Unemployment Haunts British Union Movement
Unemployment jeopardizes support for Prime Minister Harold Wilson as 125,000 workers face layoffs in sectors including autos and consumer goods. The Transport and General Workers Union condemns chemical layoffs as harsh while 5,000 workers lose jobs or face dismissal. Overall unemployment in Britain and Northern Ireland nears 36,500, with officials forecasting up to 450,000 may be affected by the measures.
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Harold Wilson
Britain
Northern Ireland
Council Revives Safety Director Proposal in Fort Walton Beach
City council revisits a plan to create a safety director position combining police and fire chief duties. The idea, tied to Civil Defense, has long circulated with a past short lived appointment. A consultant/coordinator to attract industry and federal funds also discussed under Cornell and Dr Malcolm Crover.
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Fort Walton Beach
Civil Defense
Cornell
Malcolm Crotver
Billy Bow
West Army Chief Seeks Retirement
The Defense Ministry announced late that West Germany chief Gen Heinz has asked to retire. A reported rift followed his criticism of the government and a Defense Ministry order about the army’s relation with trade unions.
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BOM
Germany
Defense Ministry
West Germany
Heinz
Now
One Action
Vioe
Panitzki
Soe
Trettier
Panitzyki
FWB and Pensacola Seek I-10 Approach Extension
The two cities clarified plans to extend the I 10 approach to Garden or Gregory Streets in Pensacola. The aim is to channel traffic toward US and improve access, with officials signaling a formal proposal is under consideration.
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Fwb
Pensacola
Garden
Gregory Streets
Weather Outlook With Scattered Thunder Showers
Partly cloudy and warm tonight with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers. Highs reach warm levels and bottoms into mild overnight conditions.
Tide Tables Show Week's Highs and Lows Across Days
The tide schedule lists highs and lows for Wednesday through Sunday with times like high at 4 21 am and Sunday high at 8 09 am. The data is supplied courtesy of the Bay Store and Fort Wayne Beach.
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Bay
Fort Walne Beach
Cicero Pleads For Guardsmen A March Scene
Cicero pleads for guardsmen as a march scene heads to Deering Chicago's Southeast Side a district of danger and destruction to human life. The department plans to deploy a total percentage of men to maintain law and order and prevent obvious disaster, a futile effort in the face of rising unrest.
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Deering
Chicago
Cicero Department
City seeks county aid for mosquito control funding
Fort Walton Beach city council discussed increasing support for the county mosquito control program with Director B K Williams noting a $12 000 city goal but only 10 000 allocated in 1967 budget. Crestview Niceville and Valparaiso contribute varying amounts and council urged the county to share costs and spraying outside municipalities. The matter was referred to the Finance Committee for study.
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County Mosquito Control Program
Fort Walton Beach
Council
BK. E. Williams
Williams
Crestview
Niceville
Valparaiso
Fwh
C. H. Rigdon
Ocean City Wright
Panama City
Rigdon
Clifford Long
Finance Committee
Anti Viet Nam Aid Bill Approved By Committee
A House subcommittee on An American Activities approved unanimously a bill that would provide stiff fines or imprisonment for anti Viet Nam war activities. The action was taken against the advice of the administration. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said anti Viet Nam war activities can hardly be confined to lone security anyway and new laws may be needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Rameey Clark
McNamara lowers military induction standards for 100000
Secretary McNamara announced a broad revision of induction rules to permit 40 000 more draftees this year and 100 000 in coming years. The plan targets youths discounted for health or education and emphasizes rehabilitation through on the job training and classroom substitutes.
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New York
UPS
Defens
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Washington
Capitol Hill
Defense Department
Ashington
Two Die In Fort Wayne Wire Plant Blast
An explosion at Phelps-Dodge Copper Products in Fort Wayne Indiana killed two workers and left 20 injured. Rescue teams from six communities cleared debris as gas warning had been reported earlier though cause remains under study.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corp
Jackie Heckman
Phelps-Dodge Products
Incasion
Red & Wire
Teachers honored at breakfast by Chamber of Commerce
More than 400 teachers were honored at a morning coffee sponsored by the Greater FWB Chamber of Commerce at the Elks Lodge. The event featured School Supt. Max Bruner Jr. beside Wayne Patton, Education Committee chair, and Col. (ret.) George Nied, Choctawhatachee High School's new assistant principal, as photographed for the Daily News.
