Newton High School
Class Of 1968
1968 Facts
Average Price of a Car: $2,450.00
Average Price of a Gallon of Milk: $1.21
Average Price of a Loaf of Bread: $.21
US Postal Stamp First Class: $.06
Average Price of a Home: $26,600.00
Gallon of Gas in Newton: $.18 to $.22 (This is from my memory and could be wrong)
Most Popular Television Shows:
1. Laugh-in (Ohhh Sock-it-to me)
2. Gomer Pyle (Well, Gollee)
3. Bonanza
4. Mayberry,RFD
5. Gunsmoke
6. Julia
7. Dick Van Dyke Show
8. Dean Martin Show
9. Here's Lucy
10. Beverly Hillbillies
11. Mission: Impossible
12. Bewitched
13. Red Skelton Hour
14. My Three Sons
15. Glen Cambell
16. Good Time Hour
17. Ironside
18. Virginian
19. The FBI
20. Green Acres
21. Dragnet
22. Daniel Boone
23. Walt Disney
24. Ed Sullivan
25. Carol Burnett Show
26. Jackie Gleason Show
Debut TV Shows: Adam-12 - The Mod Squad (Link and Julie) - 60 Minutes - The Doris Day Show
Shows canned: The Smothers Brothers - Star Trek (What a run that program had over the last 40 years) - Batman (POW!)
1968 Emmy Awards
Outstanding Dramatic Series Mission: Impossible
Outstanding Leading Actor Bill Cosby, I Spy
Outstanding Leading Actress Barbara Bain, Mission: Impossible
Outstanding Supporting Actor Milburn Stone, Gunsmoke
Outstanding Supporting Actress Barbara Anderson, Ironside
Outstanding Comedy Series Get Smart!
Outstanding Leading Actor Don Adams, Get Smart!
Outstanding Leading Actress Lucille Ball, The Lucy Show
Outstanding Supporting Actor Werner Klemperer, Hogan's Heroes
Outstanding Supporting Actress Marion Lorne, Bewitched
Academy Awards (Oscars)
Best Picture: Oliver!
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson, Charly
Best Actress (tie) Katherine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter - Barbara Streisand, Funny Girl
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Albertson, The Subject Was Roses
Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby
Best Director: Carol Reed, Oliver!
Cannes Film Festival - The Festival was canceled because of the unstable political climate in Paris
The 1968 Grammy Awards
Record of the Year: "Mrs. Robinson," Simon and Garfunkel
Album of the Year: By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Cambell
Song of the Year: "Little Green Apples", Bobby Russell
Best New Artist: José Feliciano
Best Contemporary Pop: "Light My Fire", José Feliciano
Best Rhythm and Blues Song: (Sittin' On) "The Dock of the Bay", Otis Redding and Steve Cropper
Best Rhythm and Blues "Chain of Fools", Aretha Franklin
Best Country Song "Little Green Apples", Bobby Russell
Best Country Vocal "Folsom Prison Blues", Johnny Cash
Best Country Vocal "Harper Valley P.T.A.", Jeannie C. Riley
College Football Final AP Top 20
1. Ohio State 10-0-0
2. Penn State 11-0-0
3. Texas 9-1-1
4. Southern Cal 9-1-1
5. Notre Dame 7-2-1
6. Arkansas 10-1-0
7. Kansas 9-2-0
8. Georgia 8-1-2
9. Missouri 8-3-0
10. Purdue 8-2-0
11. Oklahoma 7-4-0
12. Michigan 8-2-0
13. Tennessee 8-2-1
14. SMU 8-3-0
15. Oregon State 7-3-0
16. Auburn 7-4-0
17. Alabama 8-3-0
18. Houston 6-2-2
19. LSU 8-3-0
20. Ohio University 10-1-0
Professional Football 1968 Season
Super Bowl III - Orange Bowl, Miami
NY Jets (16) v. Baltimore (7)
MVP: NY Jets QB Joe Namath (17 for 28, 206 yards)
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