Unusual Touches Mark World Easter Celebration
Associated Press reports a global Easter scene with traditional rites and unique twists. In Rome Pope Paul VI led a Good Friday cross procession as thousands gathered for the Easter vigil, while Jerusalem stood under Israeli rule and Christians joined Passover observances. In Starved Rock a Judeo Christian Mass will reference Marquette from an overturned canoe. Colgate University hosts an interdenominational Easter service for students amid a fraternity racial discrimination sit-in.
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Rome
St. Paul’s Basilica
Paul VI
Holy
Jerusalem
United States
Via Dolorosa
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Starved Rock State Park
Ottawa
Ill
Chicago
Joseph Donnelly
Jacques Marquette
Illinois
Marquette
Father Donnelly
Colgate University
Donald Berry
Berry
Moon Eclipse Shines Across Nation With Coppery Red Moon
Millions watched a coppery red total eclipse as the moon darkened sky nationwide. Clouds hindered some regions but overall viewing was strong, with amateur skywatchers following the event from various locales.
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New York
Lunar Eclipse Visible Across Regions With Clear Sky
Observers along the Eastern Seaboard and Far West reported perfect visibility for the lunar eclipse. The umbra began at 10 10 p m EST with total obscuration by 11 22 p m, lasting until 12 12 a m, then the moon re emerged at 2 25 a m as sunlight refracted through the Earth's atmosphere produced a dull ruddy hue.
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Seaboard
Mississippi
Far West
Council Selects Fund Depositories
City Council met briefly to award two year deposits for active and inactive city funds. They will place 76 percent in Farmers and Merchants Bank and 24 percent in Citizens Bank, both at five percent annual interest.
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Farmers & Merchants Bank
Citizens Bank
Easter Egg Hunt Slated Tomorrow
The Logan Kiwanis Club sponsors an Easter egg hunt at Rachelmacher Park at 2 p m Sunday. Children are divided into four age classes and 400 eggs will be hidden with half marked for prizes such as Easter baskets and candy. Logan High School Key Club members and auxiliary police assist, with Ralph Courter and Kiwanis committee supervising.
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Logan Kiwanis Club
Rachelmacher Park
Logan High School
Key Club
Ralph Courter
Kiwanis’ Boys and Girls
Kiwanis Club
NFO Plans Bloc Selling To Complement Boycott Move
CORNING Iowa AP After two months of effort and little effect on prices the National Farmers Organization relaxes its 35 state boycott of livestock markets President Oren Lee Staley says the holding action will continue but a bloc selling plan will begin to relieve pressure on farmers Members may pool meat animals for collective sales similar to the NFC program started in 1965 Prices have varied little since the action began with hogs and steers showing marginal changes and NFC targets a price rise of 4 to 5 dollars per hundredweight.
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Corning
Iowa
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Oren Lee Staley
Militant
Farm Organization
Belgium
Wis
Staley
NFC
Dallas McGinnis
Iowa State University
McGinnis
Minnesota
Iowa- Minnesota
Handgun curbs snag crime bill in Senate dispute
Senate debate on a sweeping anticrime bill stalls over how handgun sales are restricted. The Judiciary Committee approved the measure, but a dispute over action on the firearms section prompts further talks between Sen. Dodd and Sen. Hruska as they seek to clarify the amendment’s scope and implement a mail order ban.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Senate Judiciary Committee
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Dodd
Roman L. Hruska
Neb
Hruska
Brush Fire Damages Oil Pumping Rig
Logan firemen and Hocking Honor Campers battled a brush and woods fire on the Frank Nihiser property on Frasure Helber Rd. About 15 acres burned and an oil pumping rig owned by Kentucky Drilling Co. was extensively damaged. Fire officials suspect a smoldering tree from a prior area blaze started the fire.
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Richard Rowe
Walnut Hills
Violence Rocks Glasgow in Night of Murders and Attacks
An 18 year old was stabbed to death and more than 20 people were wounded across Glasgow. Gangs roamed streets attacking youths leaving many with stab wounds, cuts, slashes, and beatings as crowds headed home from social venues.
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Glasgow
Scotland
B52 Bombers Pound Viet Red Positions
Hanoi accuses the United States of ill founded pretexts to shun peace talks and not showing goodwill. The article notes refusals to meet in Phnom Penh and Warsaw and U S attacks on North Vietnamese targets while seeking neutral venues. Pravda pledges political aid for Vietnamese Communists to achieve world peace and condemns U S involvement as prolonging bloodshed.
