Johnson backs peace push with global impact seen
President Johnson touts early success of his peace offensive and notes broad influence despite secrecy. Envoys converge in the Far East with Harriman to Bangkok and Tokyo and Shelepin to Hanoi while U S and allied forces in Viet Nam pursue scorched earth tactics.
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Johnson
U.S
Far East
W. Averell Harriman
Bangkok
Tokyo
Alexander Shelepin
Hanoi
Viet Nam
Ohio Oil Boom Doubles State Output Since 1962
In Mount Gilead Ohio the 1962 oil wave has doubled annual output to about 13 million barrels with 15.8 million at a 1944 peak. New gas finds east of here and in Huron County feed the boom as officials expect a leveling off. Sheriff Bud A Bratton and Kirk Jordan of the Oil and Gas Association weigh the lasting impact and regulation follows to promote orderly expansion.
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Mount Gilead
Ohio
Wildcatters
Bud A. Bratton
Morrow County
Kirk Jordan
The
Oil and Gas Association
Guy Stitler
Here
Mercer School Released Time Program To End
A Mercer County court ordered the Southwest Local Board of Education to end its released time program by June 15. The judge also required termination of a pupil placement plan that has left three of four district schools with mostly Catholic students and the fourth with mainly Protestant pupils. The ruling had previously found the released time program illegal, though it did not bar Catholic nuns from teaching in public schools.
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Celina
Ohio
Mercer County
Fred Cramer
Southwest Local Board of Education
Fort Recovery
Volpe OKs Cambridge JFK Memorial Library site purchase
Gov Volpe signed a bill allowing the state to acquire 12 acres along the Charles River in Cambridge near Harvard Square valued at about 6 million dollars. The site will host a complex including a museum library archives and a political institute.
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Boston
John A. Volpe
Commonwealth
Charles River
Cambridge
John F. Kennedy
Harvard Square
Connecticut records no polio cases in 1965
No new polio cases were reported to the State Health Department in 1965 the first polio free year since 1910. Connecticut also marked its fifth consecutive year without a polio death.
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Hartford
Bernath Named To Agri Post In Ohio
Glen E. Bernath, Conservation Agronomist for the USDA Soil Conservation Service in Columbus, is named State Soil Conservationist for Ohio. He succeeds the retiring G. Y. Bell. A Fulton County native, Bernath served in the South Pacific with the U S Army in World War II and earned an agronomy degree from Ohio State University, later serving as assistant professor on the university’s agronomy staff.
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Columbus
Glen E. Bernath
Usda Soil Conservation Service
Ohio
Raymond S. Brown
Bernath
G. Y. Bell
Mr. Bernath
Fulton County
U.S. Army
South Pacific
Ohio State University
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Carl Sandburg
Joseph P. Kennedy
Robert E. Miller
Donald L. Norling
State Oil and Gas Division
Mercer School
Kennedy Library
MR. Merchant
Lima Star
Agri Post
Lima
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