Dayton Marks Wright Brothers 65th Anniversary
Dayton celebrates the 65th Wright Brothers Day in Kitty Hawk North Carolina with speeches flyovers and portraits. Representatives of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce place a wreath at the Wright memorial as President Johnson recalls the brief sand hill flights that launched the air age. Maj. Gen. Nils Ohman is principal speaker at today’s ceremonies.
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Kitty Hawk
Dayton Chamber of Commerce
Wright Brothers
Orville
Wilbur
Nils O. Ohman
Bolling Air Force Base
Washington,dc
Cub Pack 9 Awards At Annual Christmas Party
Awards were given at the Cub Scout Pack 9 annual meeting and Christmas party at Amanda School. Recipients included Mike Gay Tim Riley Jim Hamilton Charles Barker Jr Greg Collins Mark Trimble and Billy Rich. Den mother Mrs Marlene Homsher received a one year service star.
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Cub Scout Pack 9
Amanda School
Mike Gay
Tim Riley
Jim Hamilton
Charles Barker Jr
Greg Collins
Mark Trimble
Billy Rich
Marlene Homsher
FILL Gets Top Award From Anti Aviation Society
The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society gave its 1968 top award to the U S Defense Department for the Fill jet program claiming it proves the futility of flight. The group cited taxpayers paying 7 million dollars per aircraft and nine crashes by Air Force Fill jets. The society, formed in 1959 as a spoof of the Wright observance, carries a motto about birds and men.
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Kill Devil Hills
N.C
U.S. Defense Department
Department
Air Force
Kay Francis wills bulk of estate to Seeing Eye Inc
Actress Kay Francis left more than 1 million dollars to Seeing Eye Inc of Morristown New Jersey in her probate filing. The will dated March 1967 also leaves 18350 dollars to 12 named individuals. Francis died August 26 at age 63.
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New York
Kay Francis
Seeing Eye, Inc
Morristown
N.J
Miss Francis
Children Straneler Is Guilty
In Newcastle England 11 year old Mary Flora Bell found guilty of manslaughter with diminished responsibility in the strangling of two young boys. Her 13 year old friend Norma Joyce Bell found innocent of all charges. Mary sentenced to detention for life. The girls were charged with murder over the deaths of Martin George Brown and Brian Edward Howe with trials halted at two verdicts.
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Newcastle
England
Britain
Mary Flora Bell
Norma Joyce Bell
Mary
Martin George Brown
Brian Edward Howe
Martin
Brian
Rudolph Lyons
Young baton twirler to perform at two Christmas programs
Mona Hornbeck 15 ninth evader at Roosevelt Junior High will perform in two Christmas programs this week. The first is at the Moose Lodge at 7 this evening and the second at a Fisher Body union meeting at 7 Saturday evening. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Mason E Hornbeck of 510 Eastline Drive.
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Mona Hornbeck
Roosevelt Junior High
Moose Lodge
Fisher Body Union
Mason E. Hornbeck
Eastline Drive
Nixon to emphasize improving Great Society programs
AP reports the Nixon administration plans to slow new legislative moves and first study current Great Society programs and Johnson recommendations before acting. The group discussed budget matters and potential early Senate action on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty if Johnson desires.
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Wallington
Nixon
Congress
Spiro T. Agnew
House
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Gerald R. Ford
Johnson
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Great Society
Albert
Dirksen
Ford
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Surviving Twins Gets 22nd Heart Replant
A 22 year old New York man, Wylie Julliard of Babylon, received a heart transplant at the Cleveland Clinic after his twin brother Wayne died of congenital heart disease. The donor was 21 year old Marc Seelenfreund of Fairlawn New Jersey who died in a head injury after a bridge jump.
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Cleveland, Ohio
New York
Cleveland Clinic
Wylie H. Julliard
Babylon
N. Y
Julliard
Embry Riddle Aeronautical Institute
Daytona Beach
Fla
Wayne
Wylie
Marc C. Seelenfreund
Fairlawn, N.J
Northwestern University
Seelenfreund
Sol Seelenfreund
Fairlawn
Japan's farming share drops below one-fifth of workers
The article notes that less than 20 percent of Japan's approximately 50 million-strong workforce engages in agriculture or forestry. It cites that in fiscal 1961 just under 30 percent worked in these sectors.
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Tokyo
Japan
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Middletown, Ohio
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