Woman Enters Chicago Police Training With 300 Men
Virginia Rakocinski 24 of Evanston becomes the first woman to attend Chicago police training’s 13 week course with male recruits. She topped 42 applicants for a Skokie policewoman job and left a chemistry post in a Skokie pharma firm to pursue the challenge.
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Chicago Police Training Division
Ronald Bandetmer
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Chicago
Rakocinski
Evanston
Lenge
Skokie Police Department
Skokie
Chicago Police Training School
Mundelein College
Skokie Pharmaceutical
J Curtis Lyons Dies at 66 Icon of Virginia Journalism
Peters burg native J Curtis Lyons longtime editor and journalist for the Progress Index died at 66 after a two month illness. He led Virginia journalism through roles in the Virginia Press Association and AP bodies and authored Europe reporting for a 1960s papers tour. Funeral set 3:30 pm at Christ and Grace Episcopal Church with Blandford Cemetery burial.
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J. Curtis Lyons
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Virginia Press Association
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Associated Press Managing Editors’ Association
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Europe
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Index
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Olive Roberson
Christ and Grace Episcopal Church
Blandford Cemetery
St George Crossword Clue Preview
Crossword clues list with knightly weapon and armor topics. includes entries for elephant tusk strike gently and various downs across the grid. Clues hint at mythology deities fibers and painter's measures with themed wordplay and abbreviations.
CBS News Troupe Preview at Democratic Convention
Hollywood AP reports CBS offered a sneak glimpse of its new convention anchors Robert Trout and Roger Mudd from a booth above the convention hall. Trout leans to lighter coverage while Mudd handles hard news, as Humphrey drew steady on-air attention across networks.
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CBS
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Roger Mudd
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Papashvily Sculptor From Immigrant Roots Shown At Williamsburg
Papashvily born in the Russian empire apprenticed to a harness maker and sword maker before serving in the czarist army. Immigrating to America in 1922 he carved stone works and wrote books about his life, with an exhibit at the Williamsburg Conference Center and a display from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection.
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Constantinople
America
United States
California
Helen
Papashvilys
Quarkertown
Pennsylvania
Papashvily
iNoah
Williamsburg Conference Center
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Four bicycle licenses issued in Upper Arlington
FULL GARAGE UPPER ARLINGTON Ohio AP officials report the suburb’s first bike licensing program. Safety Director Frank Gallo notes they began with 5 000 licenses and quickly ran out, highlighting many adults who own and ride bicycles.
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Upper Arlington, Ohio
Columbus
Frank Gallo
Harper's Ferry visit yields long hidden soldier names
Scouts visited Harper's Ferry with Mr. Wolfe uncovering Civil War names carved on a wall in 1861 62 and similar finds at Appomattox. No Kilroy or insults appeared among the names. The tour highlighted flood plaques and a flood ready Visitors Building, with the Princess Tree drawing questions. A dip in the river lets one touch three states at once.
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Appomatox
Mr. Wolfe
Harper’s Ferry
Tiem
AFL-CIO Pledges 95 000 For Virginia Political Action
Virginia State AFL-CIO backs its five year political action plan with a 95 000 dollar funding for the coming year. The convention adopted a resolution supporting end of segregated union halls and equal opportunity in jobs and training for all races. Delegates also endorsed Congressional candidates including Rep Downing, Rep Hardy, Dr Edwards Haddock, William Hopkins, Rep Jennings, and Augustus Johnson.
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Thomas N. Downing
Porter Hardy
Edwards&, Haddock
William B. Hopkins
Pat Jennings
Augustus C. Johnson
Dennis Hotel, Atlantic City, Oldest Beachfront Name
The Dennis, established by Prof and Mrs William Dennis who built a two room cottage in 1860, remains the oldest hotel name on the Atlantic City beachfront as it expanded from a cottage to a rooming house.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Dennis
William Dennis
Job Preparatory Enrollment Up 3000 in Virginia
Virginia schools report a 35 percent rise in job preparatory enrollment for 1963 64 with about 11 1 percent total. Dr Woodrow Wilkerson says roughly 55 113 high school students were in pre vocational industrial arts and general mechanics courses and 20 high schools will expand or add trade programs this year.
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Woodrow W. Wilkerson
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
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