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North Vietnam
United States
U.S
Hanoi
Nhan Dan
Phnom Penh
Warsaw
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
George Christian
Cambodia
Johnson
Washington
Moscow
Pravda
City seeks federal grant to expand Logan sewage plant
City officials move to apply for a federal Economic Development Administration grant totaling 194 500 dollars to cover about half of a 388 500 dollar project. Service Director James Parkinson leads the effort with engineer George Mara and Evans Medhwart Hambleton Tilton Inc. reporting. The state requires improved treatment to 90 percent and chlorination of effluent, with the Ohio Water Pollution Control Board ordering corrections.
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Federal Economic Development Administration
Logan
James Parkinson
George Mara
Athens
Evans, Medhwart, Hambleton & Tilton, Inc
Parkinson
Merril Haney
Ohio Water Pollution Control Board
Violence Flares Across West Germany After Dutschke Shooting
West Berlin and other cities faced a tense weekend as protests spread over the shooting of Rudi Dutschke, a leftist student leader. The suspected gunman Josef Bachmann was wounded in a confrontation with police after the attack.
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West Berlin
West Germany
Rudi Dutschke
Red Rudi
Dutschke
Josef Bachmann
Martin Luther King Jr
Bachmann
Axel Springer
Europe
Springer
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Essen
Dusseldorf
Hanover
Munich
Army chemical testing may cause massive human disaster says official
Dr. Kelly H. Gubler of Tooele Valley Hospital warns that deliberate nerve gas testing at Dugway Proving Ground could trigger a massive human disaster. He cites March deaths of about 6,700 skull Valley sheep and wind patterns carrying contaminants toward Tooele and Salt Lake City.
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Kelly H. Gubler
Tooele Valley Hospital
Dugway Proving Ground
Utah
Skull Valley
Gubler
Medical News World
U.S
Salt Lake City
Army
Gabler
Proving Ground
Dugway
King’s Slayer Hunt Intensifies as FBI Expands Search
FBI agents press the nationwide investigation into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination with extensive resources and “very substantial” physical evidence. Attorney General Ramsey Clark cites ongoing round-the-clock pursuit of leads while avoiding specifics, as witnesses describe composite drawings and sightings near the Memphis motel where King was shot.
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Memphis, Tenn
FBI
Martin Luther King Jr
Ramsey Clark
Clark
Justice Department
Washington
Robert Jensen
Memphis
King
Birmingham
Charles Q. Stevens
Stevens
Unauthorized usher at King's funeral exposed gaps in security
Floyd “Buddy” Ayers a Stone Mountain encyclopedia salesman acted as an usher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. funeral without authorization. The King family minister and Secret Service misperceived his role while Ayers directed notable figures including Senator Robert Kennedy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey to seats. An AP reporter heard Ayers urge Kennedy with security claims.
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Atlanta, Ga
Martin Luther King Jr
Hubert H. Humphrey
Floyd
Buddy” Ayers
Stone Mountain
King
Secret Service
Ayers
Richard M. Nixon
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Associated Press
Robert
James Venable
National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Inc
Humphrey Plans Campaign Entry In April But Skips California
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will enter the presidential race likely on April 17 and bypass the June 4 California primary. A Times report says aides announced the run at a secret meeting with California supporters, who agreed he lacks time for a full California campaign.
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Los Angeles
Hubert H. Humphrey
California
Los Angeles Times
the Times
Humphrey
Mekong Delta Strike Kills 200 Viet Cong
American B52 bombers conducted five missions across South Vietnam, with 200 Viet Cong reported killed in the Mekong Delta raid near Vinh Binh Province. Other strikes targeted areas west of Kontum, near Khe Sanh, and southwest of Hue, while F111A fighters resumed missions north of the DMZ after earlier losses.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
U.S
Kontum City
Central Highlands
Khe Sanh
Hue
North Vietnam
Dong Hoi
Demilitarized Zone
Johnson Family In Texas Nugent Arrives In Vietnam
President Johnson and family in Texas for Easter as son-in-law Patrick Nugent heads to Vietnam. Nugent, 24, is an airman first class joining Marine Capt. Charles S. Robb in Vietnam. Luci Johnson Nugent traveled with her parents and baby Patrick Lyndon to announce Nugent’s deployment.
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Tex
Johnson
Texas
Patrick J. Nugent
Vietnam
Nugent
Charles S. Robb
Luci Johnson Nugent
Patrick Lyndon
Lbj Ranch
Hawaii
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Luci
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Andrews
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