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40-Something Years Ago....
We are fortunate enough to have original Holden Police Department logs from the 1960s, which are reproduced in part for our website. Click on the month you would like to read about. We will be adding to this page "as time goes by", so be sure to check back for more logs. Just for fun.
 
1964 Logs
January April July October
February May August November
March June September December
1964 Fun Facts
World News.....
Nikita Khruschev is removed from power in the Soviet Union (replaced by Leonid Brezhnev), the Winter Olympics are hosted in Innsbruck, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge into Tanzania, and South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment.
National News.....
Lyndon Johnson defeats Senator Barry Goldwater in the Presidential Election, The Warren Commission issues its findings that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in his assassination of JFK, Jimmy Hoffa brings all US truckers together into a single Teamsters Union, the Surgeon General directly links cigarette smoking to lung cancer for the first time, and Albert DeSalvo is captured and confesses to being The Boston Strangler. There was no Vice President of the United States in 1964.
Television Favorites.....
Bewitched, Gomer Pyle USMC, The Fugitive
At the Movies .....
My Fair Lady, Dr. Strangelove, Goldfinger, Mary Poppins, A Hard Day's Night, A Shot in the Dark
On the Radio.....
Baby Love (The Supremes), Can't Buy Me Love (The Beatles), The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals), I Get Around (The Beach Boys), Leader of the Pack (The Shangri-Las)
On the Sports Page.....
St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series, A.J. Foyt wins the Indy 500 (147.35 MPH), UCLA takes the NCAA Basketball Championship, The Houston Colt .45s become the Houston Astros.
At the Supermarket.....
Sugar
90¢ /10 lbs.
Coffee
85¢ /pound
Milk
$1.06 /gallon
Eggs
34¢ /dozen
Cost of Living.....
New House $13,000 New Car $3,500
Ave. Income $6,080/year Gas 30¢ /gallon
Movie Ticket $1.25 1st Class Stamp