Secret Service Seizes $4.1 Million Ring in Counterfeiting Bust
In New York and Ohio authorities nabbed a vast counterfeiting operation. A Miami Beach lawyer Joel Lee 39 was arrested here as the ring’s salesman and traffic manager. Two Ohio men were charged with printing the counterfeit bills and a Wellsville raid seized two boxes of paper a trunkful of currency-sized sheets and a small printing press. The operation allegedly planned to unload 50 million in fake tens twenties and hundreds but none circulated.
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New York
Secret Service
Ohio
Miami Beach
Joel Lee
Appar
Aoe Reas
Pete Trainer
Clark
Missing Marine transport found in Nevada snowstorm
Sheriff’s party uncovered a four engine Marine transport that disappeared 18 hours earlier in a blinding snowstorm near Grash site 20 miles south of Battle Mountain Nevada. No survivors found. The aircraft departed Buckley Field Denver with 18 or 19 personnel en route to Seattle.
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Grash
Battle Mountain
Nev
George Schwin
Lander County
Nevada
Buckley Air Field
Denver
Cole
Seattle
Washington
Pentagon
Schwin
Bureau of Land Management
Jury Sentences Jack Kirschke to Gas Chamber
In Los Angeles jurors convict former Deputy District Attorney Jack Kirschke of murdering his wife and another man in her bedroom and sentence him to the California gas chamber after about four hours of deliberation. Kirschke stood solemn and unflinching as the verdict was read.
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Los Angeles
Jack Kirschke
California
Kirschke
Poland Orders U.S. Attache To Leave
The Polish communist government ordered the U S military attache Lt Col Edward H Metzger to depart Warsaw after Polish personnel detained and searched him. The embassy said protests were lodged in Warsaw and Washington over the incident.
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Warsaw
Poland
U.S
Edward H. Metzger
Quincy
Mass
U. S
Washington
Beating and Burning Of Erie Infant Probed
An Erie one month old boy was admitted to St Vincent's Hospital with severe facial burns and body bruises. Police seized the infant's mother Ester Wood 29 pending psychiatric examination. The child John White is listed in guarded condition. Wood has a history of mental illness and was on leave from Warren State Hospital. Roy Reuther UAW organizer and brother of Walter P. Reuther died at 88, reportedly of a heart attack in Detroit.
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Erie
St. Vincent's Hospital
John White
Ester Wood
Ester ‘Wood
Wood
Warren State Hospital
Pennsylvania Institution
Fluid Removal Reported In Cape Town Heart Transplant Patient
Fluid surrounding the heart of Dr. Philip Blaiberg has been tapped and removed. Doctors say the condition is not serious and he feels better after the procedure. Blaiberg, nine days from the world’s third human heart transplant, also has a slight throat infection being treated with a gargle.
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South African Cape Town
Philip Blaiberg
Groote Schuur Hospital
Bulletin
Blaiberg
Marthinus C. Botha
Botha
Groote Schuur
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Christiaan Barnard
United States
Ground War erupts across Vietnam in major Wednesday battles
U.S. and South Vietnamese forces clashed with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese across northern provinces to the Mekong Delta. In a 10 hour Mekong Delta fight, 47 Viet Cong were killed, 18 Americans killed or wounded. In Binh Dinh, 14 South Vietnamese soldiers and 10 ammunition bearers died, 30 wounded, with 23 Viet Cong killed. U.S. air cavalry reported 28 North Vietnamese killed in Que Son Valley. 3 Americans wounded evacuated. Overall last week enemy deaths hit 2,808.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong
Mekong Delta
Binh Dinh
Americal
Que Son
U.S. 6Th Infantry Division
9Th Division
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry
Bong Son Valley
Charge Man After Crash On Route 6
Corry State Police filed a charge of driving too fast for conditions against John J. Henderson, 23, of Wattsburg RD 2 after his car skid on West Smith street extension near Route 6 bypass, striking a highway sign. No injuries and $50 in damage were reported.
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R.D
Wattsburg
Corry
John J. Henderson
Henderson
West Smith Street
Route 6
Snow removal by trucks improves city streets
Corry adopts an assembly line style snow removal using a blower and as many as 10 trucks. Each load of seven to eight cubic yards is dumped at two sites, Aero-Flow Dynamics on West Main and the city lot on East Smith. The process costs about 15 cents per cubic yard nationally, with local costs reported as lower, marking a major efficiency gain.
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Corry
David Johnson
Carl Hixson
Aero-Flow Dynamics
West Main Street
East Smith Street
Johnson and
Hixson
Johnson
Rap Brown Flees Cuban UN Refuge Amid Police Clash
H. Rap Brown sought refuge for nearly six hours in the Cuban mission to the United Nations after a shoving incident with a rookie patrolman outside the building. The Cuban mission protested police mistreatment while Brown accused authorities of Nazi-like action, saying blacks would not be subjugated.
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New York
H. Rap Brown
United Nations
U.N
Brown
Lindsay
Johnson
Jesua Jimenez
Thant
Robert Smith
Vasylum
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Smith
Richard Gleason
Alfred Smith
William Lakesman
Gleason
Building Permits Rise in 1967 Despite Hospital Additions
City engineer reports 1967 permits total 1,276,205 a jump from 1966 and a 860,000 hospital addition at Corry Memorial Hospital is subtracted to compare. Residential permits reach 197,000 with a 42,000 apartment as a top single item while non residential permits fall from 2006. Alterations rise sharply with hospital related non residential additions totaling 900,950. Prospects for 1968 look bright mainly in residential construction.
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Corry Memorial Hospital
Marion
Mound Street
Eight Have Tagged Zeiler Three More Identify Accused Man
Eight banks in a string of robberies spanning 500 years were linked to Zeiler amid the third day of his U S District Court trial. Zeiler is charged with taking over 100000 from ten Pittsburgh banks and savings offices. Witnesses identified him in multiple heists including a Sept 23 1963 Mellon Bank theft and a July 1 1964 Commercial Bank branch robbery.
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Pittsburgh
Zeiler
U.S. District Court
Savings and Loan
FBI
North Side
Olga Pavilck
Carrick
Zeller
Robery
Oakland
Mellon Bank & Trust
Joseph Cisar
Penn Hills
Commercial Bank &Trust Co
Elaine M. Novack
Braddock
Federal Bavings & Loan
Homestead
Deter
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Wellsville
U.S. Atty
Robert J. Rotatori
Cleveland
James Clark
Clinton, Ahia
Furmer
Albert G. Ramsey
Ramsey
Supreme Court
Elaine
Orville W. Crankhan
Long Beach
Federal Aviation ‘Agency
Salt Lake City
Robert Hodges
Joe Adamson
Duval Mine
Mt. Moses
Needle Peak
Quantico
Detroit
Roy Reuther
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
West South Street
Journal Phots
Esten
Rap Brown
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