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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1967
Page
5
FAIR AND COLD TONIGHT WITH TEMPERATURES FALLING TO MID AND UPPER 20S BY EARLY SATURDAY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY AND A LITTLE WARMER SATURDAY HIGH NEAR 60 THURSDAY 49 TODAY 33 A YEAR AGO 82 45 RECORD HIGHS AND LOWS 87 AND 24.21 INCH PRECIPITATION FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING 7 AM. HOURLY TEMPERATURES ENDING 8 AM. TRENDING COOLLATER SATURDAY WITH BAROMETER 30.05.
Richmond hosts a nine or ten year delayed street festival featuring a dance, pie auction, cake walk and prizes under the banner Hallowestern. The recreation club funds new bleachers and uniforms for the youth baseball team while promising a live band and strict mask enforcement.
Washington AP report says Congress aims to adjourn its 1967 session before Thanksgiving with leaders optimistic after a brief break in logjam. Big money bills are advancing with three more sent to the President, while Mansfield warns against a tax hike. Leaders Carl Albert Ford Mansfield and Wilbur Mins weigh chances for a late November adjournment.
Debra Barnes Miss America of 1968 exclaimed I am the happiest girl alive as crowds welcomed her in Happy Debbie Pratt Kansas Thursday. Gov. Docking Rep. Dole State Rep. Marvin Cox Kingman attended the Atlantic City winner’s celebration with a wheat-pin presentation and a pledge that Kansas will claim her as its own girl.
Washington AP reports growing Senate support for a Mansfield resolution urging President Johnson to consider directing U.S. representatives to the United Nations to seek action on the Vietnam war. The nonbinding measure signals Congresss desire for U.N. pressure while Mansfield anticipates Johnson will respond, aided by broad cross party backing.
Deserting U S servicemen in Vietnam turn to black market trading pimping and marijuana selling to survive as they dodge capture in Saigon. 40 to 50 are at large at any time, with escapes lasting days to months. They contact black marketeers in Cholon for counterfeit PX cards and resupply to their units after court martial.
The Ottawa Little Symphony presents Tschaikowsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor performed by Carl D Bobbish at 8 p.m. Monday in Memorial Auditorium with other works by Reznicek Handel and a local cast including Alice Joy Lewis Thelma Snedaker and David Losh. Members and donors urged as the orchestra seeks support for next year.
President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington during a visit marked by goodwill. A 21 gun salute greeted his arrival, a state dinner followed, and President Johnson toasted to peace and friendship between the nations.
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