Wild Man of Green Swamp Captured in Central Florida
A 39 year old Taiwan native dubbed the Wild Man of the Green Swamp was caught after a 15 member search party tracked him to a swamp hideout 10 miles deep in the Central Florida preserve. He spoke through an interpreter and said he lived on raw armadillo meat for seven or eight months. He admitted breaking and entering, was jailed in Bushnell on $250 bond, and had stolen food clothing and other items. He carried a three foot steel pipe a guany sack cooking utensils and a water jug. He claimed he feared return to Taiwan and cried as authorities captured him. He said he left a wife and seven children there to work in the United States.
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Bushnell, Fla
Green Swamp
Taiwan
Florida
United States
Bushnell
Sumter County
Don Page
Texas House approves statewide utility regulation bill
The House passed 96 to 27 a measure to create a statewide utilities regulatory commission with telephone rate making under its control by 109 to 10 vote. Other utilities could be city regulated. An original cost basis amendment failed to reach required third reading majority.
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Austin
House
Senate
Texas
Latham Boone
D-Navasota
Jim Mattox
D-Dallas
Mattox
Boone
John Wilson
D-La Grange
Kaster
Mayaguez Captain Says Marines and Air Force Saved Crew
Captain Charles T. Miller testified at a news conference that he bargained for his crew’s freedom by promising Cambodian captors an end to U.S. air strikes. Miller, 62, of Mountain Valley California, said he and his crew were gassed and struck by shrapnel.
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Singapore
Mayaguez
U.S
Charles T. Miller
Mountain Valley
Calif
Mayaguez captain recalls rescue and captivity details
Captain Miller described the 68 hour capture and rescue by U S forces after the Mayaguez incident. He said Cambodians treated his crew and Thai fishermen without mistreatment, though planes strafed and teargassed the boat during the attempt to prevent imprisonment on the Cambodian mainland.
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U.S
Marine
Air Force
Miller
Navy
Washington
Phnom Penh
Thai students demand US apology over Mayaguez incident
Thais gather near the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok with up to 10 000 protesters denouncing U S actions in the Mayaguez rescue. They demand a formal apology, object to U S troops and bombing from Thai bases, and urge respect for sovereignty while a protest note is delivered in Washington.
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Chatichai Choonhavan
Thailand
U.S
Edward E. Masters
Washington
Kukrit Pramoj
Commission Eyes Oswald FBI Link Revealed in Transcript
The Warren Commission discussed a declassified transcript reporting Lee Harvey Oswald worked as an FBI undercover agent for over a year before Kennedy's assassination. Included were claims of an FBI badge 79 and pay of 200 dollars a month from 1962 to 1963.
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Washington
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
FBI
John F. Kennedy
Commission
Earl Warren
Ford
Michigan
Harold Weisberg
Weisberg
Oswald
Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
J. Lee Rankin
Waggoner Carr
Texas
Preakness Stakes Derby Beat Leads Weekend Rail News
Amid Brey letters on Vietnam and McGovern Cuba visit Kaleidoscope notes Master Derby 23 to 1 winner over Foolish Pleasure in the 100th Preakness. The USDA cattle on feed report shows placements ahead of marketings by 12 thousand as of May 1. A girl in Amarillo works hard and laughs, Ann B Davis stars in The Nearlyweds. The tennis Number One faces pressure in Family Weekly cover story.
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Foolish Pleasure
Page
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ann B. Davis
Amarillo Little Theatre
Family Weekly
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Henry Wade
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