The Year That Was January in 1968 Earthquake and Transplants
A look back at January highlights including the Sicily earthquake that killed hundreds and left 50,000 homeless, the first successful heart transplants in South Africa and the U S, the Packers victory in the Super Bowl, the Pueblo incident off North Korea, and the Thule Air Base B 52 crash with missing hydrogen bombs recovered weeks later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
Salaparata
Rosa Scandina
Mediterranean
Rome
Nicola Cevelli
Poggioreale
South Africa
California
New York
Stanford University Medical Center
Palo Alto
Mike Kasperak
Maimonides Hospital
Brooklyn
Louis Block
Philip Blaiberg
Cape Town
Groote Schuur Hospital
Clive Haupt
Christiaan Barnard
Miami
Green Bay Packers
Oakland Raiders
United States
North Korea
U.S. Navy
Fifth Air Force
Navy
Sea of Japan
Pentagon
Congress
Thule Air Base
Greenland
Arctic
Santa Land Breaks Its Spell With Popcorn Rescue
On Christmas Eve Ding Dong tunnels popcorn into Santa Land to break a spell. Santa, elves, and reindeer return to normal, and Ding Dong bids to go home while Santa delivers gifts to hippies below. Santa reminds him thinking of others is a form of kindness.
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Santa Land
Ding Dong
Santa
Edgar the Elf
Santa Claus
Mrs. Claus
Edgar
Hippieville
Weekend Toll Rises With Fires and Crashes Across Regions
A deadly weekend leaves 25 dead from three fires and two auto crashes plus a helicopter crash. Notable incidents occur near Hartsville South Carolina and Allentown Pennsylvania. victims include 13 children, 12 youths, a disabled veteran and family, and five children in Coatesville. Authorities assess causes as fires and crashes amid holiday travel.
Capitol Federal Tops 400 Million in Assets in December
Capitol Federal Savings Association reached $400 million in assets this December, the first Kansas institution to do so. President Henry A. Bubb notes Lawrence office and four state district. Capitol now ranks 18th among federal savings and loans nationwide and leads per capita size in the United States.
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Capitol Federal Savings Association
Kansas
Henry A. Bubb
Capitol Federal
Lawrence
Federal Home Loan Bank of
Federal Savings and Loan Associations
United States
Apollo 8 TV broadcast hiccup tests lens fix
Space Center Houston reports the first earth viewing from Apollo 8 failed when the telephoto lens showed a blank screen. Mission control and crew consider replacing the lens with ordinary cameras as Lovell wishes his mother a birthday greeting from space.
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Earth
United States
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
Antarctica
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
Lovell
William A. Anders
Anders
Mission Control
Borman
Moon
The
Space Center
Poet Dorn to teach at KU as spring lecturer
Edward Dorn will join Kansas University as spring visiting lecturer after three years at Essex. He will teach English 298 and 2H, join five fellow poets W. S. Merwin Galway Kinnell Robert Hayden Robert Duncan and Robert Bly for readings and participate in Dorn's poetry writing class.
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Edward Dorn
Kansas University
University of Essex
Colchester
England
Dorn
Leroy Lucas
W. S. Merwin
Galway Kinnell
Robert Hayden
Robert Duncan
Robert Bly
Two Killed in Kansas On Highway Weekend
Two men died in Kansas traffic accidents over the weekend. Hugh D. Wiley seventeen son of Garden City city manager Deane Wiley and Milo E Sonnenberg a city employee were killed when their car was struck by a train on the outskirts of Garden City Sunday. Finney County sheriff Kenneth Wicks said they were driving to the city sewage disposal plant when the crash occurred.
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Kansas
Hugh D. Wiley
Garden City
Deane Wiley
Milo E
Ted) Sonnenberg
Finney County
Kenneth Wicks
Japan Accepts U.S. Offer on Sharing Bases in Japan
Tokyo reports the United States will give up move or share about a third of its 148 bases under the U.S. Japan Security Treaty. Discussions will start on changes to roughly 50 bases with officials including Kiichi Aichi and A. Alexis Johnson present.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
Security Treaty Joint Consultative Committee
Kiichi Aichi
Kuichi Arita
Japanese Defense Agency
U.S
A. Alexis Johnson
Adm
John S. McCain Jr
Pacific
Johnson
Usit
Enterprise
U.S. Naval Base
Sasebo
Residents Exchange Weekend Socials Across Towns
Villa Eden and families from Tonganoxie Baldwin and Lawrence joined Ruth Pettengill for a Saturday supper. Visiting guests came from multiple nearby towns including Tonganoxie Linwood Lawrence and Ottawa to share meals attend events and celebrate with local residents.
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Ben Leavitt
Tonganoxie
Joel Fritzel
Baldwin
Ruth Pettengill
Frank Pettengill
John
George Mills
William Torneden
William E. Torneden
Lawrence
Marvin Torneden
Carson
Colo
Herbert Torneden
Dell Renner
Bethany Hospital
Larry Torneden
Doug
Irving
Tex
Gaylene Horton
Thelma Reed
Gene Rescot
Gene Mosser
Eudora
P. G. Mosser
Linwood
Diane Davidson
Oklahoma
Melvin Davidson
Charles Davidson
Omar Browning
Alfred Seele
Anna Torneden
Shirley Davidson
Bill McHenry
Ottawa
Larry Parsons
Truman McHenry
Vietnam
Margaret Duncan
Alfred Torneden
Nate Pettengill
Denise
Walter Pettengill
Myrle Leavitt
Mary Theno
Helen Mills
Tonganolle
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Pueblo
By Joy Stilley
Associated Press
Kuhn
Apollo Telecast
James A. Lovell Jr
Santa and the
Chapter
Merry Christmas
Lucrece Beale
Vals
Ischendel
Minnesota
Vollrath
Brandy Offices
TO Serve You and Savings Association
Hartsville
S.C
Bob Bass
Frederick McLaughlin
Portsmouth
N.H
Allentown
Lanark
Limeport
Lehigh County
Coatesville
Floyd L. Green Jr
TV Earth
Edgewater, Fla
Blanche Lovell
Villa Eden
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