Air Force Shuts Down Project Blue Book
Washington AP The Air Force closes Project Blue Book after 21 years of UFO investigations deeming continued work unjustified for national security or science. The Colorado report led by Dr Edward A Condon found little scientific gain from past two decades of sightings.
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Washington
Air Force Today
Project Blue Book
Air Force
Robert C. Seamans Jr
University of Colorado
National Academy of Sciences
Pentagon
Colorado
Edward A. Condon
Today in History highlights on December 18, 1969 events
A compact roundup notes key past events on December 18 including the 13th Amendment’s adoption in 1865, Washington's burial in 1799, and other historic markers from 1923 to 1965. It also includes a 1969 tease of a marketplace want ad.
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U. S
George Washington
Mount Vernon
United States
Soviet Union
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Moscow
Red Square
Lyndon B. Johnson
Central America
Colombia
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Vietnam
Advisory Unit Is Explained At Monroe Rotary Meeting
Rodney C. Kittelsen president of the Monroe Board of Education spoke to the Monroe Rotary Club lunch at the Idle Hour Mansion. He described the Citizens Advisory Committee created to study long range problems and report to the School Board and advise on school matters. Uno Miller introduced the speaker. The Christmas party with wives as guests is planned for next Tuesday noon at the Idle Hour Mansion.
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Rodney C. Kittelsen
Monroe Board of Education
Monroe Rotary Club
Idie Hour
Kittelsen
Citizen's Advisory
Monroe
Uno Miller
Icebound fleets surge beyond a hundred thousand tons
Capacity of 100000 tons or more in service rises from about 55000 before 1968. Only one ship sails under the U.S. flag, Humble Oil and Refining Co's SS Manhattan, first commercial vessel to negotiate the ice packed Northwest Passage above Canada. The Bureau of Shipping says 310 supertankers are on drawing boards, many exceeding 200000 tons and some over 300000 tons.
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U.S
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Manhattan
Northwest Passage
Canada
Bureau of Shipping
Threat Of Tanker Oil Spills Raises Shipping Eye
In New York AP notes the era of supertankers heightens spill risk after the 207000 ton Marpessa sank off West Africa following an oil delivery. The incident underscores calls for spill prevention including floating booms and chemical sprays, with 180 tankers in service as world trade grows.
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New York
Shell Tankers Ltd
West Africa
Rotterdam
Africa
England
Britain
France
L. P. Haxby
Shell Development Co
Santa Barbara
Calif
Haxby
Woodford church potluck follows Sunday service with tree program
The Woodford Methodist Church plans a potluck supper Sunday at 1 30 p m after the service and the Sunday School will stage its annual Christmas tree program. Albany schools dismiss for Christmas recess at 3 p m Friday Dec 19 and resume Monday Jan 5 at 8 30 a m.
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Woodford
Albany
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