09 Mar 1971
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Newspaper
Playground Daily News
Location
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1971
Page
1
Organizations must submit Okaloosa Digest notices in writing to the Playground Daily News office. Representatives are required to deliver the items in person. PGDN staff will not accept items over the phone.
Okaloosa County lunch today features braised beef with brown gravy rice carrots pineapple muffins and strawberry shortcake. Fort Walton Beach Ministerial Association meets at 7 30 a m at Black Angus Restaurant. Chamber of Commerce directors plan a Thursday noon board meeting. Homemaker's Club gathers today at First Methodist Church fellowship hall with 9 15 a m social and 10 00 a m meeting. Movie "Appaloosa" shown tonight at Pryor Junior High School at 7 30 p m narrated by Dale Robertson. NCO Association Wives Auxiliary meets 7 30 p m at American Legion Post 235 105 Hollywood Blvd N W Fort Walton Beach. All welcome.
Prospective students may call Steve Gross at 678-1359 for junior and adult judo classes and a women’s self defense course to start soon at Valastics Gym behind the Coca Cola Plant on Highway 98. Also today USO Council meets at 10 30 a m at 161 Miracle Strip Pkwy. Kenwood Elementary PTA bake sale 9 30 a m to 2 p m with 7 30 p m meeting and Max Bruner as guest speaker. Fort Walton Beach Kiwanis meets at noon at Sheraton Miramar Motor Inn. Dr Joel N Busby UF dean speaks on University of Florida Days inviting high school children.
Floyd Christian asked lawmakers to earmark 840000 to finance 140 community school centers. The request would reimburse counties for half the salary of each community school director. In Kuala Lumpur eight new wig factories plan exports to the United States Canada Britain and Western Europe.
Alan Young played the master on Mr Ed and often was upstaged by the talking horse. Mario Lanza died of a heart attack in 1955 after a career in film and singing, noted for his portrayal of Enrico Caruso.
Outside guests can host events in Capitol Hill buildings via approved congress members. The Rayburn and Senate Office Buildings host private dining rooms for breakfasts to dinners, with catering by private firms. Prices start at $1.50 per person for breakfasts and rise to $8.00 for sitdown dinners.
A 16 year old Mobile high school sophomore hijacked National Airlines Flight 475 to Canada but surrendered his gun mid flight after the pilot warned of grave charges. He cited family and school troubles and was held for return to Mobile on aircraft piracy charges.
Texas mother Elaine J. Hollis seeks a man nicknamed Jenkins from Fort Walton Beach who befriended her son John E. Hollis aboard the U S S Renewah and drowned after a mine explosion near Vietnam. Mrs. Hollis and others are checking yearbooks and phone books to locate Jenkins for a possible visit. A separate council action denied a Food Fair Stores sewer extension to Cinco Bayou near Fort Walton Beach.
Escambia Bay Jaycees plan a seven to ten mile petition with five million signatures addressing North Vietnamese officials to protest 1600 American POW MIA. A two month Freedom Van tour will visit Fort Walton Beach Crestview DeFuniak Springs Valparaiso Niceville Pensacola Tallahassee with Navy funding and Florida Road Builders Association moving the van.
Billy Lee Riley, recording star at The Bayview Supper Club, headlines a POW MIA benefit Sunday March 21 from 3 to 9 PM. No admission, with auctions and entertainment. all proceeds to POW MIA Families Inc Fort Walton Beach and Bayview profits donated. Riley has a history of benefits for Heart Fund and prisoner groups.
Police said vandals entered the Ga tor Distributing Co. warehouse in Fort Walton Beach by pulling away wall sections and crawling through. They opened 96 beer cans worth 19.60 dollars and left no report on the beer’s fate.
Fort Walton Beach officials plan to discuss with HUD a proposal to enclose an open drainage ditch serving a public housing site between Beal Parkway and Robbinswood Drive. Engineer Oliver Semmes Jr. estimates a double box culvert at about 100000 dollars could replace the swale and avoid hazards to children.
A man and a woman in their twenties threatened attendant Sarah Prescott at the Junior Food Store on Mary Esther Sunday night and fled with cash in a paper bag. They claimed a gun with a silencer but no weapon was seen. Deputies linked the duo to similar robberies in nearby towns as the investigation continued with no arrests.
Crestview students elected a majority of city posts for Friday. A girl fire chief and police chief lead a slate including health sanitation, public works, and dog warden with three women on the council. Exchange students from Brazil assist the mayor’s office as jurors and aides.
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