Firemen Burn Houses To Test Their Skills
Some 200 firemen from 19 Davidson County volunteer departments joined a five annual school in Lexington taught by seven North Carolina Insurance Department instructors. Demonstrations burned eight houses to train crews with rescue, pumps, officer training and fire attack, watched by over 150 spectators.
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Enterprise
Lexington
Davidson County
North Carolina Department of Insurance
Raleigh
Elwood Inscoe
Earl Denny
Jerry Grimes
David Lee
Jim Finnison
Dawson Nethercutt
Thomasville
Fair Grove
Denny
Grimes
Lee
Finnison
Nethercutthan
West Lexington
Midway
Insurance Department
Lindsey Loftin
Irma Street
Hamlet Project Steers Vietnam War Aid Plan
In Saigon defense chiefs McNamara and Taylor review the strategic hamlet program amid Viet Cong pressure. U S aid mission head Joseph Brent and military aid head Gen Paul Harkins coordinate with Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to bolster a plan to build about 12 000 fortified hamlets across South Vietnam as a core war tactic.
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Tokyo
South Viet Nam
Defense
Robert §. McNamara
Sai’gon
U.S
Viet Nam
United States
Joseph Brent
Thailand
Formosa
Morocco
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nhu
Lodge
Malaya
Heck
Robert Byrne
Sacramento
Calif
2Th
Quang Nai
Ft. Dodge
Ft. Apache
Americans Are Friendly Natives To Foreigners Visiting Country
Washington AP report profiles Want Gilmore director of the U S Travel Service as he touts U S welcome for foreign visitors. In six months 1963 overseas arrivals rose 49.2 percent to 331,464, with an average stay of 17 days and spend average 470 dollars. Gilmore cites promotions under Visit U S A and notes Americans spend more abroad than visitors here but gap narrowing. He highlights turnpikes cowboys Indians and friendly natives as top draws while noise and dirt in cities draw complaints. Travel Service aids communities to host visitors and view international travel as a growing economic and cultural opportunity.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Gilmore
U.S.A
Vait Gilmore
Voit
New York
San Francisco
Paris
Chicago
Logan
Utah
Crown Point
Ind
Liunch
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Nine
Travel Service
America
Day Treatment For Mental Patients Proving Success
In Chattanooga, the Moccasin Bend Psychiatric Hospital's day-patient program helps patients recover without overnight stays. Mrs. C benefited after six months of treatment, returning home nightly as the Southeast’s first program of its kind expands to help more than 400 patients since July 1 under Dr. D. A. Knights.
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Chattanooga
Moccasin Bend Psychiatric Hospital
Lookout Mountain
Mrs. C
Southeast
Macjacsin Bend
D. A. Knights
Annapolis Adds Modern Curriculum To Naval Training
At the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis life shifts from tradition to a broader academic program. The new curriculum expands from 54 to 180 courses with 10 majors, more civilian faculty, and an experimental scholarship program. Midshipmen can pursue diverse fields while maintaining Navy traditions and the goal of producing capable naval officers.
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Herb Thompson
Annapolis
U.S. Naval Academy
Bancroft Hall
Academy
Liberty
Iyell
Army
Navy
Charles G. Kirkpatrick
Robert W. McNitt
Ens
David R. Oliver Jr
Indianapolis
Ind
Hennessy
Adm
Heiman G. Rickover
New York University
Kirkpatrick
Harvard
Yale
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Nethercutt
Greenville
Canada
Richard Jarrett
Therell Grimes
Inscoe
Marvin S5urts
Brent
Harkins
Overseas
Texas
Disneyland
Seventh Heaven
University of North Carolina
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gilmore Ee
Niagara
New York Thruway
PTA
Goren
Richmond
Atlanta
New York City
Chattanooga, Tenn
Culum
Daniel K. Hennessy
Summit, N.J
Midshipman
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