Tornado Loss Reaches Five Million Across Towns
Sheriff surveys show 325 homes and 32 businesses damaged or destroyed totaling about 5 million dollars. Ocean City reports 100 damaged homes with 12 total losses. Bellaire Addition bears 225 damaged homes with 35 total losses. about 150 cars damaged with 25 total losses. Multiple businesses listed as total or extensive losses include Eglin Grocery Vern Shell Station Don's Barber Shop Taco Hut Club Continental Hillbilly Inn Woodham offices OK Tire Co Gibson's Discount. Moderately damaged items include English Furniture Bayview Supper Club Hess Oil Super-test Service Station The Den Keltec Corp Rivard Realty Cove Animal Clinic Ocean City Standard Station Foster Oil Co Black Angus and O'Conner Motor Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eglin Grocery
Vern Shell
Don’s Barber Shop
Taco Hut
Club Continental
Hillbilly Inn
Woodham
OK Tire Co
Gibson's Discount
Bonded Transportation Co
Chandler’s Drive-in
Millers Lounge
Jack’s
Enco
Tony's Pizza
Independent Motor Co
ABC Loan Co
Fort Walton Glass
Ocean City Gulf
English Furniture Co
Bayview Supper Club
Hess Oil Co
Super
the den
Keltec Corp
Rivard Realty Cove Animal Clinic
Ocean City Standard Station
Foster Oil Co
Black Angus
O’conner Motor Co
Chest Drive Falls Short: 8 Communities Miss Goal
Final reports show Okaloosa County raised 119 296 dollars toward a 122 533 goal. Fort Walton Beach divisions未yet submitted reports, while areas like Hurlburt Field Mary Esther Baker Valparaiso Crestview Destin and Shalimar contributed varying amounts toward the Chest agencies 1968 campaign. A nominating committee will be named and the January meeting at Eglin AFB will elect new officers. Appreciation Night will honor campaign workers alongside the Chest election.
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Community Chest Area
Okaloosa County
Fort Walton Beach
Best
George Whitehurst
Whitehurst
Hurlburt Field Officers Club
Fort Walton
Hurlburt Field
Mary Esther
Baker
Milligan
Valparaiso
Crestview
Destin
Sgiin
Holt
Niceville
Shalimar
Christmas Seal drive total reaches seven thousand eight hundred eighty one
Okaloosa County Unit of the West Florida TB and Respiratory Disease Association reports $7,281 in Christmas Seal contributions as of December 13. Twenty one volunteers from Niceville Valparaiso Hospital Auxiliary aided daily, with Candy Stripers reading reminders and 1000 plus letters needing remailing.
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Daily News
Niceville
Okaloosa County
West Florida
TB and Respiratory Disease Association
Niceville- Valparaiso Hospital
Harold W. Glenn
Valparaiso
Nice
Eva la Pierre
TE Unit
One Bid Accepted for Okaloosa School Bonds
At the Crestview County Court House the Okaloosa County Board of Public Instruction approved a single bid for a 2,942,006 bond issue to fund the South Okaloosa School District. Hugo Marx of Birmingham submitted the bid at about 5.6 percent, bonds mature through 1982 with earlier redemptions at higher rates, and a 56,840 signing fee accompanies the bid. delivery of printed bonds is promised for December 18.
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Court House
Crestview
Okalososa County
South Okaloosa County
Hugo Marx
Birmingham
Not My Daughter shoplifting film shown in Valparaiso schools
A 30 minute film Not My Daughter on shoplifting was shown to Valparaiso Elementary School sixth graders in a cooperative program with the Valparaiso Police Department led by Chief George Maddox. The Okaloosa County Juvenile Court arranged two weeks of county wide screenings to raise awareness among teens and parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily News
Alparaiso
Valparaiso
George K. Maddox
Thomas Parker
Okaloosa County
Parker
Northwood Junior High
Meigs Junior High
Fort Walton Beach Civic Center
Troops End Tornado Aid After 3 Day Vigil
National Guard units totaling 254 were reduced to 70 and will pull out at noon. Sheriff Ray Wilson praises officers and organizers while continuing security with deputies and patrols. Eglin AFB aids with trucks and equipment for weekend cleanup. Community groups urged to join Saturday operations at 8 a.m.
