Reader’s Service Q and A on wages dogs cabinet Friday 13th church
Questions cover minimum wage exemptions in Thomasville and worker recourse. Advice includes contacting the U S Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division. Other items discuss dogs in yards and inoculation tags, cabinet heads, Friday the 13th myths, and demolition of a termite damaged church with required permits and approvals.
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Thomasville
U.S. Department of Lavor
P. O
Columbus
Blonde taxi thief escapes after car theft and shootout
A young blonde woman in her late 20s or early 30s allegedly shot a taxi driver, stole two cars, and fled on foot through a swamp. She has reportedly hitchhiked out of the Augusta area as a three state alert goes out, with sightings unlikely.
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Augusta
Richmond County Sheriff Department
Glaus
San
Old 78 High
Wheeless Road
Louisville
Woman in Augusta Car Theft and Taxi Driver Shooting
Police traced a woman who stole a car and took a taxi driver near Bush Field. Danny Maddox was found shot in his trunk after the suspect fled toward Augusta and wrecked another car. the hunt paused as bloodhounds lost a trail but resumed searching for the woman.
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Danny Maddox
Au“a
Fair Conm
University Hospital
Hzibah
Reed
Atlanta Chamber invites Miss Haralson to speak to women
The executive secretary of the women's division of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has been invited to speak Thursday February 21 replacing February 2. Miss Anne Haralson will discuss her division's Atlanta program and how the local women's division can be more effective as an arm of the chamber.
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Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Anne Haralson
Thomasville-Thomas County
T. M. McComb
Science Fair for Thomasville High School Students
The annual Science Fair for seventh to ninth grades at Thomasville High School will be held this week in the base.
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Thomasville High School
Johnson asks Congress to expand Vietnam veteran benefits
President Johnson urged Congress to raise educational and other benefits for Vietnam veterans to equal those of World War II and Korea. He cited gaps in law, proposed full wartime disability, increased pensions, special medical care, auto aid, and higher GI bill education payments with child-based increases, plus life insurance and pension safeguards.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Vietnam
Korea
Parking meters spark resident complaints in Thomasville
In a letter to the editor style note, J. F. Clements argues against parking meters cluttering the city and warns merchants may lose business to a new shopping center unless meters are added there too. A commenter says meters frustrate shoppers and a resident avoids them by parking on E Jefferson Street where none exist.
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Thomasville
City Commission
J. F. Clements
E. Jefferson St
Johnson to Hold First News Conference This Week
Washington AP report notes President Johnson, in a news conference to be held this week at the White House, will address the public for the first time since December 31. Officers recounted a 77 3 incident involving a pickup at a local cam and a fare to Bush Field airport.
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Meston Jennings
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Ther Pelica
Jennings
White House
Fire kills airman in Cape simulation blaze report
AP reports a fire during an air force space cabin experiment at Cape Canaveral killed one airman and injured another, with $10,000 in damage. Spokesmen tied the blaze to an oxygen rich environment and said routine maintenance was underway in an altitude chamber. The two airmen were hospitalized. identities not disclosed. The incident echoes a 1962 Brooks AFB fire in a similar oxygen test.
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Rk Times
Brooks Army Medical Center No 1
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Last Words of Astronauts Fire Aboard Apollo Craft
An engineer who heard tape recordings of the fatal test describes the moments aboard Apollo as victims Chaffee Grissom and White scramble to open the hatch. The hatch remains sealed and no automatic release exists. The crew reports fire and distress before a final plea to exit.
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Virgil I. Grissom
Edward H. White II
Air Force
Marines Koreans Erase 106 Cong Marines
South Korean infantrymen reported killing 71 Viet Cong on South Vietnam s central coast in a new operation while U S Marines counted 35 more enemy dead on the north coast. Over North Vietnam heavy fog limited air strikes and the U S 7th Fleet destroyer Keppler shelled two cargo barges near Dong Hoi, claiming five sunk and nineteen damaged.
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U.S
North Vietnam
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Keppler
Dong Hoi
Naval operation Traffic Cop targets supply boats near Vietnam
The 7th Fleet destroyers continue Operation Traffic Cop intercepting supply vessels to hinder Communist forces in South Vietnam. U S B52 bombers hit positions in Kontum Province while raids targeted suspected North Vietnamese bases west of Pleiku near the Cambodian frontier. A helicopter assault near Nha Trang and Korean forces reporting casualties and weapons captures complete the action.
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South Vietnam
Kontum Province
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Vietnam
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Plei Djerent
Johnson Leads Homage At Spacemen's Rites
President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey led graveside honors for three astronauts killed in a spacecraft fire. Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom was buried at Arlington with his wife and sons present, followed by Lt. Col. Edward H. White II at West Point and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee at Arlington. A brief sermon praised Grissom, and a three-jet flyover accompanied the service. flowers from Purdue classmates Mitchell citizens and Cape Kennedy workers highlighted the tributes.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Roger B. Chaffee
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Roy van Tassel
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