Parliament Adjourned Ahead of Britain's General Election
Queen Elizabeth formally adjourned the 43rd Parliament to clear the way for the March 31 general election. Dissolution by royal proclamation was scheduled for later this afternoon. Firefight in Calcutta as police fire on strikers during a 24 hour protest against food policy. Army units called to quell violence around the city. John F. McCrystal, 57, former Ohio attorney general and legislator, died at home. He served as AAG 1936-38 and 1958-62 and represented Erie County in the legislature 1933-34. In Amsterdam, police clashed with about 1,000 youths protesting Crown Princess Beatrixs marriage to Claus von Amsberg amid smoke bombs and widespread rioting.
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London
UPI
Elizabeth
Britain
Calcutta
VPI
Here
Sandusky, Ohio
John F. Mccrystal
Ohio
McCrystal
Erie County
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Beatrix
Claus von Amsberg
Hitler Youth
Wehrmacht
von Amsberg
Holland
Europe
Prince Philip arrives in Houston for charity tour
Britain's Prince Philip flies into Houston on a charity mission aboard a royal jet. He faces tourist crowds and Cuban exile protests over Britain’s Castro trade stance while helping Variety Children's Hospitals raise about 250000 dollars.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Britain
Prince Philip
Houston
United States
Variety Children’s
Sunlight powered craft may reach Mars by mid-1970s
Caltech JPL researchers announce a feasible sunlight driven unmanned spacecraft plan to fly to Mars by the mid 1970s. The project, funded by NASA, emerged from a year long feasibility study conducted at JPL.
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Pasadena
Calif
Poor voters' choice idea dies. Shriver returns to explain
Washington dispatch reports the plan to let the poor elect antipoverty leaders is dead. R Sargent Shriver reenters Congress to justify the setback after subcommittee hearings and low election turnout in Cleveland Kansas City Philadelphia Los Angeles and Chester Pa.
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Washington
UPI
R. Sargent Shriver
Congress
Shriver
Cleveland
Kansas City
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Chester
DiSalle Home Looted After Hospital Release
Former Ohio governor Michael V. DiSalle was released from Grant Hospital and returned home to find two coin collections worth over $1,000 had been stolen.
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Columbus
UPI
Michael V. DiSalle
Grant Hospital
Weather and birth notices from local page
Partly cloudy and warmer through Friday with a high in the 50s and a low around 35 to 42. Sunrise 6 48 a m Sunset 6 28 p m. Births list three couples from Shelby Plymouth and Willard with newborn boys and a daughter. Deaths note Alice M Benson 82 of 19 West Chestnut.
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Alice M. Benson
West Chestnut
New London School bond plan discussed by board
The New London School Board adopted a resolution to place a building program bond issue and tax levy on the May 3 ballot. The plan centers on a $747,000 bond with a total local levy around 4.07 mills for 22 to 23 years, to support a $1.486 million building program including a 500 pupil high school and remodeling. Local cost depends on 1968 valuation. state aid adjustments will alter figures.
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New London School Board
Huron County
New London
Burton
W.R. Burton
Americans Hold Out At Social Forces Camp Besieged
North Vietnamese regulars attacked through Laos and overran the Social Forces camp 375 miles northeast of Saigon after a two day siege. Only four Americans and 16 tribesmen survived. Helicopters evacuated four wounded Americans and 16 tribesmen as pilots risked heavy fire to reach Da Nang and Chu Lai.
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Saigon
UPS
Viet Nam
Laos
U.S
Social Forces
da Nang
Chu Lai
A Shau
Office of City Firm Vandalized in Huron County
Vandalism reported at Chapin and Chapin Inc. on Edmonds Road near Bellevue investigated by the Huron County Sheriff's Department. Stones shattered windows, a fuel oil line was cut releasing 25 gallons, two trucks damaged, green paint spattered on walls adding machine and phone, with a small empty cash box missing. Superintendent George Pleska found the scene at 7 this morning.
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Chapin and Chapin, Inc
Edmonds Road
Bellevue
Huron County Sheriff's
George Pleska
Quiet Idaho pilot befriends danger riding sharks in Vietnam rescue
Major Bernard Fisher of the 319th Fighter Interceptor Group based at Homestead Air Base earned two pilot of the month honors for landing crippled F104 jets despite oil pressure loss. He volunteered for a Vietnam mission, rescued a fellow pilot, and the Air Force displayed his photo in the operations room. Fisher, described as a quiet man with red curly hair, enjoyed skin diving with his sons and was known for his shark riding hobby.
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Homestead, Fla
UPI
Bernard Fisher
Idaho
Fisher
Homestead Air Base
319Th
Viet Nam
Air Force
Maerkisch Sues Farm Bureau for 50 000 Injury
Bernard L. Maerkisch of North Fairfield sues the Farm Bureau Cooperative Association of Norwalk for 50 000 in a personal injury case. He says gasoline purchased exploded and was contaminated. Trial set in Huron County Common Pleas Court as a jury case, filed November 1964. Attorneys are Carpenter and Paffenbarger for the Bureau.
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Bernard L. Maerkisch
North Fairfield
Farm Bureau Cooperative Association of
Norwalk
Huron County Common Pleas Court
Maerkisch
The
Farm Bureau
Bureau
Walter Hite
Hite
Carpenter & Paffenbarger
Mason elected Norwalk Park and Recreation head
Robert Mason was elected president of the Norwalk Park and Recreation Board to fill the unexpired term of Allen Shankman who resigned after two years as president. Mason will also serve on the Zoning Board of Appeals and has served as an insurance adjuster and Norwalk Furniture salesman. He lives with his wife and four children at 24 South Gate.
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Robert Mason
Norwalk
Allen Shankman
Shankman
Tom Butler
Peabody
Mason
Zoning Board of Appeals
Park and Recreation Board
Norwalk Furniture Company
Norwalk Jaycees
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church. the Newly Elected Park Board
Southgate
Second Hurdle For Historic Space Shot
The Gemini 8 spacecraft undergoes a second day of simulated flights at Cape Kennedy to validate a three day rendezvous and spacewalk mission. Engineers test the 7500 pound capsule and Titan 2 rocket with Atlas Agena components as new delays crop up but overall the run proceeds toward Armstrong and Scott's orbital flight.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
Gemini
The
Space Agency
Two Semitrailer Collisions Reported in Pennsylvania and Ohio
A Pennsylvania driver George William Sands 42 North East collided with Grover Bench 37 Akron after failing to stop within an assured clear distance. Both trailers were damaged and Bench reported neck pain but was not treated. In a separate courthouse square incident Carl Ray Chandler 27 New London rear ended James Harvey Solida 60 Route 61 East after brakes allegedly failed. Solida and passenger Earl Springer reported neck and back pain.
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Pennsylvania
George William Sands
North East
East Main
Grover Steve Bench
Akron
Sands
Courthouse Square
Carl Ray Chandler
New London
James Harvey
Solida
R.D. 1
Route 61 East
Chandler
Earl Springer
Rt. 61 East
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