Bennett Says GOP Backing 2 Democrats in Arkansas Race
The Associated Press reports that as election day nears Arkansas voters will decide key gubernatorial races. Bennett accuses Republicans of backing two of five Democratic candidates to tilt the contest against Governor Rockefeller. Labor leader Ted Boswell and others urge voters toward fresh leadership while criticizing the Rockefeller years and calling for industrial growth and tourism to raise incomes.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Bruce Bennett
EL Dorado
West Memphis
Bennett
Winthop Rockefeller
GOP
Rockefeller
Ted Boswell
United Auto Workers
Boswell
Old Guard
Frank Whitbeck
Four Ball Tourney Opens At Conway Arkansas
A statewide junior four ball golf tournament for ages 10 to 17 starts Tuesday morning in Conway with a shotgun start. Over 50 teams are entered, and the event will be played over 36 holes. Cy Gray of Conway Country Club notes strong regional participation and competition.
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Conway Conway
Ark
Cy Gray
Conway Country Club
Negro House Is Fired on in Vermont
Rev. David Johnson a Black Baptist minister and his family faced threats when five shotguns blasts were fired at their home in Irasburg Vermont. State police guarded the residence as Johnson recalled welcoming locals who had helped them settle in July from Seaside California amid a tense atmosphere. Johnson, a Korean War veteran and ordained minister, said the attack came from outsiders and pledged to stay despite the danger while seeking a permanent Vermont pastorate.
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Irasburg
David Johnson
Vermont
Sunday US symbols hit by London and Mir protests
Demonstrators damaged American properties in London and Mir Turkey. In London a 10,000 strong anti war march turned violent injuring 33 police and 14 demonstrators with damage to the Playboy Club Hilton Hotel and Park Lane area. In Mir police arrested five youths for smashing the American library windows and seven more in Ankara for assaulting an American officer. The protests followed the Sixth Fleet visit to Istanbul.
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Associated Press
Playboy Club
Hilton
London
U.S. Information Service Library
Le~mir
Turkey
West End
Hyde Park
Park Lane
Edward Taylor
Ret
Aegean
Mir
Ankara
Czechoslovakia and Nigeria face off amid wartime strains
Czechoslovak Communist leaders express willingness to meet opponents but not on foreign soil. Nigeria and Biafra discuss relief for starving refugees as Ibibio tribal members endure front line camp conditions. Vietnam violence escalates as Viet Cong bomb Saigon theaters and Ben Tre. Johnson returns to Texas amid bleak cease-fire prospects. Political calls for bold action from governors and lawmakers prevail while desegregation, court nominations, and gun control stir debate.
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Biafra
Joseph Kennedy
Spain
Vietnam
Saigon
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Texas
Hubert H. Humphrey
Washington
Senate
Homer Thornberry
Supreme Court
26th Heart Transplant Doing Well
Houston doctors report the 26th heart recipient Fred Eyerman 58 of Alexandria Va is recovering well after St Luke s Episcopal Hospital performed the sixth such transplant in the facility The donor was Mrs Evelyn Krikorian 33 who died from complications following cardiac arrest The operation began soon after her death and the heart started without electrical shock Eyerman who arrived in June has coronary artery disease and prior heart attacks and is one of four transplant patients currently under care at the hospital
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Houston, Tex
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Fred C. Everman
Alexandria
Everman
Houston
Denton A. Cooley
Evelyn G. Krikoerian
Eyerman
Bremerhaven
Germany
United States
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Manned Spacecraft Center
Here
Block Long Chicago Building Explodes In Downtown
Investigating teams probe the cause after a blast demolishes a block long structure in downtown Chicago injuring 56 people. Two remained hospitalized in good condition. most injuries were glass and debris cuts to passersby. The building housed a...
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Chicago
Mail Order Shotgun Sale Is Debated
In Washington the House weighs a proposed ban on mail order rifles and shotguns with licenses for owners and other gun control amendments on the docket before a final vote. Aimed to add long guns and ammo to pistol bans, the plan would bar over the counter sales to juveniles and nonresidents, with penalties and registrations debated, amid post Kennedy calls for broader gun laws. Trantham Dropped by the Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys released Tommy Trantham, two time All Southwest Conference defensive halfback from Arkansas, along with 10 rookies in a Saturday roster cut.
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United States
House
National
Milwaukee
James Earl Ray
Julie Rodriguez
Ruth St. Denis
Washington
Johnson
Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
Jonathan
Bingham
D. N.Y
Robert Mc+ Clory
Bell
Rep
Bob Casey
D-Tex
Trantham
Cowboys
Thousand Oaks
Tommy Trantham
University of Arkansas
Dallas Cowboys
Explosion on Chicago Loop Fringes Sparks Gas Odor Debate
Fire and police reported a gas odor after the blast on Chicago's southern Loop edge. Officials suspected gas caused the explosion, but William J. Ball of Peoples Gas disputed that link, saying odor alone proves nothing. Damage estimates were hampered by widespread window and structural destruction.
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Chicago
Loop
William J. Ball
Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co
Amputee veteran rides high on Colorado pack trip
Viet Nam veteran Robert Williams Jr. and six other amputees and leg nerve-damaged soldiers from Fuasi mons General Hospital in Denver completed a rugged 500 foot altitude pack trip in the Rockies. The group, all former combat personnel, faced the challenge with artificial limbs and nerve injuries, praising the mission as a notable success and part of a broader confidence-building program led by Col. Paul W. Brown.
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Cota
Robert Williams Jr
Colorado Rockies
J. C. Williams
Salina
Kan
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Denver
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Eagles Nest
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Gerald M. Nowlin
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Ind
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Wayne Bryars
Norman Ckla
Nick Simonic
Cleveland Ohio
Richard Lueceke
Chicago
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Col
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