Budget hearing body seeks increases for 15 Chest agencies
Okaloosa County Community Chest Budget and Admissions Committee held its final hearing Monday night in Fort Walton Beach. Representatives of USO YMCA Red Cross requested higher allocations to meet growing demand from Eglin AFB Hurleurt Field and local programs. USO cited need to serve airmen while YMCA noted 60 percent rise at Walton County camp and prep for a 6000 child reach. Red Cross sought 12500 more for 23000 total.
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Okaloosa County
USO
Eglin Afb
Hurleurt Field
James Anderson
Warlburt Penel
Anderson
Veterans
Main Street
Fort Walton Beach
Community Chest
Ymca Aliso
YMCA
Willam Tancreth
Harold Baird
Walton County
Morais
Landreth
Bob Henderson
Okaloosa-Walton Junior College
Red Cross
Board offers to buy water system from Fort Walton
Crestview reporters say the Board of County Commissioners proposed to purchase water customer rights in the Englin Highway Subdivision for 825 per customer. The 163 users would be shifted to county water and sewer system to finance a sanitary sewer program after storm drainage and street improvements are planned.
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Fort Walton City
County Water and Sewer System
GM profits fall in second quarter amid strike fallout
General Motors reports profits of 546 million dollars in the second quarter, down from 835 million in 1965. Chairman Frederic G. Donner and President James M. Roche cite disrupted production and sales early in the period due to strikes as the major cause of the drop.
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New York
General Motors Corp
Frederic G. Donner
James M. Roche
Jet Plane Crashes Pilot Safely Ejects
An Air Force fighter plane crashed and burned in a wooded area near Courtney North Carolina on Tuesday. The pilot ejected safely and avoided serious injury during the incident in the northern Piedmont region.
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Yadkinville
All
Japy
Air Force
Merit
Courtney
North Carolina
Piedmont Area
Partly cloudy and worn through Thursday with scattered showers
Weather notice predicts partly cloudy skies and weakening by Thursday with daytime thunder showers. Highs listed as BR in OE.
Tide Tables Refresh From Fort Walton Beach Page
Tide times listed for Wednesday to Sunday include highs between 6:39 a.m. and 9:57 a.m. and lows noted as 8:08 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. River readings show a 46.0 figure. Courtesy of the Bay Store in Fort Walton Beach.
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Bay Store
Fort Walton Beach
Fort Walton Beach proposes land gift for courthouse annex
Fort Walton Beach Mayor Ed Brown asks the county to locate a new courthouse annex on two acres of city land behind City Hall and seeks $100,000 for a museum building at Indian Temple Mound site. The commission tabled both requests and referred them to a study committee amid concerns about legality and governance.
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Daily News
Crestview
Fort Walton Beach
Ed Brown
Board of County Commissioners
Brown
Fort Walton
Ito
Ocean City
Shalimar Area
Main Street
R. J. Reinke
Reinke
Whale
Bill Landreth
Council Opens Access To Bay At Shore Drive
Fort Wallan Beach City Council approved opening Shore Drive from Bay Drive to Choctawhatchee Bay after neighborhood requests. The measure forbids declaring the way a public park and avoids using public funds for park development, amid opposition from adjacent landowners and residents citing safety concerns and nuisance risks.
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Council
Shore Drive
Bill
Tennis Daily News
Bay Drive
Choctawhatchee Bay
Fort Wallan Beach
Strike Ruins Record Miami Tourist Season
Miami Chamber of Commerce President Winston Wynne warned the airline strike has caused extensive damage, estimating a 38 million loss for the Greater Miami area and predicting ongoing harm as layoffs mount and the tourism season collapses, urging President Johnson to end the strike promptly.
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Miami
Miami Chamber of Commerce
Sumace
Chamber
Winston W. Wynne
Johnson
Waynne
Miiami
Wynne
Oor Bis “Y Wyane
Sinke
Former area resident linked to Coppolino murder case
A Sarasota doctor author Dr Carl A Coppolino is accused of murdering his wife and a New Jersey neighbor. He is married to former Fort Walton Beach resident Mrs Marvy Poe Gibson. Autopsy evidence and insurance policies valued at 65000 prompted exhumations. Investigators link the deaths of Mrs Coppolino and Col William F Farber of New Jersey in 1969 to the case.
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Sarasota
New Jersey
Fort Walton Beach
Carl A. Coppolino
Marvy ‘Pony
Poe- Sinitz Gibson
Gibson
Cinco Baron
Gordon Gibson
Coppolina
St. Ma
Florida
Frank Shaub
Cappolina
Farners
Cappolinnas
Middletown
Farber
Frank Schaub
Coppolino
Ars. Coppolino
Army LA
Boanson
William FE. Farber
Monmouth County
Grand Jury
Wary Eye Kent on Storm Ella
Storm Ella, a tropical system near the Leeward and Virgin Islands, produced high seas and strong winds as forecasters in San Juan monitor its progress. The Weather Bureau noted Ella’s intensity close to hurricane thresholds and warned of potential impacts on warm Atlantic waters.
