Airlines End Long Strike and Resume Service Nationwide
Five major airlines Eastern National Northwest Trans World and United reopened after a 43 day machinists union strike. Airports saw light crowds with bookings heavier than usual for a Saturday as planes resumed flights and service was expected to normalize by Monday.
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Washington
Eastern
National
Northwest
Trans World
United
International Assn. of Machinists
P. L. Siemiller
King says open housing march will honor injunction
Martin Luther King announced that followers would obey a Chicago court order limiting open housing demonstrations. After talks with leaders, a Sunday march would proceed with court-imposed limits. King warned if injunction feels unjust, they may break it. The order caps demonstrators at 500 and requires 24 hours notice to police. The city cites millions in property damages and 27 deaths from racial tensions, though recent marches had not reported violent deaths in white neighborhoods.
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Chicago
Martin Luther King
Cornelius Harrington
City of
Orlando Wilson
Richard Daley
Old Dutch Girl Farm blaze scorches Witwer dairy yard
Fire destroyed four buildings and damaged four silos at the Witwer dairy farm near Marion. Losses include two barns 36 by 150 feet and 42 by 54 feet, 8 000 bales hay and 2 000 bales straw, dairy equipment, and a milk house. 140 cows moved to other Witwer farms. damage estimated at 75 000 dollars with some insurance. Firefighters from Marion Mt Vernon and West Bertram fought the blaze.
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Gazette
Larry Tanner
Witwer
Marion
Mt. Vernon
West Bertram Township
Witwer Farm
Clyde Simonsen
West Bertram
Krebs Dutch Girl Dairy
Harry Simonsen
Clyde
Simonsen
Simonsens
Cedar Rapids Downs North St. Paul 17-1 in Regional Showdown
Cedar Rapids beat North St. Paul 17 to 1 in the Region 6 double elimination tourney to stay alive and advance Sunday. Steve Hasley hit a 350 foot homer, Dave Close earned the win with a four hit, four hit effort. Darrell Lindsay led CR with four of six, while North St. Paul struggled to five runs from two pitchers.
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Bismarck
N. C
Cedar Rapids Legion
North St. Paul
Steve Hasley
Dave Close
Minnesota
Close
Rick Ryan
Jack Thumb
Jim Mojor
Ryan
Darrell Lindsay
C.R
Oder Rapids
Mishap Kills 2 At Illinois State Fair
Two people died and five were injured at the Illinois state fair when a worker fell 65 feet from a grandstand roof while attaching a rope for an act. The scaffold supporting floodlights broke as the man descended into the crowd. Names of those killed and injured were not released.
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Springfield, Ill
Aussies Battle North Vietnamese Battalion Near Saigon
Australian infantry hunted remnants of a North Vietnamese battalion 40 miles southeast of Saigon after a four hour battle that killed 227. Westmoreland hailed the action as a significant victory. US pilots flew 113 missions over the north, hitting oil dumps and other targets while 800 fresh US troops joined the First Air Cavalry at An Khe.
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Saigon
William Westmoreland
U.S
Vietnam
Qui Nhon
U.S. First Air Cavalry Division
South Vietnam
An Khe
Westmoreland
Hanoi
Binh Gin
Royal Australian Regiment
Disaster Toll Rises In Turkey
ANKARA AP Rescue workers counted nearly 1000 bodies from the catastrophic earthquake in eastern Turkey and officials said the death toll will go well beyond 3000. The quake hit four provinces near the Iranian frontier, devastating Varto where 816 bodies were recovered and many villagers were buried under wreckage. The U S sent doctors and medical supplies, while Turkish Prime Minister Demirel inspected the region.
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Ankara
Turkey
Varto
Istanbul
U.S
Adana
Suleiman Demirel
Grenade Attack Wounds Twelve at Da Nang U S Officers Club
Two Viet Cong attackers hurled three live grenades at the entrance of the Take Ten club in Da Nang, wounding twelve people, six of them American servicemen. Two additional grenades were duds. attackers escaped into darkness amid a crowd of Vietnamese women present at the U S Army facility.
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DA Nang
U.S
U.S Army
War pilots demand anonymity in Vietnam coverage
Saigon based pilots request secrecy to protect families and avoid reprisals if captured. Military accepts the policy, tracing to Korean war practice. The line between risk and publicity persists as Major James Kasler, famed airmaster, is shot down yet remains a high profile case.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
North
James Kasler
Indianapolis
Air Force Information
Kasler
New York Honors Texas Patrolman for Whitman Shooting
Ramiro Martinez, 29, the Austin Texas patrolman who killed sniper Charles Whitman, received two bravery plaques in New York on Friday night and was to receive a third from the city police department’s Hispanic society on Saturday. A committee of Spanish speaking citizens invited him to New York to attend the ceremonies.
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New York
Austin
Texas
Charles Whitman
Ramiro Martinez
City Police Department
Egg Tossing Teens Spanked in Indiana Court
In Noblesville Indiana two 16 year olds Martin Toney and Ronald Ferry were spanked in juvenile court for throwing eggs at passing motorists. Judge Edward New Jr ordered five swats each with a belt on advice of the boys minister.
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Noblesville, Ind
Martin Toney
Ronald Ferry
Indianapolis
Edward New, Jr
No Hot Line Move Slows After USSR Talks
Moscow AP French sources said no steps have been taken to establish a direct communications hot line with the Soviet Union despite an agreement reached almost two months earlier.
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Siemiller
Gardner Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Machinists
Moscow
France
Soviet Union
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