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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1967
Page
2
In Durham North Carolina magistrate Jeanette Johnson began a wedding. The groom rushed from the office and the bride chased him briefly before he returned. The ceremony resumed and proceeded until the vows were read. The groom refused the line about forsaking all others and fled again.
In a two word ruling, Criminal Court Judge Carling Stedman upheld Queen Victoria Vanina Williams plea that public exposure of the breasts need not always be indecent. Not guilty the judge said and dismissed a disorderly conduct charge. He made his decision after inspecting a local topless nightspot to assess public decency.
In New York the Rivoli Theatre agreed to give Hattie McDaniels equal billing with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh by changing its marquee after civil rights demonstrators protested outside the Seventh Avenue venue. They argued the Afro-American star was undercredited in the film credits.
In Woburn Massachusetts a three hour traffic tie up occurred after a truck spilled fish on Route 93 causing a slippery mess. State police reported a foot of fish across the northbound lane and several accidents as motorists lost control.
The search for the 22 missing members of the 40 man crew of the sunken freighter Panaceanic Falth ended at nightfall Friday in the North Pacific 870 miles southwest of Kodiak Alaska. Five crew were rescued and 13 bodies recovered. Rear Adm. Chester R. Bender was named to head a four member marine board of investigation, to convene in San Francisco at a later date.
An Oklahoma City ambulance driver was fined 20 Friday for speeding during an emergency run. It was the first case tried under a new city ordinance that bans ambulances from exceeding the posted limit by more than 10 miles per hour on emergency runs.
Washington AP Rostow special assistant to President Johnson denies claims from a civil service case that he was rejected three times for security clearance during Eisenhower’s presidency. The State Department declined comment while the Otepka case proceeds. The brief, reportedly seen by a source, argues a “get Otepka” effort began with the Kennedy era.
For the first time in Hollywood a Communist bloc citizen directs a major film. Roman Polanski, 44, trained at Lodz National Film School, now helms Rosemary's Baby produced by William Castle, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. He also wrote the script based on Ira Levin's bestseller and comments on Paramount and Polish studio parallels.
In Meridian Mississippi the defense moves to weaken the Justice Department case against 18 white men charged with conspiracy in the deaths of three civil rights workers. Judge Harold Cox orders a rare Saturday session as 24 defense witnesses testify to the defendants character and alibis. The trial proceeds toward an all white jury by mid next week with Jim Jordan central to testimony and a limited use of Barnette's FBI statement in evidence.
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