Murder of Grace Brown Still Popular Topic
Big Moose New York AP report reflects sixty years since Grace Brown, a pregnant farm girl, died at Big Moose Lake. The case inspired Dreiser and remains a local legend with books, films, plays, and memories. Details recount Gillette's alleged motives, the discovery of the body, and witnesses. Also covered is Hubert Humphrey addressing governors on Vietnam policy at the Arrowhead Inn.
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APD
Big Moose Lake
Adirondacks
Albany
Theodore Dreiser
Chester E. Gillete
Auburn
John Denio
Old Forge
Naw
Rey C. Higby
Gillette
Cortland
New York
Grace
South Otselic
Tefa Grace
DeRuyder
Tabor House
Charles George
Tupper Lake
Glenmore
Tupper
Denio
Jim McAllister
Jim
South Bay
Bel Tos Angeles
Hubert H. Humphrey
Arrowhead Inn
United States
Viet Nam
Dwight B. Sperry
Graham
Humphrey
Asia
South Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Humphrey Urges U S Stay in Vietnam Policy Defense
Hubert Humphrey argues the United States must remain in Vietnam to slow infiltration and deter North Vietnamese aggression. He defends recent strikes on Hanoi and Haiphong as military actions aimed at clear objectives and weighs political backlash from governors over Johnson's Vietnam push.
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Humphrey
Hanoi
Haiphong
South
Johnson
Viet Nam
Texas unemployment ticks up as employment hits record
Texas total employment rose to a record 3.9 million in May, despite a 3,000 rise in unemployment. Unemployment claims fell to 23,737, the fewest since September. May wages held at 2.56 dollars per hour on a 42 hour week, with 30,400 more employed than April. The jobless rate edged from 3.0 to 3.1 percent as new high school and college entrants joined the labor market. Seasonal growth and agriculture expansion propelled the gains toward four million employed by mid-summer.
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Sam Dillenback Retires After 39 Years at HORC
Sam Dillenback retires from HORC after more than 39 years of service. Born in Dayton and raised in Baytown, he joined Humble's Bay town Refinery at 16, left to finish school, then rejoined in 1928. He moved through the pipe department Crude Assay Lab before retirement, planning leisure but keeping busy with a 10 acre Cedar Bayou farm, chickens, livestock, hunting and fishing.
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Humble
Baytown
Dayton
Cedar Bayou
Omaha Girl Is Miss Posture World Queen
Omaha Nebraska's Miss S J Johnson, 22, crowned 1966 world queen of posture and physical fitness in Fort Worth. She stands 5 feet 7 inches, 36-23-36, and was selected for the title amid a pageant with 70 percent posture and 30 percent beauty and poise. Dale York Marshall was named Miss Congeniality. The event preceded the Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation seminar.
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S. J. Johnson
Omaha
Texas
Dale York
Marshall
Rene
Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation
Pathos Grips Reader In Lord Of The Flies Drama
A reviewer profiles William Golding's Lord of the Flies study of youth forced into adult brutality. The piece traces the hunted boy's fear hunger thirst and loneliness as his civilization slips away and savagery prevails. It emphasizes the conch’s collapse and the pig’s head hunt as symbolic of inherent human violence.
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Pathos
Ron Plocheck
England
Bee
Simon
Hitchcock Tries To Repeat Old Performances
AP film writer Bob Thomas reports Alfred Hitchcock, in Hollywood, hints his new movie Torn Curtain is a return to vintage Hitchcock. He mentions a provocative Julie Andrews bed scene with Paul Newman and discusses selling films amid global publicity tours.
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Julie Andrews
Paul Newman
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Atlanta
Toronto
London
Stockholm
Paris
Rome
Madrid
Miss Andrews
England
Andrews
Newman
Dallas Editor Mildred Young Dies in Hospital
Dallas Times Herald editor Mildred Young died Thursday after hospital admission. A Plainview native, she joined the paper seven years ago after work with Vernon Daily Record and Methodist Church publications. Survived by her father Walter A. Young of Plainview.
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Dallas
Mildred Young
Dallas Times Herald
Plainview
Times Herald
Vernon Daily Record
Methodist Church
Walter A. Young
Severe Storms Kill Dozens Across Tennessee and South
The Associated Press reports heavy rains and violent weather sweeping the South and Great Plains. Nashville and Rutherford County suffered the worst damage with power outages in hundreds of homes. Murfreesboro endured 69 mph winds while Nashville recorded 69 mph gusts.
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Great Plains
Florida
Alabama
South Corolina
Tennessee
Nashville
Rutherford County
Knoxville
Murfreesboro
Shriver Tours Texas War on Poverty Centers
Laredo residents and officials greet Sargent Shriver on an inspection tour of anti poverty projects. He praises Laredo as a model city and vows to continue the war until victory, joined by William Crook Walter Richter and Rep Eligio de la Garza.
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Sargent Shriver
Shriver
Texas
San Antonio
Office of Economic Opportunity
William Crook
Walter )Richter
Eligio de la Garza
Dtex
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