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Lincoln Hall was opened at the Indiana Soldiers Home.
Purdue defeated Southern California 14-13 in the 1967 Rose Bowl football game.
Lafayette School Corporation awarded a contract for construction of Phase I of a new Jefferson High School on the old Pythian Home farm off South 18th Street.
Fire destroyed wooden structures on the abandoned Lafayette Stockyards property. [Two nights later fire consumed the J.O. Perkins Lumber Company property on Wabash Avenue, near the Stockyards, raising suspicion that a neighborhood arsonist was at work.]
A severe ice storm damaged thousands of trees, left some 3,000 Greater Lafayette homes without electric power for two days, and snarled Midwest highway travel, leaving countless motorists stranded far from home.
Lafayette School Corporation awarded a contract for Phase II of the new Jefferson High School.
Evansville North defeated Lafayette Jefferson in the championship game of the boys' high school basketball tournament at Indianapolis. Jefferson coach Marion Crawley resigned March 21. [He planned to run for the Republican nomination for mayor of Lafayette in the May primary, but withdrew on April 5.]
Joe Heath was named Jefferson High School basketball coach. A former Jeff player, Heath had been coaching at Winamac and Tipton.
Thomas R. "Tommy" Johnston, director of public information at Purdue University for 45 years and a governor candidate in 1956, died.
Two men robbed the Purdue National Bank branch in Mar-Jean Village of $9,890 in the first local bank holdup since 1930. On Aug. 3 two suspects were charged.
Three mountain climbers, among them Henry Janes, of West Lafayette, became lost on Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Later all were found dead.
The Tippecanoe County Historical Association launched its first annual Feast of the Hunters Moon on Wabash Riverfront land near Ft. Ouiatenon, southwest of West Lafayette off South River Road.
The Indiana Mental Health Association named Dr. Harry E. Klepinger, of Lafayette, as its "Physician Of the Year."
Lafayette Mayor Donald Blue and Mayor James Williamson, of West Lafayette, won re-election.
Earl L. Butz, dean of agriculture at Purdue University, announced as a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor.
Purdue University dedicated its new basketball arena in a game against UCLA, coached by former Purdue great John Wooden.
The United Fund reached its goal of $557,000.
Robert L. Funcheon was named postmaster after nearly three years of controversy. He took the oath of office May 3, 1968.
A new section of South 18th Street was opened between Main and Center, linking the north and south ends of Lafayette.