Free Ottawa high school concert by band orchestra and chorus
Ottawa High School hosts a free 7 30 p m concert in the OHS gym featuring the band orchestra and senior high chorus directed by Alice Joy Lewis and John Jones with American Negro spirituals children's songs folk numbers and classical selections from Vivaldi Dvorak and Willams among others the event includes two New folk group numbers and music by Loren Matthews Edward Gere man and Lionel Bart with pieces like On the Gallows Tree Deep River and Symphony No 5 finale performed by the orchestra and chorus and a string ensemble the concert showcases a diverse program of patriotic spirituals and classical works by notable composers.
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Ottawa High School
OHS
Alice Joy Lewis
Eliejah Rock
John Hensey
John Jones
New World
Anton Dvorak
Clifton Willams
Ernest Gold
Vivaldi
Docking chides turnpike for bond sampling plan
Gov. Robert Docking said he is miffed at the Kansas Turnpike Authority for voting to sample opinions from prospective buyers of Kansas City to Galena turnpike bonds. He also questioned its request for 40000 to fund a feasibility study for the Mid-Contin ent Airport turnpike amid a 120 million bond package with no state backing.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Docking
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Kansas City
Galena
State Finance Council
Turnpike Authority
Kansas City + Galena
Kansas City - Galena
Mid-Continent International Airport
Rockwell Convicted In Illinois Office Disturbance
George Lincoln Rockwell was found guilty on three charges including disorderly conduct obstructing a peace officer and criminal trespass to property stemming from a disturbance in a Cook County official's office last summer. Sentencing set for today with bond at 5000 as a five man seven woman jury deliberated nearly three hours. Rockwell, from Arlington Virginia, faced a six day trial.
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Chicago
George Lincoln Rockwell
Cook County
Maurice W. Lee
Rockwell
Arlington
1967 Wheat Crop Returns May Exceed 1947 Records
Washington AP Agri culture Department officials forecast that this year's wheat crop will yield near or exceed the 1947 record of 3.1 billion dollars. They base the outlook on a 1.5 billion bushel crop, prices above 1.50 a bushel, and government payments to cooperating growers totaling about 691 million dollars for domestic use.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
New SNCC leadership signals shift in strategy
Indications are that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee will return to its traditional political organizing with emphasis on economic force after a year under Stokely Carmichael's black power leadership. Carmichael was replaced by H. Rap Brown, 23, at a staff election in Atlanta, with Carmichael stepping aside after a power struggle. No details from leaders were provided.
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Atlanta, Ga
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Stokely Carmichael
Carmichael
SNCC
H. Rap Brown
Alabama
Atlanta
Weather County forecast clearing cool tonight and mild
A county forecast calls for clearing and cool conditions tonight, with Wednesday generally fair and mild. High Wednesday near 70, low tonight in the low to mid 40s. Local highs and lows listed show values from 69 to 70 for today and 48 to 83 for the past year, with record highs and lows noted. Hourly temps progress through the day from morning mid 50s to afternoon upper 60s, ending around the 66 degree range by evening.
Administration’s Money Planners See A Long War
Washington AP reports Johnson officials frame Vietnam as a protracted conflict and seek a permanent debt ceiling of 365 billion through June 30, 1969. They propose a six percent income tax surtax, new freedom shares, savings bonds tied to war length, and rules to curb overseas investment as fiscal planning runs through 1969.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
Congress
United States
Japan
Vietnam
Fowler
House
Ways and Means
Kansan Leaders Tout 750 Million Urban Renewal Bill
Rep Garner and Rep Shriver, both of Kansas, say a 750 million dollar urban renewal bill for fiscal 1968 should pass the House this week. They warned Wichita businessmen city officials and renewal agency officers that there is a backlog of 630 urban renewal applications.
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Wichita, Kan
Garner
President Courting States For Cooperation With Johnson
President Johnson moves to strengthen federal state partnership courting governors in Windsor Locks Connecticut and naming Winthrop G Brown ambassador to Korea as liaison to all governors He stresses federal state cooperation and briefings on international relations as 50 state houses hold crucial influence ahead of next year’s presidential race
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Florida
Farris Bryant
Windsor Locks
Maine
Winthrop G. Brown
U.S
Korea
Brown
Mansfield Urges UN Action on Vietnam War
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield proposes taking the Vietnam War to the United Nations. He says U Thant dismissed the idea last year, noting Johnson backed his initial 1966 outreach to the Security Council and urged talks with Thant and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
United Nations
U.N
U Thant
Mansfield
U.N. Security Council
Baltimore
Johnson
Thant
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.S
Chinese Inner Struggle Likely Fueled by High Costs
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan reports Red China's political crisis after a year of upheaval that damaged the Communist party and government, worsened food supply risks, and potentially affected the nuclear program. Analysts place the May 16, 1986 power struggle as the pivotal event, with tens of ministers purged or sidelined and provinces unsettled.
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William L. Ryan
Peking
Red China
Communist Party
China
Mao Tse-tung
Red Guards
Chou En-lai
Szechwan
Honan
Shantung
Kansu
Sinkiang
Doctors plan 18000 mile flight honoring Lindbergh
Barbourville surgeon Dr Francis X Sommer and copilot Dr John Rieber prepare a single engine flight from New York across the Atlantic to Paris then toward Tokyo and back to New York in memory of Lindbergh. They launched from Boston with wife and two children, spending over 12000 dollars on gear and planning emergency provisions amid fuel gauge uncertainty.
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Barbourville
Francis X. Sommer
New York
Atlantic
Lucky Line
Charles A. Lindbergh
Sommer
Paris
Mike Dog
Lindbergh
Ann Morrow
Tokyo
Dr. Sommer
da Nang
South Vieteam
Hong Kong
Pt. Barrow
Alaska
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Ottawa
Docking
Pike
Administration
Shriver
New England
State House
Spee
Lumi Mile
Thataway
Seventh and Main
South Main
Sen
Rec
Mao Tsen Tung
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