Veterans Day Observances Honor Fallen Heroes Across Nation
The United States marks Veterans Day with wreaths and ceremonies at Arlington and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. World War I memories blend with current sacrifices as schools close and officials observe the holiday with flyovers and international wreaths from Belgium France Israel Italy Mexico.
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America
Siete
John Mecanert
Johnson
Belgium
France
Israel
Italy
Mexico
Ariington National
Chalon-Sur-Marne
Lorain County eyes five percent sales tax hike
Lorain County commissioners consider imposing a 0.5 percent sales tax to raise about 1.3 million dollars annually. The move aims to help close a projected 810,305 deficit for 1969 while funding construction of an administration building and new jail. Referendum potential may delay final adoption until 1970.
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Lorain County
Board of Commissioners
Ohio
Commission
Pincura
Joseph J. Mitock
Skinny house plan on Telegraph Hill stalls over permit
Fred Maffei, a contractor who bought the Telegraph Hill lot for 600 dollars in 1965, proposes a two story eight by sixty eight foot house. Neighbors objected and the city zoning administrator denied a permit last April. His appeal is set for November 18 before the Board of Permit Appeals.
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Maffei
Maffel
Jun Hatoyama
Board of Permit Appeals
Nixon Johnson to meet on peace path after election
Nixon and Johnson plan talks in Key Biscayne on Vietnam peace efforts and Nixon's possible role before his January 20 inauguration. Nixon says he will act only if Johnson requests, while Humphrey affirms cooperation with the incoming administration.
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Ritenauer
Nixon
Johnson
Key Biscayne
Fla.upi
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Paris
Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church
Illing
New York
Pierre Hotel
Nixons
Lady Bird
Pat
Julie
Tricia
New York Kennedy Airport
Dean Rusk
Vietnam
Hubert H. Humphrey
Virgin Islands
Humphrey
Assassin suspect swaps lawyers before King assassination trial
Memphis AP reports James Earl Ray, charged with first degree murder in the April 4 King assassination, switched lawyers two days before the trial. Sheriff Morris confirmed Foreman and two Ray brothers met at the jail and signed documents for the new representation.
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Memphis, Tenn
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Porty
Ray
King
William N. Morris Jr
Foreman
Fer Goldberg's Summer Special on Stage
Fer Goldberg headlines a summer special at Sa on pone I theater. The show features a mix of comedy and musical routines with guest appearances expected to draw local crowds.
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Fer Goldberg
Sumre
Prague rally tightens clash as anti Soviet crowd confronts supporters
In Prague anti Soviet and Czechoslovak demonstrators jeered hard line Communists at a Soviet friendship rally. Amid shouts of traitors and murderers police ferried a pro Soviet woman to safety as others clashed with onlookers.
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Prague
Famira
Vacaly David
Sarkis Matirosian
Sovie Army
Dubcek
Yugoslay
Tito
Oskijek
Mummy Identified as Baboon Not Princess in Tomb
University of Michigan scientists concluded the mummy in Qaees Makeri tomb belongs to a young girl baboon, not Princess Mentoohit as initially thought. The discovery followed careful study at Ann Arbor.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
UPI
University of Michigan
Qaees Makeri
Mentoohit
Snowstorms bury nation as cold snap grinds southward
Three major snowstorms dump two feet on parts of the country while temperatures plunge below freezing into Mississippi and Alabama. West Dover Vermont reports 24 inches on the ground with more snow likely. In Washington officials floated ending or reducing the 10 percent income tax surcharge by next June 30.
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Mississippi
Alabama
Washington
UPI
Weather Update No. 7 Light Snow and Cold Start
Light snow reported this morning with a low of 23 degrees. Details appear on page seven.
Park rites honor dead of all wars in Elyria
The annual Veterans Day ceremony in Ely Park honored Americans who died in wars. Elyria Veterans Council sponsored the event with Mayor Reichlin and Rev Bela Basco present for the invocation. The Elyria High School Band played as wreaths were laid by Gold Star Mothers DAR Navy Mothers and Air Force Mothers along with a color guard representing local veterans and armed services.
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Elyria
America
Ely Park
Elyria Veterans Council
Robert Choate
Wilmot Printing Co
Veterans Monument
Leonard P. Reichlin
Bela Basco
Magyar United Church of Christ
Elyria High School
Daughters of the American Revolution
Navy
Air Force
Armed Service
Soviets Launch Zond 6 Toward Moon in Unmanned Flight
The Soviet Union announced the unmanned Zond 6 spacecraft has been launched to explore near lunar space and test systems. It entered a parking Earth orbit before heading toward the moon, with onboard equipment reported functioning normally.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Moon
Earth
Zond 6
George T. Beregovoy
Beregovoy
Indian Ocean
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United States
South Pacific
Europe
Walter A. Godfrey
Fred M. Ritenauer
Jerry Keron
Keron
Ludwig M. Pincura
Edwin Randall
82Nd Airborne Division
Ft. Bragg
N.C
82Nd
Alvin C. York
York
San Francisco
Fred Maffei
Telegraph Hill
Merriman Smith
John
Jerry Ray
Yestertorney
Morris
Yugoslavia
U.S
New End
Oan
North
Carolina
Mike Clary
Sam of
Zond
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