Crippled OSU Senior Graduates In Best Style
Franklin buddy at his side as crippled OSU senior Richard Maxwell graduates after 50 years of study. Vice President Agnew and Bob Hope attend. Maxwell, paralyzed from the waist down by an intramural accident in 1963, is joined by Dale Barker of Franklin who helped push his wheelchair. Barker, a 1966 graduate now in the Army, aided by a Nixon request, returns home early from Vietnam duties for the ceremony.
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Bob Hope
Maxwell
Agnew
Barker
Franklin
Columbus, Ohio
Richard Maxwell
Ohio State University
Spiro T. Agnew
Rom
Columbus
Dale Barker
Nixon
Secretary of the Army
Scout Earns Eagle Rank In Scouting Ceremony
Michael K Kohr, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Charles Kohr, 6490 Franklin Lebanon Road Franklin, has received the Eagle Scout rank. An eighth grade student at Franklin Junior High, he is in Troop 24 led by Scoutmaster James Thompson. He has six years in scouting, is in the Order of the Arrow, holds the God and Country Award, and serves as senior patrol leader.
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Michael K Kohr
Charles Kohr
Franklin-Lebanon Road
Franklin
Franklin Junior High School
James Thompson
Order of the Arrow
Glenn Helps Honor His Instructor
Former astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. helped rename New Philadelphia's municipal airport to honor Harry Clever, rewarding the Tuscarawas County aviator who gave Glenn his first flying lesson. Four Ohio Air National Guard jets flew overhead during the rededication as Woody Hayes joined the ceremony. Clever, who died in 1968, founded Tuscarawas County Aviation and led efforts to establish the airport in 1927.
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New Philadelphia, Ohio
John H. Glenn Jr
New Philadelphia
Harry Clever
Tuscarawas County
Glenn
Ohio Air National Guard
Ohio State University
Woody Hayes
Clever
Army Air Service
Tuscarawas County Aviation, Inc
Philadelphia
Rooster Year Ends in February 1960 in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong the twelve symbolic beasts of the Chinese zodiac are listed as rooster dog boar rat ox tiger hare dragon serpent horse ram and monkey. The Year of the Rooster will end on February 6 1960.
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Hong Kong
Dim Hope For Missing SAC Plane Crewmen
Hope dimmed Saturday that any of the 1¢ crewmen of a missing Strategic Air Command plane would be found alive as searches continued in worsening weather. Coast Guard cutters and four patrol planes scoured the Aleutians near Shemya Island while a Japanese report of survivors proved unconfirmed. The RC135 jet vanished minutes after leaving Shemya en route to Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, with Maj. Drummond of Oklahoma as pilot and Majs. Carpenter, Martel, and Mills of Eielson as crew.
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Juneau
Alaska
Strategic Air Command
iCoast Guard
Coast Guard
Amchitka Island
Aleutian
Japanese
Maritime Safety Agency
North Pacific Rescue Coordination Center
U.S
SAC
Shemya Island
Eielson Air Force Base
Fairbanks
Shemya
Aleutian Island
Siberian
Pentagon
Charles B. Michaud
Drummond
Okla
6Th Strategic Wing
Eielson
Peter S. Carpenter
Richard N. Martel
Michael E. Mills
Eielson Afb
AFL-CIO to open Labor Studies Center in Washington
Bal Harbour Florida report says the AFL-CIO voted to create a Labor Studies Center to train junior leaders. The center will begin operating in Washington in September.
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Bal Harbour
Fla
Afl-Cio
Spanish War Veterans Day Declared in Ohio by Rhodes
Governor Rhodes proclaims June 16 United Spanish War Veterans Day in Ohio inviting schools and civic groups to honor the veterans of 1898 with displays of the flags of the United States and Ohio. He notes that the 1898 volunteer army was unique and that only a few aged veterans remain.
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Columbus, Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
United States
Rhodes
William McKinley
Ike's Railroad Cars Display Before Ike's Burial
Two elderly women mistook Eisenhower's World War II mobile headquarters for a Newark express at Philadelphia Penn Central station. They boarded an old coach, searched for seats, and realized the Newark train had already left. The cars, bought from British Railways for $20,000, move to Abilene, then Green Bay for the museum collection.
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Philadelphia
Dwight Eisenhower
Newark
N.J
Penn Central
British Railways
Eisenhower
Abilene
Kan
National Railroad Museum
Green Bay
Wis
Ohio's Saved by the Belt Club grows to 160 members
State Highway Safety Director Warren C. Nelson announced that Ohio drivers saved by wearing seat belts now number 160 members. He issues two color membership decals for auto dashboards to those writing to him about the life saving role of safety belts.
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Columbus
Ohio
Warren C. Nelson
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George McCloy
Richard Nixon
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Perfection Cleaners
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Ike
Union Sanitary Sweepstakes
J. D. Barstad
Marvel Dr
R.R. Franklin
Park St
2Nd Ave
Central Ave
Grand Ave
Gideon Rd
Peasttown
Mobile Home Court
Trenton Shopping Center
Carlisle Pm Center
Gog
Home
MY & OF
Middletown
Ambassador
Mabley & Carew
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