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National
Vernon W. Davis
Pensacola
National Guard
Hall
Marilyn Hall
Sheriff’s Department
Driscoll Oglesby
Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's Posse
Ray Wilson
Oscar Wilkerson
Edward Gibbons
Dudley Shepperd
Henry Holt
Art Pond
Oglesby
Eglin
Vitre
Pryor Pupils Explore New Physical Science Course
About 100 eighth grade science pupils at W C Pryor Junior High School take part in a hands on physical science course focused on Matter and Energy. They keep lab records and perform experiments using improvised equipment built by Pryor's special education class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Pryor
Great Savings
Pryor
Alton Parris
Patricia Rowley
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti
Michigan
National Science Foundation
United States
Mexico
Canada
Republic of Somali
Rowley
University of Michigan
Volunteers Rally for Tornado Cleanup Effort
Volunteers flood in to aid disaster cleanup as out of town contractors join crews. Driscoll Ogelsby says non locals are steered to local contractors and emphasizes lawfulness. Choctawhatchee ROTC, Mennonites, and a Connecticut visitor join blue and white collar workers in the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Driscoll Ogelsby
Sheriff's Department
Oglesby
Choctawhatchee High School
Connecticut
Destin
Santa Early For This Pair Wins Big Soccer Pool
London AP reports two Britons shared a 480000 pound prize from a one cent bet on the soccer pools. Christina Tipton of Liverpool won half, while four year old John Horseman, a former boxer and docker from County Durham, captured the other half after both correctly predicting eight ties in weekend games.
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London
Santa Claus
Christina Tipton
Liverpool
John Horseman
County Durham
Constantine Seeks Overthrow as Athens Turmoil Unfolds
King Constantine led an armed bid against Greece's ruling junta in Athens appealing to restore moral values. The junta stripped him of prerogatives and named Lt. Gen. Histratios Zoitakis as viceroy while Col. George Papadopoulos became premier and defense minister. Troops and tanks surrounded key sites. reports pegged mixed loyalties and battles near Larisa with air forces buzzing Athens.
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Athens
UPI
Constantine Wednesday
Constantine
Histratios Zoitakis
Salonika
Constantine Kollias
George Papadopoulos
Defense Ministry
Stylianos Patsakos
Turkey
Anatolia News Agency
Larisa
British Broadcasting Corporation
Greece
Constantine Kolias
Royal
Paris
Petros Garoufalias
Garoufalias
Onj
Wnaousa
Yugoslavia
Petras
Hanoi Regulars Near Saigon Mark Closest North Strike
North Vietnamese regulars penetrated within 25 miles of Saigon in what authorities called their closest strike on the capital. U.S. infantrymen found documents on 39 Communist bodies from a fierce assault near Hau Nghia province as 101st Airborne troops arrived at Bien Hoa base, lifting U.S. forces past Korean War levels.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
25Th Division
Hau Nehia
U.S. Bien Hoa
United States
101St Airborne Division
Fort Campbell
Bien Hoa
Vietnam
U.N
William C. Westmoreland
North Vietnam
Haiphong
Romneys Visit Ailing Daughter In Ann Arbor
Lenore Romney flew from London to join Governor George Romney and their daughter Mrs Bruce Robinson whose surgery in University Hospital Ann Arbor followed the birth of their fourth child a son Timothy. The wife and governor continued their world tour as her condition improved to satisfactory.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Lenore Romney
Michiigan
George Romney
London
Romney
Lansing
Bruce Robinson
Timothy
Detroit
Robinson
University Hospital
University of Michigan
Jane
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Pryor Science
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Charles Baxter
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Edward
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Mary Ann O'Connell
Santa
Hanoi
Romneys
Nick Stallworth
Club
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Stallworth
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