Refinery Explosion Kills One in Doraville Ga
An explosion at a northeast Atlanta suburb refinery tank farm in Doraville killed one man and injured at least four others. About 300 families were evacuated as flames spread to a nearby housing area. Kenneth Womack, a refinery foreman, said three of seven tanks burned and the tanks contained gasoline kerosene and diesel oil. The dead man was identified as Eugene Smith, about 30, a loading clerk. Four others were hospitalized with two in critical condition. The blast occurred during tanker loading and authorities feared more explosions as fire crews battled the blaze.
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Doraville
Atlanta
Debbie Arp
DeKalb County
F. D. Hand
Kenneth Womack
Womack
Eugene Smith
Southern Railway
DeKalb Fire Department
Sparta Girl Joins Mc Culloch International as Stewardess
Miss Jean Torrey of Spartansburg has been hired as a flight attendant by Mc Culloch International Airlines and will be based in Long Beach California. Daughter of Mr and Mrs Vernal Torrey she is a Sparta merged High School graduate who studied at Slippery Rock State College Temple University and Wilma Boyd Career School in Pittsburgh where she was voted the most outstanding student.
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Jean Torrey
Spartansbug
McCulloch International Airlines
Long Beach
Calif
Miss Torrey
Vernal Torrey
Sparta Merged High School
Slippery Rock State College
Temple University
Philadelphia
Wilma Boyd Career School
Pittsburgh
Boyd School
Airlines
Gravel pushes Senate vote on declaring war in Vietnam
Sen. Mike Gravel plans a Senate floor bid to force a declaration of war on North Vietnam or amend a wartime powers bill to apply to present hostilities. The Alaska Democrat backs a 15 day end to US participation if law passes. Nixon administration opposes the measure as unconstitutional and unrealistic.
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Washington
Mike Gravel
Senate
North Vietnam
Alaska
Congress
Vietnam
Gravel
U.S
Sen
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Victim Tells About Bloody Court Shootout
In San Jose AP reports a jammed Angela Davis trial courtroom heard Marin County Assistant District Attorney Gary Thomas recount the Marin Civic Center shooting. He described the moment a van drove away, Jonathan Jackson fired, Judge Haley was fatally wounded, and Thomas was shot in the spine, leaving him paralyzed.
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San Jose
Calif
Angela Davis
Audge
Marin County Civic Center
Gary W. Thomas
Marin County
Superior Court
Harold Haley
Thomas
Miss Davis
Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan
George Jackson
Soledad
Jackson
San Quentin
Haley
Civic Center
James McClain
McClain
Albert Harris Jr
William Christmas
Ruchell Magee
Judge Haley
A. T
Christmas
Magee
Leon Branton
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Sparta Girl
North Vancouver
B.C
North Pole
MICHAELS/STERN EAGLE
Cricketeer
Man
Pennsylvania_ Gas Company
West Main Street
Route 277
Penelec
Corry Water Supply Company
Generat—Telephone
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Fourth Ward
Journal
Pryor
Senator Gravel
Nixon
United States
Slamen Food Club
Iboren
Corry Journal
Roberts
Flexsteel
Edinboro
Furniture City
Dixie
Link Taylor
Crawford-Sterling,” “Hooker
Mersman
Columbus
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