Washington To Move Too Washington To Move Too
The city council debates moving the George Washington portrait to the new council chamber on the occasion of his 236th birthday. Council President Delbert Crawford and councilmen Richard Becker and Richard Cunningham back relocating the image from the old chamber to the new.
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George Washington
George
Washington
Council Chamber
Louis G. Frey
Frey
Delbert Crawford
Crawford
Richard Becker
Richard Cunningham
Becker
Homeward Bound GI Warns Mom Returns From Vietnam
Army Spec. 4 Bud Goddard warns his mother Betty Goddard to expect homecoming quirks from his months in Vietnam. He asks for tolerance for crude habits such as sleeping on the floor with a mosquito net, padding around in sandals, selling cigarettes to the postman, and unorthodox eating habits. He asks she avoid talking about re enlistment.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
Betty Goddard
Army
Bud Goddard
Vietnam
Willard Boy Returns To School After School Bus Collision
Kenneth Bentley ten year old of rural Willard was struck by a school bus on Egypt Road Tuesday. X rays showed no serious injuries though he had a bruised cheek and a bump on the head. His mother reports he has returned to school.
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Kenneth Bentley
Willard
Egypt Road
Fulbright Questions Tonkin Attack Claims in Senate Probe
Sen J William Fulbright casts doubt on two US destroyers being attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin on Aug 4 1964 but says proof may be impossible He tells reporters the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will press its inquiry after public exchanges with Defense Secretary McNamara on the incident.
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Washington
UPI
Sen. J. William Fulbright
Gulf of Tonkin
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Weather Summary and Local Births and Deaths
Fair tonight with low temperatures around five to ten. Friday will grow cloudy with highs in the 20s. In Norwalk the weekly temperature range reached 3 to 17 yesterday, with humidity 75 percent at 7 am, 69 at 1 pm, and 84 at 7 pm. A 0.02 inch rain total was recorded in the last 24 hours ending 7 pm Wednesday. Sunrise 7:13, sunset 6:09, moonrise 3:19, moonset 12:12. Births reported for Mr and Mrs Howard Felton Collins a boy. Deaths listed Adolf Ott Blackett 67 Delphi Marie Cole 71 Bellevue Alva Brown North Fairfield.
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Norwalk
Howard Felton
Collins
Adolf
Ott) Blackett
Delphi
Marie Cole
Bellevue
Alva Brown
North Fairfield
Marines Capture Hue Imperial City Watch Tower Signaling End
Marines advanced in Hue by foot and seized a Viet Cong watch tower in the southeast corner of the Imperial City. They raised the American flag as bombing and napalm continued. The battle added to a week of high casualties and left remaining Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces greatly reduced.
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Saigon
API
Hue
Imperial City
United States
Vietnam
Perfume River
Nguyen Hoang
UPI
Richard V. Oliver
Russians Probe Soviet Embassy Bombing in Washington
Police and federal agents pursuing leads under White House orders in the pre dawn bombing of the Soviet Embassy in Washington. No arrests reported. The blast damaged a ground floor office but caused no injuries, heightening international tensions as charges and denials emerge.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Bombs? No Stones? No U S Embassy protests detailed
The article describes Soviet staged protests in Moscow around the U S Embassy in Moscow, noting mass demonstrations with stones and inkwells but no bombings, official responses from the White House and State Department, and Soviet accusations of inadequate protection while the hijacking story follows with a Miami bound Delta flight to Cuba and varying identifications of the suspect.
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U.S
US S
Tass
White House
George Christian
State Department
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Johnson
Guidance Director Resigns from Huron County Center
Dr. G. Richard Duffes, head of the Huron County Guidance Center since 1962, announced his resignation effective April 1. Duffes, 47, would not discuss reasons or future plans, and the center's board president Mrs. Alton Woodworth said no resignation letter had been received yet.
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G. Richard Duffes
Huron County Guidance Center
Duffes
Alton Woodworth
Huron County Mental Health Society Board of Directors
Reflector
Woodworth
Norwich State Hospital
Norwich
Conn
Willard Man Adolf Blackett Dies in Fire
Greenwich fire crews responded at 1 43 a m aided by Plymouth and North Fairfield teams to a rural Willard home. The two story residence burned five hours before the body of Adolf Ott Blackett 67 was found at 6 30 a m. He lived alone and left a sister Minnie Bishop two brothers George Louis and a daughter Mrs William Berry in Norwalk. The cause remains undetermined due to zero temperatures hampering extinguishing efforts.
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Havana
Lawrence Roberts
Lawrence Rand
Lawrence Rhodes
St. Petersburg
Fla
Tampa
Cuba
Joe Bleil
Chicago
Greenwich
Adolf ‘Ott’? Blackett
Willard
Plymouth
North Fairfield
Greenwich Fire Department
Blackett
Minnie Bishop
George
Louis
William Berry
Norwalk
Mead's first freight run marked 45 years of trucking growth
W L Mead hauled his first load in February 1923 in an old International Model G bought for 260 dollars. His firm, W L Mead Inc, now operates nine terminals with a Boston area depot under construction and a 200 plus staff. The original truck remains a corporate symbol.
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W.L. Mead
Janet Conway
Detroit
W.L. Mead Inc
Chicago
New England
Mead
Norwalk
North Fairfield
Lakeside
Bay Bridge
W.L. Mead, Inc
Reading
Mass
Boston
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Gainey
Tell
UPI Telephoto
Moscow
UPS
U. S
Miami
Delta Air Lines
Fidel Castro
Ernesto Che Guevara
Barbara Romack
Edinburgh
Scotland
University of Edinburgh
Glasgow
Richard Duffes
John
American Motor Freight
Kipton
Meads
Cleveland
W.L
Amos
Andy
Columbus
W. L. Mead
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