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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1967
Page
7
A foreign student exchange program at Portland State College held a peculiar charity auction. Twelve female students sat with sacks over their heads while bidders judged leg quality for a half day date. Bids were low, the top bid reaching only $2 amid concerns over upcoming finals.
In the O Fallon Technical High School auditorium seniors selecting class rings faced a blackout. Jeweler Jules Monti reported a chair with his briefcase moved behind the stage curtain, later found without the briefcase. He said the case held $6000 collected for rings.
Air Force Academy official Maj Keith D Young says about 300 American fliers are held in North Vietnam but none have defected. He notes 750 Air Force and Navy aircraft are reported lost over North Vietnam and asserts no confirmed defections among captives. He spoke Wednesday on survival, evasion, recovery and escape training.
The Taste Ithaca report describes a Natick Mass field kitchen mounted on a truck that uses microwave ovens and large blenders to feed 200 people in about an hour. A blender can toss salad for 100 in two seconds. The system was shown at Cornell during a Food Systems conference.
Two University of Miami fraternity pledges from Zeta Beta Tau started an initiation scavenger hunt at Tropical Park race track to collect $50,000 worth of losing tickets. They turned in a pile of pasteboards and found $200 in winning tickets. They planned to collect the money at the payoff window today.
For over a century 16 families lived on a 1500 acre tract near Athens in a countyless zone. They paid taxes to Clarke or Jackson counties in alternating years causing confusion. Governor Maddox appointed a survey team to settle the border and assign taxes to the county last paid.
Four U S Navy deserters who fled from the aircraft carrier Intrepid in Japan spent three weeks in Moscow protesting U S involvement in Vietnam. Soviet officials offered no comment on their fate or current location as Moscow hotels reported the men had recently departed. The defectors said they aimed to reach a neutral country to oppose the United States war effort. A Japanese antiwar committee aided their escape to the Soviet Union.
Congress moves to boost federal pay by 4.5 percent for most workers and 6 percent for postal staff, with July 1 1968 increases to 1969. A $4.1 billion spending cut is approved, alongside tax-boost plans. Postal and third class rates rise. overall federal spending seen at $136.2 billion. President Johnson expected to sign.
Washington AP reports United States leads in ocean exploration capability but will not pursue a race for deep sea control. Dr Edward Wenk notes no nation can match US progress. Malta proposes an international agency to manage sea beds with proceeds aiding poor nations, while the UN contemplates a committee to study jurisdiction and exploitation issues amid ongoing debate.
Nobel laureate Dr William Bradford Shockley proposed a nationwide birth control system requiring population growth certificates and time capsule contraceptives for all women with public authorization to remove them for childbearing. He also urged eugenic research into racial intelligence differences, urging open discussion to shape policy.
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