Hijacked Braniff Jet Lands Then Briefly Jets to Buenos Aires
A Braniff International Boeing 707 hijacked Friday over Mexico landed at Galeno Airport in Rio de Janeiro under heavy guard then departed 13 minutes later for Buenos Aires. Two hijackers Robert Lee Jackson and Ligia Lucrecia Sanchez Archila from Tennessee and Guatemala claimed explosives in a suitcase and demanded 100000 in ransom. They freed 100 passengers and three stewardesses and no longer threatened the plane, which carried 110 people en route from Acapulco to San Antonio.
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Robert Lee Jackson
Tennessee
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Mexico
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Peru
Galeno
Buenos Aires
Algeria
Jeanette Crepps
Oklahoma City
Jackson
San Antonio
Monterrey
Miss Crepps
Texas
Acapulco
Monica Amparo Garza
Nuevo Leon
Eduardo Escamilla
Alicia de la Fuente
Miss Garza
Copeland Rolls Out The Carpet For Mule Train Visit
Copeland hosts the Santa Fe Trail Highway Association Mule Train traveling from Santa Fe New Mexico to Shawnee Missouri. The 764 mile trek spans 18 days with 54 mules 41 people in 19 vehicles stopping in Moscow Satanta and Sublette before Copeland Dodge City Montezuma and Offerle. The caravan retraces the old Santa Fe trail trading at towns and mingling with residents during a Spring Film Festival stop.
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Copeland
Anna Grasser
Santa de N.M
Shawnee Mis
Moscow
Satanta
Sublette
Carnaran
Dodge City
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Mule Tain
Montezuma
Offerle
Weather Outlook With Warm Weekend Temperatures
Tonight cools with lows 65 to 70. Sunday turns partly cloudy with a risk of afternoon thundershowers. Highs reach the 90s. Sunrise 6:27. Sunset 9:09. Minor forecast notes included.
Scott City Man Receives Successful Kidney Transplant
Myron Littlechild, 49, of Scott City, says he feels like living again after a kidney transplant at Veterans Hospital in Denver. The donor organ, paired with another kidney for a concurrent recipient, arrived from California. Littlechild will continue antibody-rejection shots for months while awaiting full recovery and potential return to light work.
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Scott City
Myron Littlechild
Littlechild
Veterans Hospital
Denver
Colo
T’va
Colorado Hospital
Colorado
California
Mile High City
Scott Cillan
Colorado General Hospital
Ky Sees No Blocks to Peace Plan
President Nguyen Van Thieu said the United States and South Vietnam must discuss troop withdrawal rates with Henry Kissinger. Ky said he sees no obstacle to a year end withdrawal and noted Viet Cong proposals tied to prisoner releases. Kissinger’s Saigon visit includes stops in Bangkok and New Delhi before Paris.
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United States
Kissinger
U.S
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Paris
Vietnam
Thien
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
Ellsworth Bunker
Creighton W. Abrams
Bangkok
New Delhi
Rawalpindi
White House
California
Nixon
Bartholomew To Take Board Post
The Rev. John P. Bartholomew of St Thomas Episcopal Church will join Unified School District 457 board Monday night, taking the seat vacated by M L Russell. New members Edwin Boots and Dr L E Pairbairn also assumed positions after a hat-draw. The 7 member board meets at 3 pm in the district administration building. Red Cross swimming classes at the municipal pool will resume Tuesday after a weather day.
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John P. Bartholomew
St. Thomas Epiicopal Church
Board of Education
Unified School District 457
M. L. Russell
Russell
Edwin Boots
L. E. Pairbairn
Bill Lewis
Merle Altman
Lewis
Altman
Seots
Bartholomew
Pat Fishback
Jones
Red Cross
Kent Shaw
Garden City concert to cap Independence Day events
Garden Citizans will hear a melting pot of Independence Day music at 8 p.m. Monday at the Garden City Fairgrounds. The municipal band performs marches jazzy tunes and dhallads before the fireworks. Patriotic Prelude opens the program followed by the National Anthem and His Honor March. Performances include By the Time I Get to Phoenix Rockin g Selections from Hair Tailgate Ramble Impressions of the New West Americans We March and Civil War Set. Stars and Stripes Forever closes the concert.
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Garden Citizans
Garden City Fairgrounds
Phoenix
Loss of pressure blamed for Russian tragedy
Soviet sources say a tiny hole in the Soyuz IL landing cabin caused fatal depressurization during descent, killing cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev. A two day inquest noted embolisms from lack of pressure and oxygen as immediate killers. Ashes entombed in the Kremlin wall as mourners gathered.
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Moscow
Wester
Craf
Gan
Ian
Georgy Dobrovolsky
Vishislav Volkov
Viktor Patsayov
Kremlin
Sights and sounds of summer in small town Kansas
A nostalgic tour of summer scenes across Main Street and neighborhoods. Cicadas chirp while ball games, pools, and street life animate evenings. Families juggle kids and activities, traffic, and heat as harvest season adds a rural twist and a vacation working where others rest. Mrs. Small returns bronzed from wheat fields, calling harvest a vacation.
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Bob Small
Kansas
Rusk Reflects On Vietnam Policy Underestimation
In New York AP reports former Secretary of State Dean Rusk says the administration underestimated North Vietnamese resolve yet asserts no deliberate deception occurred during the 1964 presidential election.
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New York
Dean Rusk
Garden Sass Postage Debate Sparks Gus Garden Quip
Gus Garden laments rising postage costs and quips that writing dear to someone can’t hide true sentiment. The brief exchange frames a humorous take on mail prices and manners in correspondence.
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