Richmond Free Fair opens amid blackout and crowds
The first day of the Richmond Free Fair faced a two hour blackout after an opening program began. Despite the darkness a large crowd attended with 321 exhibitors. Children’s athletic events, 4-H livestock judging, beard and bonnet contests, and a centennial dress competition proceeded once lights returned at 10:30 p.m. Winners included Melvin Stockard, Charles Schaffer, Charles Edwards, Floyd Robertson, Ray Bruler, Rollie Mersham, Mrs. Lonnie Chambers, and Sister Loretta Roeckers. The fair continues today and tomorrow.
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Ardis Fous
Richmond
Melvin Stockard
Princeton
Charles Schaffer
Charles Edwards
Floyd Robertson
Ray Bruler
Rollie Mersham
Lonnie Chambers
Loretta Roeckers
Kansas City
Star Work Stoppage Forces Paper to One Edition
KANSAS CITY AP The Star plans only one afternoon edition after a printers strike halts normal prep for news and ads. About 90 union members were discharged after a meeting and failure to return to work. The Times usually runs three press cycles. the afternoon paper prints eight editions. Frank McKinney said a female employee was twice discharged for neglect of duty and barred from returning. The Thursday night wave of dismissals included charges of neglect of duty and loitering after shifts. Wilbur Osbourn said members returned to work only after explanations were given.
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Kansas City
The
Star
Times
Morning Times
Frank McKinney
Wilbur Osbourn
Union
McKinney
Anticipate High Point In Attacks
AP reports U S military spokesmen expect Viet Cong and North Vietnamese attacks to stay at 20 to 40 a night then rise to a new high before September 2, with 41 rocket and mortar strikes and eight ground fights in 24 hours. U S casualties reach 11 killed and 88 wounded. over 150 allied bases hit. The Viet Cong vows a hard offensive with lightning strikes and intensified guerrilla warfare as Ho Chi Minh’s independence anniversary nears.
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Saigon
U.S
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
Viet Cong
Liberation Radio
Boys' Club Open House Sunday
The Ottawa Boys' Club announces an open house this Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at its partly finished facility at 517 E 8th. Funds of 16411.60 are needed to complete the new building. if raised in the two week drive, the club plans to move in by January and the public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa Boys’ Club
East First
Hijackers Take Northeast Jet to Cuba At Sea Covert Diversion
A red eyed gunman with a knife accomplice hijacked a Northeast Airlines jet from Boston to Miami. The 44 passengers and eight crew were aboard when the hijackers forced entry near Wilmington North Carolina and shouted Cuba. The pilot signaled the diversion while radio silence was kept.
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Miami
Northeast Airlines
Cuba
Wilmington
N.C
Jacksonville
Fla
County Weather Forecast For Saturday Partly Cloudy Warmer
Partly cloudy and locally warmer Saturday with light variable winds tonight. Low 60s and high Saturday in the 80s. Precipitation probabilities 30 percent tonight and 20 percent Saturday. Includes prior highs and lows, 24 hour rainfall total of .04 inch, and hourly readings with barometer at 29.87.
Violence Spreads in Belfast Riots Injuring Dozens
In Belfast, more than 60 people were injured as gunfire and stone-throwing erupted between Catholic Falls Road residents and rival groups. Six hundred British troops neared the city as Prime Minister Churchill urged calm, while Irish Republican Army reserves moved to a peacekeeping posture. A protest at the British Embassy in Dublin culminated in a torn flag and damaged windows, reflecting cross-border tensions.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Royal Victoria Hospital
Falls Road
Ulster
Aldergrover
London
Britain
James Chichester-Clark
Irish Republican Army
Irish Republic
Dublin
Barry Murphy
Docker
Dinis Ask Hearing to Exhume Kopechne Body
Wilkes Barre hearing set for August 25 on Dist Atty Edmund Dinis request to exhume the body of Mary Jo Kopechne killed in the Chappaquiddick accident with Senator Edward M Kennedy. Dinis seeks autopsy results to aid an inquest opening September 3 in Edgartown Mass.
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Wilkes-Barre
Dist
Edmund Dinis
Mary Jo Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
Bernard C. Brominski
Luzerne County
Miss Kopechne
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Massachusetts
Joseph Kopechne
Berkeley Heights
N. J
Larkeville
John Flanagan
Private firms to test pay-for-performance tutoring plan
Seventeen private companies may bid on a Nixon administration pilot to improve reading and math for about 200 Texarkana students with a no-pay if-fail clause. Bids due Monday for a $270000 grant, with contracts paying only when gains meet targets and last at least six months. Officials seek measurable results beyond current federal education grants.
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Washington
Texarkana
Ark
Office of Education
Londonderry Rioters Clash With Police Amid A History Of Sectarian Conflict
In Londonderry protesters hurled rocks and gas bombs at police in a scene framed by a centuries old sectarian feud. The piece links modern violence to Ireland’s wars with England, the 1690 Battle of the Boyne, and the 1916 Easter Rising shaping Irish and Ulster loyalties.
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Londonderry
Northern Ireland
England
Ireland
William of Orange
James
Battle of the Boyne
Ulster
Deteriorating SAPE heart transplant patient Blaiberg readmitted
Philip Blaiberg, 60, who received a transplanted heart at Groote Schuur Hospital, was readmitted Thursday as his condition worsened. The organ is functioning at about one third of normal pressure while his kidneys also show dysfunction. Blaiberg has lived with the new heart for 691 days as doctors search for the relapse cause.
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Sape ‘Town
South Africa
Philip Blaiberg
Groote Schuur Hospital
Blaiberg
Ottawa merchant Julius Raffelock dies at 71
Julius R Raffelock 71 of 1108 S Main Ottawa longtime merchant died this morning at Ransom Memorial Hospital after weeks of illness He was born Jan 19 1898 in Kiev Russia He married Marie Fanning in Horton May 23 1922 He leaves wife a daughter Sarah Ackley Kansas City Mo a son Ralph Raffelock Great Bend and seven grandchildren He held many local offices and lodge memberships with Ottawa and area groups Masonic services planned and graveside services in Kansas City Mo.
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Julius R. Raffelock
S. Main
Ottawa
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Towner’s Chapel
Ottawa Lodge No. 18
Morris B. Margolies
Mt. Carmel
E. 55Th St
Kansas City
Raffelock
Kiev
Russia
Raphael
Baila Raffelock
Marie Fanning
Horton
IOOF
Noble
Hazel Rebekah
Retta
Abdellah Temple
Kan
Topeka
Legion of Honor of
Ralph Raffelock
Great Bend
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Dinis
Leon Lessin-ger
White House
Daniel P. Moynihan
Texarkana Project
Lessinger
James S. Coleman
Johns Hopkins University
Merchant
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