Massacre of Nine Family Members Shocks Shell Lake
RCMP cordon roads as bloodhounds hunt for motive in the Peterson farm killings near Shell Lake Saskatchewan. A 4 year old girl survived as neighbors, police, and a 250 man search party comb the area after discovering the scene in which Peter son, a 42 year old, and seven of their eight children were slain by a 22 caliber gun. Coroner says no self inflicted death. motive undetermined.
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Shell Lake
Sask
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Saskatchewan
James Peterson
Peterson
Earl Dalian
Calvin §. Lambert
Leoville
Brian Sawyer
Lange
Phyllis
Shopping Plaza Plan for Corry Outlined Tonight
A commercial developer will present a proposal for a shopping plaza in Corry tonight at 8 PM to the Corry Planning Commission and the public. The plan, to be discussed on the second floor of the Municipal Building, would situate a sizeable plaza near the Route 6 bypass in the Third Ward. A zoning variance is required for the project to proceed.
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Corry
Truck Crushes Two Workmen in Route 6 Bypass Crash
Two Erie Lackawanna workers were killed when a dump truck body broke loose in a collision on the west edge of the city. The driver and a second truck were hurt, and a runaway truck incident prompted warnings to motorists near the Fish Hatchery road stop sign.
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Randolph
Erie- Lackawanna
Route 6
Corry
Wallace A. Robinson
Meadville
Fish Hatchery Road
Nancy Carlson
Madison
Wis
Columbus Avenue
Hatchery Road
Evacuation Rush as Fairbanks Flood Threatens City
Ten thousand residents were moved to safety as floodwaters rose to nine feet in downtown Fairbanks Alaska. Fire and rescue crews battled blazes with water blocking access while helicopters and river craft ferried people to evac centers. Gov Hickel warned the disaster could surpass the Good Friday quake of 1964, with 150 to 200 million dollars in damages anticipated.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Walter J. Hickel
Hood
Army
Alaska National Guard
City Council Paves Mead Avenue and North Center Street
A noon council meeting approved Ordinance 1088 to pave and curb Mead avenue Wayne street and Stons Alley and curb North Center street from Columbus avenue to the city line. Cross and Co. bid 39 208 for paving and curb work, funded largely by city and county liquid fuels tax. North Center street work to run with State Highway paving. council also noted 164 000 police pension funds now in Marine National Bank trust dept with investment setup.
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Mead Avenue
Wayne Street
Stons Alley
North Center Street
Columbus Avenue
Union City 1
Cross and Co
Cross
State Highway Department
Gerald Staples
Coucil
Police
Marine National Bank
Deep South
California
American General Life Insurance Co. Op
Navy pilots tied to costly bombing game claims
An ex pilot alleges Navy crews off North Vietnam pursued a costly mission-saturation race to boost sortie counts. He cites dumping about a third of ordnance in water, flying hazardous weather for meaningless missions, with few profitable targets beyond Haiphong. Navy officials counter the claims with statements from senior officers.
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Washington
North Vietnam
Navy
Aud Rey Santics
Korea
Alex Waier
Chemical Company
Midland
Mich
Bay City
Waier
al Skyraider
Ticonderoga
Land
Haiphong
Waler
D.C. Richardson
Gasoline Tanker Crash Averts Major Columbus Tragedy
Columbus and Corry volunteer firemen and state police warded off a major disaster after a gasoline tanker overturned on Route 6 near the Columbus underpass. Driver John Edwards, 34, of Waterford, was treated for head and arm injuries. cargo loss estimated at 15,000? The trailer burned?
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Columbus and Corry
Route
Columbus
John Edwards
Waterford
Corry Memorial Hospital
Corry
Edwards
Brokenstraw
Viet Cong Attacks Rise as Saigon Prepares for Vote
South Vietnamese forces aided by U.S. air and ground units report killing nine Communist soldiers in two clashes, one in the Mekong Delta and another 270 miles north of Saigon. One U.S. soldier is dead, Vietnamese casualties light. Booby traps kill eight Marines and wound ten near Da Nang. Authorities foresee a spike in Viet Cong terrorism ahead of the September 3 presidential election. Air strikes target truck convoys with 541 enemy trucks destroyed or damaged in the first 15 days of August.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong Delta
da Nang
South Vietnam
Air Force
Panhandle
Hanoi
North
Delta
Acquits Youth In Glue Slaying Of Two Sisters
In Detroit a juvenile court judge acquits a 15 year old boy in the glue sniffing murder of Deborah Crowther eight and Therry Crowther six near Westland. The judge cites temporary insanity from glue sniffing and orders commitment to a mental hospital or delinquency training school.
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Detroit
Westland
James Lincoln
Deborah Crowther
Therry
Lincoln
Acquit Local Driver In Code Charge
A Warren jury acquitted Opal Miles of Spring Creek of driving while suspended. Miles was cited after a February 27 1967 arrest in Columbus Township by state police. He claimed prior license revocation questioned, later passed written test, and held an operator license renewed and expired October 1 1967. He was flagged while holding that card after an accident.
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Warren
Spring Creek
Opal Miles
Columbus
Miles
Noel
Inspectors Vote To Join Union
TCILBURGH AP dispatch reports inspectors from six states vote to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. About 141 employees of the Middle Department Association of Fire Underwriters cast ballots 74 for the union and 59 against, representing workers in Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland New Jersey Virginia and West Virginia.
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Tcilburgh
Pri
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Middle Department Association of Fire Underwriters
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
Virginia
West Virginia
Draftee Freed After Five Month Army Stint
Leslie E. Brown, drafted from a National Guard unit, served five months as a clerk rather than undergoing basic training and earned a promotion. He says the draft was a mistake and expressed relief at his pending release from Fort Bragg, a move driven by Rep. Schweiker's public intervention. Brown is expected to leave the Army soon.
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Ft, Bragg
N.C
Leslie E. Brown
Brown
Army
National Guard
Richard J. Schweiker
R-Pa
Oreland
Army Training Center
Ft. Bragg
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Ashville
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Grant Ormond
Warren Bossman
Frewsburg
Roy Harris
Brunswick
Buffalo
Hickel
Reai
Fairbanks International
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