Trenton Celebrates Sesquicentennial With Bridge Dedication
Gov. James A. Rhodes joined Jerry Hurter of Cincinnati Gas & Electric at the Rt. 73 bridge dedication as nearly 1,000 people attended the ceremony and about 5,000 lined Trenton streets for a week-long sesquicentennial parade. Rhodes recalled the bridge idea starting in 1952 and the plan becoming reality with funding.
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JIM Guthrie Journal
Trenton
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Jerry Hurter
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Rt. 73
Trenton celebration opens with grand parade and bridge rite
A large crowd lined Trenton streets as a mile long sesquicentennial parade opened the birthday events. Mose Myers 89 served as grand marshal while Gran ny gowns beards and stove pipe hats highlighted the day. Officials including Mayor Stretcher State Rep Levey and Judge Cramer reviewed the parade.
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Trenton
Bob Armbruster
Armbruster
Middletown
Mose Myers
Ill
Harry Stretcher
Berry Levey
Fred Cramer
Butler County Common Pleas Court
State Street
Stretcher
Rt. 73
Barry Levey
Levey
Rhodes
P. E. Masheter
Harry Erb
Ohio Bell
Ohio moves to curb water pollution by 1970 push
State Health Director Emmett Arnold says hearings will start for entities not yet appearing before the State Water Pollution Control Board. He vows a strong push toward the 1970 target and seeks more federal help to clean the Maumee Basin, asking for a Johnson administration demonstration basin status.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Emmett Arnold
State Water Pollution Control Board
Arnold
Johnson
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Maumee Basin
Maumee
Governor Rhodes Dines With City Officials At Bridge Dedication
Governor James Rhodes visited Trenton amid tight schedule, arriving early from Oxford groundbreaking. He lunched at a street booth before delivering the bridge dedication speech. Mayor Harry Stretcher shared a chicken dinner with the governor before he moved on to Centerville for another meal.
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Trenton
James Rhodes
Oxford
Sesquicentennial
Harry Stretcher
Centerville
Chuckle Friends: Two Women Mad at the Same Person
Two women vent their ire at a shared target in a brief, pointed exchange that hints at a social snag. The piece sketches the clash with light humor and a communal tone.
McNamara Sees Progress as U S Troop Buildup Grows
McNamara said 18,000 more GIs are slated for South Vietnam, lifting total to about 285,000 with expectations of up to 400,000 by year’s end. Dean Rusk joined him predicting political turmoil may ease as civil regime shifts. Rusk defended public knowledge of Vietnam policy amid Galbraith’s criticism. France’s NATO allies plan to press on with the alliance despite De Gaulle’s divorce from integrated NATO forces.
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Dean Rusk
Viet Nam
Rusk
Galbraith
France
Charles de Gaulle
NATO
Jets Reinforce Kontum Plateau Battle as U S Planes Tighten Grip
U S planes and fresh troops reinforced the Kontum plateau drive against North Vietnamese regulars. Helicopters supplied frontline units and evacuated the wounded as the six day battle continued. The Communist planned monsoon offensive was expected from trench positions about 280 miles north of Saigon.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Kontum Plateau
Paratroopers report heavy North Vietnamese casualties near Kontum
U.S. 11th Airborne troopers say 385 enemy soldiers killed, over half of two battalions dug in 30 miles northwest of Kontum. B52s from Guam pounded zones 10 miles north where battalions were seen on the move. U.S. fighter bombers have flown over 200 sorties against enemy positions close to American lines.
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U.S. 11St Airborne Division
Kontum City
Guam
U.S
Weekend Weather outlook with warm temperatures
Partly cloudy skies yield a high near 87 with the chance of scattered thunder showers tonight. Monday brings more scattered thundershowers and continued warm temperatures.
Teen-Ager Convicted In Killing
In Defiance Ohio a jury of twelve convicted Ernest Edward Humbert 18 of second degree murder for the stabbing death of Phillip Toon 42 a father of ten. The verdict followed over six hours of deliberation after the judge provided options including first degree murder with or without death penalty mercy and acquittal.
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Defiance
Ohio
Ernest Edward Humbert
Defiance College
Phillip Toon
Defiance County Common Pleas Court
Dan Blatt
Quieter Alma Goes For Sea
Tropical storm Alma moved past North Carolina toward the open sea after hurling gale winds and heavy rain along the coast. Forecasters said Alma would transition to a non tropical storm by midday Sunday as it weakened from a hurricane, with earlier impacts causing fatalities in Honduras and Cuba and Florida.
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Hatteras
N.C
Alma
North Carolina
Honduras
Cuba
Florida
Storm damages attributed to weather system pass Carolinas
After heavy losses in Georgia, the storm spared the Carolinas with major damage avoidance. Wilmington recorded nearly eight inches of rain as flood-prone low areas flooded along the coast. At 3 p.m. EDT the Washington Weather Bureau identified the system’s broad center about 75 miles south of Cape Hatteras and 125 miles east of Wilmington.
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Georgia
Carolinas
Wilmington
Washington Weather Bureau
Cape Hatteras
Inside Armco Hospital Without Beds But Full Of Patients
A glance at Armco Steel Corp shows a hospital without beds but with many patients and strong preventive medicine. The piece contrasts corporate health planning with public political labels. Rep Gerald Ford, described as "the all-American boy," features in a separate page note.
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Rep
Gerald Ford
House
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