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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1968
Page
7
Sacramento AP reporting that California Assembly Criminal Procedure Committee will hold hearings on chemical spray devices for police work. Chairman W Craig Biddle plans to test Mace effects, noting that sprays temporarily blind.
In New York a five ton stone head from Easter Island stands eight feet tall at the Seagram Building Plaza on Park Avenue. A team of stone riggers spent about 246 hours Monday to place the sculpture, brought by the International Fund for Monuments and the Chilean government to raise funds for restoring neglected monuments on the South Pacific island. It will be shown through November 21.
Don Young and Ken May led the 575 League with big sets for Mercer's Rexall and Western Maryland Trust Company Five. Other top scorers included Lee Weddle for Cappello's, Treva Hane for Fritz's Crown Service, Jitter Nicklas for Skyline Realty, and Chic Schildknecht for IGA. The article notes league leaders, high sets, and an upcoming November 2-3 tournament.
Andrew Vandenberg, a 72 year old veteran wounded in France during World War I, received his Purple Heart in a special ceremony after nearly 50 years of delay. He served with the 4th Field Artillery and the 2nd Marine Division and had not applied for the medal until last May.
Dorothy F. M. Passanante returned home from the hospital with her newborn son William. The Pentagon said her husband Pfc. William J. Passanante, 20, was killed in Vietnam by enemy fire. The couple married in January two weeks before his induction into the service.
The saguaro, the tallest cactus in the United States, reaches 10 to 50 feet and weighs up to 10 tons. It stores as much as a ton of rainwater, can survive three years without rain, and some specimens live up to two centuries according to World Almanac.
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