Miracle Rice Hope Follows New Greener World War
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, visiting Los Banos Philippines, voiced strong optimism that miracle rice can help end hunger worldwide. He warned of storage distribution and marketing challenges from higher grain production and highlighted IR8 IR5 and newer disease resistant varieties.
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Los Banos
Philippines
U.S
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
International Rice Research Institute
Institute
Manila
Ford Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Bay Laguna
Robert Chandler
Johnson Buoyant After Central American Conference
President Johnson, with Mrs. Johnson and Luci Nugent, toured El Salvador after the conference. He visited a church, market, a school named for him, an educational TV course, and a canyon park, mingling with crowds and thanking embassy staff before returning to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Salvador
el Salvador
Johnson
Luci Nugent
Fidel Sanchez Hernandez
Rev Renkel to Serve as Senate Chaplain
The Rev. Roland W. Renkel of Trinity Lutheran Church will serve as chaplain of the Pennsylvania Senate in Harrisburg this week. The appointment was made by Sen. Albert R. Pechan on the recommendation of Sen. Stanley G. Stroup and Newton B. Picking, Republican chairman for Somerset County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland W. Renkel
Trinity Lutheran Church
Pennsylvania Senate
Harrisburg
Albert R. Pechan
Stanley G. Stroup
Bedford
Newton B. Picking
Somerset County
Death toll climbs as Fourth of July holiday ends
Traffic deaths reached 479 on the final day of a four day Independence period while the National Safety Council remained cautiously optimistic the toll may end below last year’s 732. Boating deaths totaled 43 and nonboat drownings 136 as total fatalities surged.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Employees Reject Telephone Pact in Erie Area
About 1,500 General Telephone Co of Pennsylvania maintenance and service workers rejected a contract proposal. Local IBEW president Leroy Durrell said members voted Friday by a wide margin, expiration of the old contract came June 30 with no immediate strike threat. Durrell offered no vote figures or dollar value on any improvements.
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Erie
Agin
General Telephone Co
Pennsylvania
Leroy Durrell
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Afl-Cio
Durrell
Election Year Politics Drive Assembly Adjournment Debate
Election year politics dominate the fight over adjournment versus recess for the 1968 General Assembly. GOP leaders push for a month end adjournment with a fall return, while some dissenters lobby for a September recess to reconvene as issues arise.
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Harrisburg
Gov Shafer
County Relief Costs Rise In Somerset County April Expenditures
State Department of Public Welfare reports Somerset County relief spending rose by 8876 in April to 326,698 versus 317,822 in March. Grants totaling 149,448 aided 3439 residents while medical care cost 150,707 for 1246 people and county administration 26,543. General assistance funded 2046 dependent children, 506 old age recipients, 484 disabled, 211 blind pensioners, and 192 others.
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Somerset County
State Department of Public Welfare
Department
Somerset
Philippine Missionary Addresses Camp Honors Boswell Church
The Sunday address by Rev Lovell Cary missionary for the Church of God in the Philippines closed the Pennsylvania State Camp Meeting in Somerset. Plaques honored churches for funds given to missions and other aids. Boswell Church won a grand plaque in a three‑way tie.
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Church of God
Pennsylvania
Somerset
Lovell Cary
Philippines
Boswell
Bedford
Thailand
India
Cary
Manila
Youth World Evangelism Appeal
YWEA
Harmon J. Roberts
Djarkata
Indonesia
Bethel Full Gospel Church
Churches of God
Missions Fund
P. H. McCain
Church of God Children’s Home
Sevierville
Tenn
Knoxville
Navy and Marines Tighten Saigon Defense Amid Viet Cong Threat
U S and South Vietnamese naval craft join ground troops and air units in a major operation to block Viet Cong movements toward Saigon. Patrol vessels patrol the Saigon River and Dong Nai, armed with .50 caliber guns. Thousands of allied troops form a defense ring around Saigon as B 52 bombers hit targets, and South Korean Tiger Division reports 18 Viet Cong killed on the northern coast.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
U.S. Navy
Mekong Delta
Dong Nai River
Ralph Santi
Omaha
Neb
Dong Nai
North
South Vietnam
Cap
Ital
North Vietnam
Tiger Division
East German Guards Shoot Two Refugees at Wall
East German border guards fired on two apparent refugees attempting to cross into West Berlin. One man, about 40, was killed near the Brandenburg Gate. a second man was shot near Bernauer Street opposite the French sector.
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Hubert J. Erb
Berlin
Wall
West Berlin
Brandenburg Gate
Klaus Schuetz
Bernauer Street
East Berlin
Church of the Reconciliation
Barefoot Bride Weds in Haight Ashbury Hippie Ceremony
In Golden Gate Park a barefoot 18 year old bride Francine Nelson wed 22 year old Thomas King in a hippie ceremony led by Rev. Leon Preston Harris of All Saints Episcopal Church. The couple kissed and danced to a reception at their communal Haight Ashbury home.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate Park Panhandle
Francine Nelson
Thomas King
Haight-Ashbury
Leon Preston Harris
All Saints Episcopal Church
Lions Club sponsors Boswell area home health agency
The Boswell Lions Club health committee plans a cooperative home health agency to provide in home nursing care for chronic conditions. A nurse would visit patients on doctor orders, filling gaps when visits to offices aren’t needed. Community Nursing Service of Johnstown can supervise but not fund the program. Somerset Tuberculosis and Health Society may fund some equipment.
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Boswell
Medicare
Community Nursing Service of
Johnstown
The
Somerset Tuberculosis and Health Society
How to Minimize Your Tax Increase by Sylvia Porter
Read about surtax relief in Porter column with practical tips to ease the income tax surcharge. Starting Monday Sylvia Porter and leading tax experts present layman language guidance aimed at employees employers individuals and corporations in the first of a three part series on page 12.
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General Assembly
Shafer
America
Sylvia Porter
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West Race St
John Gallager
Rodney Gallagher
West Main St
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Circle Drive
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Freema
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Vietnam
LBJ
By Douglas B. Cornell
United States
Tropics
Japan
Yokota
Kurile Islands
Kuriles
Rev. Renkel
Senate
By Vincent P. Carocci
House
Sen
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D-Luzerne
Murray
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Blackawanna
Lee A. Donaldson
Somerset American Harrisburg
Philippine Missionary
Boswell Church
Rev. Lovell Cary
California
Lions Club
Boswell Area
Nes
Surtax
Porter
Judy
Emory University
Atlanta
Edward R. Annis
Miami
Fla
American Medical Association
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