Eddy Arnold Draws Big Crowds at Winnebago Fair
Eddy Arnold Show drew virtually full houses for Friday night and another large turnout on Thursday at Winnebago County Fair. Officials expected two more sellouts tonight with 7:30 and 9:30 shows, extra seating was added on the track, and weather remained clear though cool guiding attendees to bring jackets. More than 35,000 people reportedly filled the fairgrounds and grandstand over the event.
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Winnebago County Fair
Eddy Arnold
Robert J. Misky
Milky
Alleged Kidnapper Captured After Mass Manhunt
Steven H. Caguette an 18 year old ex Marine sought on charges he abducted 13 year old Marie Couture at gunpoint from her Winchendon Massachusetts home was captured Friday at Fitzwilliam Depot New Hampshire nine miles from the border. He was held on a fugitive charge and the girl was returned unharmed. A resident identified him from news photos and alerted authorities.
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Manchester NH
Steven H. Caguette
Rifle Point
Winchendon
Mass
Fitzwilliam Depot
Massachusetts-New Hampshire
Marie Couture
Webb Sherman
Fitzwilliam
George Dunton Jr
Sherman
Caouette
Robbers Return Wallet Saying They Do Not Rob the Poor
A group of bandits in Barcelona held up Santiago Casas Rojo then looked through his wallet before returning it. They proclaimed they do not rob the poor, finding 50 pesetas inside, about 82 cents.
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Barcelona
Spain
UPI
Santiago Casas Rojo
Stocks Plunge Sharply This Week on Wall Street
NEW YORK AP reports the stock market suffered its worst week in over four years amid high interest rates and tight money. The market fell every day but avoided panic while volume rose to 32,632,260 shares, the strongest since late June, with many top electronics, office equipment, and photography stocks declining.
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New York
Wall Street
Wage issue up again for auto industry
DETROIT AP reports unrest among skilled tradesmen over work orders and wages as auto industry reps meet with the UAW to push for an immediate pay raise. The Big Three contracts run another year. union aims to reopen for higher wages while production of 1967 models begins. Ford notes 195 of 285 skilled Woodhaven stamping workers on day shift.
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United Auto Workers
UAW
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Ford Motor Co
Woodhaven
Earthquake in Eastern Turkey Leaves Millions in Grief
Rescue workers counted near a thousand bodies with tolls likely exceeding three thousand as tremors devastated Varto and dozens of villages in Erzurum Mus Bingol and Bitlis provinces. Officials warned the death toll could rise and aid teams rushed in doctors medical supplies and air support from the United States and Turkey.
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Ankara
Turkey
Varto
Istanbul
Erzurum
Ali Akarsu
Hinis
Mus
Bingol
Bitlis
U.S. Air Force
3Rd Army
Adana
Police puzzled by swan attacking its own image
In a Swedish west coast city police investigated reports of unusual damage and found a ber serk swan attacking its own reflection in the polished surfaces of 12 vehicles.
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Smalmoe
Sweden
UPI
Court Order Restricts Civil Rights Marchers
Chicago civil rights leaders face a temporary restraining order limiting open housing demonstrations to 50 protesters per march, daylight hours only, with 24 hours notice to police. Dr. King warned of possible Sunday rallies as tensions and violence in all white areas persist.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Cornelius J. Harrington
City of
Podre
Orlando W. Wilson
Richard J. Dalkey
Mar
Picket outside Milwaukee judge's home by NAACP youths
Milwaukee NAACP youth council picketed Circuit Court Judge Robert C. Cannon's home for about 45 minutes urging him to resign from a men's club that allegedly retained a restrictive membership. The demonstration was orderly. Cannon was not home and did not comment. The council had also halted sales of lapel pins reading Burn, baby, burn as a fundraising effort and urged three other judges to resign from the club. One judge declined and a fourth planned to quit next month for unrelated reasons.
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Milwaukee
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Robert C. Cannon
Cannon
Milwaukee Youth
NAACP
National Naacp
Los Angeles
Watts
Machinists Ratify Pact End Airline Walkout
Washington AP reports machinists voted 17 727 to 8 235 to accept a new contract ending the six week strike that halted five major airlines Eastern United Northwest National and Trans World. The pact lifts wage hikes and cost of living protections, prompting 35 400 workers to return to jobs and easing political tensions over pending labor legislation.
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Congress
P. L. (Roy) Siemiller
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
U.S
Eastern
United
Northwest
National
Trans World
White House
Australians kill 227 Communists in Battle
Australian infantry hunted remnants of a North Vietnamese battalion 40 miles southeast of Saigon after battering them with artillery and killing at least 227. Westmoreland called the action a significant victory. U.S. pilots bombed oil depots in the southern panhandle and Haiphong area. 800 fresh U.S. troops joined the 1st Air Cavalry at Qui Nhon raising total U.S. manpower to 297,000.
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South Viet Nam
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Panhandle
Qui Nhon
1St Air Cavalry Division
An Khe
Westmoreland
Hanoi
North
Fnday
Haiphong
Nam Dinh
Johnson and Civil Rights Amid Riot Concerns in New England
President Johnson campaigned across New England urging civil rights gains while warning that progress stalls if violence undermines social peace. He spoke at the University of Rhode Island and outlined Great Society priorities, stressing unity and civil responsibility to advance Black rights and national harmony.
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Johnson
New England
University of
Rhode Island
Pugs
Upstate
New York
Great Lakes
Sax
United States
Viet Nam
Manchester
N.H
Burlington
Lewiston
Maine
Northampton
Lester B. Pearson
Franklin D
Trio Of Bad Check Passers Suspects Identified In Menasha
Menasha police checked the Hotel Menasha on a Waupaca County request after reports of three men passing bad checks. The desk clerk said the trio checked out Thursday. They paid cash for rooms and passed no checks at the bar, but left with 10 lightbulbs and one blanket.
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Menasha
Waupaca County
Arkansas Whipping Policy Triggers Fresh Petition
William King Jackson, a 27 year old inmate from Gresham South Carolina, files a six page petition in U S District Court alleging he was whipped for overlooking okra due to poor vision. Prison officials defend the practice as a discipline tool under new two man board rules.
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Gresham
Freday
Pnson
U.S
Dan Stephens
C. E. Bishop
Jackson
Okra
Twa
State Attorney General's Office
Oren Harris
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