Love Note Sparks Flowers at Sacramento City College
Sacramento City College dean Sam Kipp found his office door covered with flowers and an anonymous love message. The note urged acceptance and unity amid ongoing student and school board criticism. In Kansas Baldwin, the United Methodist Church East Conference approved a $698,250 budget for 1970 and set ministers’ minimum salary at $6,000 annually.
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Sacramento
Calif
Sam Kipp
Sacramento City College
Aquarius, and That Love Shall Rule the World.” Kipp
W. McFerrin Stowe
Bishop Stowe
Escapees Netted Near Sedalia After Missouri Robberies
Police captured two Kansas escapees Leon Hazelhurst and Dale Gaddis at a Sedalia area farm after a Thursday pursuit linked to robberies at two service stations between Sedalia and Marshall. A third suspect, William Monteer, 25, of Belton, Mo., faced armed robbery charges.
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Sedalia
Marshall
Kansas
Kanopolis
Smithton
Hazelhurst
Gaddis
William Monteer
Belton
Missing Plane Prompts Aleutian Search By Alaska Air Command
In Alaska near Amchitka Island a missing Air Force reconnaissance plane with 19 aboard triggered a search by 15 military aircraft and two Coast Guard vessels. Sgt. Larry Helmerick said the focus is near Amchitka where radio contact was last made. Then a separate report from Wellington Kansas notes a service station holdup left a 62 year old attendant dead and a man and his 12 year old son in custody after a pursuit. A .32 revolver was found in the suspect car. In Washington Defense Secretary Laird denounced Hanoi for contrived broadcasts on prisoners of war. In St Louis area reports sighted flaming sky objects, possibly a reentering satellite or meteor fragment, with locals and experts weighing the possibilities.
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Anchorage
Wellington
Kan
Sumner
Ernie Adams
Bill
Sedgwick
Vern Miller
Wichita
Donald Sweat
Jacksonville
ST. Louis
Peoria
Ill
Denver
J. Allen Hynek
Northwestern University
Chicago
Space Defense Center
Colorado Springs
Colo
Paving Cost Dilemma On Larson Street
Property owners on Larson from Tenth to Twelfth petitioned for paving. They discover the gravel road lies on the western half of the city right of way and work stakes intruded into yards. City engineer explained right of way and commissioners voted April 28 to place the street down the middle to align with Larson.
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Martha Allen
Larson
Larsons
Ray Radford
S. Larson
Paschal Grimes
Grimes
Radford
City Commission
Confusion Over Larson Street Width Ends With Paving
Residents on both sides of Larson faced a half width street due to split additions Kensinger Haight and Dye. The city removed a few trees and moved a brick planter to property lines at 1002 S Larson. Neighbors praised paving though some lamented losing the ditch and crawdads.
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Kensinger Haight
Kensinger
Larson
Bud Ross
Twelfth and
Edwin Cathers
S. Larson
Bob Reynolds
Roy Barnes
Air Lift for Survivors From Evans Collision
The U S carrier Kearsarge brought over 190 Evans survivors to Subic Bay Philippines for an airlift home while most will testify in a collision with Australia’s Melbourne. Seventy four Evans crewmen were lost. A joint inquiry will be a non punitive fact finding.
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Subic Bay
Philippines
U.S
Kearsarge
Frank E. Evans
Evans
Melbourne
South China Sea
Sick Bay
Cmdr
A. S. McLemore
Adm
Jerome H. King Jr
King
Vietnam
Munitions Cache Seized by Agents
Federal agents seized four men in Long Island homes, $50,000 worth of munitions, and right wing literature in what was called the largest seizure since the Gun Control Act. Arms included machine gun parts, rifles, shotguns, pistols, silencers, dynamite bombs, and ammo. The case involves a ring allegedly supplying militants with weapons and unlicensed firearm transactions.
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New York
Suffolk County
Long Island
Kopstein
Intercepted Letter Mentions Bet on First 100 Degree Reading
An intercepted letter to Cha urges placing bets on the date of the first 100 degree temperature reading. The note frames the weather milestone as a betting event and signs with a casual closing.
Temperatures Rise as Kansas Sees Warmth Through Saturday
The area forecast calls for fair to night with partly cloudy skies and warmer Saturday. Lows tonight in the mid 60s, highs Saturday in the upper 90s, with a 20 percent precipitation chance tonight and Saturday. Temperatures Thursday put Kansas in the warmest of the season so far.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Goodland
Hill City
Proposal Started For Year's Delay Of ABM System
A Senate Armed Services subcommittee considers a one year delay to ABM deployment while radar and computer tests proceed. The advisory plan aims to avert a Senate clash over Nixon's Safeguard program, with Brooke McIntyre and Young backing the compromise. The full committee will draft the $25 billion procurement bill as battles over ABM intensify.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services
Senate
Edward W. Brooke
Rmass
Thomas J. McIntyre
Nixon
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Brooke
McIntyre
Harry F. Byrd Jr
D-Va
George Murphy
R-Calif
Scott
Associated Press
Everett M. Dirksen
Wives at ICC convention photographed in Turkish bath
About a dozen wives from various countries at an Istanbul ICC event were photographed while receiving a Turkish bath. The images ran in local papers drawing criticism from officials who called it a privacy invasion, though some participants saw no issue.
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Istanbul
International Chamber of Commerce
Walter Hill
Turkey
ICC
National Journalists’ Association
Particu
Hugo Timonen
Finland
Nigerian jet shoots down DC6 aiding Biafra
The Nigerian air force stated a fighter aircraft shot down a DC6 carrying supplies into Biafra. Swedish Red Cross reported a Swedish aircraft with four crew missing after being struck over Biafra. The pilot of the missing aircraft was identified as American.
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Lagos
Biafra
Swedish Red Cross
Stockholm
D Day Veterans Return to Normandy Coast
Henry B. Jameson reports in Omaha France that hundreds of World War II veterans returned for 25th anniversary observances along the Normandy coast. Generals Omar Bradley and J Lawton Collins led ceremonies at Omaha Utah beaches with a Sargent Shriver hosted picnic and time capsule project honoring Eisenhower.
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Henry B. Jameson
Abilene
Kan
Reflector Chronicle
Omaha Beach
Associated Press
France
Normandy
Omar Bradley
J. Lawton Collins
Omaha
Utah
Sargent Shriver
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Hanoi
Melvin R. Laird
North Vietnam
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OPY
Eleventh
Phillip E. Kopstein
Treasury Department
Alchohol Tobacco and Firearm Division
Fort Scott
Gainesville
Arkansas Line
Ozark County
Missouri
Herman Pierce
Dale Hereford
Ft. Scott, Kan
Hereford
Arthur Needles
Southamton
Joseph Konopka
Manorville
Moreland Rollins
Hampton Bays
Robert V. McCormick
Center Meriches
Cha
Yours
Judd Polk
Normandy Coast
Contryside
English Channel
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