Hereford Teen Crowned District VFW Sweetheart
Connie Watson age 16 of Hereford was named Sweetheart of District 9 in the Veterans of Foreign Wars and will vie with other district winners for the state sweetheart award at the El Paso convention later this year. LARRY GRAVESTOCK won the Amarillo Charity pigeon shoot at the Amarillo Gun Club in a shoot-off after four others posted 18 birds over two days.
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Hereford
Veterans of Foreign Wars
el Paso
Larry Gravestock
Wichita Falls
Amarillo
Election of Daryl Schuster as Wichita president
Top of the Day reports Daryl Schuster from Wichita elected president. The item references pages and unrelated notes about Scotland's Loch Ness monster and a treason trial, followed by a separate account of a German avalanche rescue at Garmisch with volunteers digging trenches for missing victims.
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Daryl Schuster
Wichita
U.S
Garmisch
Germany
Viet Blast Toll Mounts
A Pentagon tally lists five Texas relatives among dead and missing as explosions at Bien Hoa Air Base, Viet Nam kill 26 Americans and four Vietnamese. Officials say the blast was accidental with extensive property damage and many wounded.
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Texas
Bien Hoa Air Base
South Viet Nam
Bien Hoa
Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Pentagon
William K. Martin
Air Force
U.S
Saigon
Joseph H. Moore
US Air Force
America
Moore
Thailand
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Skyraider
Trading Post Snags Traders
In Oakland California three companions put Doug Powell of Los Angeles in charge of raising cash by exchanging pins and four pistols. Herman Cartum of Hermans Trading Post in Oakland agreed to accept the items on Friday before calling the police. Powell and his cohorts were arrested.
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Oakland
Calif
Doug Powell
Los Angeles
Herman Cartum
Herman's
Powell
Polish Diplomat Seeks Political Asylum in Berlin
In Berlin a Polish military diplomat identified as Wladislaw Tykocinski, about 44, asked for political asylum at a U S shopping center near the military HQ. US officials said the request is under consideration after he was turned over to authorities. He stood 6 foot 3 and weighed 250 pounds with greying hair and a black mustache.
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Polit- Mission
Thcat Asylum
United
U.S
State Department
West Germany
Wladislaw Tykocinski
Tykocinski
Marion HH. Tomlinson
West Berlin
Tomlinson
Mt. Vernon
Ind
U.S. Berlin
Dominican Junta presses rebel pocket in Santo Domingo battle
In Santo Domingo the junta seized a 15 square block rebel sector after fierce street fighting that left over 50 dead. The attack involved more than 300 junta soldiers with two tanks and an assault car, while 150 more troops and a tank waited in reserve. The fighting centered near the national cemetery on Maximo Gomez Avenue one mile north of the U.S. security zone. Rebels claimed around 12 of their fighters and 45 junta troops killed along with civilians fleeing the area.
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U.S
Central Texas Floods Forcing 100 Families From Homes
A violent storm system lashed Central Texas with tornadoes hail and 65 mph winds flooding Killeen Belton and San Antonio. The Leon River rose near LBJ Ranch while a Santa Fe freight derailment occurred near Killeen. No injuries reported.
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Indicted Attorney Slain in Haltom City Motel
Fort Worth lawyer Robert Maclin, 39, once labeled homicidal by DA Doug Crouch, was killed in a Haltom City motel Sunday night. He faced six indictments from a January grand jury and had bond totaling 150000. he had shot investigator Paul Sanford, 39, guarding the DA’s house. Police hunted the armed slayer with a shotgun across Haltom City and Fort Worth.
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UPI
Fort Worth
Robert Maclin
Doug Crouch
Maclin
Crouch
Oklahoma Patrol Reports 88 Armed Drunk Drivers Nabbed
Oklahoma's Operation Lifeguard nets 88 armed drinking drivers in first two days. Statewide totals include 460 violators cited and 826 given written warnings.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Oklahoma
Life Guard
Beagle Geoffrey Pardoned By Johnson For Chewing a Ten Dollar Bill
Geoffrey the beagle in Rockville Centre, New York, receives a presidential pardon after allegedly defacing a ten dollar bill. Mrs. Ruggiaro wrote to President Johnson with Geoffrey’s photo, and the White House letter signed by Paul M. Popple confirms the pardon and return of the damaged currency.
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N.Y
Geoffrey the Beagle
Feds
Johnson
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Pooch
Geoffrey
United States
Blanco
Man in the Trunk Israeli Traitor Faces Trial in Rome
Mordecai Luk known as the Man in the Trunk appeared in a Rome court to face six counts including security offenses and passing information to an enemy state. Prosecutors say Luk defected from Israel to Egypt in 1961 and then spied for Egyptian intelligence in Europe. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
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Mordecai Luk
Rome
Israel
Luk
Ezra Hadaya
Jerusalem
Egypt
Moscow
Petah- Tikva
United Nations
Naples
Italy
Europe
Missile carried by missile to Peking blast
Asahi newspaper reports from Peking that Communist China's second atomic bomb exploded Friday while carried by a missile. Sources close to the government say the weapon was launched from western mainland China and detonated in flight over the target area. no further details were given.
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Asahi Saimbun
Peking
China
Asahi
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