17 Aug 1967
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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1967
Page
1
Premier Balthasar Johanes Vorster told followers on Wednesday night that it will be difficult to pass laws limiting press criticism, signaling hard stance against what he termed lies by the media.
The Daily News lists full leased wires from Limited Press International and UPI rights claim. Subscriptions quoted for Kentucky areas including Bell and Knox Counties with annual and monthly rates. Foreign and outside areas priced at higher yearly and six month options.
The House prepared to pass a sweeping Social Security bill boosting benefits by 12.5 percent for about 23 million seniors while adding welfare restrictions aimed at moving mothers and 5 million children off aid. It would fund programs with federal aid and freeze new illegitimate child coverage, with checks possibly arriving by Christmas and tax limits rising to 445.40 by May 1987.
Kentucky Selective Service announces that undergraduates starting Fall 1987 or re enrolling must seek student deferments. Students must send a signed deferment request to their local boards and have their college verify full time study. Deferment lasts until degree completion or age 24, with a one time form submission after July 1, 1967.
In a fragmented listing from Appalaching Regional Hospital, admissions include Laura Chadwell and Terry Dean among others, while dismissals name Patricia Bailey and Delmar Brooks, with many readers noting city affiliations. The text closes with a line on whiskey production halt during World War I and a note that Nineveh housed the first known library with Sumerian materials.
Amanda E Johnson 80 died in Hancock County Hospital. Survivors include daughters Mary Moore Piney Parton Goldie Gibson Bertha Moore Or Biggerstaff Margie Pettit two step sons Curtis Johnson Dewey Johnson three brothers Richard Dana Tivis and sisters Stella Ida Hannah Rose. Funeral at Dry Branch Baptist Church with Rev Hail Minor and Rev Henry Drinnon. McNeil Funeral Home Sneedville in charge. Police enforce shotgun weddings in Katmandu after finding couple in an immoral act in a public garden.
A tombstone near Anadarko Oklahoma credits Delaware Indian Black Beaver Army scout as leading troops from Ft Cobb Indian Territory to Ft Leavenworth Kansas in 1811. His path allegedly inspired Jesse Chisholm six years later for wagon trails later used by Texas longhorn cattle drives to Kansas railheads. Finland literacy rate noted as 99 percent.
The Spunflower Gallery in Gallinburg accepts four paintings Old Mill at Pigeon Forge Apple Pie On ions and Vegetables with Mush rooms. Kneffl Gallery Kingston Pike Knoxville accepts four paintings Night Blooming Cereus Clemitis Apple n Cheese and Lighthouse.
Pineville pool will close for the season at 5 p.m. tomorrow, according to operator Orville Engine. The facility will cease public swimming and outdoor use after the stated time.
Dr Charles A Trentham pastor of First Baptist Knoxville and UT School of Religion will deliver Cumberland College summer commencement address. He has written several books and served on Southern Baptist Convention boards. He was asked by President Kennedy to join an eighteen man Religion and Race Commission.
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