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Kent
Storm Ella
UPI
Fila
Leeward
Virgin Islands
San Juan PR
Weather Bureau
Canlinge
Huuricane Abbey
U S Rejects Ky Call for North Vietnam Invasion
The United States refused to join South Vietnam's Prime Minister Ky in urging an invasion of North Vietnam. State Department officials said Washington will not seek a wider war and aims to honor the Geneva accords, keeping stance against broad escalation. Ambassador Vu Van Thai indicated Ky’s remarks were personal in tone.
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Wasitington
United States
Nguyen Cao Ky
North
Viet Nam
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Wey
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Johnson
Ney
South Viet Nam
Vu van Thai
U.S
William P. Bundy
Saigon
Bundy
Indochina
iKy
Washington
Five Thousand Awarded for Injuries in Crestview Suit
In Circuit Court Tuesday Al jvin Middleton and his mother Mrs Hattie Moore received 5000 for injuries from an auto negligence case. A jury awarded 1000 to the boy and 4000 to Mrs Moore after a 1 1/2 day trial arising from a September 1964 accident on U S 90 east of Crestview.
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Crestview
Aljvin Middleton
Hattie Moore
Joseph L. Walker
Jackie Lamar Highsmith
Joseph Walker
Josephine
Highsmith
US 40
European nations reach bid agreement for Kennedy round
The six European Community members agreed early Wednesday on a joint bid for the Kennedy round of world trade talks. The pact aims to open markets with easier access for about 140 billion dollars of agricultural exports from the United States and other countries.
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Brussels
Belgium
United States
Traffic light synchronization approved for Eglin Parkway
Crestview reports the Board of Commissioners approved funds to synchronize traffic lights from Racetrack Road to downtown Fort Walton Beach along Eglin Parkway. Fort Walton City Council commended the board for progress, aiming to relieve Parkway congestion. Contracts let for Okaloosa Walton Junior College and Destin Airport roads. Cowell Construction won airport road bid $38,408. Coastal Asphalt won college road bid $200,224.61.
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Crestview
Eglin Parkway
Board of Comissioners
Fort Walton
Okaloosa-Walton Junior College
Destin Airport
Cowell Construction Company
DeFuniak Springs
Coastal Asphalt
Viet Cong Attacks Hit U S Bases Near Saigon and Cu Chi
Communist guerrillas struck the U S 235th Infantry base 20 miles northwest of Saigon for two hours with mortars and recoilless rifles, causing light casualties. A late Tuesday hit at Soc Trang produced no American losses. Other actions included shelling near Cu Chi, air strikes on fuel depots, and naval bombardments along the coast as U S forces replied with bombs, rockets, and fighters.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
235Th Infantry
Soc Trang
North
South
Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
Ranger
Duc Tho
Vinh
White River
25Th Division
Cu Chi
Tropic Lightning
Bill Landreth
Shalimar Sys
Hawaii
Aj County
County Buys Water System
County Commissioners signed an agreement Tuesday to purchase the Shalimar Water Company for 29000 dollars. Negotiations had been ongoing for months to add the firm to the water and sewer system that began operation earlier this year.
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Crestview
Board of County Commissioners
Shalimar Water Company
County system deal sets customer target at 143
Landreth urged the agreement to require 143 customers to tie onto the County system, higher than the agreed minimum of 140. The dispute centers on aligning the purchase terms with the preferred customer count.
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Landreth
Effort to Form Local Retired Enlisted Group
Retired enlisted personnel of all services are invited to a meeting at the American Legion Hall on W Hollywood Blvd tonight at 3 00 p m to form a new organization. Organizers expect about 1100 potential members locally and will outline aims to provide services, stay informed on legislation, and offer social activities for those retired by length of service or due to disability.
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Armed Services
Invil Red
American Legion Hall
Ion W. Hollywood Blvd
Voter Cards Mailed Out in Okaloosa County
Mrs Elsie B Garrett supervisor of elections said on Tuesday that the office is mailing out a registration identification search in each Okaloosa voter. The cards must be kept and signed by recipients unless changes are needed. Voters with incorrect records should call 24 6161 to notify the office.
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Elsie B. Garrett
Okaloosa
Garrett
Girl discovers yard sticks in garden
A girl plays with a green bamboo cane stake found in the yard. Her mother explains its use as a yard stick and notes the stick’s purpose in measuring garden features. The girl jokes that the stake is a yard stick.
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Wily
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Walkedge Drive
Holtsood Blvd
Shemes
Gary Lee
Brooks Morris
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