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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1967
Page
1
Mixed local notes report a recovered key tagged NAD found in Citizen office, a Memorial Day weekend with one injury wreck near Switz City, and a missing dachshund. Articles discuss advertising’s role in a free press, youth crash trends, and aging driver statistics, plus trivia on millionaire investing and army horse allocation.
New York begins a state lottery aimed at funds for public education, selling 1 sweepstakes ticket for 1 at 4 000 hotels motels and banks. The first drawings set for July 20 with 300 000 in prizes per million tickets sold.
A 14-year-old, Donald Williams of Medaryville, was killed near Teaberry Hill when his motorcycle sped between trees and struck a trunk. A 16-year-old companion, also on the ride, escaped injury. The crash occurred in a wooded private area northwest of town.
Two USS Air Force HH3E helicopters completed a nonstop 29 hour 48 minute flight from New York to Le Bourget Field Paris making the first direct helicopter crossing of the Atlantic. Crews of five from the 48th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, Eglin AFB, accompanied the landing near the U.S. pavilion.
The State Department confirmed that Erno Bernat a 33 year old third secretary at the Hungarian Embassy defected to the United States about four weeks before Janos Radvanyi the embassy Charge D Affaires did so on May 17. Bernat defected April 21 and sought asylum for himself his wife three sons and his mother in law.
A UPI report notes a demonstration planned for today by a group protesting conditions in 400 near North Side tenements with no prepared details available.
Chicago Police Supt Orlando W. Wilson said May crime rose, partly due to a shortage of rain. He quipped that criminals avoid rain and stay indoors.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to the United States for emergency talks with President Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson on breaking the Egyptian blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. The plan aims to persuade major maritime nations to open the gulf to international shipping amid rising Mideast tensions.
A three car collision on U S 41 two miles south of Farmersburg Indiana killed Carol Joan Haverle 19 Karen Sue McCammon 18 Carlisle IU student and Marie A Cueto 34 Miami Fla described as Cuban The Sullivan County wreck occurred when Marva Shields 37 Farmersburg stopped to turn a car behind her tried to pass and hit Shields car then collided with Haverle causing fatal injuries The Florida woman and Edilia Delgado 43 Miami were passengers with Delgado injured Shields unhurt The Indiana 1967 traffic toll rose to at least 497 with Memorial Day weekend fatalities at 16.
A seven member committee from the National Education Association and the Indiana State Teachers Association recommends Fort Wayne teachers gain an influential voice in educational decisions. The group urged broader teacher roles in policy and administration to ease tensions and aid long range planning after a one day strike ended by court order and sanctions by the non union Fort Wayne Teachers Association.
The Star reports Communist leaders ordered Red Guard style arms training for eight youths on a barricaded Hong Kong roof, rifles and a submachine gun in use. The drill follows rioters' clashes with the government and occurs atop a heavily secured headquarters.
Indiana experienced moderately cool and soggy conditions as June began. Heavy rain fell across the southwest while temperatures stayed in the 50s. little change expected through Saturday and June outlook calls for near normal temperatures with moderate precipitation overall.
Anna Marie Iff, 28, secretary for the Swiss National Tourist Office, surrendered her purse to a gunman on Market Street San Francisco. He demanded her blouse, she resisted, seizing his toy gun as he fled into the crowd.
Heavy fighting along the North South Vietnam border sent American casualties to a record high for the second straight week. The 2,941 total includes 313 killed and 2,616 wounded with 12 missing. South Vietnamese losses reached 212 and Free World forces 29.
The Defense Department reported Airman 2-C Donald R. Rybolt of Indiana died in Vietnam from non hostile causes. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cambride Oily.
Boston says Roman Catholicism shows growing social responsibility while Protestantism delegates action to specialists. Dr John E McCaw of Drake University warns an American Church could center in Catholicism amid dangers of demagoguery and loss of vitality if religious pluralism ends.
Army commanders worldwide received orders to curb ceremonial drinking after Lt. Ronald Reeves died in Fayetteville North Carolina during an initiation. Doctors cited an unusually high blood alcohol content and reports said up to 17 ounces of vodka and champagne may have been involved. The House Armed Services Committee probes Reeves death and a witness said Reeves drank socially while others abstained. witnesses described a non alcoholic substitute at the party.
Vincennes Indiana with a population around twenty thousand lost ambulance service after five funeral homes ceased operations at midnightWednesday due to economic pressures. Officials had been warned in April that service cuts were likely.
Lin ton resident SULLIVAN Perry Lee Dockins Jr. will lead Sullivan High School bands for the Southwest School Corporation. He begins with a summer program June 12, holds rehearsals thrice weekly, and has degrees from Murray State University. Dockins previously directed bands in Illinois and in Linton.
A Kokomo woman, Peggy Lou Collins 33, died when a tractor toppled in a junk yard near Peru Indiana. Deputy sheriff said the vehicle crawled up the rear of a second tractor and crushed her while she and her husband operated the lot.
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