Burial Fight Over Soldier Buried in Racially Segregated Cemetery
Funeral services for Spec. 4 Pondexteur Eugene Williams ended as a legal battle began to bury the Vietnam War casualty in a whites-only Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Fort Pierce Florida. Williams 20 died Aug 8 in a mortar attack. His mother Mary Campbell seeks emergency court relief to allow burial in the nonwhite cemetery space.
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Fort Pierce
Fla
Eugene Williams
Williams
Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
James Livesay
Mary Campbell
U.S
Ralph Flowers
Jobe Diehl
Livesay
Dennis Summerlin
Sawyer
California State College
Los Angeles
Willis Edwards
California State
Vietnam
Edwards
U. S
Weldon Wright
Hunter Field
Savannah
Wright
Ada Farmer First In Tractor Pull
Carl Bosse of Ada Ohio won the 12,000 pound modified class at the National Tractor Pulling Championships held at Wood County fairgrounds. He pulled twice before a runoff, edging Martinsville Ohio’s Robert Holmes and Milford Illinois’ Alan Carley as 182 entrants competed over three days. Winners in all six classes received $500 and a trophy.
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Bowling Green
Ohio
Carl Bosse
Ada
Bosse
Wood County Fairgrounds
Robert Holmes
Martinsville
Alan Carley
Milford
Ill
Wood County Agriculture Society
Publisher Franklin Payne Dies at 74 in Los Angeles
Franklin S. Payne, former publisher of the Los Angeles Examiner from 1955 to 1962, died Sunday of leukemia at age 74. He served with Hearst newspapers for 41 years.
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LOS Angeles
Franklin S. Payne
Los Angeles Examiner
Payne
Hearst Newspapers
Diahann Carroll Balances Singing Star and TV Nurse Role
Diahann Carroll learns she will play Julia, a nurse in the NBC series Julia, while also appearing in a new season with changes. Fred Williamson joins as Julia's steady love interest. Mary Wickes returns to help as Dr Chegley’s wife. Yarby moves to Syracuse with a rich husband, altering the office dynamic.
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Hollywood
Diahann Carroll
Cafe Au Lait
Miss Carroll
Julia
Corey
Lurene Tuttle
Hannah Yarby
Cesar Romero
Syracuse
N.Y
Diahann
Seasion
Hal Kanter
Fred Williamson
Wedding
Yarby
Dr. Chegley
Kanter
Mary Wickes
Las Vegas
Harry Belafonte
Tom Jones
Bill Cosby
Sertomans To See Pictures Of Center
Mrs Pat Wilkerson director of the Middletown Treatment Center and her assistant Mrs Jo Sorrell will present pictures of a treatment center in operation and its impact on brain injured children at the Sertoma Club meeting at Manchester Motor Inn.
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Pat Wilkerson
New Middletown
Jo Sorrell
Sertoma Club
Manchester Motor Inn
Diphtheria Won’t Halt Fall Term in San Antonio
Health workers enter the third week of mass immunization as 41 000 pupils start the fall term in San Antonio with no plan to delay opening. Dr. William Ross says exposure risks rise with school start. As of Friday 60 confirmed diphtheria cases and 13 suspected. Over 100 000 shots given since Aug 10.
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San Antonio
Tex
William Ross
Ross
Stelzer To Speak At Rotary Noon Meeting
Robert Stelzer of Ohio Bell will present The Wonderful World of Ohio at the noon Rotary Club meeting tomorrow at Manchester Moor Inn. Public notice from Butler County Court in Middletown seeks appropriation of Lot 8821 with a Sept 14 1970 deadline for answer, case 86445.
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Robert Stelzer
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Wonderful World of Ohio
Rotary Club
Manchester Moor Inn
Court OF Common Pleas
Butler County
Ohio
City of Middletown
Middletown Airport, Inc
City of
Middletown
Common Pleas Court
Edward S. Robb
J. W. Reynolds
William E. Rathman
Ava
TV Tonight Schedule Highlights and Themed Plot Lines
Channel listings include It Takes a Thief with Mundy luring a spy chief for cash, Gunsmoke where Dillon aids a teen against a false homicide, Trip to Nowhere on youth and drugs, Lucille Ball with Dean Martin, Doris Day hijack to Cuba, Wild Wild West stopping a Denver cannon, Scared Stiff a Dean Martin Jerry Lewis film, What's So Bad About Feeling Good about NYC virus happiness, and One Desire a love story with Anne Baxter set in a gaming house.
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Mundy
SIA
Marshall Dillon
Lucille Ball
Dean Martin
Lucy
Doris Day
Doris
Cuba
West
Jerry Lewis
New York City
George Peppard
Anne Baxter
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Miami
Ada Farmer
Ohio Investors
Modern Finance
Modern
Manna Os Ny
East Gay Street
Columbus
Cynthia Lowry
AP TV
Lloyd Nolan
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Stelzer
Gordon
Denver
Prite
Finland
Roxie
Germantown RD
South Main ST
Joffe
Central Ave
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