Peace Corps Celebrates Its First Year Of Growth
The Peace Corps marks its inaugural year with volunteers in 16 countries and about 1,100 on duty or in training. Plans call for 5,000 in training by next September and 10,000 within a year. Selection combines skill matching, language ability, and human judgment guided by a computer to handle 10,000 applications.
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Peace Corps
Tanganyika
Khrushchev
Margery Michelmore
Washington
Congress
Janie Fletcher
Panhandle
Tex
Lawrence M. Radley
Chicago
David L. Crozier
West Plains
Roger Hamilton
Arlington
Carol Armstrong
Bala- Cynwyd
Ghana
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Colombia
Chile
St. Lucia
Philippines
India
Pakistan
Thailand
Brazil
el Salvador
Venezuela
Jamaica
Malaya
Iran
Ecuador
Peru
Dominican Republic
Bolivia
Ceylon
Tunisia
Somalia
Afghanistan
British Honduras
Cyprus
Ethiopia
Nepal
Niger
Senegal
Togo
Turkey
Cameroons
Ivory Coast
Shriver
Petite Gail Switzer
Charles Consolvo
Air Force
Consolvo
Miss Switzer
E. Lowell Kelly
Corps
Kelly
University of Michigan
U. S
Traffic Safety Discussion Set For Tuesday
Harrisburg message outlines a one day conference on traffic safety in Pennsylvania and nearby states. Governors, legislators, researchers and business leaders will discuss safer streets under the theme Pennsylvania The Safe Driver State. A panel features WRCT TV and AAA affiliates with industry and media representatives. A second item notes a $6.5 million export loan to Lima for water system improvements.
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Harrisburg
UPS
Pennsylvania
David L. Lawrence
Howard Safety Council
U. S
Kenneth A. Roberts
Alabama
John O. Moore
Cornell University
David W. Schoppert
The
Automotive Safety Foundation
Amos E. Neuhart
Pennsylvania State University
Vince Leonard
Wrct-Tv
Philadelphia
Edward Gogolin
Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
Charles E. Pugh
AAA
Pennsylvania Motor Federation
James R. Doran
Harrisburg Patriot and Evening News
Quinton E. Beague
Williamsport Sun-Gazette
Weather and crop bulletin notes wheat harvest delays and corn planting progress
The weekly weather and crop bulletin reports rain hail and wind delaying 1962 winter wheat harvests across the southern Great Plains for a second week. Texas harvest ranges from 75 percent in the Low Plains to 18 percent in the High Plains while seeding of the corn crop nears completion nationwide. The bulletin also outlines vegetable crop acreage prospects and announces new agricultural attaches Montel and Tetro to Brussels and Rome respectively.
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Gaylord P. Godwin Washington
UPI
Great Plains
Texas
Low Plains
High Plains
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Northwest
Ohio Valley
Delmar Peninsular
Maryland
Ral
Brussels
Montel
New York
Parca
Robert C. Tetro
Italy
Rome
Tetro
Foreign Agricultural Service
Watervliet
N.Y
Mummified Wrappings Fueled Civil War Paper Plant
In Augusta Maine during the Civil War a local producer imported Egyptian mummies to supply rags for paper making. The wrappings were repurposed in the mill to keep paper production going amid rag shortages.
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Augusta
Maine
Egypt
Radio Stations Numbers Hit Over Three Thousand In U S
The United States lists more than 3 200 radio stations in the normal broadcast band and 540 FM stations as radio receiving sets exceed 160 000 000 units nationwide.
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New York
United States
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