Alaska's Moose Gooser rolls on through Alaska wilderness
AP writer describes the Aurora on the Alaska Railroad, a 356 mile 12 hour trip between Anchorage and Fairbanks noted for permafrost sections and moose hazards. The era of passenger rail in the last great wilderness persists with a storied history from 1923 federal construction to diesel era changes.
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Chuck Cameron
Cameron
Hurricane Gulch
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Alaska Railroad
Kent State
Wall Street
Nenana Canyon
Alaska
Orrin Nichols
America
United States
Panama
Warren G. Harding
Tanana River
Iran
Middletown Forecast Calls Sunny and Warm Friday
The Middletown area sees sunny skies and warm temperatures on Friday with highs in the middle to upper 80s. Tonight will be fair and mild with lows in the mid 60s, and Saturday is expected to be fair and warm. Yesterday’s high reached 88 degrees and this morning’s low was 60.
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Middletown
Hurricane Alma Heads For Cuba
Hurricane Alma raked Jamaica and the Cayman Islands with heavy rain and 40 knot winds. The center neared 75 mph and Cuba’s Camaguey Province faced gale force winds and heavy rain later today as Alma moved northeast toward land. An Air Force Hurricane Hunter was sent to probe its strength.
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Miami
Alma
Jamaica
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Cayman Chain
National Hurricane Center
Caymans
Camaguey
Kraft
Island
Air Force
Grand Cayman
South Florida
Palm Beach
Keys
Caribbean
Yank Casualties Climb As War Fronts Spread
The U S Command reported 217 Americans killed in the Vietnam war in the last week a 29 percent rise and the highest weekly toll in nine months. Cambodian operations accounted for 77 deaths as allied and enemy losses grew across Vietnam South Vietnam and Cambodia.
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Saigon
U.S. Command
Cambodia
Vietnam
U.S
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
da Nang
Wind Uproots Circus Tent Injuring 79 in Grand Junction
A violent gust toppled one side of a 240 foot tent during a James Bros. Circus show injuring 79 people, mostly children, with 22 hospitalized and five in critical condition. The wind pulled south side guy wires tearing poles loose and tossing canvas. Police reported $20,000 in rent loss and $5,000 in equipment destroyed.
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Jackson
Herbert Weber
Joe Hicks
Mesa County Sheriff's Office
Weber
Hicks
Marchers Reach Macon in SCLC Civil Rights Trek
About 250 protesters led by Rev. Ralph David Abernathy arrive in Macon during a 120 mile SCLC march toward Atlanta. Police escort refused by Gov. Maddox. state patrol assists. Rallies planned at Ebenezer Baptist Church and Morehouse College on Saturday with participation from the Atlanta Mobilization Committee.
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Macon, Ga
Atlanta
Ralph David Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Abernathy
America
Fort Valley
Lester Maddox
SCLC
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Jr
Morehouse College
Atlanta Mobilization Committee
Negro Teen Confesses To Killing NAACP Leader In Savannah
A 16 year old Negro youth confessed to the pistol slaying of James Floyd 57 a Savannah NAACP leader outside the local office. Police said the youth was charged with murder and a 17 year old accomplice was arrested. Floyd died en route to a hospital and had served on the NAACP executive committee for eight years.
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Savannah, Ga
James Floyd
Jim Weaver
Savannah Police Department
Floyd
Savannah
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
McCormack Leaves Congress Paving Way for Carl Albert
With John W. McCormack retiring after 42 years in Congress the speakership is effectively handed to his aide Carl Albert. The 78 year old Massachusetts Democrat cited his ill wife Harriet and a desire for rest as his reasons, leaving Albert with little opposition inside the Democratic Party and Republicans facing an uphill battle to gain House control.
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Washington
John W. McCormack
Congress
Carl Albert
Massachusetts
Albert
House
McCormack
Harriet McCormack
Donnybrook
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Streamliner
Aurora
Grand Junction, Colo
John Jackson
James Bros. Circus
Martinez
Calif
Macon
Sam Rayburn
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