United Nations backs bid for second term of U Thant
The Security Council voted unanimously to recommend U Thant for another full term as secretary-general. He accepted with authority to address disturbing world developments, and the 15-nation council sent the recommendation to the General Assembly where ratification is expected. The Burmese diplomat noted the Council’s observations and accepted the request to continue.
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Security Council
U Thant
United Nations
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Tinue
Thant
Schoenburg Brothers Open Second Plant in Roswell
Schoenburg Brothers Produce Co. opened a second plant at Fourth and Railroad Roswell to handle 80 acres of spinach with 50 area workers in harvest and 12 more in processing. Spinach carloads are shipped to the eastern United States and Toronto while carrot processing continues at Seventh and Virginia plant.
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Fourth and Railroad
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Schoenburg Brothers
Seventh
Virginia
Roswell
United States
Toronto
Canada
Hondo Valley
Cloudcroft
Ted White
White
Jimmy Pack
Pentagon seeks February draft of 10900 men in lowest monthly request since 1965
Washington reports the Defense Department proposes a February draft of 10,900 personnel the smallest monthly call since March 1965. In Pennsylvania Bruno Pepe is released from federal prison after under three months of a year sentence due to family needs. Johnson ally Gardner Ackley forecasts continued prosperity in 1967 and easing inflation. Anderson urges Walker Air Force Base New Mexico for pilot training with McNamara to decide on a base within a month.
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Washington
Pentagon
Lewisburg
Bruno T. Pepe
Wilmington
Del
Pepe
Clinton P. Anderson
Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara
Walker Air Force Base
McNamara
Anderson
New Mexico
Air Force
Center for Mentally Retarded to Be Planned
Officials from the New Mexico Association for Retarded Children and Eastern New Mexico University meet to plan a rehabilitation training center for the mentally retarded at Walker Air Force Base facilities. The two day program includes diagnostic and evaluation services, special education, and vocational rehabilitation with ENMU officials and state leaders in attendance.
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Eastern New Mexico University
Walker Air Force Base
Rudy Hormuth
Washington, D.C
President's Council For
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Bill Green
Albuquerque
The
Pat Doyle
Santa Fe
Jerome Levy
University of New Mexico
James Thomas
Roswell
Alvina Lorem
State Department of Public Health
Frederick Adams
Assistance For Roswell Library Urged
Roswell head librarian warned Rotary Club that without help Roswell Public Library will lag 20 years behind minimum standards. Gordon McShean urged a Friends of the Library group to mobilize residents, expand branches, and create a central information center amid rising book costs and crowded shelves.
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Roswell Public
Gordon McShean
Roswell
Friends of the Library Group
McShean
Friends of the Library
Rainy UC Berkeley boycott persists amid campus unrest
Rain dampened a student classroom boycott at the University of California Berkeley but pickets still blocked campus entrances for a second day. Teaching assistants were scarce and some classes canceled as 10 000 protesters gathered to demand nonstudent on campus activity approval and restraint on outside police.
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Calif
University of California
Mammoth University
Navy
Roger W. Heyns
Harvard
Princeton
Heyns
Daniel G. McIntosh
Associated Students of the
Powder Puff Derby lights up Cisco Junior College gridiron
Co eds stage annual Powder Puff Derby with Wrangler sophomores coaching and officiating. Players Roger Anderson to Don Parks march onto Roswell field December 10 as readers see ex coachs in action. Proceeds fund state play, forensic contests, and press conferences. Cisco hosts Wool Bowl football that afternoon. tickets available at KBIM TV lobby.
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Cisco Junior College
Wrangler
Cisco
Bill Nichols
Jay Brown
Roby
Bobby Avery
Abilene
Mike Smith
Fort Worth
Eddie Johnson
Roger Anderson
Larry Hargrove
Basil Shields
Larry Simpson
Robert Pearce
Don Parks
Roswell
Fred Mullinax
E.C. Lioyd
Kbimtv
Navy Air Force told to boost pilot training next year
Secretaries plan to raise pilot output across services to curb Viet Nam era shortages. McNamara approves ninth Air Force training base and accelerates programs to reach about 2,920 pilots next year, with Navy expanding facilities at Pensacola Meridian and Corpus Christi for roughly 1,800 this year and 2,500 in 1969.
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Air Force
McNamara
Pensacola
Fla. Meridian
Miss
Corpus Christi
Tex
Isles battered by gales and floods across Europe
Gales lash the British Isles with gusts near 130 mph halting roads and trucks. Ships report distress including Humboldt, Vinland, Varne, Grit, Helvan, and a Greek vessel in the Irish Sea. Venice and Florence flood warnings ease as Alpine snows delay trains and Magadan endures six days of blizzard conditions.
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British Isles
Humboldt
North Sea
Vinland
Holyhead
Varne
Channel
Grit
Helvan
Irish Sea
Italy
Alps
Sicily
Venice
Florence
Adriatic
St. Mark’s Square
Radio
Moscow
Soviet Far East
Magadan
Water rate hike explained by Roswell mayor
Mayor Gail Harris outlined why Roswell must raise water rates citing aging infrastructure salt water encroachment and rising pumping and disposal costs. She warned residents especially those with low incomes and pensions will bear the impact while stressing the need to secure higher quality long distance supply.
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Gail Harris
Roswell
Union Extends Pan American Strike Deadline
The Transport Workers Union agrees to an hour by hour postponement of a strike that would ground Pan American World Airways. With 13 000 members ready to strike at noon, progress in contract talks prompted the delay as the National Mediation Board met with union leaders.
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New York
Transport Workers Union
TWU
Pan American World Airways
National Mediation Board
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