Help sought to find J. H. Adams house construction plans
A reader requests help locating the construction plans for the J. H. Adams house on North Main Street including the date of construction and the contractor. The inquiry notes prior inquiries to local residents, the YWCA, library, chamber, and inspectors, and invites any information.
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Harold C. Davis
Henry Millis
J. E. Millis
Nathan Ayers
Allen Watkins
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Public Library
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Inquirer
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Tokyo Rose parole cited in 1956 reference
Volunteer researcher John Russell found a note in Editor & Publisher from February 4, 1956 stating Ava Toguri DAquino known as Tokyo Rose was paroled from a West Virginia federal prison where she had been sentenced in 1949 for treason to ten years plus a ten thousand dollar fine.
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Tokyo
John Russell
Triad Public Libraries
Rosie
West Virginia
DeeSeel
Ava Toguri
D’aquino
Japan
Annie
Pacific Theater
Klassroom Kwiz on Channel 8: plans for renewal?
Readers ask about the Klassroom Kwiz show hosted by Charlie Harville. He says there are no plans for revival but will relay viewer comments to the new station manager Hartwell Conklin.
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Klassroom Kwiz
Charlie Harville
Charlie
Hartwell Conklin
Lions Glaucoma Clinic Note Adds Acute Case Warning
Letter notes correction to February 21 statement about the Lions sponsored glaucoma clinic on June 5-6. It says while 99 percent of cases are non painful with gradual vision loss, the remaining one percent can strike suddenly with severe pain and rapid blindness if not treated promptly.
U Thant Sees Path to Vietnam Peace Talks If Bombing Halts
United Nations Secretary General U Thant said the door is open for Vietnam negotiations and talks could start within days if a bombing ban on North Vietnam takes effect. He noted Hanoi indicated talks would begin promptly and that the U S may raise any issue, including scaling back South Vietnam operations.
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Thant
United Nations
Ford of the Past: Henry Ford II Tests 1906 Car in Austin
Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor Co, tests the wheel of a 1906 Ford on display in an Austin hotel lobby. The car predates Ford by 11 years. He is in the city after a conference with President Johnson at the LBJ Ranch.
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Ford Motor Co
Ford
Austin, Tex
President Johnson
LBJ
Thant urges halt in bombing to restart Vietnam peace talks
Secretary General Thant, in New Delhi, pressed for an immediate bombing halt as essential to restart negotiations. He cited talks with Kosygin Wilson Gandhi de Gaulle and others and said North Vietnam officials pledged talks would begin once bombing stopped. He warned without a halt the conflict would intensify with dire consequences.
McNamara testimony reopens Tonkin incident doubts
In testimony released from the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara says orders withheld retaliatory air raids until the attack was confirmed. He cites Capt. Herrick's Aug. 4 cable and notes McNamara argued there was doubt about a second Tonkin attack. The hearings resembled a crisis narrative with Senate questions and GOP remarks.
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North Vietnam
Congress
Foreign Relations Committee
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Herrick
Fulbright
Gulf of Tonkin
United States
Pentagon
Capitol
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Gore
Tonkin
Ford tapped to find 500000 jobs for the idle
Henry Ford II is named head of a national campaign with business leaders to create 500000 jobs for the unemployed in the 50 largest cities starting mid March. The effort targets hard core jobless including many Negro men and women while aiming for 100000 jobs by July 1969 and 500000 by summer 1971 in partnership with NAB and President Johnson.
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Ford
Austin
Tex
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Co
Lbj Ranch
Washington
National Alliance of Businessmen
NAB
Johnson
Congress
U S Attacks Hanoi River Port in First Strike on City
U S war planes bombed Hanoi's river port facility for the first time in the war as part of a broader surge in air operations near the capital. Radio Hanoi was hit again but remained on the air. Allied forces pressed actions around Hue's Citadel while U Thant urged negotiations contingent on stopped bombing.
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U.S
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Radio Hanoi
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
Hue
Pentagon
Johnson
Surge of Teacher Strikes Grips Nation in 1968
A wave of teacher strikes sweeps across the United States with the first statewide walkout in Florida. NEA president Braulio Alonso and AFT leader Charles Cogen forecast hundreds of communities joining the militancy as pay and policy influence become central demands. In Montgomery County Maryland 70 percent of teachers walked out, securing a $460 pay raise and no reprisals, plus a differentiated responsibility plan. Florida followed with 34,000 resignations of 60,000 teachers amid a $254.5 million school spending bill and $35 million tax hike to fund schools.
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Braulio Alonso
National Education Association
NEA
Charles Cogen
American Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
Tere
Newark
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Montgomery County
Washington, D.C
Florida
If Drafted Will Run Says Rockefeller in 1960s preview
Gov Nelson A Rockefeller said he would run for President if drafted by the Republican convention, though he tonight reiterated he has no desire to be President and does not expect to be drafted. He spoke in Detroit backing Michigan Governor George Romney and warned that if Nixon were nominated he would face former New York Mayor John Lindsay.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
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Rockefeller
Michigan
George Romney
Richard M. Nixon
Romney
Nixon
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
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