Downtown Middletown Approves Central Avenue Mall Concept
Downtown Middletown moves toward a permanent Central Avenue mall as part of a three year core area rehabilitation plan. Planning officials, merchants, and the downtown association back the concept, contingent on financing and integrated parking, traffic loops, and pedestrian walkways.
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Middletown
Downtown Merchants Association
Downtown Redef Committee
City Planning Commission
Downtown Committee
al Yingst
G. C. Murphy Co
Downtown
Middletown Area
Paul Christiansen
Central Avenue
Clinton Street
Main Street
E. H. Thorsteinson
City Commission
Manchester Avenue
Carmody Boulevard
Verity Parkway
First Avenue
Planning Commission
Indonesians Move to Seize U. S. Rubber Plantations
Reports from North Sumatra say Indonesia will formally take over Goodyear and U.S. Rubber Co. plantations valued at 80 million dollars, a management takeover the government calls, while Western experts call it confiscation. The 170000 acre holdings include two hospitals and a rubber mill. Subandrio signed a decree on February 26 authorizing the move. U.S. Ambassador Jones sought clarification but was denied as Sukarno departed for Cambodia.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
North Sumatra
Goodyear
U.S. Rubber Co
Medan
Subandrio
U.S
Howard P. Jones
Cambodia
Sukarno
Pope Paul VI Opens Lenten Season With Ash Wednesday
Pope Paul VI marked Ash Wednesday with a Mass in the Apostolic Palace private chapel and applied ashes to his fore head and to his aides. Catholics worldwide paused for ashes made from burned Palm Sunday palms mixed with sacred oil, a reminder of humanity and penance before Easter on April 18.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Apostolic Palace
Secret Laos targets debated as U S jets strike
More than 30 U S Air Force jets from Nang air base conducted a daytime strike, with officials in Da Nang stating targets remained undisclosed. Washington said no strike on North Vietnam was confirmed, while Hanoi, Beijing, and Moscow condemned the actions as banditry.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nang
Laos
da Nang
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Laog
Johnson
Washington
North
Midwest Blizzards Paralyze Minnesota and Dakotas
A severe winter storm battered the Midwest with heavy snow and ice for days. Minnesota and Iowa faced widespread school closures, travel disruptions, and impassable roads as hundreds of vehicles were stranded and air rail and highway travel slowed. Snow totals topped 28 inches in St. Cloud, with 18 inches falling Monday and Tuesday.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Minnesota
Dakotas
Iow
St. Cloud
Minneapolis
Iowa
Davenport
Ueup
Weather drops tonight with rain through tomorrow
The weather bureau reports continuing temperature decline tonight with rain tomorrow. Temperatures will fall to the 30s tonight and rise to the 40s tomorrow, after yesterday's high of 48 and today's low of 39, with nearly an inch of rain recorded yesterday.
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Weather Bureau
New York Housewife Bookies Targeted by Police Crackdown
Police in New York report a crackdown on housewives operating illegal telephone answering services for bookmakers earning up to 100 dollars weekly. Twenty four women have been arrested in seven weeks as agents relay messages for bookies without taking bets.
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New York
Michael J. Murphy
Hubby
Murphy
Joe
Torso Still Unidentified in Ohio River Find
Cincinnati police search for the man’s identity after a torso found in the Ohio River. Homicide Sgt Russell Jackson stated initial comparison suggested Arnold Beaton Lightfoot, 48, of Logan, who reportedly left home after a Feb. 8 quarrel. Detectives traced Lightfoot to Hugoton Kansas before returning.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Russell Jackson
Arnold Beaton Lightfoot
Logan
Lightfoot
Hugoton
Kan
Cadars Chuckle Diplomacy Art of Letting Others Have It
A witty remark frames diplomacy as the art of conceding to others. The quip suggests yielding ground or concessions as a strategic political move.
Berkeley Sit-In Leader Jailed for Contempt
Mario Savio, 22, leader of the University of California sit-in that drew 700 arrests, was ordered jailed for two days on contempt by Judge Rupert Crittenden. Savio called the ruling shameless hypocrisy and repeated his remarks verbatim in court.
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Berkeley
Calif
Mario Savio
University of California
Savio
New York City
Campus
Free Speech Movement
Crittenden
Alameda County
Pittsburgh to Host USW Can Strike Talks and Steel Talk Sessions
Federal Mediators announce Pittsburgh sessions for United Steelworkers disputes with American and Continental Can plants. The union aims at pay and benefit terms while basic steel talks also resume, as internal USW tensions loom over the broader labor dispute.
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Pittsburgh
William E. Simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
New York
United Steelworkers Union
USW
Simkin
American
Continental Can
Canada
Puerto Rico
Johnson housing plan split for two committees
Key lawmakers pledged to act quickly on President Johnsons housing recommendations. The program splits: housing programs go to the Banking Committees while the cabinet department proposal goes to Government Operations. Senate and House hearings expected within weeks with strong partisan debate anticipated.
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Joe Hall Washington
Congress
Johnson
Capitol
Banking Committees
Cabinet Department of Housing and Urban Development
John Sparkman
D-Ala
John F. Kennedy
Housing and Home Finance Agency
House
Kennedy
Senate Government Operations Committee
John L. McClellan
Ribicoff
Soviet Press Blasts U S Viet Nam War Actions
Pravda accuses Washington of bogging down in South Viet Nam and expanding bombing of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. Tass commentator Vasily Kharkov says the United States is ready to go to hell to postpone failure and warns that U S aggression cannot go unpunished.
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Dean Ruste
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Washington
United States
Southeast Asia
South Viet Nam
Democratic Republic of Viet Nam
Vasily Kharkov
Tass
U.S
Ladies Learn Bloodless Bullfighting In Griffith Park
Char lene Abernathy 43 leads a class of women at Griffith Park learning bloodless bullfighting after advertising for female students. A demonstration with horns and a mock charging bull drew about a score of participants including housewives secretaries and models.
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Los Angeles
Charlene Abernathy
Griffith Park
Miss Abernathy
Mexico
United States
Ing
Lora Davis
Portugal
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