New Auto Safety Standards Listed
The government released 12 additional rules to improve auto safety for occupants and pedestrians and to require locking unoccupied cars. The rules may take effect after Dec 31 1968 or 1969 with final details pending National Highway Safety Bureau review and public comments due by Jan 26.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
National Highway Safety Bureau
Conscientious objectors study noncombat roles at Fort Sam Houston
At Fort Sam Houston Texas conscientious objectors learn to serve without shooting. Training aims to prepare medical corpsmen for front line duties in Vietnam while honoring religious beliefs. Officials note bona fide objectors are classified under the 1967 Selective Training and Service Act and may perform non-military duties in the national interest.
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William R. Davis
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
UPD
Fort. Sam’s
Vietnam
Col
M.S. Schwartz
Selective Services
Texas
Schwartz
State to classify wolverine as game under new project
The wolverine has been classified as a game animal under a state wildlife project. Officials say the change will affect hunting rules, licensing, and season dates, with enforcement expected to begin next month.
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Gare
Wolverine
U.S. Auto Sales Rise in Mid-December Period
Domestic auto sales climbed 19.3 percent in the middle 10 days of December versus the first 10 days, totaling 233,838 cars from nine selling days. Daily average rose to 25,982, but was 5.2 percent below the mid-December 1966 level. General Motors sold 116,620 cars in the period.
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Detroit
General Motors
Seminaries in Ireland Launch Drive as Dropouts Rise
Ireland’s seminaries launch an intensive recruitment drive amid declining applicant numbers and rising dropout rates. Competition from American dioceses and calls for a modernized religious life frame the push to attract young men to priesthood and missionary paths.
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Ireland
Donal O’higgins
Dublin
UPI
Toll Hits 35 Auto With Two Silver Bridge Victims Found
Two bodies and an empty dump truck were pulled from the Ohio River as salvage work on the Silver Bridge disaster continued. The car carried three aboard. James O. Pullen and Frederick D. Miller identified among the dead. Paul Scott survived by swimming. The truck owner was among 14 missing. Salvaged steel and concrete will be studied. reconstruction could take six months.
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Point Pleasant
W.va
Ohio River
Silver Bridge
James O. Pullen
Middleport
Ohio
Frederick D. Miller
Gallipolis
Paul Scott
New York Central Railroad
State Road Commission
Mao Reaches 74 As Silent Birthday Observed in China
Mao Tse-Tung turned 74 with restrained commemorations in Beijing and Peking radio praise for his thought. Posters appeared in the capital while officials kept quiet on a rumored seventh nuclear test, with coverage cautious and subdued.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Mao Tse-Tung
Communist China
Communist Party
Peking
Red Guards
Mao
Peking People's Daily
Peking Radio
Koichi Fukuhara
Kyodo
Douglas Bader World War II ace and legless pilot
British fighter pilot Douglas Bader shot down a large number of enemy aircraft in World War II despite losing both legs in an air crash before the war.
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Douglas Bader
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