Death Toll At 283 After Camille Hard Cleanup Continues
Gulfport Mississippi residents endured martial law conditions as rescue crews used bulldozers to clear debris after Hurricane Camille. Gov John Bell Williams said at the emergency command post the Mississippi death toll was at least 230 and rising, with 283 known dead when including other states. The storm, once a 200 mph hurricane, weakened but lingered as cleanup progressed.
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Gulfport
Miss
John Bell Williams
Mississippi
Camille
U.S
Louisiana
Williams
Biloxi
Pass Christian
Navy
Adj
Walter Johnson
Old CMH Wing Jammed New Wing Vacant
Corry Memorial Hospital directors clash over bed capacity as 30 new wing beds sit unused while old wing capacity remains overfull. Board discusses reallocating acute care with state and federal funding, amid looming financial strain from the new 44 bed wing.
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CMH
Corry Memorial Hospital
Francis Slattery
Slattery
Viet War pushes near Da Nang in heavy fighting
Three U.S. infantry companies suffered casualties as battles rage 31 miles south of Da Nang. By nightfall more than 1,200 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops were in the fight, with over 400 North Vietnamese reported killed. A downed helicopter with eight aboard, including AP photographer Oliver Noonan and Lt. Col. Eli P. Howard Jr., is tied to the engagement. In Saigon area, Vietnamese attackers struck an American armored column, killing 32 North Vietnamese and wounding six Americans.
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Saigon
da Nang
Associated Press
Richard Pyle
U.S
Pyle
Oliver Noonan
Norwell
Mass
Eli P. Howard Jr
Woodbridge
Prague Walks Bottling Silent Protest Marks Invasion Anniversary
Tens of thousands of Prague workers walked to work in a silent protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the curtailment of freedom. By 5:30 a.m. streets and transit were nearly empty as workers voiced self-respect. The anniversary boycott urged by students and workers called for boycotts of shops, cinemas, and restaurants and decorating graves of over 70 people jailed. Police used tear gas and truncheon charges to disperse barricades built by about 1,000 youths. Two dead, several wounded, and more than 320 arrested were reported by the government, though Western reporters saw gunfire only from police.
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Erie County Grand Jury
Edinboro State College
Charles Jackson
Fourth Avenue
Dot
Boston House
Edinboro College
Edinboro
William Ambagais
Clarks Summit
Wallace A. Bright
North Braddock
Michael J. Brozowski
Cleveland
Michael W. Lipscomb
Fairport Harbor
Ohio
Russell G. Paulin
Bridgeville
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Closed hearing sought in Kopechne exhumation case
The Kennedy Kopechne death case opens a private session in Luzerne County as lawyers press for exhumation for an autopsy. Judge Bernard Brominiski panels efforts to delay the public hearing on Sept. 3 while officials seal the Larksville grave area and limit access amid Cape Cod and Massachusetts connections. Uncle caretaker George Mathews denounces media intrusion and crowds.
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Wilkes-Barre
Joseph Flanagan
John O'Connor
Joseph Kopechne
Berkeley Heights
N. J
Brominiski
Atty Edmund Dinis
New Bedford
Mass
Edward M. Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Edgartown
Dinis
Miss Kopechne
Larksville
St. Vincent's Cemetery
George Mathews
Kopechne
Set 37,000 Scholarship Announcements
Harrisburg AP The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency expects to award more than 87,000 scholarships for the coming academic year. It has mailed notices to 78,248 initial recipients and anticipates about 9,000 more from 12,000 incomplete applications. The scholarship value totals 48,521,030 dollars. About 30,000 applicants are ineligible, with 77 percent lacking demonstrated need for state aid.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
Kenneth R. Reeder
Reeder
Virginia Flood Toll Rises in Western Blue Ridge Floods
Western Virginia towns along the Blue Ridge report 38 deaths and 32 missing as remnants of Camille trigger deadly flash floods. James River crest forecast at 34 feet. mass evacuations and widespread damage, with Nelson and Massies Mill hardest hit. West Virginia also suffers fatalities as rivers burst banks.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Louisiana
Cuba
National Hurricane Center
Miami
Camille
Debbie
Atlantic
Bermuda
Richmond
Blue Ridge
James River
Blue Ridge Mountain
James
Chesapeake Bay
Weather Bureau
City Wharf
Hood Stage
Mills E. Godwin Jr
State Highway Department
Federal Small Business Administration
National Office of Emergency Preparedness
Richwood
Monogahela National Forest
Anjean
Arch A. Moore
National
Greenbrier
Gauley
Cherry Rivers
Massies Mill
Tye River
Nelson County
Woods Mills
Glasgow
Maury River
James Join
Buena Vista
Waynesboro
Louisa County
North Anna
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Corry Man
Edinboro SC
Oliver E. Noonan
Mags
Wenceslas Square
Slovakia
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