Norway plans Spitzbergen airfield amid Soviet opposition
Oslo reports Norway is cautiously planning an airfield on West Spitzbergen to improve access and development. The move draws Soviet protest citing the 1920 Spitzbergen Treaty and demilitarization terms, while Norway emphasizes limited, nonmilitary aims and a new committee to study the region's future. The Soviets already run three coal mining communities on the island group.
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Svalbard
Arctic
Ny Aales
North Pole
Cape Barrow
Alaska
Spitzbergen
Norway
West Spitzbergen
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Kremlin
Ny Aalesund
USO clubs expand to bolster Yanks in Viet Nam
USO operations revive after years of partial activity. Nine new Viet Nam clubs join 16 existing in country, with DoD plans for five more. Justin Morrill says over 300,000 troops served by late 1966, while clubs provide coffee, magazines, milkshakes, and morale items.
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New York
UPI
USO
Times Square
Viet Nam
United Service Organizations
United States
Justin Morrill
South Viet Nam
U.S. Department of Defense
Southeast Asia
Merrill
Korea
Nand
Dale Evans
Roy Rogers
Jennifer Jones
Bobh Hope
Frances Langford
Morrill
Saigon
Puzzle No 453 Explanations Across and Down
A dense list of wordplay clues shows corrections and contrasts between near misspellings and correct terms. Each item pairs similar words and highlights distinctions in meanings and usage across the across and down sections.
Moneyword Puzzle Rules and Prizes Announced
The Syracuse Herald American invites entries to a Moneyword puzzle with a 1000 prize and additional awards. Prizes increase weekly if no all correct solution. consolation and best-entry prizes apply. Only residents in circulation area may enter, with judges deciding final outcomes. No facsimiles accepted.
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Syracuse Herald-American
Syracuse
Imag Moeny
Kimberly-Clark mill installs $2.5 million pollution control system
In Coosa Pines Alabama the Kimberly-Clark newsprint mill adopts a new pollution control system costing 2.5 million dollars. The plant treats up to 50 million gallons of water daily removing solids equivalent to 60 tons and producing sludge enough to fill 20 dump trucks before returning cleaned water to the Coosa River.
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Coosa Pines
Ala
UPI
Coosa River
Kimberly-Clark
Dallas bank hire leads to presidency decades later
James W. Keay, on the way to Houston for work, met James W. Aston, vice president of the Republican National Bank in Dallas. The conversation led to Keay being hired, and now more than 17 years later he serves as bank president while Aston is board chairman and chief executive officer.
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Dallas
UPI
Houston
James W. Keay
Republican National Bank
James W. Aston
How to keep home fires burning with proper wood
A UPI feature outlines practical tips for sourcing and preparing firewood. John D. Gray of Omark Industries recommends lightweight chain saws, proper sizing of logs, and air dried winter wood. He emphasizes stacking off ground, drying fully by fall, and blending oak birch ash and maple for balanced flames.
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John D. Gray
Omark Industries, Inc
Gray
Holland seals holes in war against sea
In 1953 a North Sea flood devastated the Dutch coast drowning 2000. A Delta Project launched to shield Holland from future storms with vast dams, dykes and sluice gates. By 1960s work linked islands and constructed a ring dyke around an artificial island to house massive flood gates designed to withstand extreme pressure.
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Holland
Rotterdam
UPI
North Sea
Meuse
Waal
Rhine
A.L. van den Brandeler
Noord
Quid Beveland
Queen Juliana
Flexi flator grain cars pledge 22 percent more load
New York Central Railroad and The B F Goodrich Co introduce a flexi flator grain carrier with flexible diaphragms that enable 22 percent greater capacity than standard hopper cars. Five cars replace six by using a patented rubber coated fabric system. Inflation to one psi moves grain to the discharge gate for gravity or pneumatic flow.
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New York
UPI
Flexiflator
New York Central Railroad
B. F. Goodrich Co
Rabbi urges Jews to stay in Germany
Rabbi Nathan Peter Levinson urges Jews to reestablish themselves on German soil, defending living in Germany as a right and duty. The 44 year old American citizen heads Baden district’s 1200 Jews across six cities, many survivors of camps, and promotes dialogue with West Germans while opposing exile. He recalls fleeing in 1941 via Poland and the Trans Siberian route, then studying in Cincinnati and serving in Berlin and Meridan before a U S Air Force chaplaincy. He notes 30000 Jews in West Germany and ongoing anti democratic and anti Semitic trends, while praising German Jewish and Christian Jewish initiatives.
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Heidelberg
Germany
Nathan Peter Levinson
Baden
West Germany
Hitler
Levinson
Berlin
Soviet Union
Poland
Korea
Watertown
Conn
Cincinnati
University
Hebrew Union College
Selma
Ala
World Union For Progressive Judaism
Ahhance
Ezekiel
Meridian
Miss
U.S. Air Force
Japan
Hel
Ga Heimberg
University of Heidelberg
Rabbi Levinson
German Council of Christians and Jews
Three Dimensional X-Ray Films Move Toward TV
Philadelphia report notes radiologists at Temple University discuss steroscopic fluoroscopy to create 3-D motion x ray movies of organs such as the liver heart and blood vessels. They plan color 3-D films and high frame rate imaging of the aorta for slowed down or frame by frame study to detect disease.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Herbert M. Stauffer
Temple University School of Medicine
Stauffer
Dallas officer touts American Police Academy concept
Lt. T. T. Lord of the Dallas Police Department envisions a four year American Police Academy offering rigorous education and physical testing. He calls for congressional funding but opposes a national police force and cites Dallas patrolmen’s pay comparisons to support broader invention of professionalism.
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Dallas
UPI
T. T. Lord
United States
Lord
Congress
U.S
Belgian engineers remove four WWII anti tank mines
In Knokke Belgium army engineers clear four German anti tank mines from a wooded area near the seaside resort. Each mine reportedly contained seven pounds of TNT and many people may have walked over them over the years. The note mentions the first US air mail service began on May 15 1918 with daily round trips between Washington and New York except Sundays.
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Knokke
Belgium
UPI
The
United States
Washington
New York
End Dry Skin with Clay Oil, A Beauty Note
In colder weather wrinkles form as skin contracts, hindering oil ducts. Smooth clay oil over the face and neck daily before makeup to prevent dryness. This oil, sold at the druggist, adds a peaches and cream bloom and protects against wrinkles. Margaret Merril.
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Arctic Circle
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Rioibi
Jeanette Gebel-Williams
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United Press International New York
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Wilt
Voorne
Overflakee
Schouwen
Noord Beveland
Walcheren
Antwerp
Harvingviiet
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Police Academy
Margaret Merril
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