City Drivers License Checks Boost Local Examiners
Spot checks by the Fort Walton Beach Police Department increase activity at the City Recreation Department for Florida license exams on Monday Thursday and Friday. Renewals and new licenses processed at Okaloosa Island Authority buildings across Brooks Bridge with varied hours. Examiners note Thursday is busiest. those avoiding fines should come Monday or Friday. Weather remains generally fair through Saturday with mild afternoons and cool nights.
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Bob Lovelace
Daily News Stuff
Fort Walton Beach
Police Department
Florida
City Recreation Department
Miracle Strip Parkway
Okaloosa Island
Tide Tables and Driver License Warnings From Destiny East
Tide tables for Destiny East Pass list Friday to Sunday high and low times with notes courtesy of the Bay Store Fort Walton Beach. Blountstown Chief Ralph Hendrix urges drivers to carry valid licenses and warns that unlicensed driving doubles charges and risks penalties including insurance claim issues.
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Destiny East Pass
Bay
Fort Watlton Beach
Coppolino Bond For Florida Murder Case Posted
Sarasota County sheriff's office received a certified check for 15000 as bond for accused murderer Dr. Carl Coppolino. Coppolino faces first degree murder charges in Florida for the 1965 death of his wife Carmela Coppolino and is to stand trial in New Jersey next week for the 1963 murder of neighbor William Farber.
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Sarasota, Fla
Coppolino
New Jersey
Florida
Carmela Coppolini
Army
William Farber
De Gaulle calls for Europe entente to push world peace
Paris reports President Charles de Gaulle urged a European entente joining Western and Communist states to pool strength for global peace and development. He proposed joint space ventures and worldwide aid while Kosygin noted growing alignment on major issues, despite not fixed US role.
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UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Afrika
Asia
Latin America
de Gaulle
Elysee Palace
Europe
United States
Germany
de Gaull
Atlantic
Urals
Kosygin
Gas District Plans Retail Sale Program for Gas Appliances
Valparaiso Okaloosa County Gas District approves a merchandising program for gas burning water heaters outside lights and grills. Manager Earl Talbot says dealers builders and plumbers were informed and invited to participate as the project advances. Construction of a Fort Walton Beach gas loop line is set to start next week with Patterson and Wilder Construction as low bidder at about 1.94 million.
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Valparaiso
Okaloosa County
Earl Talbot
Talbot
Joel Richardson
Fort Walton Beach
Gas Board
Patterson and Wilder Construction Company
Biirmingham
Ala
Powell Threatens Photographer With Gun on Bahamian Trip
Miami News reports that Rep. Adam Clayton Powell threatened Life photographer Lynn Pelham with a shotgun on Rimini Island in the Bahamas. Pelham photographed Powell on Powell’s property, Powell warning him not to step on land. Powell has prior contempt convictions in New York and owns property in Bimini. The journalist was told to stay close, and Powell’s wife Thelma confirmed an incident occurred last weekend.
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Mi‘ami News
Adam Clayton Powell
Life Magazine
Rimini Island
Bahamas
Life
Lynn Pelham
Powell
Pelham
Miami News
Bimini
Florida
Ings
New York
Thelma
Reds Release 14 Viet Nam War Prisoners
Saigon reports 64 Communist fighters killed in nine hours of heavy coastal battle 290 miles northeast of Saigon as 24 Green Beret survivors escape a jungle path to freedom. Operation Thayer continues with 524 Communist deaths so far.
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Saigon
VPS
Cavalry
South China Sea
U.S
Police chief Warns Of Bad Checks This Christmas
Fort Walton Beach police chief Ralph Hendrix warns merchants to watch for worthless checks counterfeit money and short change artists during the Christmas shopping season. He notes many operate yearly and reap their greatest harvest then as Fort Walton Beach and other Florida cities face seasonal schemes.
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Ralph Hendrix
Hendrix
Fort Walton Beach
Florida
Fortune Named To Committee On Health And Welfare
State Representative Edmond M. Fortune has been appointed to the Legislative Council's Committee on Health and Welfare. Notification came from David V. Kerns, director of the Legislative Council and Legislative Reference Bureau.Sen. Robert Haverfield is chairman of the committee.
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Edmond M. Fortune
Legislative Council
Committee On Health and Welfare
David V. Kerns
Legislative Council and
Legislative Reference Bureau
Robert Haverfield
Local Firm Wins 90800 AF Contract for Visual Flare R D
Ordnance Research Inc a Florida corporation based at 684 Eglin Parkway has been awarded a 90800 contract by the Air Force under the PGC Armament Laboratory Targets and Missiles Division for research and development of a Visual Flare for tactical illumination. The firm plans a 10 acre testing site in south Walton county and seeks land in the FWB Industrial Park for a chemical laboratory estimated at 25000 to 20000 dollars with current labs on Beal Street. The company formed in June to work in military ordinance combining pyrotechnics and electronics including infrared visible flares incendiaries smoke generators and cloud seeding with electronic ordnance such as instrumentation radio control fuze telemetry guidance and radar augmentation.
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Air Force
Ordnance Research Inc
PGC
Air Force Armament Laboratory
Eglin Parkway
Walton County
Fwb City
Beal Street
Florida
Electronc
Air Force pioneer's relaxation offers reservists extended service
The Air Force expands duties for about 5 900 Reservists offering optional indefinite active duty or end of tour upon separation. The plan removes the two year date of separation bar for Reserve officers and warrants and allows promotion up to 90 days before separation. Officials say among affected are 32 Reserve officers at Eglin AFB and the Air Proving Ground Center.
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Eglin Afb
Air Force
Air Proving Ground Center
U.S. Arcee Laboratory
Fort Walton Beach Chief Hendrix Celebrates Birthday
Wayne B. Bell reports Fort Walton Beach Police Chief Ralph Hendrix was honored by department members with a birthday cake and candles. The chief claims age 39 and denies a bystander's remark that the cake top looked like the Chicago fire. Fire Chief Howard Holmes stood by.
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Fort Walton Beach
Ralph Hendrix
Howard Holmes
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Alexei Kosylgin
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