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Purdue National Bank announced plans for a 10-story building at the southeast corner of Second and Main streets.
Congressman Charles A. Halleck, of Rensselaer, Tippecanoe County's representative since 1935, announced that he would retire at the end of the year.
Lafayette's City Council approved acquisition of new fire station sites at 16th and Salem streets, and at Fourth and Brown streets, the latter to be a new Central station. On March 13 the city OKd sale of $700,000 worth of bonds to build the stations, and to extend Erie Street from Union northeasterly along railroad tracks to North 18th Street.
Airport owner Lawrence I. "Cap" Aretz, Lafayette aviation pioneer starting in 1928 as manager of Shambaugh Field, died at age 68.
Following assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a memorial service was held at the Courthouse Square in Lafayette, and plans were announced to establish a Greater Lafayette Human Relations Commission.
In the primary election, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy won the Indiana Democratic presidential primary over Governor Branigin; Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination. And in a 10-man primary, Earl F. Landgrebe, Valparaiso, defeated O.U. Sullivan, Lafayette, for the GOP nomination for 2nd District Congressman. A recount in June confirmed but did not change the close Landgrebe-Sullivan finish.
Harold Gray, creator of the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" and a West Lafayette High School graduate in 1912, died at 74 in La Jolla, Calif.
The Lafayette Catholic Diocese closed St. Ann School, operative since 1923.
Earl L. Butz, West Lafayette, lost the nomination for governor to Edgar D. Whitcomb in the Republican State Convention, Indianapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Irvine, of Wheatfield, Ind., were parents of the first quadruplet babies born in Tippecanoe County.
Six persons, four of them Lafayette firefighters, were injured in a fire at a plywood storage building owned by National Homes Corporation.
Tippecanoe School Corporation approved plans for Harrison High School on County Farm Road.
The federal government designated the Tippecanoe Battlefield at Battle Ground as an official U.S. Historical Landmark.
Long-distance direct-dial telephone service began with Purdue University President Frederick L. Hovde calling astronaut Neil Armstrong in Texas.
A YMCA building-fund campaign passed its goal as pledges reached $752,688.
After James Dudley Herron II, age 11, of West Lafayette, died of a brain hemorrhage, his heart was donated to Maria Giannaris, age 5, in a transplant operation by Dr. Denton Cooley at the Texas Heart Institute. But on Aug. 25 the little girl from Hagerstown, Md., died.
Lafayette's nine-member Human Relations Commission was formed. West Lafayette organized a seven-member commission on Sept. 30.
Indiana Vocational Technical College, or "Ivy Tech," opened its first local training center in a former nurses' residence next to Home Hospital. Seventeen students enrolled for courses aimed at training medical laboratory assistants and operating room technicians.
In a time of growing national unrest over U.S. involvement in the warfare in Vietnam and of college student demonstrations for peace and an end to the military draft, an organization called the Purdue Peace Union conducted a "sit-in" to disrupt operations of the Purdue Placement Service. This protested on-campus recruiting visits by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Narcotics Agency, and the Dow Chemical Company.
Republicans swept Tippecanoe County elections and Richard M. Nixon carried the county in his presidential victory. Earl Landgrebe, Valparaiso, won the county and full 2nd District U.S. Representative race. Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey, senator from Minnesota, and American Independent George C. Wallace, Alabama governor. Nationally Nixon obtained 31,785,480 votes to 31,275,166 for Humphrey, 9,906,473 for Wallace; and 301 electoral votes to 191 and 46. Tippecanoe supported Nixon with 24,352 votes to 14,528 for Humphrey and 2,000 for Wallace.
General Foods Corporation announced that it had chosen a building site southeast of Lafayette for construction of a food processing plant. GF described the project in detail on May 8, 1969, and broke ground June 5.
Four Clarks Hill boys died in a car-train accident on the Norfolk & Western railroad near town. Victims were Stephen Scanlon, 16, Donald Lee Nydegger, 16, Johnnie L. Stephens, 14, and Edwin H. Whitlock, 14. The boys were in a car returning from a Saturday night dance.
A special census counted 20,086, making West Lafayette a third-class city.
Charles Burnham, former West Lafayette mayor, died at 76.
After a set of cast-iron statues showing a black boy and a Newfoundland dog, on display for many years in front of the fire station at Main and South streets, became the object of protest among some black Lafayette residents, the new Human Relations Commission recommended that a "white boy" statue be placed with the others as a symbol of racial equality.