From Afton to Green Signs The Changing Highway
Retrospective reflections on the shift from Blue Book auto guides to Green Sign navigation. Notes on towns bypassed by highway construction, lasting impact on places like Afton Erick Sayre Elk City and Oklahoma City, with urban planning critiques and cultural anecdotes. Includes quotes on daylight saving time and Will Rogers humor. WES IZZARD
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Erick
Sayre
Elk City
Oklahoma City
St. Louis
Man breaches barriers at Kosygin talks seeks chat not attack
A Bowery drifter, Michael Natale Rocco, 42, approached the Soviet mission with a loaded pistol and hunting knife in a blue bag. He claimed no intent to harm anyone and asked to talk with Premier Kosygin about peace. Rocco was arrested for illegal weapons possession and sent to Bellevue Hospital for mental examination. police noted his mental illness history.
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New York
Bowery
Alexei N. Kosygin
Michael Natale Rocco
Rocco
Kosygin
Criminal Court
Julius Archibald
Bellevue Hospital
Asst. Dist
David Richmond
East 67Th Street
Howard R. Leary
Bronx
Air Cavalry Fights 10 Hour Battle in Bong Son Plain
American forces of the 1st Air Cavalry Division engaged more than 500 North Vietnamese regulars in a fierce 10 hour action on the Bong Son plain. At least 39 Communists were killed and six Americans died with 22 wounded. The engagement ended near midnight as the North Vietnamese withdrew under darkness. The central coast battlefield lies about 300 miles northeast of Saigon amid ongoing monsoon offensives. A company of about 200 men from the 2nd Brigade first encountered the North Vietnamese battalion mid morning.
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Saigon
API
1St Air Cavalry Division
South Vietnam
Bong Son Plain
USS
Surveyor Notes on People and Games Highlighted on Page 29
A surveyor offers brief comments about local people and games featured today on page 29. The notes capture quick impressions and notable moments from recent activities without extensive detail.
Floydada Seeks Ideal Police Chief After Turbulent Tenure
Floydada still seeks a police chief as past holders faced scrutiny over harshness on citizens and a controversial paperback authoring record. Firefighter-turned-chief Darrell Holmes was hired March 1 and fired mid April amid duty absences and local backlash.
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Floydada
Darrell Holmes
Floyd Bradley
First Baptist Church
Leonard Matsler
Bradley
Holmes
Matsler
Bill Feuerbacher
Bill Taylor
Softened Dodd Slap Gets Veto
The Senate rejected a move to admonish Sen. Thomas J. Dodd 92 to 2 and prepared to vote on censuring the Connecticut Democrat for alleged financial misconduct. The outcome reflected displeasure with Sen. Russell B. Long and support for possible censure over diversion of political funds to Dodd’s personal use.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Thomas J. Dodd
Connecticut
Dodd
Russell B. Long
D-La
Senate Ethics Committee
Power Grab Plans Foiled
New York authorities arrested 16 Black individuals in quiet neighborhoods on Wednesday, alleging a plot to assassinate Black leaders and seize power in the United States and worldwide by force.
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United States
New York
Bombs and weapons seized in pre-dawn raids across New York
Police said a machine gun, more than 30 other weapons, scopes, helmets, radios, over 1 000 rounds of ammunition and explosive material were seized in raids spanning Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. One arrest occurred in Philadelphia as authorities linked the plot to assassinations of NAACP leader Roy Wilkins and others.
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Philadelphia
Maxwell Stanford
Queens
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
Whitney M. Young Jr
National Urban League
Navy
Johnsons welcome first grandchild Patrick Lyndon Nugent
President and Mrs. Johnson became grandparents for the first time as Luci Nugent gave birth to Patrick Lyndon Nugent at Seton Hospital at 6 59 am. The baby weighs 21 inches long with light hair and bluish slate gray eyes. The father described the child as an elephant and Mr Nugent, tearful but smiling, later announced the name.
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Lyndon Johnson
Luci
Seton Hospital
Nugents
Patrick Lyndon Nugent
Ladybird
AMA Takes First Stand On Abortion
The American Medical Association, ending a 97 year silence, adopted a liberal abortion policy in Atlantic City. It endorses abortion for rape or incest, threat to mother’s health, and cases where the infant would have disabilities. Three states match it. twenty more legislatures consider reform, prompting controversy.
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American Medical Association
AMA
Colorado
North Carolina
California
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Hammon
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Mary E. Williamson
Hereford
Theodore H. White
Wentworth Eldredge
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U.S
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Pampa
Will Rogers
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Ronald Mitchell
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Freddy Edwards
Mercer University
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By John Debaun
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Tierra Blanca Creek
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Yantis
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