Beef Price Freeze Ends Debate Sparks Bipartisan Push
Senators Humphrey and Ford urged lifting the beef price freeze before the September 12 deadline. Beef prices at wholesale and retail spiked as production stayed off the market, with shortages hitting joints and eggs priced up amid Phase IV controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Senobert
Numphrey
Dmine
Aguse
Gerald Ford
Humphrey
Chicago
Ford
Mat
Indianapolis
New York
Amalgamated Meal Cutters Union
John R. Pedersen
United Eye Producers
Atlanta
Pedersen
Aw York
New York City
Panhandle Art Show Opens At Panama City Auditorium
Ni Panhandle artists on Display opens Sunday at 2 p m at the Panama City Auditorium with works by pro and non pro artists from 15 Florida Panhandle counties. Awards in realism abstraction and sculpture will be given at the opening. The Panama Art Association sponsors the show and invites the public. Hours are 9 a m to 12 noon and 1 to 5 p m Monday through Friday.
Twirler Halts Train with Baton, Saves Lives
Margaret Shrout a 19 year old West Virginia Tech student used a lit baton to signal a halted locomotive stopping 18 feet from a stalled car on the tracks. Two women and two children fled the car and were shaken but unharmed by the quick action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Va
UPI
Margaret Shrout
West Virginia Tech
Shraut
Playground Daily News Realigns Office and Circulation Notes
The såuf content notes a change in the Fort Wallen region office details for the Playground Daily News with reference to United Press International and a breakdown of daily and Sunday circulation figures. It lists subscription rates and mail prices, including annual and monthly options, as well as a member status with the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Pentagon Release Contradicts Laird on Secret Cambodia Bombing
The Pentagon declassified a top secret order that contradicts Melvin Laird’s claim he never ordered falsified records. Senate hearing probed the secret B92 strikes and cover story: some B52s hit Cambodia and were logged as South Vietnam targets. Clements Moorer testified but provided limited explanations as investigations continue into the bombing disclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPT
Pentagon
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Laird Jastmonty
Senate Armed Services Committee
William Clements
Thomas H. Moorer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congress
Laird
Clements
Harold Hughes
D Lown
Moorer
White House
Nixon
Secretary of Defense
Defense Department
IRA Bomb Damages 50 Homes in Belfast Area
In Northern Ireland the Provisional IRA claims a 600 pound bomb in a hijacked post office truck damaged 60 homes northwest of Belfast injuring a pregnant woman and children. Gunmen killed a worker and wounded two on a bus 14 miles north of the city as sectarian violence marks the internment anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
UPI
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Provisional
Island Authority approves land changes and pay raise
Okaloosa Island Authority board approved land changes for Fred Tolber and Ames Fowler. Gulf Exhibition Corp can exercise an option to lease land for other uses. island employees receive a one percent cost of living raise. debate focused on Tolbert's request to close a 9th Freeway for more condos and a tennis court amid opposition from leaseholders and local groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ab Turner
Okaloosa
Island Authority
Fred Tolber
Ames Fowler
Gulf Exhibition Corporation
Fred Tolbert
Tolbert
Ramada Iin
Gulf Exhibition lease and traffic loop plan face board ruling
The Gulf Exhibition Corp seeks to lease land near a water tank on U S 98 narrowing to the sound for use beyond the original Gulfarium aims. The board reluctantly approves a lease despite objections and notes a sale option over 120000 dollars. A 5 to 6 percent cost of living raise is approved and fire equipment items are discussed with procurement turned to a committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soas
Fowler
Santa Rosa Blvd
Brooks Bridge
Gulf Exhibition Corp
U.S. 98
Gulfarium
Gulferium
Hillingsworth
Defense grills FBI informer in Gainesville Eight trial
The conspiracy trial of the Gainesville Eight paused as defense questioned witness William W. Lemmer about a plan to firebomb a University of Arkansas dormitory. The day featured cross examination aimed at portraying Lemmer as a disturbed FBI informer with possible drug-influenced memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fues
Gainesville
William W. Lemmer
University of Arkansas
Lemmer
FBI
U.S
Winston Arnow
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
VVAW
Miami Beach
Cambodian Government Recaptures Territory Near Phnom Penh
Cambodian troops advanced along a bombed open path and recaptured areas lost a month earlier on the southwestern outskirts of Phnom Penh. Government forces pushed 2 ty miles toward Highway 3 and riverbank positions two miles south of the capital amid limited resistance. American F4 Phantom strikes and 252 bomber raids supported the advance near Prek Ho and Highway 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phnom Pen
API
Phnom Penh
Prek Tinet
Prek Ho
Highway 2
Skylab Spiders Fed Steak During Weightlessness Tests
Skylab astronauts Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma observe two spiders Arabella and Anita in zero gravity as they test web spinning behavior. Arabella adapts quickly building better webs while Anita is prepared to replace her if needed. Scientists study solar flares and space station experiments as part of the mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
UPS
Arabella
Anita
Earth
Bravily
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack MR. Lousma
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Space Station
Garriott
Arabells
Mission Control
Garriatt
Fort Walton Beach Chamber to honor local officials
The Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce approved a recommendation to award an annual public service prize to one appointed and one elected royal government official. Don Anders, committee chair, presented the plan. The group also seeks time at a public hearing in Tallahassee August 21-22 on offshore drilling in the Gulf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FWB Chamber
Fort Walten Beach
Douglas Protests Supreme Court Decision Over Cambodia Bombing
Justice William Douglas dissented after the court blocked his August 7 order halting bombing in Cambodia. He argued telephonic rulings bypass the law and violate court ground rules and required quorum. Douglas said only the full court can overrule or alter procedures, not by telephone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
William
Douglas
Supreme Court
U.S
Cambodia
Yhurgood Marshall
Goose Prairie
White House
Congress
Elizabeth Holtzman
D-Ny
Air Force
New York
Marshall
Doiglas
Houston Serial Killings Toll Tops Nineteen
Police identified two Houston victims aged 18 and 17 and linked the killer to a boat shed hideout. Investigators described the grim scene with bodies in plastic bags and graves as they pursued more leads in the Corll case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PROM
Corll
Boa
Policarman
Marty Ray Jones
Charles ¢. Cobble
Houston
Homicide
Larry Earls
Earls
Carls
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ife
Thomas M. Maurer
Vieltiel
Senate Armed Services
Indochina
William P. Clements
Okaloosa Digest
Mayground Daily News
PGDN
Knights of Columbus
Council
Carol Avenue
Holy Name
CCC
Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church
Niceville
Ray Crawford
Bar-B-Q
Area Square
Fort Walton Beach High School
Elmer Sheffield
Spokane, Wash
Spokane Steel Foundry
John Penold
Formdry
Harold Balasz
Ellen Ewing
Spokane
Ewing
Inland Register Catholic
Playground Daily News
Your Freedom Henspaper
Flayground
Raiut News
Fields Freedom Newspapers Inc
Eglitr Parkway
Ft, Wallen Beach
Fronida
Inc
Fort Wallen
Reseh
Plorita
Akaren
WLW
Newman-Bracken State Park
Baxter State Park
Okaloosa Island Park
U.S.98
Gerald Mollingsworth
Ross Marler
Jim Morrison
Amos Fowler
Joseph Anderson
Bob Morrison
James Miller
The
Doris Jordan
Morrison
Fire Protectlor
Okaloosa Island
Okaloosa County
Mae
PBI
Winston BE. Arnow
Lermer
Brady Coleman
Arnow
Leavenworth County
Kan
High Island
Brooks
Henley
Bay
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!