June 12 1969 Today in History Highlights
On this day in history 1630 John Winthrop entered Salem harbor as governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge received the Republican nomination in Cleveland. In 1963 Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson Mississippi. In 1967 the Supreme Court barred bans on interracial marriage. Plato quoted: No evil can happen to a...
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From seahorse to socialism critiques in a small town column
A fragmented Childress Index page fragment includes quirks about seahorses and a political column by Morris Higley. It mocks student communist sympathizers and contrasts U.S. radicalism with life in communist regimes, noting Czechoslovakia price reforms. It ends with an archeology note about ancient shipwreck debris littering a bay.
Global spread of foot and mouth disease noted
The Encyclopaedia Britannica states the disease affects almost all clover footed animals and is present in most countries worldwide except the United States and territories, Australia, New Zealand, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, Central America, the Caribbean and West Indies.
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