Cedron Park Nears Completion High Point Park Work
High Point opens Cedron Park in the Eastwood area after a year and a half of work. The 10.5 acre site features a regulation baseball field, Little League field, two tennis courts, two picnic shelters, playgrounds, restrooms, and parking funded about half by Open Space grants. Construction involved rerouting a creek, installing 700 loads of dirt, 300 feet of drain pipe, and utilities work. Crews from multiple city departments plus Parks and Recreation built facilities and landscaping while preserving trees and a rustic park edge. Completion proceeds through September with shelter installations and gate additions planned for the near term.
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High Point Parks and Recreation
Ray Kisiah
Eastwood
Kisiah
Cedron Park
High Point
Iowa Marine Jimmie Howard Wins Medal of Honor
Jimmie Howard the Burlington High School athlete and Korean War veteran will receive the Medal of Honor from President Johnson in a White House ceremony. The citation credits him with saving 12 Marines during a June 1966 Viet Cong attack near Chu Lai.
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Burlington
Howard
Jimmie Howard
Vietnam
President Johnson
White House
Washington
George Schnedler
Sperry
Iowa
Waterloo East High
Ton
Chu Lai
Rabid kitten sickens partygoers in Michigan
Muskegon County health officials say 26 people, mostly children, were bitten or scratched when a rabid kitten ran amok at a Norton Township party. All but one victim have begun the 17 shot rabies series. the man refused treatment. The kitten was captured and destroyed after rabies confirmation.
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Muskegon, Mich
Muskegon County
John Wells
Wells
Norton Township
Muskegon
Michigan
Lansing
Trans World jet makes safe Kennedy landing after wheel loss
A Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 carrying 126 passengers landed safely at Kennedy Airport after losing one of its six main landing wheels during takeoff from Shannon Ireland. Captain Arlie Nixon 53 credited with a smooth landing described as grease middle of runway. A passenger first alerted Nixon to the missing wheel which was later found on the runway by another aircraft crew.
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New York
Trans World Airlines
Shannon
Ireland
Kennedy Airport
Arlie Nixon
Jennings
Okla
TWA
Nixon
TV news executive named head of SC parks department
Bob Hickman, longtime WIS TV news chief in Columbia and former governor McNair press secretary, is appointed director of South Carolina's new Department of Parks Recreation and Tourism. He is 35 and has led the WIS news department for five years.
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Columbia
Bob Hickman
Wis-Tv
South Carolina
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Hickman
Robert McNair
TV Post
Three sites eyed for $20 million North Carolina zoo
State Sen. Charles K. Maxwell of Mecklenburg County says a site committee studies three possible zoo locations near Charlotte Raleigh and Winston Salem as part of the Zoological Garden Study Commission.
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Jim Hawkins
Enterprise
Little League
Jerry Parrish
Planning Department
Engineering Department
Public Works Department
Utilities Department
Ing
Parks and Recreation Department
Cedron Ave
Southern Railroad
Cedron Avenue
Cedrow Park
Medal of Honor
Burlington, Iowa
Jarretts Stationery Co
N. Wrenn
Busin
Arkers
Altors
Savers
N. Main ST
The
Carillonic Bells
Atlantic
S.C. Parks Head
Wright Optical Company
W. Washington Street
Greensboro
South Elm ST
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