Chicago Convention Site Sealed for 1968 Johnson Nomination
Democratic leaders ratified a plan to hold the 1968 Republican nominating convention in Chicago to counter GOP gains in the Midwest. Johnson faces opposition over Vietnam as Bailey urged unity and warned against critics while Chicago won over Miami Beach and Houston for the August four day event. Illinois currently sits in the doubtful column for the election with 26 electoral votes at stake.
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Vietnam
United States
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George Romney
California
Ronald Reagan
Richard M. Nixon
Charles H. Percy
Illinois
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Miami Beach
Fla
Houston
Tex
Florida
Claude Kirk Jr
Cancer Control Meeting Highlights Progress and Hope
More than 500 American Cancer Society volunteers heard five Ohio university doctors outline advances in early detection, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and rehabilitation at the ACS Ohio Division two day meeting in Cincinnati. Dr. Lewison warned of family cancer risk and stressed regular exams, Pap smears, and public education to reduce smoking. The event, the first outside Columbus, included training in crusade, education and public relations with participation from Hamilton County and southwestern Ohio counties.
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Ohio
University Medical Centers
Ohio Division
Netherland Hilton Hotel
Cincinnati
ACS
E. Thomas Boles
Ohio Stae University
Middletown - Butler County
Edward &. Lewison
Maryland
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lewison
Columbus
Hamilton County
Middletown
Butler
Ohioan Sought In Murder Of Frenchman
U S authorities seek Thomas R. Peedy 29 of Elyria Ohio in connection with the killing of Jean Paul Aime Nourisson 25 a French national found dead near Blountville Tennessee. FBI and Interpol are involved after Nourisson who entered the United States Sept 29 was hitchhiking near Bristol Tennessee last Monday.
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Blountville
Nourisson
Bristol
This Day in History Highlights 1967 October 9
On October 9 1967 the 282nd day of the year is marked with events including Alaska’s formal transfer from Russia to the United States in 1867 and Harvard and Yale milestones. Other notes recount Yugoslavia’s king's assassination in 1934 and U S and Britain pledging to end extraterritorial rights in China in 1942.
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Associated Press
Russia
Alaska
United States
Harvard
Yale College
Alexander
Yugoslavia
Marseilles
France
Britain
China
Crossword clues and puzzle notes from 1967 syndicate page
A readable fragment lists crossword clues including Supreme Being Auditory organ and Girl's name plus items such as Culture medium Cloth remnant and Weight of India. The notes mention Jumble about a transfer design and satellite of earth and other miscellaneous entries from the era.
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India
Earth
Jury Selection Opens in 18 Charged in 1964 Civil Rights Killings
In Meridian Mississippi jury selection begins for 18 defendants charged with conspiring to violate civil rights in the 1964 Philadelphia killings of Michael Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. Defendants include law officials and Ku Klux Klan leader Sam Bowers as trials proceed under strict security.
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Meridian
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Philadelphia
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
James E. Chaney
Neshoba County
Lawrence Rainey
Cecil Price
Ethel Glen “Hop” Barnette
Sam Holloway Bowers Jr
Laurel
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Care Middletown Journal
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