Chicago riots escalate as National Guard joins crackdown
Illinois National Guard mobilized 3000 troops at Mayor Daley's request as three nights of West Side rioting spread into daylight. Police battled looters and snipers. more than 900 officers, 3000 guardsmen, and multiple civilians were injured or arrested. A 14 year old girl Roseland Howard was killed and Raymond Williams, 22, died from gunfire.
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Chicago
Ilinois National Guard
West Side
Otto Kerner
Illinois National Guard
Richard J. Daley
Raymond Williams
Robinsonville
Miss
Cook County
Cool Air Invades Blistered Midwest and Nation
A slow-moving cold front brings relief to areas under a long heat wave including the Midwest and South. In St Louis area 124 heat deaths since last Friday, with 85 in the city. Thirty cities report 100 degree readings. New York, Baltimore and Denver cool from record heat while a belt of thunderstorms forms from the Mid Atlantic to the Rockies.
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St. Louis
Weather Bureau
New England
Denver
Baltimore
New York
Malcolm Wilson
Agriculture Department
Jefferson
Lewis
New York City
Deert
Atlantic Seaboard
Great Lakes
Mid-Atlantic Coast
Rockies
Night of Horror Leaves Eight Nurses Slain in Dormitory
Corazon Amarao, a survivor and ex change student, was too hysterical to recount the mass slaying that killed eight student nurses in a town house dormitory. She escaped by bed sheets, and police await a clearer statement once she is steadier.
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South Chicago Community Hospital
Corazon Amarou
Chicago
Corazon Amarao
Francis Flanagan
Miss Amarao
South Chicago
Air war escalates with record 114 missions against North Vietnam
U S jets hit Hanoi area targets in a high intensity day with 114 missions. MIG clashes occurred four times as US aircraft knocked out a railroad bridge near Hanoi. B52s hammered a suspected troop concentration near the DMZ as Thich Quang resumes hunger strike activity in Saigon. Indira Gandhi’s Moscow peace mission stalls.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Navy
Hanoi
Red China
Ranger
Air Force
Cao Cau
Cau River
Viet Nam
Thich Venerable Tri Quang
Indira Gandhi
Moscow
No Signs Of Break In Strike
Negotiators for the machinists union and five struck airlines met at the Labor Department but remained far apart. IAM chief Ramsey said talks are not progressing and the strike by over 35,000 workers at Eastern National Northwest Trans World and United could continue into next week.
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Machinists Union
Labor Department
Aflcio International Association of Machinists
Eastern
National
Northwest
Trans World
United Airlines
Ramsey
IAM
Curtin
Littler Tops Hudnutt to Reach Ohio Amateur Final
Bobby Littler of Athens defeated Art Hudnutt of Elyria 6 5 in Friday morning semifinal play to advance to the 18 hole final of the Ohio Amateur Golf Tournament in Toledo.
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Bobby Littler
Athens
Art Hudnutt
Elyria
Ohio
Toledo
Sculpture finds new life in outdoor setting
Mrs. Edith H. Reed reports on a sculpture placed outdoors giving it renewed purpose. Pages reference regional planning notes and local feature items from The Messenger, with other brief mentions including Athens resident activity and political headlines involving Senator Dodd.
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Regional Planning Commission
Moe Bormion
Edith H. Reed
Athens
Julius Klein
Sen. Dodd
New Blasts Hit Hercules Powder Plant Near Carthage
A series of blasts at the Hercules Powder Co plant near Carthage Missouri injures about 50 people and destroys most of the 1200 acre site. Maurice Crowell rescued after being found amid debris and hospitalized in critical condition. Officials estimate replacement value at 3.6 to 7 million dollars with 85 percent of the plant destroyed and 145 nearby homes damaged or destroyed.
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Carthage
Hercules Powder Co
Kansas City
Tulsa
Maurice Crowell
George Hickam
Crowell
Disaster Area Plea Scheduled
Cincinnati area officials weighed declaring a disaster region after two days of damaging windstorms and rain. Three deaths were reported and damage runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars with Middletown and Lebanon estimating hundreds of thousands in losses. Power and phone service remained out in hundreds of homes as storms toppled trees and downed wires.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Middletown
Irene Lewis
Butler County Civil Defense
James A. Rhodes
Lou Romohr
Lebanon
James H. Smith
Batavia
Accident Claim in Bellaire Claims Two at Bell
Benjamin Travis aged 27 from Bellaire laughed at a coworker as belts were fastened then joined the drive home. He died in an Ohio crash on Ohio 7 along with Charles Kindle in a collision that struck a guard rail.
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Benjamin Travis
Bellaire
Travis
Ohio
Charles E. Kindle
Beauties Win Events in Miss Ohio Pageant Night
Miss Toledo Bonnie Jeanne Faulkner won the talent event while Kathleen Hepler captured the swimsuit preliminary. Linda Lee Holzhauser, 18, of Collins, was hospitalized with an intestinal condition after collapsing at a rehearsal. she planned to return tonight as 31 contestants enter another preliminary.
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Sandusky
Miss Toledo
Wood County
Miss Vacationland
Linda Lee Holzhauser
Collins
Bonnie Jeanne Faulkner
Toledo
University of Toledo
Kathleen Elizabeth Hepler
Bowling Green
Ohio Wesleyan
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Columbus
Washington
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Logan
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Joseph W. Ramsey
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William J. Curtin
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James J. Reynolds
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Point Pleasant
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Ewer Ee
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