Unemployment in Cambria Somerset Hits Record Low
Gov William Scranton announced during Windber Day that the Cambria Somerset labor area unemployment fell to 3.7 percent in August, down from 14.7 percent in February 1963, with state and national comparisons, new plants, and a bond plan for reclamation and sewage improvements highlighted alongside efforts in education and conservation.
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William Scranton
Windber
Cambria-Somerset
Windber Park
Pennsylvania
Somerset
Cambria
Northwest
Midwest
Gov. Scranton
Scranton
Red Guards Coup Report Sparks Alarm in China
A Tokyo AP dispatch cites Asahi Shimbun reporting that Mao Zedong’s faction leverages the Red Guards to purge opposition inside and outside the Communist Party. The teens act under direct Mao-Lin control, scouring Peking for capitalism and feudalism, with Lin Piao rising to No. 2 in the leadership.
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Francis K. Ichigaya
TOKYO
Red Guards
China
Mao Tze-tung
Chinese Communist Party
Asahi Shimbun
Tadashi Nogami
Peking
Peking People’s Daily
Red Guard
United States
Mao
Communist Party Central Committee
Lin Piao
Nazi Germany
Asahi Shinbun
Liu Shao-chi
Teng Hsiao-ping
Satellite Viewing Schedule Eastern US Times
Eastern Standard times list satellite visibility for Monday Include Daylight Savings add one hour Pageos and Echo I observations shown with directions and high altitude notes Numerous intervals given for Pageos Echo I in various directions and elevations over the evening and early morning hours
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United States
Meyersdale Hearing Set on Railroad Crossing Issue
Public hearing scheduled by the Public Utility Commission for September 2 in Somerset courthouse on Meyersdale Borough complaint against Baltimore and Ohio Railroad alleging dangerous conditions at four grade crossings. Complaint cites undercarriages dragging on rails at Main and North streets and at Broadway crossing.
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Somerset American Harrisburg
Meyersdale
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Public Utility Commission
Somerset
Main
North Streets
Broadway
Lansberry Named To Council Post
Judge Thomas F. Lansberry was elected vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Council of Juvenile Judges at its four day Carlisle convention ending Saturday. Indiana County Judge Edwin M. Clark was named chairman with Northampton County Judge Carleton T. Woodring as vice chairman. Montgomery County Judge Robert W. Honeyman was elected secretary-treasurer.
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Thomas F. Lansberry
Pennsylvania Council of Juvenile Judges
Lansberry
Carlisle
Edwin M. Clark
Indiana County
Carleton T. Woodring
Northampton County
Robert W. Honeyman
Montgomery County
Urer
Lunar Orbiter to Begin Moon Landing Site Survey
Lunar Orbiter, after two weeks of photographing potential astronaut landing sites on the moon, will start a search for Surveyor 1 early Monday. Surveyor 1 achieved the first soft lunar landing in July and sent back numerous surface pictures.
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Lunar Orbiter
Hampton
Surveyor 1
Langley Research Center
Inflation Will Not Harm Nixon Humphrey Clash in 1966 Speakings
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Richard M. Nixon discuss how inflation and the Vietnam War could influence the November elections. Humphrey says the boom cushions inflation with little effect from the war, while Nixon sees the war issue as a Republican advantage amid Democratic rifts.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Richard M. Nixon
Viet Nam
Associated Press
Senate
House
Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Humphrey
GOP
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Hanoi
Peking
Four Die in Djibouti Independence Riots During De Gaulle Visit
In Djibouti French Somaliland rioting during Charles de Gaulle's visit left four dead and 70 injured. French official Pierre Billotte accused Somali Republic-backed elements of exploiting unrest and a fragmentation grenade, Italian-made, was allegedly used in the main square. French authorities arrested over 30 Africans as protests raged.
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Djibouti
French Somaliland
Mogadiscio
Pierre Billotte
Overseas Territories
Charles de Gaulle
Billotte
de Gaulle
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Somali Republic
Africa
Paris
France
Somerset Area Schools Open Tomorrow for 1966-67 Term
Somerset Area Schools begin the 1966-67 term on Tuesday August 30. Elementary students report by 8:45 a.m. tardy at 8:50, secondary students by 8:30 with tardy at 8:38. Bus routes unchanged with safety driven stop changes, cafeterias open, and kindergartners through grade four to wear identification. Dismissal is 1:45 p.m. for all. Junior high homerooms listed for day one.
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Somerset Area
Maple
Virginia Girl Dies In Tragic Pike Wreck
A one car crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Somerset claimed the life of Charlotte Morgan 19 of Vienna Virginia. Her companion Bruce G Bozman 20 of Catonsville Md was seriously injured and hospitalized at Somerset Community Hospital.
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Pennsylvana Turnpike
Somerset
Virginia
Somerset Community Hospital
Charlotte Morgan
Vienna
Bruce G. Bozman
Cattonsville
Morgan
Bozman
Borman
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