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Erich Klinghammer, professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University, opened Wolf Park on a 75-acre farm near Battle Ground to research the behavior of wolves, opening to tourists for evening "howls."
Sixteen Tippecanoe County churches started Lafayette Urban Ministry, a mechanism to provide a wide range of social services, such as emergency rent or utility assistance, to qualifying low-income families.
A group of downtown merchants and friends interested in promotion and beautification formed Friends of Downtown. In the years that followed, flower and tree planting, placement of a Farmers Market statue, improvements to Long Center, the courthouse, Christmas street-lighting, sponsorship of concerts, placement of benches became projects. Dues from members and an annual chrysanthemum sale helped finance projects.
Architect Walter E. Scholer, Sr., died at age 81.
Governor Whitcomb signed bills staggering the terms of Tippecanoe County Council members and transferring control of the Tippecanoe Battlefield from the state to the county park board.
Purdue University renamed its Memorial Center in honor of long-time vice president and treasurer R.B. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart.
In the first major traffic accident on Interstate 65 in Tippecanoe County, three Chicagoans died. A Jeep hit a tank truck hauling milk.
Congressman Landgrebe presented a $200,000 federal aid check at groundbreaking for Lafayette's riverfront golf course and park.
About 1,000 Purdue University students and faculty marched from the West Lafayette campus to the Courthouse in Lafayette and burned a U.S. flag in protest of bombing of Indochina and mining Haiphong harbor, recent strategies in the Vietnam war.
Purdue athletic director George King named Fred Schaus as men's basketball coach.
Tippecanoe School Corporation board members planning a south-county high school voted to name it in honor of the famous McCutcheons born and reared nearby: John T., George Barr and John Barr McCutcheon
Dr. Walter Little, Lafayette osteopath, was convicted of 13 counts of federal narcotics law violations while running his drug-abuse clinic called Pendleton Project.
The Tippecanoe County Historical Association bought 21 acres along the Wabash River believed to be the true site of Ft. Ouiatenon.
Lafayette and West Lafayette city councils passed joint resolutions renaming U.S. 52 Bypass, first opened in about 1938 and now being rebuilt and widened, as "Sagamore Parkway."
Republicans won overwhelmingly in county elections, with President Nixon leading all. Democrat Floyd Fithian, a Purdue history professor, defeated Republican Congressman Landgrebe by 7,500 in the county, but lost the district. Nixon defeated Democrat George S. McGovern, senator from South Dakota, 47,169,911 to 29,170,383 nationally, and by 520-17 in electoral votes. Tippecanoe County backed Nixon 31,565 to 14,598.
Bob Sparks set a world hot-air balloon record for endurance - 11 hours 14 minutes - after liftoff from Halsmer Airport east of Lafayette.
Purdue University named Alex Agase head football coach following resignation of Bob DeMoss.