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Playground Daily News

Location

Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States of America

Date

Jun 07, 1968

Page

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Secret road plans clash over leaks at Florida capital

At a legislative roads committee hearing Rep Lynwood Arnold accused road department workers and engineers of leaks to gain access to secret construction plans. Road Board member Donald Crane suggested some legislators sought confidential data for land purchases. Officials admitted such requests had occurred in the 1967 session.

Secret Road Plans Tampa Claude Kirk Legislative Council Committee On Roads and Lynwood Arnold Jacksonville Jay Brown Road Board Donald Crane Arnold House Crane St. Petersburg Bill Ekey Road Department

Grandson to Relive John Brooks' Trip anniversary event

John Thomas and Harriet Brooks plan to retrace the 100 year old voyage across Choctawhatchee Bay from Five Mile Bayou to Santa Rosa Sound behind the Point Store on Thursday June 13. The party aims for a 2 pm landing with Mayor French Brown and Fort Walton Beach officials. The BS continues with the bust unveiling at Temple Mound and a Centennial Parade through Fort Walton Beach featuring period costumes, beard contest, and square dance.

John Thomas Harriet Brooks Choctawhatchee Bay Brooks Bridge John Sara Brooks Five Mile Bayou Santa Rosa Sound Point Store John Brooks Brooks Fort Walton Beach Main Street Temple Mound Isabel Longaker Temple Mound Museum Civic Center Eglin Parkway Wilson's Corner Hughes Avenue Fort Walton Square Billy Bowlegs

Grief Filled Kennedy Plane Returns Home to New York

Kennedy’s funeral journey ends in New York as the four engined jetliner lands at LaGuardia with the senator’s body. Ethel Kennedy, Edward and Joseph Kennedy Jr. accompany the casket to St Patrick’s Cathedral for prayers before the Arlington service. Police estimate about 8,500 gather outside the church amid quiet, hushed crowds.

Kennedy New York Ethel Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles St. Patrick’s Manhattan Fifth Avenue Robert Kennedy Hudson River LaGuardia St. Patrick’s Cathedral Edward Archbishop Cooke Martin Luther King Jr

Prejudice fears surround Yorty notes in Kennedy case

Los Angeles authorities fear public statements by Mayor Yorty may have prejudiced the Sirhan Sirhan murder prosecution of Robert F Kennedy. Officials press ahead with the grand jury hearing, plan to bring the case to trial within 60 days, and issue an all points bulletin for a woman seen with Sirhan before the shooting.

LBS Angeles Los Angeles Samuel W. Yorty Robert F Kennedy Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Fnday Dist Atty Evelle C. Younger Sirhan Tnal New York California Yorty Sirhans Younger U.S. Supreme Court California Supreme Court

Bowlegs Schedule of weekend events at Spindrift

Bowlegs events at Spindrift Restaurant and Indian Temple Mound include 3:15 p.m. ski show and 3:30 p.m. trampoline act on Saturday, with 4 p.m. Bowlegs Queen candidate introduction and 4:15 p.m. flag raising, plus a 8 p.m. square dance and heritage exhibits downtown. Sunday features an aerial show at Choctawhatchee Stadium at 1:30 p.m. and a treasure hunt at Wayside Park at 1:30 p.m.

Joe Livingston Bill Bowlegs Sprindaft Dock Choctawhatchee Stadium Wayside Park Mad Dollar Store

Warm, partly cloudy with thundershowers this afternoon

Weather bulletin notes partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with a few thundershowers building this afternoon. Forecast high ranges 88 to 94 degrees. River readings show Jim Woodreff Dam Blountstown at 45.0 feet and 60 gusts?

Jim Woodreff Blountstown

Man in Dress Charged With Murder After Quarrel

FOLEY Alabama AP a 19 year old youth charged with murder as Julia Sessions then charged as Anthony Morales when authorities learned the youth is male He stabbed Larry Sessions 21 of Canton after an argument in a potato shed Witnesses say he threw a bottle and was slapped Morales admitted real name and said he was from Mayaguez Puerto Rico Sheriff Wilkins noted the defendant wore a dress during the confrontation and the wound was in the heart

Morales Mayaguez Puerto Rico Wilkins Sessions

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