Explosion Kills Five in Georgia Dynamite Truck Crash
Five people died and 27 were injured when a truck carrying 400 cases of dynamite exploded after colliding with a car in Waco Georgia. Army teams from Ft McClellan scoured the area for unexploded charges as a crater opened on U.S. 78.
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Waco
U.S
Bremen
Ft. McClellan
Ala
A. W. Fielding
Fielding
David Lee Smith
Troy F. Allen
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Action on extending draft seen by June 30
Senate votes push extension of the military draft to two more years with June 30 as expiration. Debate centers on timing for a House plan and a McGovern Hatfield amendment to cut off Indochina funding. Gravel hints at filibuster as cloture strategy shifts.
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U.S
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D.ss
House
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Nixon dedicates $1.2 billion waterway
President Nixon dedicates the Arkansas Waterway in Tulsa flanked by a bipartisan delegation calling the dam and lock system an exceptional monument.
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Nixon
Tulsa
Okla
Arkansas
Spring Valley man killed in freak two car mishap
A 45 year old Spring Valley man Maynard Voeltz died when a disabled car was being attached by his son Dennis 16 and the car rolled forward crushing his head under the front axle near Spring Valley High School. Funeral arrangements are tentative with viewing after 5 p.m. Monday.
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Fillmore County
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Maynard Voeltz
Dennis
Dennis Voeltz
Voeltz
Frances
Robert Voeltz
Richard Voeltz
Rochester
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Pat
Barbara
Shiela
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Donald
Edward Voeltz
Austin
Bernard
Ernest Voeltz
Guerrillas Claim 4 Israelis Killed in Jericho Clash
Palestinian guerrillas said they killed four Israeli soldiers in a five hour battle near Jericho north of the Dead Sea during a raid across the Jordan River. Israel reported no casualties. The communique noted the raid marked the fourth anniversary of the 1967 war.
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Cairo
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New York
Soviet Union
Suez Canal
Pilot disarms hijacker on United jet during crisis
Crewman Greg D Col liton, a flight engineer, spoke of disarming a 58 year old coal miner Glen Elmo Riggs who held a cocked pistol on a United Air Lines jet for hours. Riggs threatened shooting as the plane landed in Washington.
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Israel
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Ashford
W.va
Greg D. Colliton
Hermosa Beach
Calif
NFO head ends corn marketing vacation
Corning Iowa Oren Lee Staley president of the militant National Farmers Organization says the NFO will end its marketing vacation on corn. He notes during the vacation corn prices rose about 10 cents per bushel as a result of the strategy and now the group plans to resume normal selling.
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Corning, Iowa
Oren Lee Staley
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National Farmers Organization
Staley
Viet Nam DMZ rockets near Saigon as US tally rises
North Vietnamese gunners pressed a two week DMZ bombardment and struck near Saigon for the first time in months. Maj. Richard Gardner said 11 Americans wounded in rocket attacks on Charlie 2 base near the DMZ and near Saigon. South Vietnamese bases near Camp Sarge and Camp Carroll faced mortars and rockets with light casualties reported. B52 bombers hit targets near the A Shiu Valley and central highlands while clashes near Pleiku left 2 South Vietnamese dead and 10 wounded.
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Demilitarized Zone
Saigon
U.S
Maj
Richard Gardner
Charlie 2
Dmz
Camp Carroll
A Shiu
South Vietnam
Laos
Namese
Central Highlands
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Cambodia
Pleiku
A Shau
White House warns of economy dip amid rising jobless rate
The Labor Department reports 6.2 percent unemployment in May up from 6.1 percent in April as wholesale prices push consumer costs higher. Economist Herbert Stein calls the rate a concern and cautions it could rise before year end. President Nixon faces attacks from critics over handling the economy while 4.4 million remain jobless. Total employment rises 500,000 to 78.7 million. civilian workforce hits a record 83.1 million. average earnings gain to 125.46 dollars weekly. Living costs up 1.67 dollars.
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White House
Labor Department
Herbert Stein
Lawrence F. O’brien
Nixon
O’brien
Congress hears new drug may cure heroin addiction
Researchers told a congressional panel that antagonists could end heroin addiction rather than substitute one dependency like methadone. Trials on about 400 addicts show promise, with cyclazocine urged for rapid use in Vietnam and naloxone already approved for overdose.
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Mike Shanahan Washington
Congressional
Richard B. Resnick
New York Medical College
Vietnam
Food and Drug Administration
Albert Kurland
Maryland State Psychiatric Research Center
House Judiciary Committee
Kurland
William
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