Chinese Army Plays Unusual Dual Role
AP reports on China’s army embedded in civilian governance through the 196th Division. Soldiers serve on revolutionary committees and run farms factories and local councils while training and defending the country. The force emphasizes mass work and socialist education, with a self contained support system and heavy propaganda nationwide.
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196Th
People’s Liberation Army
West
Ern
Russia
China
196Th Division
Mao Tse-tung
Keng Yu-chi
Taiwan
Keng
Cattle in Feedlots Up 18 Percent From Last Year
Agriculture Department reports Aug 1 feedlot cattle reach nearly 7.8 million head across six major states led by Texas. Placements in July rose 8 percent, with weights up 12 pounds for steers and 6 for heifers, signaling higher beef supply this fall and ensuing price pressure.
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Ariazzona
Iowa
Woman Critical After Accident Near 59th Street Bridge
In Kansas City Kansas Mrs Joe Roy 24 of Fort Riley is in critical condition at Bethany Hospital after a one car crash Saturday night on Interstate 70 near 59th Street. Police say the eastbound vehicle ran off a bridge fell into a creek and four occupants were trapped. Roy's husband Joe 23 and their daughter Deanne 18 months died in the wreck. Mrs Margie Roy 48 wife of Joe Roy suffered cuts and bruises and is listed in fair condition at Providence Hospital.
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Joe Roy
Fort Riley
Bethany Hospital
59Th Street
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Roy
Margie Roy
Providence Hospital
Washingtons Winter at Morristown and Sea Size Facts
The record notes George Washington and his troops wintered at Morristown New Jersey in 1777 and again in 1779 to 1780. It also states the South China Sea spans over 1 148 500 square miles, about twice the size of the Gulf of Mexico.
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George Washington
Morristown
N.J
South China Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Farm income lifts agricultural machinery sales
The Agriculture Department reports improved farm income through May boosting farm equipment demand after five years of decline. Combines led with 18 percent more units, corn heads up a third, corn pickers over 10 percent higher. Tractor sales rose above twenty percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crown of Nixon May Be Dropped From Berlin Exhibit
The U S Information Agency planned to show a crown made from bottle caps and auto emblems as part of a Berlin fair display with the theme garbage is beautiful but was ordered removed after review. Officials said unauthorized by project leaders and not approved for the U S exhibit. A mock Nixon crown was still planned for a separate New York event.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Berlin
U.S. Information Agency
Kelvin
National Lampoon
King Dick
Kervin
The
Lampoon
USIA
Gerhard Drechsler
Drechsler
Eddie Jaffe Associates
New York City
New York
Marijuana Destroyed in West Virginia Panhandle
Agriculture Commissioner Gus Douglass said crews had destroyed 1 111 acres of marijuana by August 7 under a legislature funded eradication program begun in May Nearly half of the known 2 600 acres growing wild in the state had been removed The plan drew in out of state residents who harvested the crop last year and prompted a request for legislative approval to eradicate it.
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W. Va
Gus Douglass
West Virginia
Panhandle
Douglas
Douglass
Fulton Designed Clockwork Floating Mines for British Use
Robert Fulton, famed steamboat inventor, developed clockwork fired floating mines utilized by Britain against France in 1804, showcasing his innovative naval weapons research during the Napoleonic era.
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Robert Fulton
Remarkably Effective Drug Shrinks Hemorrhoids with Pain Relief
Doctors report a medication that reduces swelling of infected hemorrhoidal tissue and also provides hours of pain relief. The finding highlights potential quick symptomatic benefit in sufferers.
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