Famed Indian Firefighters Replaced in California Blazes
Porterville, California reports the U S Forest Service is gradually replacing famed Indian firefighting teams from Arizona and New Mexico with local Porterville area laborers. Some 300 freelance firefighters have signed up this summer through the State Department of Employment. Starr, fire dispatcher for Sequoia National Forest, says 850 men have taken physical exams for emergency jobs, with 948 Porterville workers previously transported to fires. Porterville is the first recruiting center in the state and another center may be opened in Redding.
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Porterville
Cali
UPI
U.S. Forest Service
Arizona
New Mexicco
California
State Department of Employment
Pon Starr
Sequoia National Forest
Starr
Redding
Nevada 4-H Membership Reaches New High
Nevada 4-H enrollment hits a record 2,916 youth this year, eight more than 1961. County totals include Elko 213, Clark 309, Eureka 25, Lincoln 104, Mineral 19, Nye 42, Ormsby 453, Pershing 59, plus others: Churchill 504, Douglas 141, Esmeralda 20, Humboldt 186, Lander 19, Lyon 218, Storey 42, Washoe 369, White Pine 153.
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Nevada
Raymond C. Cox
University of Nevada
Elko
Clark
Eureka
Lincoln
Mineral
Nye
Ormsby
Pershing
Churchill
Douglas
Esmeralda
Humboldt
Lander
Lyon
Storey
Washoe
White Pine
McClellan seeks lie detector tests for AGWA witnesses
Senate Rockets Sub committee chair John L. McClellan asked Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to provide lie detector tests for witnesses in the probe of B-girls. He said perjury could lie with either Clayton Hurt and his wife Sonia who admitted paying a bribe to Jackie Bright or with Bright who denied it.
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John L. McClellan
Senate Rockets Subcommittee
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
McClellan
Clayton Hurt
Sonia
Jackie Bright
Bright
American Guild of Variety Artists
Seattle Grad Joins Sahara as Activities Coordinator
Fred Lanouette, 1960 Seattle University graduate, named Coordinator of Activities for Sahara-Nevada Corp. He will liaison between Sahara departments, working with VP and entertainment director Stan Irwin. Lanouette previously PR for Seafair Regatta and Gold Cup hydroplane races, TV entertainer, and former entertainment director for Matson Lines’ S. S. Lur.
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Fred Lanouette
Seattle
Wash.) University
Hotel Sahara
Sahara-Nevada Corporation
Milton Prell
Lanoouette
Sahara
Stan Irwin
Lanouette
Seattle University
Mexico's Lopez Mateos Known as Great Compromiser
Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, greeted Kennedy, famed as a great compromiser for reconciling views. A former teacher turned politician, he steered inflationary shocks after 1954 peso devaluation and kept strikes away for years. He recently grouped ex presidents into government posts. He loves cars, folk and classical music, reads historical works, and lives in San Jeronimo near Pedregal.
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Mexico City
UPT
Mexico
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Kennedy
Lopez Mateos
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
State of Mexico
Federal
San Jeronimo
HE Pedregal
New Idea On Earth Formation
An English geologist, Dr. R. W. Girdler, offers a theory that earths crust split as molten core currents rose. A ridge rift system across the Atlantic marks a former join between the Americas and Europe Africa, with oceans forming in the resulting gaps.
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New York
UPI
R. W. Girler
Girdier
Atlantic Ocean
South America
Europe
Africa
Girdler
New World
Gulf of
Lower
Califor
Teens Sought as Playground Leaders This Summer
The Recreation Department invites teens ages 14 to 18 to join a Volunteer Recreation Leader trainee program to assist at Twin Lakes Red Rock Vegas Vernes J F Miller Hyde Park J Fremont Roy Martin Matt Kelly Jefferson Center or Dula Gym under Ann Smith. Trainees will learn leadership skills and may pursue careers in recreation physical education or coaching per superintendent Keith A. MacDonald.
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Recreation Department
Twin Lakes
Red Rock
Vegas Vernes
J. F. Miller
Hyde Park
J. ©. Fremont
Roy Martin
Matt Kelly
Jefferson Center
Dula Gym
Ann Smith
Keith A. MacDonald
JFK Extends Some Taxes and Eliminates Transit Levy
President Kennedy signed a bill extending about 4 billion dollars in federal excise and corporate taxes for another year. The measure eliminates the 10 percent tax on train and bus fares and reduces the airline ticket tax to five percent.
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Washington
UPT
Kennedy
Let Hopeless Cancer Victim Die Says Doctor
Dr Edward H Rynearson Mayo Clinic physician says when cancer treatment fails and pain is extreme a doctor should not prolong life The physician told AMA panel that death should be allowed with clear patient and family awareness of the situation and the patient dying with informed consent He stressed two certainties before allowing death cancer has exhausted all options and relief is sought by the patient and relatives.
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Chicago
UPI
Edward H. Rynearson
Mayo Clinic
Rynearson
American Medical Association
Rochester, Minn
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