Television Had Its Great Moments In '67
The 1967 TV year yielded notable works like The Final War of Olly Winter and Mark Twain Tonight. Highlights included Anastasia with Lynn Fontanne and Julie Harris, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, and Dozens of variety specials while Batman satire waned and new shows like Ironside emerged.
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New York
Olly Winter
CBS Playhouse
Ronald Richman
Hal Holbrook
Mark Twain
Anastasia
Lynn Fontanne
Julie Harris
Harry Dolan
NBC
Watts
Melvyn Douglas
Loring Mandel
Smothers Brothers
Powerful
Bonanza
Paris
Maurice Chevalier
Diahann Carroll
Herb Alpert
Tiajuana Brass
Rock Hudson
Sinatras
Frank Sr
Ella Fitzgerald
Nanley
Raymond Burr
Perry Mason
Ironside
Carol Burnett
Sally Field
Barbra Streisand
Twiggy
CBS
Mr. Terrific
Captain Nice
Sparta Youth Admits Taking Auto In Blair Incident
A 17 year old Sparta youth admitted taking Tom Probus’s car parked on a Blair street December 26. The vehicle was found abandoned and damaged about 700 dollars. A separate break in at Roger Skogsstad Service Station occurred the same night with cash taken and a broken cigarette dispenser. The cash register later turned up on a town road in Town of Pigeon about 10 miles from Blair. John Stevens operated the first experimental steamboat with twin screw propellers in 1804.
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Wis
Sparta
Monroe County
Tom Probus
Blair Street
Roger Skogstad
Pigeon
John Stevens
DIY Seating For Roses Parade Becomes Local Art
In Pasadena tens of thousands watched the Tournament of Roses with improvised grandstands from dining chairs ladders and bar stools. A family used four folding chairs under a large cardboard carton for box seats.
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Pasadena
Calif
Moving New Year Party Aboard Bainbridge Ferry Illahee
Eight commuters joined a 35 minute Bainbridge Island to Seattle trip for a moving New Year celebration aboard the Illahee. The ferry party featured noise makers paper hats candelabra food drink and tape recorded music.
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Seattle
Illahee
Bainbridge Island
Fire destroys machine shed on John Smerud farm
A Saturday afternoon blaze at the John Smerud farm on Jefferson Ridge in Waukon Iowa destroyed a large machine shed and its contents. The New Albin Fire Department could not save the structure or items including a tractor hay baler feed grinder mower drag an old model car feed and a hunting dog.
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Waukon
Iowa
John Smerud
Jefferson Ridge
New
Albin
Archbishop Joost de Blank Dies After Stroke at 59
London AP reports the death of the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town Joost de Blank at age 59 after a stroke. He was a controversial figure due to his opposition to the South African government.
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London
Joost de Blank
Cape Town
South Africa
Republic
Education Cabinet Move Expands Federal School Programs
Bipartisan push in Congress to fold all U.S. education and work training programs into a cabinet level department. Representatives Green and Ants Watton back a full study and pending legislation to force administration and next session to evaluate the change.
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Washington
Congress
The
Health Service
U.S
Edith Green
D-Ore
Albert T. Ants Watton
Mm. Qule
Meo
Cwo
Minnesota fires leave man dead and 17 families homeless
A New Year’s Day surge of fires across Minnesota killed one man and damaged about a half dozen businesses. Seventeen families were left homeless as authorities investigated. Total damage figures were not yet estimated.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Fire Rages Across Minnesota Area Causing Losses
Multiple blazes struck Minnesota and Wisconsin, including Osseo and Minneapolis, with tens of thousands in damage. A fatal attic fire claimed Theodore Weckop in Arlington, and other homes and businesses suffered extensive destruction. no injuries reported in Osseo blaze.
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Arlington
Minn
Theodore Weckop
Weckop
Osseo
State Farmers Enjoy Record Crop Year
Wisconsin Statistical Reporting Service reports 1967 a record crop year despite cool weather and an early frost. Hay potatoes oats and other small grains rose while corn soybeans and tobacco fell. wet conditions reduced quality and harvesting ran late with over one million corn acres used for silage and fresh vegetables finishing strong after moisture.
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Madison
Wisconsin Statistical Reporting Service
Jesuit Philosphy Chair Father Wade Dies at 61
The Rev. William W. Wade S J longtime chair of the philosophy department at St Louis University for 23 years died of a heart seizure Monday at age 61. Father Wade joined the university in 1930. Scientists have yet to find a giant sequoia dying of natural causes.
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ST. Louis
William W. Wade
S.J
St. Louis University
Father Wade
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