Timmy Faas Visits Nixon and Receives Elephant Gift
Timmy Faas, four year old March of Dimes poster boy, visited former Vice President Richard Nixon in his Fifth Avenue apartment. Timmy enjoyed Nixon’s dogs Pasha and Vicki and lingered over mementoes from Nixon’s travels, especially an elephant collection, prompting Nixon to present a hanging elephant statue with trunk raised and ivory tusks exposed.
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Daly to enter New Hampshire race in Uncle Sam suit
Naturally Boston reports AP that Lar Daly known for his Uncle Sam campaign outfits heads to New Hampshire to seek signatures for the presidential primary. He has only hat and sash left from past campaigns in Chicago and elsewhere and vows to hire a full outfit if he makes the ballot. Daly began campaigning in 1938 for city and state offices without a win.
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Martha Raye urges Hollywood to visit troops in Vietnam
Los Angeles AP reports entertainer Martha Raye, back from her fourth Vietnam trip, says more Hollywood personalities should visit American fighting men. She plans another trip in October, noting it gives soldiers a morale boost and gratitude from celebrities.
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Los Angeles
Martha Raye
Vietnam
Hollywood
Front Page Forecast by Eighth Graders
A Winston-Salem group of eighth graders imagined 2068 headlines for a typical day. Atomic Car Explodes Wipes Out City Block. School Tax Defeated Again. President of U S Consults Computer Cabinet. Man Recovers from Cold Storage. Riots on the Moon. First Attempt at Brain Transplant.
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Winstom
Salem
San Quentin News named best printed prison paper
San Quentin California biweekly newspaper won the top prize in a contest among 50 prisons sponsored by Southern Illinois University Department of Journalism. The News circulates about 9000 copies biweekly, per Associate Warden J W L Park.
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United States
J. W. L. Park
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Vandals Drain Water System In Haltom City
In a Sunday incident vandals damaged 14 fire hydrants and drained city water tanks in Haltom City Texas. Water Department crews discovered the issue at daylight and pumped additional water into the pressure tanks to restore supply.
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Fort Worth
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Dragon float catches fire during St Paul Winter Carnival parade
The St Paul Minn parade saw a dragon float supposedly spewing smoke ignite, causing realistic but alarming excitement during the event.
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St, Paul, Minn
St. Paul
Denver Bandit Leads Daylong 250 Mile City Chase
In Denver a gunman threatened to kill seven hostages and fled in a hospital van after a Northeast Denver supermarket holdup. Daniel Williams, 26, and roommate Louis Maple, 23, were arrested as the chase wound across eastern Colorado. Williams surrendered to a police sergeant after the van ran out of gas. Three hostages were released or wounded during the pursuit.
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Louis Maple
Lawrence P. Morahan
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Bank Robbery Suspects Surrender in Kansas City Area
Ex convict Andrew Gipson and Karen Lynn Goetz surrendered at the Johnson County courthouse in Olath e after a manhunt for the Metcalf State Bank holdup in Overland Park Kansas. Garfield Brown was wounded and Sgt Eldon Miller was killed in the shootout.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Kansas Penitentiary
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Iowa City
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Leavenworth
Eldon Miller
Kansas Highway Patrol
Britain urged to sell Polaris subs to United States
Lord Wigg of Dudley, a leading Labour military expert, argues the government should sell Britain four Polaris submarines to the United States. He cites cost and military realities, estimating about 1.2 billion dollars over ten years for build, maintain, deploy, and base development. The first vessel, Resolution, nears operation as Americans may arm them with Poseidon.
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US builds super silos to shield Minuteman missiles
Washington reports defense officials plan supershard underground silos to harden Minuteman ICBMs against highly accurate Soviet missiles. The move accompanies Johnson's proposed 1969 defense budget of 76.7 billion dollars. Officials say exact numbers of missiles to be buried are secret, with work already ordered as a precaution.
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Kansas Civil Rights Push Seeks Fair Housing Bill
Topeka state official urges legislature to pass a fair housing bill to curb racial tension and show the state’s opposition to discrimination in housing. Homer Floyd says passage faces tough odds in the short 60 day 1968 session. says broader coverage than last year’s Senate Bill 6 is likely, with rental exceptions for small owner-occupied homes.
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Kansas Comemission On Civil Rights
Kansas
James Davis
Kansas City
House Federal and State Affairs Committee
Kansas Come Mission
Federal and
Senate
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Lloyd
University of Kansas
Viet Cong shelling hits Saigon including Independence Palace
Viet Cong shelled Saigon early Wednesday following attacks on eight major cities. Reports say rockets or mortars landed near Independence Palace and the U.S. Embassy as small arms fire echoed in the streets.
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Viet Cong
Independence Palace
U.S
Security Council quiet on Pueblo case in Korea row
United Nations sources report the Security Council met privately over the Pueblo case as a U.S.-Soviet deadlock prevented inviting North Korea to join the debate. Washington would accept an invitation only if North Korea freed the Pueblo crew, while Seoul rejects bilateral talks with Pyongyang and objects to recognition.
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Security Council
U.S
North Korea
United States
Chip Pueblo
Pyongyang
Seoul
North
South Korea
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Navarro Years Later Plans Autobiography After Film Career
Hollywood veteran Ramon Navarro, after five decades in cinema, will write his life story. He began as an extra in 1917 and rose to MGM stardom in silent epics like Ben Hur before a decline and later returns as a character actor. He plans to finish the memoir on a Orient-bound cruise, aiming for frankness about fame and failure.
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Ramon Navarro
Lfe
Mexico
MGM
Navarro
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Py Cone
Milton Tohiey
Europe
TV prank line sparks police calls across the nation
NBC program scrolls reading Help, help, I'm being held prisoner in the newsroom triggered emergency calls from residents in Glenwood Minnesota and Little Rock Arkansas. Police verified no actual danger while NBC notes the line is normally an NBC news function.
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Glenwood
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Ark
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NBC News
Cape Town Patient Enters Fourth Week Post Transplant
Capetown South Africa AP reports patient Philip Blasberg remains in convalescence four weeks after heart transplant with no signs of rejection or infection.
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Philip Blasberg
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