Snyder Builds Grassroots Plan for Community Action
Snyder launches a locally funded Community Action program after allied city and county governments pledge 14000 to run a home financed project. Three board members travel to Austin to present the do it yourself plan to state CEO headquarters as offices open in Snyder and at branch sites to train personnel and raise incomes for Scurry County residents.
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Snyder
Office of Economic Opportunity
Nho
Buford Browning
Scurry County
Austin
Washington
Snyder Public Schools
Scurry
Browning
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Turncoat Priest Plans Visit Home After Christmas
Harold M. Koch Jr., a former Chicago priest who defected to the Soviet Union over Vietnam policy, says he will return to the United States after Christmas to visit his ailing father. He is staying near Malmoe, Sweden, and did not indicate plans after the visit.
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Lund
Sweden
UPI
Chicago
Soviet Union
U.S. Vietnam
Harold M. Koch Jr
Moscow
United States
Russia
Koch
Joch
Jin Lund
Malmoe
Poles Propose Closing Four Catholic Seminaries
A pastoral letter from Warsaw churches states the Polish state plans to close four Roman Catholic seminaries and six rectors. The government cites church influence and lack of state consultation as the reason while negotiations seek an agreement to ease the impasse.
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Warsaw
UPT
Tourists Climb Rock of Gibraltar At Rapid Pace
Report notes that about 25 visitors scale the Rock of Gibraltar every ten minutes on average, highlighting the site’s constant ascent by tourists and its enduring appeal as a landmark and vantage point.
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Rock of Gibraltar
Christmas Masses Cancelled for U S Troops in South Vietnam
Roman Catholic chaplains in Saigon cancel midnight Masses for U S troops due to Viet Cong terrorism and recent attacks. Cardinal Spellman will celebrate a Christmas afternoon Mass. Vatican permission sought to move the service to 9 p m on Christmas Eve.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Neuyen van Binh
Vatican
Cardinal Spellman
Tan Son Nhut
Brezhnev Receives Hero of the Soviet Union on 60th Birthday
Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Communist Party leader, is named Hero of the Soviet Union on his 60th birthday. The award accompanies the Order of Lenin and Gold Star, with further honors anticipated at a Supreme Soviet session and a government decree citing his wartime service and party leadership.
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Fred Coleman
Moscow
Leonid Ti
Brezhnev
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party
Supreme Soviet
Lenin
Central Committee
Socialist Labor
Labor
Nathan Hale hanged near 46th Street and East River
Historical note recalls the execution of Nathan Hale by royalists near modern day 46th Street by the East River in New York City. This brief item places the event in a late colonial context and notes its location relative to current landmarks.
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Nathan Hale
46Th Street
East River
New York City
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