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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1963
Page
3
The Journal offers The Torch Is Passed an AP book on Kennedy assassination for $2 per copy. The 100 page hardcover includes color and black and white photos, covering Lee Oswald, the Texas tour, Kennedy’s death, Johnson’s succession, and global reactions. Delivery starts around December 30.
Syndicated columnist Earl Wilson was announced as Man of the Year by the Cigar Institute of America at a Saturday night convention in Atlantic City New Jersey. He quoted a saying that cigar smokers become successful to buy better cigars.
The word turtle was applied to dovelling before it referred to reptiles in England. It first appears around 1000 A D. in historical language records.
In New York a massive security operation surrounded Lyndon B. Johnson on his first post-Washington trip as president. About 5,000 officers and Secret Service agents protected the 2 hour 20 minute stay from Idlewild to Lehman funeral to Hoover visit. Police guarded rooftops, two helicopter patrols, and a motorcade phalanx while Temple Emanu-El screened 2,200 mourners with bag checks, forbidding cameras and news access to bakehouse seating.
Washington AP reports a lightning strike on Pan American Flight 214, a Boeing 707 from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia, near Elkton Maryland, igniting debris showers and killing 81. If verified, it would mark the first fatal lightning event against a metal-constructed airliner in US history.
Tokyo reports a historic medical breakthrough as Dr Tsuneaki Nakayama and colleagues say they rejoined several nerves in the shattered spine of a train accident victim. The 28 year old Kiyoko Oinuma, treated 15 months ago, now has partial leg movement and may someday use crutches though full walking remains unlikely.
A geographic note explains that California lies farther north than the southernmost point of Canada and farther south than the northernmost point of Mexico, illustrating its broad latitudinal span and regional position.
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