Explosion at Dixie Furniture Co Claims Two Lives
A Dixie Furniture Co explosion in Lexington caused two deaths and several injuries. Thomasville man Thomasville resident Henry Clodfelter died at 2 55 p m at Baptist Hospital after burns from the wood dust explosion. Ray Lindsay Crook died earlier Sunday, Clyde Musgrave remained critical in ICU.
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Lexington
Dixie Furniture Co
Thomasville
North Carolina Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Henry Jackson Clodfelter
Rt. 1
Clodfelter
Ray Lindsay Crook
Rt. 6
Crook
Baptist Hospital
Clyde Musgrave
Musgrave
Clodfelt
President Johnson Enjoys Holiday at Texas Ranch
President Johnson remains at his ranch near San Antonio amid travel secrecy. He has not disclosed plans to return to the White House, with guesses ranging from tonight to next Monday. He recently ordered a draft study and signed the freedom of information bill aimed at public access to federal records starting July 4, 1967.
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San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
White House
Here
Omaha
Des Moines
Lady Bird
Sted
Skeeters Will Bite Anything
Hal Boyle notes quirky trivia from mailbag items. Mosquitoes bite birds snakes and plants as well as people. The piece also cites Sweden’s three weeks vacation law, a wearable lifting device, a Texas Barbed Wire Collectors group, Japan’s fish hospital, a diaper industry link to General Motors, and other odd facts from quotable notables.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Texas Barbed Wire Collectors Association
Japan
General Motors
United States
Cordele Braces for Night Curfew After Pool Clash
A racially tense brawl erupted at a Cordele Georgia swimming pool ending in a 30 minute gun battle between whites and Negroes. City officials imposed an all night curfew as Col Lowell Conner and 100 state troopers patrolled while about 50 white bathers gathered at Georgia Veterans Park nearby. Police arrested one man for carrying a pistol and seized a machete and broomstick from another vehicle.
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Cordele
Cordele City
South Georgia
Lowell Conner
Department of Public Safety
Georgia Veterans Park
Lake Blackshear
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Furniture Firm
Dixie Furniture
Savers
Frigidaire Sale
Frigidaire
Beeson Hardware Co
Ain St
N. Main ST
The
Carillonic Bells
Knollwood Dr
Holiday Inn
W. Green
Super Highway
Sweden
Hardiman
Gritfith
Cn Pt
Office Equipment CO
Armstrong Cambrian
Corelte
Sabrill
Biscay
North State
Fairfield
Expert Fence CO. of
Hoyle Morgan
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