Middletown H S Faces Split Reconsideration Plan
Middletown high schools may not split into East and West. board weighs alternate plan to move grades 10–12 to the new Manchester Junior High area while ninth graders stay at the current Middletown High School. Proposals consider combined ninth grade enrollment, cost savings, and boundary concerns amid growth and transportation questions.
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Middletown East
Middletown West
Middletown
Middletown High School
Manchester Junior High School
Citizens
Cromwell
Lemon-Monroe High School
Monroe
Amanda
DC8 Slams Motel Killing 18 in New Orleans Area
A DC8 jet crashed into a motel near New Orleans, killing 18 people and shocking survivors 69 students from Illinois and Wisconsin housed at the motel. Rescue crews battled fires as dozens of pieces of wreckage, including an engine cowl, were scattered across a wide area.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
Railroad Walkout Threatens Across Nation
In Cedar Rapids Iowa the nation faces a possible railroad walkout as 18000 members of the Order of Railroad Conductors and Brakemen threaten a 12:01 a m Saturday strike over health and welfare benefits. Carriers vow to seek court injunction and deny plans to withdraw the union benefit plan.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Clyde F. Lane
James E. Wolfe
Washington
Wolfe
Lane
Weather outlook shows warm, windy spell with possible showers
The forecast calls for partly cloudy and warmer conditions tonight and Friday. Weak showers or thundershowers may arrive by Friday morning. Tonight’s low near 58 to 60 degrees, with highs around 70 tomorrow. Yesterday’s high was 66 and the overnight low 40. At 11 a.m. today the temperature was 62.
Vietnam War Casulties Reach Record High For Week
U S military brief shows 274 Americans and 2 774 Communists killed last week in Vietnam the highest weekly toll to date. The Ia Drang Valley count was surpassed by a 1 320 wounded and 12 missing from the same period.
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Saigon
U.S
United States
Ia Drang Valley
Vietnam
Tay Ninh
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Quang Ngai
South Vietnam
Dover man drowns in Ohio River near Higginsport
Roy Dekerson aged 55 from Dover Kentucky drowned after falling from his boat while mussel gathering on the Ohio River near Higginsport Brown County. His body was recovered.
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Higginsport
Ohio
Roy Dekerson
Dover
Ohio River
Brown County
Fordham Priest Links Church Decline To Vocations Crisis
In Atlantic City, Father Robert E. McNally of Fordham University warns that Catholic priestly vocations are falling nationwide and may outpace population growth. Auxiliary Bishop John B. McDowell cites financial and morale troubles in Catholic schools as secularism rises in a prosperous society.
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Robert E. McNally
Father McNally
Fordham University
New York
The
National Catholic Educational
North America
South America
John B. McDowell
Pittsburgh
McDowell
Downdraft, Plane Bump Kill Man Over Wyoming
A Glenview man died when a United Air Lines jet dropped 8000 feet in a downdraft about 100 miles north of Cheyenne. George Graves, 52, released his seat belt to move, struck his head on the ceiling, and died after an unscheduled Casper landing. Flight 720 was en route from Portland to Chicago with 30 passengers and seven crew aboard.
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Casper
Wyo
Glenview
Ill
United Air Lines
Wyoming
Airlines
George Graves
Graves
Cheyenne
R.H. Mitchell
Denver
Portland
Chicgo
Women Let Emotions Rule Weddings in Humorous Quip
A witty remark complains that women often get excited over nothing and then marry the man, reflecting lighthearted social commentary on marriage expectations.
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Paul Day Journal
James Finley
Howard Cromwell
Delbert Mann
Belgium
Armco Steel Corp
MHS
Doug Baer
Park Forest
Jim Miller
Hilton Inn
New Orleans
Charles Collins
Paducah
Ann Landers
Crane Setae
Valley News
Enee Womens News
Fordham
Atlantic City
N.J
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