Port City Killing Ends Isolated Night Amid Tense Race Tensions
In Wilmington North Carolina a white grocer, Daniel J. Joye, 57, was shot on his porch and neighbor William Thomas McGhee, 31, a longshoreman, was charged with murder. Police said the incident was not linked to ongoing racial violence that left several policemen wounded and property damaged during the prior two nights.
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Daniel J. Joye
William Thomas McGhee
McGhee
County weighs blocking X rated movies from view on highways
Shelby North Carolina Cleveland County commissioners consider restricting operators or drive in theaters from displaying X rated films to passersby on public highways after a Monday public hearing. A Greenville County South Carolina law is cited as having discouraged such screenings.
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Shelby
N. C
Cleveland County
Greenville County
S. C
Murderer Jones Dies Fleeing Brushy Mountain Prison
PETROL Tenn AP Robert Allen Jones 28 a convicted killer and armed robber was shot and killed by Cocke County deputies at a truck stop near the North Carolina line while fleeing from Brushy Mountain Prison after commandeering a car during an escape attempt. He had vowed to continue robbing and killing toward the Mexican border.
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Robert Allen Jones
Tennessee
Brushy Mountain
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Cocke County
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Chattanooga
Chicago
Indiana
Robin Moore
Kenneth
James Burgess
Burgess
C. B. Holt
Vietnamese claim 364 NVA killed in Cambodia Vietnam clashes
South Vietnamese command reports 364 North Vietnamese troops killed in a day of savage clashes around Krek near the Cambodian border. U S advisers say the enemy appeared to be withdrawing as ground forces push to reopen highways and break the siege near Fire Base Alpha.
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U.S
Krek
Cambodia
Alpha
Kesman
Phnom Penh
Kompong
Phnom Santuk
Highway 6
Knom Penh
Raleigh Detective Chief Promoted on Birthday
Robert E. Goodwin, veteran chief of detectives for the Raleigh Police Department, was promoted to chief on his 54th birthday. He succeeds the late Tom Davis, who died of a heart attack. The appointment by City Manager W. H. Carper was immediate. Goodwin began in 1939, became detective captain in 196, led the division for more than two decades, and is an FBI National Academy graduate.
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Robert E. Goodwin
Raleigh Police Department
Goodwin
Tom Davis
W. H. Carper
FBI National Academy
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