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Greater Fwb Chamber of Commerce
Elks Lodge
Max Bruner, Jr
Wayne Patton
Choctawhatachee High School
George Nied
Daily News
Faith becomes a hurricane far at sea in Pacific
The sixth tropical storm of the season strengthened to hurricane force late Tuesday and moved westward with top winds of about 85 miles per hour. Officials said Faith posed no land threat for at least 48 hours as hurricane hunter planes reached the storm about 1,600 miles east-southeast of Puerto Rico near 15.5 N, 42.5 W.
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San Juan
P. R
UPI
Faith
Puerto Rico
U S Jets Hit Red Patrol Boats in Tonkin Gulf
U S jets struck Viet Nam patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin near Hai Phong, sinking one and heavily damaging two others. A U S spokesman said Skyhawks conducted the attack from offshore bases, with targets found near a chain of islands south of the coast.
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U.S
Viet Nam
Gulf of Tonkin
Haiphon
Hon
Hemingway widow confirms suicide of writer in 1961
Mrs Ernest Hemingway, widow of the Nobel author, told a magazine interviewer that her husband shot himself at their Ketchum Idaho home and was sick and desperate at the time. The interview marks her first public acknowledgment of the cause of death.
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Ernest Hemingway
Mary Hemingway
Ketchum
Idaho
UPI
Youth Wrecks Week-Old Car in Valparaiso Accident
Thomas Edward Boulton of 28 Montana Avenue Valparaiso wrecked the car he had owned since Thursday in a Tuesday afternoon crash. No charges were filed pending investigation completion.
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Thomas Edward Boulton
Montana Avenue
Valparaiso
Housing Project Loan for Asheville Urban Renewal
The U S housing department announced a six million loan for Asheville North Carolina to support a fast urban renewal project. The funding aims to spur redevelopment and improve housing and neighborhood conditions in the city.
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Washington
Asheville
N. C
the Dees
Congressman's Busy Weekend Schedule For Sikes Visit
Congressman Bob Sikes plans a Crestview arrival Thursday night. Friday includes a noon appearance at Eglin AFB for a Valparaiso State Bank dedication and a 5 PM fish dinner with a group. He will attend a Walton Jr. College dinner and meet students on their first day before returning to Tekinotan Monday.
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Crestview
Eglin Afb
Valparaiso State Bank
A Walton Jr. College
Heixto Area
Tekinetan
Area Goals Announced In Chest Drive For 1968
Okaloosa County Community Chest reveals community goals totaling 108305 with Eglin Air Force Base leading at 48000 and Fort Walton Beach at 18000. Other towns list Crestview 7500 Niceville 2400 Valparaiso 240 Shalimar 108 Baker 20 Destin 950 Holt 220 Laurel Hill 220 and Mary Esther 350. Separate divisions include Government Contractors 10500 and Public Schools. Drive runs Sept 6 to Nov 5, 1968 with chairmen to be named next week.
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Okaloosa County
Niceville
Valparaiso
Shalimar
Baker
Milligan
Destin
Holt
Laurel Hill
Mary Esther
Schoo
Home grown banana peppers from Luther Fortune
Luther Fortune shared his home grown banana peppers with me. He says they pair well with fresh peas turnips and collards. He noted a milder variety and warned that hotter peppers would be too strong for me as they nearly defrosted in the refrigerator.
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Luther Fortune
Luther
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Cicero
Rusk
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Dean
U.N
U Thant
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United States
New York Hilton
Columbia Broadcasting System
Haiphong
Gulf of Ao
Congressman
Bob Sikes
Lounsberry
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