting instruction, right of way timelines for I 85, and Grandfather Mountain singing event details.
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Cassius Clay
Kentucky
Texas
High Point Board
Clay
E. A
Marines Battle Up Hill 881 North Near Laotian Border
U S Marines fought part way up Hill 881 North to gain high ground near the Laotian border. The 11 day drive left 157 Americans fatally wounded and 506 enemy confirmed dead with 610 believed killed. A Special Forces camp at Lang Vei was overrun. 28 killed including two Green Beret advisers. Air attacks hit the Hoa Lac MIG base near Hanoi. four to six MIGs destroyed or damaged. The first days show heavy US Marine fighting for strategic hills and rising enemy losses.
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George Esper
Saigon
Hill 881
North Vietnam
U.S. Army
Lang Vei
U.S
Green Beret
South Vietnam
Hoa Lac
Hanoi
U.S. Command
Marines Fall Targets in South Vietnam Hills Action
Last week 22 per cent more American casualties than the prior week with 148 killed. Nearly half of the dead were Marines from the hills assault that began April 24. Wounded numbers eased slightly to 957 from 1,031. A Marine spokesman in Da Nang said assault forces moved toward Hill 881 North Thursday afternoon amid light sniper fire.
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South Vietnam
da Nang
Svetlana Attacked By Reds In U S
Svetlana Killuyeva, Stalin’s daughter, travels to the United States for an Harper & Row book publication. The Worker accuses American communists of exploiting her and labels her a Kremlin Princess and instrument in the cold war.
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Svetlana
U.S
Martin Arundel
Alliance
New York
Stalin
Svetlana Killuyeva
U. S
The
Worker
Red Party
Mike Davidov
Mrs. Allilluyeva
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
State Department
Harper & Row Publishing Co
Svetlana Allilluyeva
Allilluyeva
Harper & Row
Davidow
Ohio Communist Party
Kremlin
North Carolina House expected to pass patrol airplane bill
The House was set to enact a Senate passed measure allowing the Highway Patrol to use airplanes for traffic enforcement. Debate centered on timing speeders from air and whether planes are needed versus radar patrol cars.
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Raleigh
House
North Carolina Highway Patrol
General Assembly
Joe K. Byrd
Dburke
Sam J. Ervin Ill
Highway Patrol
Ervin
James C. Johnson Jr
R-Cabarrus
Johnson
Clarence Leatherman
D-Lincoln
Thomas Strickland
D-Wayne
North Carolina
Johnson proposes 90 day rail settlement plan with mediation board
President Johnson asks Congress to back a 90 day voluntary mediation plan to avert a railroad strike. A five member White House panel would mediate with six shop craft unions, review earlier panel findings, and, if needed, enforce a wage settlement up to two years retroactive to January 1. The plan includes a 6 percent general wage rise over 18 months plus three 5 cent raises for skilled workers.
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Congress
White House
Johnson
Wallace hecklers drive Wallace from Dartmouth stage
Former Gov. George C. Wallace apologized by Dartmouth for the heckling that forced him off the stage during a visit. Dean Thaddeus Seymour expressed regret that students infringed on a guest's rights, while Wallace defended academic freedom and commented on the political climate.
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Hanover
N.H
Dartmouth College
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Dartmouth
Thaddeus Seymour
Wallace
Fredom
Ku Klux Klan
Nazi Party
Republicans Close Ranks On Vietnam
Senator John G Tower says the Senate Republican Policy Committee erred by releasing a staff study critical of Johnson policy in Vietnam. He asserts a strong Republican consensus for unrelenting military pressure and predicts the 1968 platform and nominee will reflect that view. He claims Republicans will not retreat or politicize the war.
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Dorothy Brown
Superior Court
N. C
Westchester Drive
Wesley Memorial Church
R. V. Moss
Jack Bell
Washington
John G. Tower
R-Tex
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Johnson
Vietnam
Tower
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Linville
Arthur Smith
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Demilitarized Zone
Khe Sanh
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