Rice-Judging Team Wins for Robert E. Lee High in Beaumont
Robert E. Lee high school's fourth-year vocational agriculture team won two trophies and a $10 prize for Baytown Future Farmers of America at the South Texas State Fair in Beaumont. Team members John Russell Louis Pina Mike Anderson and Richard Young scored 962 points in the rice-judging contest and earned second place team honors. Russell won the high point individual trophy. The Rice-Pasture Research and Extension Center near Beaumont conducts the contest, entered annually by Texas Louisiana rice groups.
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Future Farmers of America
South Texas
Beaumont
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Louis Pina
Mike Anderson
Richard Young
FFA
Texas
Louisiana
Business mergers surge as firms pursue consolidations
New York AP reports a record 3,158 consolidations in the nine months to Sept 30, with expectations of up to 4,000 for the year. Major deals include Metromedia with Trans-America valued around 300 million, RCA and St. Regis Paper in principle to merge, Mohasco into American Standard at about 170 million, and INA buying 80.5 percent of World Airways for about 310 million. The Justice Department reviews Xerox-CIT, while antitrust concerns prompt a House study.
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W. T. Grimm & Co
Xerox
Justice Department
Emanuel Celler
Dn.y
House Antitrust Subcommittee
New England
Maine
Robert Price
R-Tex
Occidental Petroleum Corp
California
Occidental
Peru
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
International Petroleum Corp
Labor Department
Ciyan
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
George S. Moore
First National City Bank of New York
Guards On Lockout For UN Demonstrators
Guards in the United Nations enclave watch elevated tour landings to deter visitors from joining demonstrations at the General Assembly. Demonstrators disrupted speeches by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko, and Pierre Harmel amid the tense scene. A separate virus note mentions a 30 year preserved sample in a lab.
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United Nations
N.Y
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Pierre Harmel
Notable film star refuses nude scene in new play Hank's Night
The Associated Press reports Blonde actress Sarah Atkinson, 2, will not strip nude for a sex orgy scene in Hank's Night. She cites director pressure and vows to refuse full nudity, maintaining boundaries on her performance.
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Associated Press London
Sarah Atkinson
Miss Atkinson
Charles Marowitz
Today In History October 15, 1968 Highlights
Today in history lists notable events on this date. Khrushchev ousted announced in Moscow in 1964. Melbourne gold rediscovered in 1881. Lincoln and Douglas debated in 1858. Mata Hari shot in 1917. Graf Zeppelin flew commercial in 1988. Laval executed in 1945. Hermann Goering committed suicide in 1946.
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Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Melbourne
Australia
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Alton
Mata Hari
Gotham named as city of fools in historical lore
The World Almanac notes Gotham, a name used for New York City by Washington Irving in Salmagundi Papers 1807, and links it to an English town famed for feigning foolishness. It notes the tale of King John seeking a palace and Gothamites acting so stupidly the royal cost was avoided. More fools pass through Gotham than live there.
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New York City
Gotham
Washington Irving
World Almanac
John
Queen Elizabeth Ends Annual Scottish Trip
Queen Elizabeth II ends her yearly Scottish vacation with a weekend stop at Drumkitbo House at Meigle, home of her cousin Lord Elphinstone in Braemar Scotland.
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Braemar
Scotland
Elizabeth II
Drumkitbo ‘House
Meigle
Lord Elphinstone
Armco’s Ken Tice Aids Galena Park Students
Armco’s Ken Tice, general foreman of the Blooming Mill at Houston Works, serves his fourth term on the Galena Park School board overseeing 16 schools and 11,500 students. he dedicates much spare time to local education.
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Ken Tice
Galena Park
Houston
Ken
San Jacinto Junior College
Galena Park Recreation Commission
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