Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen Remembers Segregation
Detroit meet honors the all black 332d Fighter Group veterans including Rep. Diggs and Lt Gen Daniel James. They recall discriminatory doors and pride in the Tuskegee training near Alabama's Tuskegee Institute and the 98th Pursuit Squadron's 200 plus missions without a Black 99th loss.
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Detroit
Army Air Corps
Air Force
U.S
Big Ten
Michigan
Alabama
Tuskegee Institute
Diggs
William T. Patrick
Patrick
University of Michigan
98Th Pursuit Squadron
U.S. Army Air Corps
West Point
Benjamin C. Davis Jr
Tuskegee Field
Welfare Work Program Expands to Four Participants
In its second week, Douglas County Welfare Department's mandatory work program for aid recipients has grown to four of nine assigned workers. They perform maintenance at the 4-H fairgrounds under supervisor Al Skeet as JOHN DERRICK notes the Aug 17 deadline remains for noncompliant claimants.
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Douglas County Welfare Department
al Skeet
John Derrick
Derrick
Kansas
Last U.S. combat infantrymen leave Vietnam
The 3rd Battalion 21st Infantry began departing as the final U.S. ground combat unit in Vietnam heads home. About 240 soldiers were flown to Da Nang to demobilize, while total U.S. forces in country are set to shrink to 39,000 by September. One wounded, Spec. 4 James McVicar, heads to the United States for treatment.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Ronald Wegerle
Wichita
Kan
da Nang
Air Force
Navy
Marine
Thailand
Guam
Wegerle
Delta
James McVicar
Chester
Calif
United States
Haskell Survey Final Report Due Early September
A five member survey team completed a three day review of Haskell Indian Junior College oral program. The report under chair Henry Rosenbluth and Clyde Stiner will include recommendations to speed goals. A proposed reorganization merging vocational and academic oversight under one dean was the sole proposal.
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Haskell Indian Junior College
Haskell
HJC
Henry Rosenbluth
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Clyde Stiner
Lorraine
Ohio
Jaskell
Everett Bowman
Wallace Galluzzi
Lawrence
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Black Unit
Charles Digas
Harvard
Clifton R. Wharton Jr
Michigan State University
Gene Dericotte
James N. Garrett
Roman Gribbs
Commission On Children and Youth
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Manhattan
Lockbourne Air Base
Daniel “Chapple
James
Black Rain
U. S
BIA
Anadarko
Okla
Washington, D.C
HIC Board of Regents
Todd-Ao
DE Luxe
Walt Disney’s
The
Buena Vista Dis
Ption Co., Inc
Walt Daney Productions
Buenna Vista Distribution Co, Inc
Walt Disney Productions
Chemascope
Science
AMOK
Chile
AXE
Giles Fowler
Kansas City Star
TU MU
Haunie
Raquel Welch
Robert Culp Smut Li
Seemann Mene
Paramount Pictures
Presenta
Vincent Canby
N.Y
Hannie Caulder
Tnes
Ames H. Sncholsom & Samuel 2. Arkoff IF
Barbra Sieis
Rai Onal
Barbra Streisand
Ryanq ‘Neal
Doc
Pater Bogdanovich
Kenneth Marr
Seem
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