Navy Urges Extending Enlistments Amid Vietnam Strain
Secretary Nitze called on Navy officers and enlisted personnel to extend service three to six months to ease manpower drain as fleet units operate off South Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. The appeal follows a drop in enlistments and the need to replace experienced sailors with new recruits. Navy officials declined to disclose target numbers for voluntary extensions.
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Washington
Secetary of the Navy
Paul H. Nitze
Navy
South Viet Nam
U.S
Nitze
Dominican Republic
7Th Fleet
South China Sea
Snowplows Back On South Dakotas Snowbound Highways
Snowplows returned to duty across western central South Dakota after a 3 to 4 inch snowfall blanketed Deadwood with 30 inches and Lead with 31 inches. Drifts eight feet high trapped travelers while power lines fell and some towns reported outages as thaw began.
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Deadwood
S.D
South Dakotas
Challenge Scholarship Dead line for senior boys
Town midnight tonight is the deadline for applications for the Challenge Scholarship. Senior boys at James Wood Douglas and Handley schools are eligible for the $1,000 award. J Edgar Hoover marks his 41st year as director of the FBI today. He was born in Washington DC in 1895 and joined the Justice Department in 1917.
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James Wood
Douglas
Handley
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C
Tiversity
Department of Justice
U.S. Planes Hit North Viet Nam Targets In Wide Campaign
U S planes and Vietnamese forces pounded North Viet Nam targets from midnight through the day. Bridges, highways, rail vehicles and emplacements were destroyed. one Navy jet pilot was killed and two American soldiers died in a Me Kong delta clash. Navy carriers Coral Sea and Midway led day raids dropping 12 to 14 tons of bombs and Air Force F105s and F100s attacked major bridge sites south of Ha Noi.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
North
U.S
Navy
Mekong River
Coral Sea
Midway
U.S. Air Force
Ha Tinh
Hanoi
Tho Hgon
Route 1
Mekong
Hai Yen
British Court Sentences Spies for Soviet Cash
In London two men, Frank C. Bossard and Sgt. Percy Allen, were sentenced for selling missile secrets and defense documents to the Soviet Union and Arab states. Bossard, 52, received 21 years. Allen, 33, got 10 years. Prime Minister Wilson ordered a high level probe into the security breach.
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Iians
Frank C. Bossard
Aviation Ministry
Old Bailey Court
Soviet Union
Percy Sidney Allen
Defense Ministry
United Arab Republic
Iraq
Allen
Harold Wilson
House of Comemons
Laurence Helsby
Home Civil Services
Four Indicted In Boyce Bank Theft Case
Clarke County grand jury charges Kenneth Pres graves James Powell Buford H Shupe and Mary M Shupe in the April 1 194? bank robbery at the Bank of Clarke County Boyce branch nearly 11929 recovered. Bonds set at 10000 each. Arraignment dates not yet announced. A witness reported the car license plate leading to police arrest near Double Toll Gate.
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Berryville
Stephens City
Washington, D.C
Clarke County
Bank of
Boyce
Kenneth Presgraves
James Powell
Buford H. Shupe
Mary M. Shupe
Lamont St
N.W
Edith W. Rodgers
Frances Hudson
Mrs. Hudson
Philip Cunningham
R. L. Bruce
Double Toll Gate
Rusk urges standby OAS machinery for emergencies
Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged the United States to consider a standby military political mechanism to handle crises quickly while asserting U S actions in the Dominican Republic aimed to save lives and support the OAS rather than revive gunboat diplomacy. He noted the move was to protect Americans as incidents with rebels and Cuban links unfolded and stressed timely action without prior OAS approval.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Rusk
United States
Santo Domingo
U.S
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
Cyrus R. Vance
ABC
Nebraska
Roman L. Hruska
Colorado
Gordon Allott
Johnson
OAS
Supervisors Asked to Nullify Reassessment
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors faced a petition from a 10 member group led by Joshua Place of the Frederick County Tax Payers Association urging nullification of the recent county real estate reassessment. The petition cites 395 signers, a $10,876,558 increase and a 62 percent rise in total value, and requests a new legal and equitable assessment.
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Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Joshua Place
Frederick County Tax Payers Association
Gainesboro
Back Creek
Board of Eualization
Board of Supervisors
Five Children Die In Rural Maryland Fire
Five young Hardy children aged 9, 9, 6, 5 and 7 died when their Brandywine farm house burned after they were left alone. Wilmer Hardy Sr. was away on leave, and Mrs. Hardy collapsed at the scene after firefighters contained the blaze near Routes 301 and 5. Investigators said the cause is under inquiry and officials suggest a child may have started the fire.
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Brandywine
Rossland
Washington
Brandykee Clinton
Baden Accokeek
Waldorf
Hardy
Rain in Santo Domingo Seen as Possible Good Omen
Teeming rain drenched Santo Domingo amid a severe drought seen as a potential good omen. Rebels and U.S. Marines clash in the capital while a new junta flexes and the OAS mission seeks peace, with rainfall easing red dust and mortal tensions.
Shenandoah Valley Motel Association 10th Anniversary Meeting
About 50 attendees from across the Valley gathered at Duff's Rebel for the Shenandoah Valley Motel Association's 10th anniversary. Emory Gregg, a retired FBI agent from Star Tannery, spoke as a featured guest. Mayor William M. Battaile praised members for bringing tourist money and praised their clean enterprises. Owen Philips moderated a humorous skit on towns bypassed by highways. A highway survey with 20,000 cards is being circulated to customers.
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Shenandoah Valley Motel Association
Duff’s Rebel
Emory Gregg
Star Tannery
FBI
Roanoke
William M. Battaile
Owen Philips
Ways Side Theatre
Dominican Junta Ready to Attack Rebels in Santo Domingo
The Dominican military junta led by Gen Antonio Imbert Barrera says forces are ready to move against Caamano's rebels but will act only after all efforts to avert bloodshed fail. Rebels claim higher morale and accuse the regime of internal divisions as U S troops reinforce positions near the Embajador Hotel and you Sea.
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United States
U.S
Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Fiveeman
Washington
Imbert
Col
Francisco Caamane Deno
Junta
Donald Reid Cabral
Elias Wessing- Wes Sin
Caamano
Caribbean Sea
4Th U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force
82Nd Airborne Division
Embajador Hotel
Mike D. Monk
Vandemere
N.C
Ellard C. Dana
Virginia Beach
Donald E. Martin
Wichita
Kan
Dana
Weather pattern brings warm humid days to Virginias
A high pressure system off the Atlantic coast will maintain warm and humid conditions in Virginia and surrounding areas over the coming days, with above normal temperatures and light offshore winds expected to persist.
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Richmond
Atlantic
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Frederick County
Department of Taxation
Virginia
Bennie H. Jones, Jr
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Havana
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