Germany Faces Economic Crisis Arising From Unemployment Rise
Bonn reports unemployment surpassing job availability for the first time in eight years, with 927,300 jobless by mid December and a projected peak near 500,000 to 600,000 by late January. Inflation, recession fears, and foreign-worker layoffs strain West Germany’s postwar boom.
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Bonn
UPI
Anton Sabel
Federal Institute For Labor Relations
Nuernberg
Sabel
West Germany
Italy
Greece
Spain
Turkey
Portugal
National Democratic Party
NPD
Germany
Free Democrats
Secular nun ministers to South Africans in modern world
Sister Margundis Hollerback of Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary works in South Africa as part of a secular institute. She travels between cloistered life and lay society teaching, guiding, and running a hostel for young girls at the Constantia center near Cape Town while pursuing education studies.
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Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Margundis Hollerback
of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary
National Council of the Catholic Women's League
Margundis
Heidelberg
Germany
Cape Town University
Order
Constantia
Cape Town
Vietnamese Rangers Push Through Delta Flooded Paddies
In the Mekong delta the 400 man 32nd Ranger Battalion battles a Viet Cong hide-out amid flooded paddies and jungle. Maj. Bui Van Huan says the unit is proud, disciplined and ready to fight, with medical aid and morale laced by American advisers. Rangers earn about 21 dollars monthly plus 2.50 per dependent and are volunteer elite troops.
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Mekong Delta
32Nd Ranger
Mekong River
Saigon
Delta
Vietnam
Dai Lay
South Vietnam
Mekong
Bui van Huan
Huan
North Vietnam
Ens
Outfit
Tran Quoc van
Captan Lutz
Sharon Springs
Lutz
32Nd
Greene County Officials Named in New Appointments
The Greene County Board of Commissioners met this week and made several appointments. William F. Hendren was renamed county attorney, C. F. Henderson service officer, and Dr. M. S. Mount and Harold Hull joined the county health board to fill vacancies. Dr. H. B. Turner was named county jail doctor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomfield
Ind
Greene County Board of Commissioners
William F. Hendren
C. F. Henderson
M. S. Mount
Harold Hull
County Health Board
H. B. Turner
Smiths to observe 57th wedding anniversary in Carlisle
Plan notes say Mr and Mrs Ernest Smith of Carlisle will mark their 57th anniversary on Tuesday December 27. Mrs Smith’s maiden name was Oma McCammon. An open house has not been planned. The article also notes the earliest alarm clocks of the late 16th century were heavy enough to require a belt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle, Ind
Ernest Smith
Carlisle
Austria Faces War Crimes Probe 20 Years After War
Austria faces renewed scrutiny as it pursues suspected Nazi war criminals while drafting charges against about two dozen Auschwitz staff. Critics urge stronger justice, noting past acquittals and lenient sentences, and the government vows to purge Nazism from public life.
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Vienna
Austria
Auschwitz
Adolf Hitler
Justice Ministry
Sicherheitsdienst — Security Service
Poland
Soviet Union
Adolf Eichmann
Josef Klaus
Austrian People’s Party
Purdue Aims Apollo Mission Alongside Rose Bowl Fame
Purdue alumni soar with Apollo team as Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee lead the first Apollo crew alongside Col. Edward White II Others include Eugene Cernan Neil Armstrong and numerous Purdue graduates serving as aerospace pioneers in NASA programs and spaceflight development across the Gemini and Mercury eras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ind
Purdue
Virgil J
Gus) Grissom
Mitchell
America
Roger B. Chaffee
Grand Rapids
Mich
Edward H. White II
Eugene A. Cernan
Chicago
Purdue University
Neil A. Armstrong
Wapakoneta
Ohio
Ivan C. Kincheloe Jr
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Ing
Ludwig Erhard
Cunningham Fine Foods
South Africans
Robert H. Stevenson
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Chick
Greene County
By Hans Benedict
Congress
American’ ‘Jewish Committee
Canada
Europe
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Documentation Center
Eichmann
Franz Douda
Telex Hearing Aid CO
Sycamore Bldg
J. Calvin Fink
Terre Haute, Ind
Sycamore
Terre Haute
Zie
Apollo
Malcolm D. Ross
West Lafayette
School of Science
Navy
Charlies C. Bock Jr
Henry C. Gordon
Air Force
NASA
William J. Knight
Indianapolis
G. E. Miller
Manned Space Flight Administration
Kenneth S. Kleinknecht
Gemini
Donald Stullken
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Texas
Warren J. North
Creetings
Cherry Street
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