Kokomo High School - Sargasso Yearbook (Kokomo, IN)

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Pickets kept a day and night vigil at the Stellite plant gates during the weeks ofthe strike. A diligent search by the Kokomo police department Turned up no evidence in the YWCA bomb scare. . F' if. P lx 'lr ' X n ...i g ML i M Area farmers face difticulty in solving the question of what actions to take to raise the price ot milk. i9

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ff 'S' ,fqi nf' Ted Kennedy and RepresenTaTive Roush arrive aT Kokomo Municipal AirporT and are cheerfully greeTed by an eager crowd of enThusiasTic campaign supporTers. During The pasT year, many im- porTanT evenTs of local inTeresT have occurred which aFfecTed The lives of Kokomo residenTs. One of The mosT memorable vvas The explosion aT The Union Carbide Division of Haynes STelliTe. Kokomo High School es- pecially grieved abouT The deaTh of Tom PeTers who vvas a member of The l966 Sargasso sTaFF. OTher Tragic evenTs which broughT greaT unhappiness vvere The sTrikes of laborers aT STelliTe, dairy Tarm- ers vvanTing higher Working vvages and milk prices, and The severe ice sTorm of early February which crip- pled Kokomo indusTry and acTiviTies nearly a week. A happier evenT for The ciTy was The visiT of RoberT Kennedy who came To boosT The senaTorial cam- paign oT Edward Roush. AnoTher imporTanT evenT was The appropria- Tion of money Tor The nevv school. Loca! News Events Have Stcztewzde Ejjiczf The STelIiTe explosion inTerrupTs The sereniTy of summer and places The ciTy in mourning.

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Hdl9f96HZ.HgS Are Rqflectea' in the Faces WF Tfzoyg As always when the world is at a crossroads between war and peace much ofthe news which dom- inated the world scene was cata- strophic, Foremost among the tragic events affecting the United States was the war in Viet Nam and the deaths ot three Apollo astronauts, one ot whom, Gus Grissom, was a native ot Indiana. The assassination of President Kennedy was again in the minds ot Americans as his body was moved to a new and tinal resting place. Also in connection with the late President, was the Manchester publication and Jack Ruby's death. On the international scene, lVlao's struggle for supremacy and Presi- dent Sukarno's oust trom oftice made world-wide headlines. President Sukarno is dethroned after nearly Qi years of one-man rule in indone- sia by a more democratic government. Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung addresses his followers in an effort to bring the civil war torn China together after days ot rioting. Sgt. O'Malley receives a medal for special ac- tion in the Vietnamese conflict. .f lIf