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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1968
Page
6
Crawford County officials forecast the 23rd annual fair in Meadville will attract larger crowds if weather cooperates. The report cites County Commissioner W Earl Austin calling the exhibition bigger and better and notes a busy slate of events and a long tradition in the local fair scene.
LBJ urges fair laws for all from president to street sweeper while addressing a Houston crowd at the Shamrock Hilton. He emphasizes nonviolence, equal justice, and a movement toward freedom, ending with a hopeful note about moral reckoning when the roll is called up yonder.
Witnesses described a Los Angeles area helicopter crash where the craft rolled end over end after a tail rotor detach event as flames swept the fuselage. Investigators consider automatic control system failure causing attitude change and blade separation. Los Angeles Airways resumes service after grounding. Dorothy Rice Worthington funeral services scheduled in Pittsburgh for Leslie Worthington's wife.
State Police and area agencies search for a man suspected of burglarizing the Warren County Fairgrounds concession stand owned by Georgette May Decker of Southport Conn. Thief unlocked trailer, took cash in various denominations and silver including 500 half dollars. loss listed as 3010 dollars. All-points bulletin issued. suspect identified but name and description withheld.
In Seattle at 5 a.m. Wednesday two couples left home together and headed for the same destination. Twenty minutes after, Mrs Baur gave birth to a son and, twenty minutes later, Mrs Zurn had a boy and a girl, all in a sequence of rapid urban events.
Ton, 64, born in Chicago, died yesterday. Her husband is a retired U.S. Steel employee, having retired on June 30, 1967.
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