Lightning Blamed in Deadly 81 Fatal Pan Am Crash
A four engine Pan American World Airways jet exploded and crashed near Elkton Maryland killing 81 aboard while investigators looked for a cause. Witnesses reported a lightning strike during a thunderstorm as the plane plunged from 5000 feet into a muddy cornfield.
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Pan American World Airways
B. R. Allen
Civil Aeronautics Board
Puerto Rico
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Del
U.S. 40
Maryland-Delaware Line
Baltimore
Tin Miners Ultimatum Raises Hostage Crisis in Bolivia
Communist led tin miners in Bolivia threaten to harm hostages if two arrested union leaders are not freed within 24 hours. The group, led by Vice President Juan Lechin, held 21 hostages including four Americans, and dismissed President Johnson's offer of U.S. help. Bolivian forces moved 1,000 troops around Oruro as the government rejects freeing the two union heads Irineo Pimental and Federico Escobar. A U.S. Information Service officer, Thomas Martin, confirmed the captives are stable under tight guard.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Federation of Mine Workers
Juan Lechin
Johnson
U.S
Irineo Pimental
Federico Escobar
Studebaker to End U S Auto Production
Dow Jones News Service reports Studebaker will quit U S auto production while continuing to build cars in Canada. The South Bend plant employing about 6 000 workers will close, with 5 000 hourly staff affected, and all auto output shifted to Hamilton Ontario. A New York news conference is planned for Tuesday.
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New York
Studebaker Corp
United States
Canada
Dow Jones News Service
Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Business News Service
Hamilton
Ont
Vermont Governor Hoff Goes as U S Delegate to Zanzibar
Gov. Philip H. Hoff of Vermont heads the U S delegation to Zanzibar independence ceremonies. He will meet Prince Philip, present gifts to the Zanzibari prime minister, and attend state functions in Nairobi and Rome before returning to Vermont. Poet William Jay Smith from Pownal designated Vermont's poet laureate.
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Philip H. Hoff
United States
Zanzibar
Thomas Kinney
Lyndon B. Johnson
Kinney
Hoff
Joan
New York
London
Nairobi
Kenya
Rome
Vermont
Prince Philip
Great Britain
G. Mennen Williams
U.S
Johnson
Royal Air Force
Tayabali Karinjee Club
National Assembly
King George School
Scouts and Guides
Palace
Mrs. Hoff
Dar Es Salaam
Tanganyika
Nikume
State Department
Kairobi
Stewart L. Udall
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
U.S. Independence Party
Shannon
Ireland
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington, D.C
Pownal
William Jay Smith
Smith
Hoff to Zanzibar the Governor’s far voyage question
A poem imagines Governor Hoff traveling to Zanzibar on Independence Day. It ponders topics he might raise about Vermont like its farms and horses, climate, and diplomacy while noting the distance of eight thousand miles and the U.S. democratic voice abroad.
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Zanzibar
U.S.A
Sinatra Jr Abducted Near Lake Tahoe during Stage Prep
Frank Sinatra Jr was kidnapped at gunpoint from a Stateline motel as he prepared to perform at a casino. Two men, identified as Joseph Sorce and Thomas Keating, fled toward Reno after taking cash and tying guards, with FBI involvement and roadblocks along California Nevada routes. Authorities tracked tire marks toward Sacramento, while Sinatra Sr rushed from Palm Springs to aid, awaiting further developments.
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Calif
Frank Sinatra Jr
Joseph James Sorce
Thomas Patrick Keating
San Francisco
Keating
Sorce
Long Beach
Youth Authority
Tracy
FBI
Lake Tahoe
George Byers
Douglas County
Nev
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Sinatra
Sinatra Sr
Palm Springs
Warner Bros. Studio
Los Angeles
Nevada
Nevada Gaming Control Board
Chicago
Sam Giancana
Cal-Neva
Sam Donahue
Tommy Dorsey
Cal-Neva Lodge
el Dorado, Calif
California
Reno
Joe Foss
Dorsey
Sinatra Jr
Foss
Nancy Barbato
Hollywood
Harrah
Evans
Sacramento
Washoe County Dist
William Baggio
Zephyr Cove
Raggio
Reds Score in Battle For the African Mind
NAIROBI Kenya The Soviet bloc moves into Kenya as it nears independence with a planned Soviet Czechoslovak backed news agency and radio transmitter near Nairobi. Western diplomats warn of a Communist advance into East Africa while Kenya prepares to welcome new media ties and scholarships.
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Kenya
New York Times
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Prague
East Africa
Tass
Ceteka
Where Is Zanzibar and What Defines It
Zanzibar, a former British protectorate island off East Africa, covers 640 square miles and relies on cloves for most of its world supply from about 4.75 million trees. It exports coconuts, copra, pottery, coir, rope, soap, oil, jewelry, and mats, with Pemba to the northeast. The 1961 constitution created a 23 member Legislative Council. population then was about 310,000, predominantly Muslim.
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Zanzibar
British East Africa
Rhode Island
Africa
Germany
France
Pemba
Aiken questions Rockefeller in New Hampshire primary
Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont said on a TV panel that Senator Margaret Chase Smith could beat both Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater in New Hampshire’s presidential primary next March. Aiken added Rockefeller would not be his nomination choice today.
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Washington
George D. Aiken
R - Vt
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
New Hampshire
Aiken
Rockefeller
Vermont
Hoff Study Results Set for Tuesday Presentation
Vermont lawmakers will see the governor’s year long study on state problems. The resources task force led by Dr. Frederick Sargent will present to the House and Senate Conservation and Development Committees. Hoff plans eight natural resources bills, including anti pollution measures and water resources policies. Belmont Pitkin of Goddard College also will present.
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Gram
Vermont
Interagency
Connecticut River Basin Commission
Sargent
Belmont Pitkin
Goddard College
Bennington Man Found Dead In North Carolina
A Bennington Vermont man James Willard Williams 25 was found dead from a gunshot in the entrance of Shelton's grocery six miles west of Winston Salem North Carolina. Deputies found a new 30-30 rifle inside the store with a missing stock and an expelled cartridge nearby. Williams had a reported criminal record and residency details from P O Box 153 Bennington.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
James Willard Williams
Bennington
G. B. Apperson
Shelton’s
Here
Williams
Apperson
Inside Sea Column Highlights and Local News Snippet
Keating will be hard to beat says columnist Kirtland in an Inside Sea feature. Union high vocational training seen needed in Dorset discussed on Page 7. An archeology find at Fairdale Farms noted on Page 9.
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Kirtland King
Union
Dorset
Fairdale Farms
Khrushchev Outlines Seven Year Chemical Drive for Farms
Premier Khrushchev announced a seven year plan to triple chemical industry output by 1970. He pledged to stop exporting grain while pledging farm fertilizer and new plants, warning Western nations against political concessions as the USSR faces farm problems. The program calls for 42 billion rubles for chemical development with about 200 new plants and 500 modernizations. it seeks to buy chemical capacity from capitalist countries on commercial terms.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Communist Party Central Committee
Soviet Union
Stalin
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