Hydroplane racer Bill Sterett vows return within a year
Owensboro Ky AP reports world champion driver Bill Sterett, severely injured when his seven liter hydroplane broke apart after a 190 mph run at Guntersville, will learn to walk first and undergo rehabilitation. He insists he will race again, despite doctors orders. Sterett, 42, recalls the crash vividly as witnesses describe the craft tumbling into the air and breaking into three sections. He says he will not retire from boat racing.
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Owensboro
Owens Poro
Bill Sterett
Detroit
Guntersville
Ala
Sterett
Wrightman Cup Hopes Runneth Over
Wrightman Cup hopes rise as Marty Riessen and Billie Jean King lead U S players in Eastern Grass Court Championships. King defeats Kathy Harter to claim third Eastern crown in four years while Graebner and Riessen reach doubles finals. team preparations amid Davis Cup tensions unfold.
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Herschel Nissenson
South Orange
Marty Riessen
Evanston
Bille Jean King
Long Beach
Calif
King
United States
Great Britain
Cleveland
Kathy Harter
Seal Beach
O'Alessen
George MacCall
Clark Graebner
Beachwood
Ohio
U.S
Ecuaedor
Rilessen
Graebner
Australia
Bill Bowrey
Owen Davidson
Mrs. King
Wimbledon
Rosesmary Casals
San Francisco
Mary Ann Eisel
St. Louis
Donna Floyd Fales
New York City
Mrs King
Miss Casals
Miss Eisel
Nancy Richey
Farmers Branch
Car Aje
Evidence of Arson in Fire That Killed 3
North Little Rock police say evidence suggests arson in the Sunday fire that swept a four unit apartment building, killing three people. A two gallon can found in the hallway is believed to have contained gasoline or other flammable liquid.
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North Little Rock
Pole
Ray Vick
Auto train collision claims life of Tommy Brown
Tommy C. Brown, 25, of St. Louis, Missouri, formerly of North Little Rock Arkansas, was killed Sunday when his car collided with a freight train crossing Illinois State Highway 77 about one mile east of Belleville. The victim, traveling alone, died at the scene and authorities investigated the crash.
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Belleville, Tr
Tommy C. Brown
St. Louis
North Little Rock
Ark
Here
Antipoverty Grant Plan Aims To Calm Riots
In a move to head off further disturbances, Sen. Percy Ribicoff and Ribicoff propose a $1 billion neighborhood emergency fund allowing the president to make grants to states communities and local groups. The plan depends on transfers of nondefense budgeted funds to act rapidly on local initiatives.
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Associated Press
Sens
Abraham
A. Ribicoff
Charles H. Percy
Toway
Johnson
Milwaukee
Wichita
Kane
Philadelphia
James H. J. Tate
Percy
Refll
Ribicoff
D-Conn
House
Senate
Detroit
Ronald August
Robert Paille
Washington
John 1B
McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Judiciary Committee
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Mayfield
Pride, Inc
Fire kills three in upstairs apartment blaze
The fire started and investigators took the can and boards from the hall floor to the State Police laboratory for testing. Five people are being held at the city jail in connection with the case. Victims killed in the blaze were Johnnie Dare, 50, Mrs Lilly Green, 42, and Mrs Ethel Goforth, 69, trapped in an upstairs apartment. Mrs Green was previously reported as Dare's wife.
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State Police Laboratory
Johnnie Dare
Lilly Green
Ethel Goforth
Prosecutor Floyd Hoard killed by car bomb in Georgia
Investigators probe car theft and bootlegging networks after the dynamite blast that killed Floyd G. Hoard, 40, Jefferson's reform-minded Solicitor General. Hoard was en route to present evidence to a grand jury when the hood was wired with six to 12 sticks of dynamite. Local leaders vow to intensify the fight on organized crime.
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Don McKee Jefferson
Floyd G. Hoard
Georgia
Hoard
Mark Donahoe
Superior Court
Joe Hoard
Floyd Hoard
Martin Page
Greenville
S.C
J.C. Gillespie
Page
Lawrenceville
Jefferson
Atlanta
Herman Buffington
Jackson Herald
Catfish's Boys Clean Up Washington Slum Areas
In Washington, a green-clad crew of Negro youths aged 14 to 18, under Pride, Inc. led by Rufus Catfish Mayfield, cleaned littered alleys in 10 worst poverty areas. The program, funded by $300,000 from the Labor Department, employs about 850 youths and 150 supervisors for one month with goals to extend year round if successful. Marion Barry credits the effort as pride building, amid some congressional criticism of Mayfield's control.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Washington
Pride, Inc
Catfish
Mayfield
Rufus
Catfish’ Mayfield
Labor Department
Marion Barry
Miline
Catf 4Sh
Barry
Appointment Hearing Delayed Over Arkansas State Police Rector
The hearing on Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller's appointment of Lynn A. Davis as rector of the Arkansas State Police was postponed to August 21. Circuit Judge Warren Wood granted the delay at the request of Assistant Attorney General Don Langston, who defends state officials. Davis and the State Police Commission sued to challenge Attorney General Joe Purcell's ruling that Davis did not meet the living-in-Arkansas requirement for 10 years prior to appointment. Davis, born in Texarkana, reportedly maintained a residence there while living elsewhere and working as an FBI agent.
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Little Rock
Winthrop Rockefeller
Lynn A. Davis
Arkansas State Pollcce
Warren Wood
Atty
Don Langston
Julian Hogan
Department of Administration
Jimmie Jones
Nancy Hall
Robert Shults
Davis
State Police Commission
Wood
Joe Purcell
Arkansas
Texarkana
Ana Keith
Cal
FBI Agen
Los Angles
Bounty Offered for Rat Tails in Chester
Chester officials announce a city bounty of 10 cents per rat tail to eliminate rats. Mayor James H. Gorbey says the plan could remove up to 10,000 rats for about $1,000.
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Chester, Pa
James H. Gorbey
Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark Hospitalized in Bangkok
Justice Tom Clark, age 68, admitted to a U.S. Army hospital in Bangkok with an internal disorder. He arrived August 2 for lectures to university students, became ill Friday night, and is retiring from the Supreme Court after a visit to Australia.
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Bangkok
Supreme Court
Tom Clark
Clark
U.S
Australia
Marines in Fiercest Red Barrages near the DMZ
U.S. Marines on the tense front below the demilitarized zone faced some of the fiercest enemy barrages of the war through early July. North Vietnamese artillery fired hundreds of shells daily, with 804 lobbed on July 6 at Con Thien. The fighting centered around Gio Linh, Con Thien, and nearby locales as Marine commanders warned of advancing Red forces toward Cam Lo and Dong Ha.
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John Lengel
Dong HA
Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Leathers Neck
Con Thien
Hastings
Phu Bai
Khe Sanh
Explains Youth Church Defection
Montreat North Carolina AP reports church researcher Lyle E. Schaller, director in Cleveland, says generational class gaps drive young adult defections. He notes a 30 percent drop in children in churches versus a 13 percent decline in national birth rates.
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Montreat
N.C
Lyle E. Schaller
Cleveland
National Ministers Conference
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