Kin and Friends Grieve After Flight 214 Crash
Philadelphia relatives and friends waited at the airport for Pan American Flight 214 from San Juan. News warned the jet crashed near Elkton Maryland with 80 dead, while hopeful mourners clung to possible last minute changes and wedding gifts left behind.
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Philadelphia
International Airport
Pan American
San Juan
P.R
Elkton
Linda Kolman
Irvin Scolnick
Puerto Rico
Eyewitness Details Pan Am Jetliner Crash Near Elkton
Raymond Gregg, 36, lives 50 yards from the Elkton crash scene where a Pan American jet killed 81 people. He describes a bright explosion, flames in a cornfield, and parts scattered across the yard and neighboring property as state police and fire crews arrived. He protected his family in the cellar during the disaster.
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Raymond Gregg
Civil Defense
Fire Destroys Rainbow Inn in Park Rapids
Fire believed started in an overheated chimney destroyed the Rainbow Inn Hotel on the north edge of Park Rapids Sunday night. The three story brick hotel built around 1900 had about 50 rooms and one occupant escaped unharmed. Firefighters controlled the blaze by 4 30 a.m. with damage estimated at 50000 dollars or more.
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Park Rapids, Minn
Rainbow Inn
Franklin Town
Shuman Seeks Quick End to Wheat Shipping Barrier
President Charles B. Shuman of the American Farm Bureau Federation urged that a shipping barrier delaying U S wheat sales to the Soviet Union be removed soon. He predicted a federal subsidy to move wheat on U S ships to ease Communist freight charges, and urged cash payment and full transport costs plus concessions on political issues separating the West from eastern Europe.
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Chicago
Charles B. Shuman
American Farm Bureau Federation
Johnson Administration
U.S
Soviet Union
Kennedy
U. S
Shuman
Johnson focuses on cutting federal spending and defense cuts
President Johnson lays out plans to trim federal outlays including possible consolidation of overseas military aid groups and a 10 percent payroll reduction for such units within six months. He meets with McNamara and Taylor to review the defense budget while budgeting faster GI insurance dividend payments to aid the economy. He also offers Bolivia aid to free kidnapped U.S. workers and continues White House routines, dining with Lady Bird and hosting reporters.
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Johnson
Robert §. McNamara
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kermit Gordon
Justice and State Departments
Veterans Administration
Federal Aviation Agency
McNamara
White House
Kennedy
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Lafayette Park
Lady Bird
Walter Jenkins
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Elkton, Md
Age Burns
Ning
Mark Lalli
L.F. Curtis
Havertown
Arlene
By Raymond Gregg
Park Rapids
Johnson and Wheat Barrier
Austin
Penney’s
Barbie
Ken
Toyland
North Main Street
By Frank Cormier
Washington
Dean Rusk
New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert Hoover
Defense Department
Wittnauer
Scovill
Mrs
Benjamin Exe
22Nd Ave
Jane Ann Wollenberg
Brownsdale, Minn
Midtown
Remington
Lucarys
Cinic Pharmacy
Austin Clinic
Ston
Gordon
Hoover Electric
Gordon’s
DONS
House of Service
GORD
N. Main St
John
DeLeon
Northwestern Bell
Minnesota
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