Medals Presented To Young Heroes
President Johnson presented the Young American Medal to 7-year-old David Crowe for rescuing his three younger sisters from a burning Cherokee Kansas home on December 2, 1964. Also honored were 17-year-old Jeffrey James Gallagher from Haskell New Jersey for pulling a pilot and passenger from a flaming wreck and 19-year-old Jon Arthur Hanshus of Eau Claire Wisconsin for organizing a youth employment service. Johnson praised the trio as examples of mature action beyond their years.
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President Johnson
David Crowe
White House
David
Cherokee
Kan
Washington
Eugene Crowe
Johnson
Jeffrey James Gallagher
Haskell
N.J
Jon Arthur Hanshus
Eau Claire Wis
Gallagher
Hanshus
Eau Claire
Young Crowe
Shakespeare
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Thurgood Marshall
Jack Rosenthal
Justice Department
Office of Public Information
Hershey doubts any draft rise will disrupt college enrollments
Washington AP Lt Gen Lewis B Hershey said draft calls at about 30000 a month should not disturb college enrollments next year. He testified before a congressional committee on the selective service noting needs likely to stay similar to this year.
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Washington (Ap
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Louisiana Plates Adopt Right to Profit Slogan
Louisiana 1968 69 license plates will bear the slogan Right to Profit replacing Sportsmen's Paradise after the House pass of 84 to 14. Rep. Lantz Womack of Franklin Parish led the change at the request of the State Commerce and Industry Department. Bill moves to the Senate.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Louisiana
House
Lantz Womack
Franklin Parish
State Commerce and Industry Department
Senate
Experts Doubtful Drought Is Over
New York AP report notes five-year drought relief in the Northeast with rising reservoirs and ground water, yet experts warn recurrence risk remains. Long Island and southeast New York stay critical while wind patterns and future water sources, including ocean desalination, are debated.
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New York
United States
Henry Barksdale
US Geological Survey
Barksdale
Long Island
Gulf
Caribbean
Atlantic
Jerome Namias
USS. Weather Bureau
Washington
New York City
New Jersey
Robert Cyphers
Bureau of Water Resources
Massachusetts
George J. Coogan
Water Supply Division
Coogan
Johnson
North Atlantic
Portland
Maine
Harry Schwartz
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Council of Economic Advisers
Office of Science and Technology
De Gaulle Visits Soviet Science Town in Siberia
President Charles de Gaulle toured Novosibirsk’s science town with Soviet leader Nikolai Podgorny and urged joint French Soviet efforts for progress and world peace. He visited the Ob River site and a generator factory, receiving two Siberian diamonds as a memento.
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Novosibirsk
U.S
S. R
Charles de Gaulle
France
Soviet Union
de Gaulle
Russia
Siberian
Leningrad
Donald Hornig
Johnson
Mikhail Lavrentyev
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Ob River
Belmont hospital school sends graduates to college
A school for emotionally disturbed youths at McLean Hospital in Belmont, run within Arlington School on its grounds, has half of its 75 graduates attending college. Headmaster John Dunn and Dr. Francis de Marneffe praise the program as a unique hospital setting providing regular teaching and structured classes, with 35 regular students and 10 tutored.
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Belmont
Mass
Arlington
McLean Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Francis de Marneffe
John F. Dunn
Dunn
Ford Foundation
Woman sentenced to probation after shooting trespasser in California
Del la Gerbracht, 70, a mining claim developer from Bakersfield, California, was given five years probation for shooting a man she believed trespassed on her property. The judge conditioned the sentence on her promise not to own possess or carry any firearms during probation. She quipped about rattlesnakes, and the judge shook his head.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Della Gerbracht
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SUN Rian
Rayon & Silk
Burgundy
Millinery Department
Slverstein
Phillip Fishman
Desiard
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Haddad Discount Shoe Repair
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