Moon walks home hit Wapakoneta parade plans
Armstrong returns to Wapakoneta for a hero’s homecoming with 100000 expected crowd. The town renames streets and posts Tranquility Base HQ as preparations stage a two mile 35 minute parade featuring Bob Hope James Rhodes Hugh Downs Phyllis Diller and Dr Albert Sabin among others.
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Wapakoneta
Neil A. Armstrong
Auglaize
Ted
Neil Armstrong
A. Rhodes
Albert Sabin
Cincinnati
Devel
Debby Fox Begins School Life After 37 Operations
Deborah Fox, born without a full face, starts first grade in a White Oak School special class after 37 operations at Johns Hopkins. Her life includes tele-education at home, poems, and plans to work with handicapped children. she remains physically challenged with remaining deformities.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Deborah Fox
Debbie
Soddy
Here
White Oak School
Hamilton County Department of Education
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Vietnam
Johns Hopkins
Edward J. Fox
SDS Split In Meeting With Riot
A national SDS strategy meeting in Cleveland broke up after a melee involving several hundred people. Some members reportedly headed for Pittsburgh to aid a construction boycott against that city. Police dispersed the crowd as fist fights and rocks flew outside the site.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Michigan
East Cleveland
Patrick J. O'Malley
Federation proposal for southern Africa union by Leo Marquard
Johannesburg South Africa Leo Marquard retiring president of the South African Institute of Race Relations proposes a federation of southern Africa as an alternative to apartheid. The plan would create separate white and black states across South Africa South West Africa Lesotho Botswana and Swaziland.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Leo Marquard
The
South African Institute of Race Relations
Southern Africa
South West Africa
Lesotho
Botswana
Swaziland
Blaze Signal Protest Bursts Over Hay Prices in Grant County
In George Washington a two story hay stack was set alight as a protest against government hay pricing. Joe McMains, chair of the county Farmers Grant County National Farmers Organization, vows further actions if officials persist in claiming a state hay surplus despite local shortages. He rejects U S Department of Agriculture figures showing a 12 percent rise in Washington hay production this year.
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George
Wash
Joe McMains
Rare County
Farmers Grant County National Farmers Organization
McMain
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
Armstrong to address youths then attend 1947 graduation events
Neil Armstrong will speak to students at a high school field about his experiences at 9 30 a m and will address his 1947 graduating class at a luncheon. A parade and reception follow at Auglaize County Fairgrounds. He will tour the site for the $1 million Neil Armstrong Aerospace Museum funded equally by state and public donations.
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Armstrong
Auglaize County Fairgrounds
Neil Armstrong Aerospace Museum
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Downs
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Lima
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Athens
Maytag
Ernie Lambert
ATC &E
Tome Torrs
C& E
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Athens, Ohio
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