Farm Loan Minimums Raised to 25 000 and 15 000
The Farmers Home Administration raised minimums for government insured loan notes to 25 000 for one and two year paper and to 15 000 for longer term notes effective December 1. Current minimum is 10 000. Notes fund FHA loans for family farm ownership housing and rural projects with borrowers paying about 5 percent interest and the government covering the difference. About 2 billion dollars in insured notes are offered this fiscal year.
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Farmers Home Administration
James V. Smith
Agriculture Department
Credit Agency
FHA
U.S
New Home Mortgage Rates Rise Across the Nation
The average effective rate for new home loans climbed to 8.12 percent in October, marking an 11th straight monthly rise. Rates ranged from 7.07 percent in Philadelphia to 9.13 percent in Seattle, with life and mortgage companies close to 8.5 percent. Preston Martin attributed tighter money supply and demand for housing as driving factors.
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Wastington
Federal Home and Loan Bank Board
Bai News
Seattle
Wash
San Francisco-Oakland
Calif
Philadelphia
Preston Martin
Middleton Area Weather Forecast Update
The Middleton forecast calls for mostly fair conditions tonight with lows in the 20s. Saturday will be considerably cloudy with little temperature change and highs in the 40s. Outlook Sunday is partly cloudy and cool. Yesterday’s high reached 46 and this morning’s low was 30.
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Middleton
War Toll Near 300000 Marks in Vietnam Conflict
Saigon reports total U S and allied casualties exceed 300000 with nearly half since Paris peace talks began May 1968. Tally shows 39 572 Americans killed in action and 258 779 wounded through last Saturday with 1341 missing or captured. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong deaths exceed 575 249 in nine years.
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Uss. Batttlefield
Paris
Mekong
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Demilitarized Zone
da Nang
U.S. Command
Vietnam
Pentagon weighing untested laws in My Lai massacre case
United States officials consider using two unfamiliar sections of the military justice code to try former soldiers in the My Lai massacre. Article 18 could cover war crimes and Article 21 may allow military commissions in criminal matters. Fifteen of twenty four men under investigation have left military service.
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Pentagon
Supreme Court
Korea
Justice Department
My Lai
Nixon
Army judge says My Lai witnesses defy hush order
An Army judge reports ongoing defiance of a court order shielding My Lai witnesses from public discussion. Lt. Col. Reid W. Kennedy plans a closed session with attorneys to address the press talks amid Lt. William L. Calley Jr. court martial proceedings.
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FT. Benning, Ga
Reid W. Kennedy
Army
William L. Calley Jr
Gordon Becomes Lunar Nine's Lunnywog On Hornet
Apollo 12 crew comrades Richard F. Gordon Jr. wore a backward hat and a sign in quarantine saying Beware Laneywog Unclean Unpredictable as Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean teased him aboard the USS Hornet days after splashdown. The trio had crossed the equator during the voyage, with Conrad and Bean delaying a playful initiation until Thanksgiving Day.
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Lunneywog
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Hawaii
Charles Conrad Jr
Alan L. Bean
Gordon
Laney
Conrad
Bean
Tiaton
Pearl Harbor
Hickam Air Force Base
Air Force
Ellington Afb
Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
The
Space Center
Clarence Jernigan
Brock Randall Stone
Scientists Open Second Box Of Apollo 12 Moon Rocks
Space Center Houston reports scientists begin examination of 12 to 15 rock bags and soil from 24 to 30 inches beneath the surface. Officials release 29 more color photos from the Apollo 12 mission and show footage of the moon walks and a solar eclipse.
Scrambled Egg Pricing Moves With New York Influence
The story explains how egg prices vary nationwide, driven by New York trading in the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago market. It notes institutional buyers set the going price, while USDA calls wholesale pricing misaligned with supply and demand.
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New York Mercantile Exchange
New York
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Urner Barry Report
Urner Barry Publications
Jersey City
N.J
USDA
Arner Barry
Faulkner
Herb Gabriel
National
A&p
Llewellyn Watts
Moon Life Support Debate Sparks Chuckle
A light remark contrasts myths about lunar life with a blunt take on Earth’s own habitability challenges. The quip points to the shared difficulty of sustaining life under harsh conditions.
Bikini girl on sheepskin rug shocks London crowd
The unusual publicity stunt by hatmaker Edward Mann features a bikini model on a sheepskin rug in central London during a chilly November day. The AP report notes Mann aims to prove anything can be worn with his designs.
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London
Edward Mann
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