Sky falls over Mississippi mystery shocks towns
Unidentified threadlike substance rained down in Mississippi and North Louisiana prompting samples by the Air and Water Pollution Control Commission. In Booneville a fake UFO was shot down by a pistol and in Gulfport a taxi driver admitted his UFO tale was a hoax, with police delaying whether charges will follow.
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Jackson
Miss
National Weather Services
Mississippi
Louisiana
Mississippi Air and Water Pollution Control Commission
Booneville
Prentiss County
Gulfport
John Lane
Craig Monroe
Lane
Monroe
Israel claims major thrust into Egypt across Suez
Israeli forces reportedly pierced deep into Egypt along the Suez Canal amid renewed battles on the Syrian front. Cairo dismissed the claim as false while confirming night infiltrations and surrounding actions. Kosygin met Sadat in Cairo with no public peace proposal details, as Kissinger kept talks in Washington and oil tensions rose with Saudi production cuts.
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Egypt
Israel
Tel Aviv
Cairo
Alexei N. Kosygin
Moscow
Anwar Sadat
Damascus
Henry A. Kissinger
Washington
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Sinai
al Ahram
Alexei N
Kosygin
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
United States
Nixon
West Bank
Great Bitter Lake
Two Terrorists Die As Hostages Freed
Security forces stormed a Beirut Bank of America building, killing two guerrillas and rescuing 39 hostages in a $10 million ransom case. An American hostage, John Crawford Maxwell, 52, from Winnipeg and working for Douglas Aircraft, was killed in the final gunbattle.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Bank of America
John Crawford Maxwell
Winnipeg
Canada
Douglas Aircraft Corp
Long Beach
Calif
Nixon Tapes Decision Due
The White House planned a later announcement on Watergate tapes as Nixon faced a deadline to hand over recordings or seek Supreme Court relief. The appeals court upheld Sirica’s access to the tapes for review, rejecting claims of executive immunity.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Sirica
Watergate
Archibald Fox
Appeals Court
Warren Burger
Inflation slows as prices rise just three tenths in September
The Labor Department reports consumer prices up 0.3 percent for September. Nixon plans to request a $2 billion emergency military aid bill for Israel in a Friday congressional submission. Reports from Cairo cite a Soviet plan for Middle East cease fire. Gale warnings rise as tropical storm Gilda strengthens between Florida and the Bahamas. Ford says Kennedy’s demand for a public stand on the Watergate tapes poses a vital question.
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Labor Department
Nixon
Congress
Israel
U.S
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tanjug
Cairo
Middle East
O— Miami
South Florida
Gold Coast
Gilda
Florida
Bahamas
Knoxville
Yorktown Victory Ends Key Revolutionary War Chapter
On this date in 1781 British forces surrender at Yorktown signaling a decisive endgame in the American Revolution. The note blends weather chatter with classified ad cues and a regional Tennessee Valley map reference, reflecting the era’s print style.
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Yorktown
Decatur Conference Center Proposed on Bank Street
Civic and business leaders form a committee to study a Bank St conference center across from the Old State Bank Building. The $400 000 project, dubbed the Old Decatur Center, would host meetings for up to 150 with dining for 250 and involve Aycock and Neville architects.
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Decatur
Bank St
Old Decatur Center
Old State Bank
Gordon Jones
First National Bank
B. N. Hunter
Central Bank of Alabama
Barrett C. Shelton
Decatur Daily
John H. Giles
Decatur Inn
Frank Neville
Aycock and Neville
Bill Thompson
Wilson- and- Church Streets
Bank
Aycock
Neville
Alo
Dean Pleads Guilty To Scandal Coverup
Former White House counsel John W. Dean III pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and defrauding the United States as part of the Watergate cover up. He waived indictment, faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, with sentencing deferred.
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Washington
White House
John W. Dean III
United States
Dean
Watergate
Archibald Cox
Nixon
Frederick C. Larue
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Warm sale notice for a Hotpoint washer in Decatur ad
Flora Mays of 1602 Faye Street SW sold a white Hotpoint automatic washer in a low cost Decatur Daily Want Ad and received 14 responses. The ad promotes fast results for selling unused items with a three line ten day rate of four dollars.
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Flora’ Mays
Faye St
Decatur Daily
Penn Ham Downtown Decatur Eat In Take Out
Advert reads eat in or take out at Penn Ham in Decatur with phone contact 3550513. Establishment location listed as downtown.
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Penn Ham
Decatur
Moulton Woman Dies In Wreck At Alabama 24 West
Mrs. Margaret Tyler 83 of Moulton died after a two vehicle crash 2.1 miles west of Moulton on Alabama 24. Travis Tyler 66 of Town Creek is in critical condition in Decatur General Hospital, along with passengers Sarah Dutton 58 and Evelyn Landrum 54 in fair condition. Robert Brown 31 of Delmer was uninjured. Funeral services will be announced.
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Moulton
Margaret Tyler
Alabama
Decatur General Hospital
Travis E. Tyler
Town Creek
Revenue Sharing Funds May Be Up
Decatur may see up to 85 000 dollars a year more in revenue sharing funds after a 250 000 cutback stunned officials. Finance director Mrs Dot Lorenza said new figures filed may raise revised entitlements and reflect possible overpayments and prior misinterpretation by federal officials.
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Ben Windham
Decatur
Dot Lorenza
Lorenzo
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