Morton Supports Dirksen For Platform Chairman In 1968
Sen Morton of Kentucky backs Everett Dirksen as 1968 Republican platform chairman despite Vietnam policy rifts. He seeks a GOP Vietnam plank offering a workable alternative to Johnson while urging Dirksen to withdraw his steady support for the president on the war. Morton says agreement is possible before the August convention.
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Washington
United States
Thruston B
Morton
North Vietnam
Senate
Republican
Everett M. Dirksen
Republican Platform Committee
Vietnam
Dirksen
Johnson
Kentucky
State Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
South Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S
Clifford P. Case
New Jersey
Jacob Kravits
New York
Charles H. Percy
Illinois
Edward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
Sen. Dirksen
Boy Who Set Fire Found Delinquent
A 10 year old East Side boy was found delinquent in Juvenile Court for causing a 100600 dollar fire at Kinsman Elementary School last month. Detected via door to door survey, he admitted liking the school and could not explain the motive. Judge Edgar A. Morehead ordered a full clinical examination.
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Cleveland
East Side
Kinsman
Edgar A. Morehead
Guernsey County
Robert Taliaferro
Carving Table Opens at SIU Ranger Coffee House
Students at Southern Illinois University carve initials on a maple table at the Ranger Coffee House. The school plans to replace the top each year to let about 9,000 students leave their mark.
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Edwardsville
Trl
Ranger
Southern Illinois University
Television Highlights for the Day on Channels 2 5 7 9 and 12
The schedule lists telecasts including Kent State versus Ohio University NCAA game on channel 12 at 2 pm and boxing with Emile Griffith versus Nino Benvenuti at 5 pm on channel 12. Prime time features Maya on channel 5 at 7 30 and My Three Sons on channels 7 and 9 at 8 30.
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Kent State
Ohio University
Emile Griffith
Nino Benvenuti
Maya
Terry
Raji
Robbie
Katie
Hoover Urges Tales From Former FBI Agents and Weight Jokes
Washington AP Hoover tells about writing myths from FBI days to 1,700 former agents noting he does not require hands wiped before speaking and Dillinger was killed by two men. He teases weight loss, recalls 50 years with the Justice Department, and accepts a plaque and silver tray from the association at the meeting in progress.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
John Dillinger
Society
Special
Bureau
Charles Jenkins
Gaithersburg
Justice Department
A Battle of Signs At Centenary Church
Shelbyville Kentucky reports a humorous dispute over bulletin board signs at Centenary Methodist Church. Reverend William E. Hisle posted one line about a layman in church versus golf, then a second sign appeared mocking North Carolina, likely by a golfer.
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Shelbyville, Ky
Centenary Methodist
William E. Hisle
Hisle
North Carolina
Ohio's Champ Cheesemaker
SUGAR CREEK Ohio AP Hans Yorg owner of Farmerstown Cheese Co in Holmes County won the title in Swiss cheese making competition.
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Sugarcreek, Ohio
Hans Yorg
Ohio
Farmerstown Cheese Co
Holmes County
Today in History highlights key events on Sept 30 1967
Notable events include 1946 Nuremberg trials verdicts and death sentences for 11 leaders, 1787 world circumnavigation voyage, 1846 ether anesthesia first used, 1913 US Army aeronautical strength, 1953 Eisenhower names Earl Warren chief justice, 1954 Nautilus commissioned, 1955 UN Algeria unrest walkout, and Okinawa typhoon fatalities.
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Nuernberg
Germany
William Morton
Boston
U.S. Army
Dwight D Eisenhower
Gov. Earl Warren
California
United States
U.N. Assembly
Algeria
Okinawa
Viet Cong Delegations to China for 18th Anniversary
Tokyo AP reports Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam's Viet Cong will send delegations to Red China's 18th anniversary celebrations, according to New China News Agency in Peking.
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Tokyo
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Red China
Peking
New China News Agency
Five Years Ago Riot at Oxford Miss Over Meredith
Five years ago a riot erupted in Oxford Mississippi after US marshals escorted James H Meredith onto the University of Mississippi campus. The event drew national attention and highlighted desegregation tensions in the South.
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Oxford
Miss
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Baldur von Schirach
Albert Speer
West Berlin
Spandau Prison
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