Road network shrinks despite new sections opening
The Austin Daily Herald notes 1968 US road and street mileage declined despite Interstate openings. Data from the Bureau of Public Roads show total mileage about 4 million miles, with 814000 unsurfaced miles and 1.57 million miles surfaced with asphalt or cement. Resurfacing and improvements dominate new highway work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bureau of Public Roads
Dept. of Transportation
America
Halt credit card crooks with new verification system
Cubic Corp of San Diego develops a compact data processing system for credit card purchases to curb fraud. The unit uses an imprinter and a verifier at checkout to confirm card validity by comparing data with stored credit information. It rejects lost or stolen, forged, or overextended cards automatically and can be updated remotely.
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Cubic Corp
Sn Diego
Vietnam
Fat and
Dong Nhi
Half a school for $1: Topeka missile site becomes high school
The Kansas Unified School District No. 335 bought a former missile complex near Topeka for $1. The 18,000 square foot underground area, two wells, two 30,000 gallon tanks, sewer, airstrip, and new above ground structures will house general business, math and science classrooms, offices, and climate control. The district budgeted $685,000 for refurbishment to create a unique educational facility.
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Topeka
National Education Assn
Kansas Unified School District
Opinions of Others and Highway Monster Opinions
A compilation of editorials praising bankers for aiding borrowers, urging gratitude for small-town bankers amid high rates, and criticizing oversized trucks. The pieces argue bankers sacrifice for communities while big trucks threaten road safety. The Record American weighs in against jumbo trucks despite economic arguments.
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Hell
Ican Trucking Heedlitiens, Inc
American Automobile Association
Boston
Quotation For Today And Local Publication Details
A Daily Austin Minnesota newspaper page presents quotes about a good name and favor, followed by publication details. It lists address, phone, publisher, editors, change of address box, and subscription rates for daily home delivery and mail zones within and beyond a 56 mile radius of Austin.
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Austin
Minnesota
Minn
U.S. Armed Forces
United States
A.P.O
F.P.O
Turn Back the Clock and Memories of Austin
A retrospective notes a 30 year item for Manley Wengert’s home winning a Junior Chamber of Commerce decoration. It also mentions Gene Autry returning to the Austin Theater in In Old Monterey and a 20 year look at burglaries near Austin with loot found near Bancroft, plus Sam A. Rask joining Minnesota Soldiers Home board.
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Manley Wengert
Bryan Sr
Sam A. Rask
Blooming Prairie
Minnesota Soldiers Home
Minneapolis
Pot Pourri and Local Happenings In Mason City
Mason City reports show Mall-minded push with petitions from property owners and tenants in the central business district for a proposed mall fronting on the district. The Creamery fire in Boomyards, Minn. causes insurance-linked impact on a pony hitch for Mower County Fair.
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Mason City
Chamber of Commerce
Business
Minn
Austin
Mower
New Analysis Says Black Voters Swing to Nixon GOP
Victor Riesel reports a growing black Republican trend, citing leaders like Highland Park mayor Robert Blackwell and Louisville head Saska Twyman, plus gains in Richmond Virginia and New Jersey. The piece notes a GOP outreach, a Nixon ally network, and labor secretary Shultz backing black workers, signaling potential bipartisan shifts through 1970 and 1972.
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Robert B. Blackwell
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
UAW
Blackwell
Chrysler
George Romney
Michigan
State Labor Mediation Board
Highland Park
Detroit
Saska J. Twyman
G . Ky
Richmond
Virginia
New Jersey
New Haven
Conn
The
Panthers
Repub
New York
John V. Lindsay
Justice Dept
Eisenhower
Congress
Manhattan
Spiro Agnew
Nominaton
Kennedy
Madison Ave
Republican National Committee
Ed Sexton
Nixon
Lennie’ Garment
Agnew
Garment
George Shultz
White House
Chicago
National Union
Lennie Garment
Shultz
Philadelphia
Boston
Pittsburgh
Seattle
Conleagues
Labor and Justice Depts
Congression Gn
Viet Cong hunger grips Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam
Lt Le Hoa, a hard core VC, says his unit and others suffer from malnutrition while Allied forces report VC cooks and troops alike starved. The 1st Infantry Division notes almost all captured and defected fighters in the area express hunger, shifting the war toward supply and morale issues.
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U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Saigon
1St Division
U.S
le Hoa
a _ Millage
Today in History: Dreyfus, Vitellius, Oglethorpe facts
On this day in 1969 events included the Dreyfus treason verdict and antisemitism in France, Vitellius’s assassination in 69, Georgia founder Oglethorpe’s birth in 1696, and Churchill meeting Roosevelt in 1941. Also noted are Bastogne’s surrender demand in 1944 and the Pueblo release last year.
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Associated Press
Alfred Dreyfus
Drefus
Vitellius
Colony of
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
London
Winston Churchill
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anthony McAuliffe
Bastogne
Shamrock legend ties to St Patrick planting Ireland
According to legend, the shamrock became associated with Ireland after St Patrick planted the three-leaf plant there. A quiz answer notes commercial jets use straight kerosene as fuel.
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Ireland
St. Patrick
Nixon Viet moves rated high by GOP governors
A survey of Republican governors from Hot Springs shows President Nixon earns broad praise for Vietnam disengagement and party success in 1969. Governors applaud timing and campaign support, while some warn a slower withdrawal pace could erode political support.
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Nixon
Hot Springs
Ark
NEA
Capitol
GOP
Vietnam
Linwood Holton
Virginia
William Cahill
New Jersey
Holton
National Party
Republican National Committee
Marvin Collins
Cahill
Robert Meyner
Washington
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Austin Daily Herald Opinion
Bac
U.S. Treasury
Waseca Journal
Memphis
Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax
Austin Daily Herald
J. Knox
Clarence Burgeson
Rome
Nome
Cheyenne
Orient
Ozarks
Ozark Airlines
Ozark
St. Paul
Des Moines
James G. Huntting
Mower County
Children’s Home Society
Jay Duane
Pat Pourri
Ohio
Susquehanna
Monongahela
Patrick J. Norton
Alfred Wicofski
Father Flanagan
Boys Town
Neb
Norton
Edward J. Flanagan
Witcofski
Victor Riesel
D. C
Richard Nixon
Alexander Cartwright
Tom Tiede Lai Khe
South Vietnam
Hoa
Berry's
NEA, Inc
Palmer
Britain
United
Iine
Dwight D
United Nations
North Korea
Bruce Biossat
National Committee
Rogers Morton
Harry Dent
West Virginia
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