Flu Outbreak Spreads Through Terre Haute Offices
The flu continues to disrupt local work as Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce staff fall ill. Lew Taylor and Lucy Bennett join the sick list, delaying Christmas plans and birthday celebrations. Columbia Records reports 84 sick employees, about 4 percent, with vaccine rollout planned for city police and firefighters over 40, as cases rise ahead of next month.
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Terre Haute
Chamber
Columbia
Columbia Records
Leland Larrison
Glen Means
Means
Robert Terrell
Terrell
Go Go Girls Ban Struck Down In Paterson Court
Superior Court Judge John F Crane ruled a local ordinance banning Go-go girls unconstitutional. He cited the First Amendment protecting expression and symbolic speech and criticized the bartender restriction as discriminatory based on sex. Police had argued crowds and enforcement issues.
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Paterson
John F Crane
Crane
Red Cross Aids Areas Hit By Hong Kong Flu
Nationwide Hong Kong flu outbreak labeled a disaster by the Red Cross as local chapters mobilize for nursing care food services and transportation. NCDC notes spread to 35th state New Jersey reports epidemic levels and South Carolina warns of statewide risk.
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Red Cross
Hong Kong
Atlanta
UPI
American Red Cross
National Red Cross
Washington
National Communicable Disease Center
NCDC
South Dakota
New Jersey
South Carolina
New York City
Edward O'Rourke
Los Angeles
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
John Anick
West Allis
Wis
City sees high police absenteeism amid health scare
Two thousand two hundred policemen were off sick as industry absenteeism ran 50 percent above normal. New York druggists faced a two hour delay filling pain-killing prescriptions while officials reported 50 000 preventive vaccine doses arriving for hospitals and nursing homes.
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Land
New York City
New York
Farmersburg Men Entered In Corn Club Case One 1968 Yield
Norman and Gerald McPheeters of Farmersburg are entered in the 1968 DeKalb 200 Bushel Club with a yield of 148 bushels per acre from DeKalb XL 85. Their entry, harvested mechanically and verified by a third party, reflects early thick planting weed and insect control heavy fertilization and high population hybrids. Planting began April 28 in 37 inch rows at 26 000 seeds per acre with 290 pounds nitrogen 134 pounds phosphate and 242 pounds potassium. Weeds controlled by Atrazine and one cultivation. The DeKalb 200 Bushel Club began in 1961 to foster competition and idea exchange among top corn farmers and promote practices for higher net profit per acre.
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Norman and
Gerald McPheeters
Farmersburg
Lords vote to raise marriage age amid miniskirt debate
The House of Lords rejected a government plan to let 18 year olds marry without parental consent, voting 77 to 71 to raise the age to 20. Bar oness Summerskill warned that developed miniskirted girls could trap young men into marriage. The government plans to restore the proposal in the Commons.
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London
House of Lords
Communists Have Winter Spring Offensive Strategy Questioned
Hong argues a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Tet style effort failed to yield a lasting military breakthrough. He warns a defeat could trigger a cease fire to regroup, while stressing they seek a propaganda victory ahead of Paris talks.
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Paris
Hong
Firecracker Plant Blast Kills Five in Rio Suburb
A firecracker factory exploded in Belford Roxe, Rio de Janeiro, killing five children preparing fireworks for Christmas. In La Plata Argentina another factory explosion killed two workers.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Rio
Belford Roxe
la Plata
Argentina
Ixplosion
Actress Agnes Moorehead to Jury Monte Carlo TV Festival
Actress Agnes Moorehead of the Bewitched TV series will serve as the United States jury member at the International Television Festival in Monte Carlo, occurring February 3 to 15.
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Agnes Moorehead
United States
Monte Carlo
Speck Granted Stay of Execution by Illinois Supreme Court
CHICAGO AP Richard Speck, condemned for the eight nurse killings, received a stay of execution to allow counsel to petition the U S Supreme Court. The Illinois Supreme Court delayed the Jan 31 date as attorney Gerald Getty prepares the petition, arguing the Witherspoon decision limits excluding jurors by beliefs on capital punishment. Speck was convicted April 1967 and sentenced June 1967 under a state statute allowing judges to override jury death recommendations.
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Chicago
Richard Speck
Supreme Court
Ilinois Supreme Court
South Side
Illinois Court
Gerald W. Getty
Cook County
Getty
U.S. Supreme Court
Speck
Illinois Supreme Court
William Witherspoon
Peoria
Illinois
Witherspoon
Herbert C. Paschen
Panel Chosen as Trial Moves to Peoria
A member panel and two alternates were selected. The trial was moved to Peoria after Getty argued Speck could not receive a fair trial in Chicago.
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Peoria
Getty
Speck
Chicago
Viet Cong status clash fuels Hanoi Saigon talks
Huong blames the government for pressing a compromise on Viet Cong status as South Vietnam leaders Ky and Lam reject a separate Washington Hanoi settlement. A two hour meeting with U S delegates Hariman and Lam reveals U S Saigon rift over seating arrangements and scope of talks.
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W. Averell Harriman
U. S
Pham Dang Lam
Saigon
Tion
Lam
Saagon
Washington
Hanoi
United States
Press Search's Atlanta trip tied to notable builders Nixon links
Press Search traveled to Atlanta with his father while Mackles and his two brothers, among the nation's largest home builders, own the Key Biscayne hotel where Nixon frequents. They were among Miami's first major developers where Nixon established a vacation retreat. The eagle decor became a patriotic symbol in American furniture after the Revolutionary War.
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Mackles
Key Biscayne Hotel
Nixon
Miami
White House
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