Boy Scouts Celebrate 57th Anniversary World Conference Highlight
The Boy Scouts of America mark 57 years February 7 to 13 with over 5.75 million US scouts. The World Conference links 86 nations for common ground while the 1967 highlight is the Twelfth World Jamboree at Farragut State Park Idaho hosting 15 000 scouts from 100 nations. Also shares letters from S/Sgt Gary D. Brewer in Vietnam and family news as well as light local notes on sunshine and quirky business bits.
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BOY Scouts OF
Amerca
United States
Scout
Boy Scouts World Conference
Word Conference
Farragut State Park
Idaho
Free Nations
Cary Brewer
Jasonville
Gary D. Brewer
Vietnam
Colorado Springs
Oklahoma
New York
AMA to open three day environmental health congress in NYC
The American Medical Association will hold a three day national congress on environmental health management in New York City beginning April 24. The meeting will discuss heating air and water pollution and emphasize advanced technology to clean and preserve air and water for continued use.
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Chicago
API
American Medical Association
National Congress On Environmental Health Management
New York City
Congress
AMA
Annual Report on Freeman-Greene County Hospital Operations
Freeman-Greene County Hospital administrator Malcom Clippinger outlines a 28 page annual report detailing ten departments from medical staff to business office. Highlights note Medicare effects on cash flow, planning legislation impact, staffing training, and safety initiatives alongside 1966 statistics: 2,423 admissions, 392 births, 19,588 patient days, 7.5 day average stay, 796 surgeries, 1,347 emergency visits, 4,281 X rays, 25,113 lab procedures. earnings $559,647 with total expenses $617,933 and $503,494 in collections.
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Malcom Clippinger
Freeman - Greene County Hospital
Clippinger
Medicare
Congress
Planning Commission
Indiana
Payro
Snowbound Indiana Braces for Fresh Blizzard
Temperatures plunged to zero in Indiana as a new snowstorm dumped up to six inches, swelling to 20 inches in South Bend. Roads remained closed in the northwest, buses halted, and schools canceled as winds over 30 mph worsened travel and road crews struggled to clear the latest snowfall.
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Indiana
South Bend
Mercury
Fashion Fair cooking school to draw homemakers
A large crowd is expected at the Fashion Fair cooking school at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the National Guard armory at Linton Miss Jan Krupa home economist will lecture and demonstrate meal planning techniques and menu ideas Select attendees may win prizes and cookbooks will be given to all entrants Doors open at 645 p m with no admission charge.
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Linton
A. M. Risher
Jan Krupa
Akron
Ohio
Linton National Guard Armory
National Guard
Tarbox to speak on GE program for Linton Kiwanis
Linton Kiwanis Club hosts speaker Jim Tarbox of Linton on General Electric's manufacturing and training program. He outlines a new plant layout for the local GE facility while his wife Hope, a Vermont University economics graduate and school staff member, attends.
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Jim Tarbox
Linton
General Electric
Linton Kiwanis Club
Klusmeier
Stanford University
Tarbox
Knox College
Hope
Vermont University
Freeman-Greene County Hospital Board Actions
The Freeman-Greene County Hospital board met in special session to discuss accreditation and office procedures. Contracts with a consulting pharmacist and Rest Haven were approved, a dietician contract was referred to the planning committee, and decisions on patient admissions and discharge billing were outlined.
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Board of Trustees
Freeman-Greene County Hospital
Rest Haven
Indiana Governor returns 72000 in war on poverty funds
Governor Branigin returned 72000 in war on poverty funds to the federal government saying the money should aid the poor not admin costs. Indiana’s Office of Economic Opportunity is eliminated due to federal cuts, with Head Start remaining funded.
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Branigin
Indianapolis
UPI
Roger Hunt
Indiana
Office of Economic Opportunity
Robert Shackford
OEO
Chicago
Hunt
Congress
Shackford
Indiana Oeo
Johnson seeks sweeping anti crime laws and gun controls
President Johnson urged Congress to pass a broad Safe Streets and Crime Control Act including a strict gun control measure and a wiretap ban. He cited 3 billion dollars in annual property losses and 7 million yearly contacts with criminal justice agencies, with research funding for local police facilities and opposition from sportsmen groups to firearms legislation.
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Washington
API
Johnson
Congress
Forces Strike Communists in Cambodia and Vietnam Fronts
American forces blasts through War Zone C in Cambodia with two infantry divisions and B52 bombers. U.S. jets clash with MIGs over North Vietnam as raids hit Viet Cong bases and troop camps near Hanoi and the DMZ. At least 44 enemy dead reported along the Vietnamese border.
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Saigon
U. S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Vietnam
North Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Jake Yung Nominated for Naval Academy
Jake Yung of Linton is named in a telegram from Senator Vance Hartke as a nominee to the U S Naval Academy. He is the only candidate from the area among 34 nominees, with two Navy appointments to be made for the 1967 fall academic year.
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Jake Yung
Linton
Vance Hartke
U. S. Naval Academy
Yung
Senator Hartke
Navy
Boy Scouts Meet At Scout Hall Tonight
Linton Boy Scout troop 50 holds its regular weekly meeting at 7:00 tonight in the scout hall. All boys planning to camp this weekend should attend for final campout arrangements and civic day assignments. Summer camp brochures will be distributed and plans for the week at Wapeham Scout camp will be made. Members urged to attend and other boys eleven or older invited.
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Linton Boy Scout
Wapeham
Taunton Woman Honored for Rescuing Infant From Fire
Mrs. Margaret Widger was celebrated for saving an infant from a blazing Taunton home but did not attend the ceremony saying she was too scared and nervous to go.
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Taunton
England
UPI
Margaret Widger
Kosygin visits Britain for summit talks on Vietnam
Soviet Premier Kosygin arrives in London for a week long visit with expectations to focus on Vietnam. He suggests Britain can play a positive role in resolving urgent international issues as co chair of Geneva peace machinery.
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London
UPI
Alexei Kosygin
Britain
Vietnam
Kosygin
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Greene County 4-H Council plans permanent year round home
The Greene County 4-H Council votes to establish a 30 acre site in Greene county for a permanent home for 4-H clubs. Purchase price listed as 9 250 dollars with a goal to raise funds by June 1 1967. Funds underwritten by public subscriptions and held by the treasurer with refunds if the goal isn’t met.
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Greene County
Greene County, Inc
Greene County 4-H Clubs, Inc
Moose Lodge Robbed Through Roof Skylight
A Thursday break in at the Moose Club on 89 A St southwest left the building ransacked. Thieves forced a skylight, rifled pinball and juke machines, damaged a safe, and stole cash liquor while using the bartender’s remodeling tools. Investigators say a person familiar with the layout committed the crime. The Linton Police and State Police Detective Ralph Shumaker lead the probe.
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Leo Conklin
Moose Club
Jaycees
Conklin
Linton
Ralph Shumaker
State Police
Moose Lodge
Citizen
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Philip Fields
Crane
Odon
United Press International
Kiwanis
Hospital Board
Red
Arsenal
Naval Academy
Boy Scouts
Scout Hall
4-H Council
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