Planes Knock Out Long-Range Guns
U.S. fighter bombers engaged North Vietnamese antiaircraft positions near the Ban Karai pass and destroyed three long-range guns as part of the 33rd strike year. two Phantoms were shot down farther south in Laos while on Ho Chi Minh trail missions, with both crews rescued.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Winter Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Maj
Charles Johnson
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. Command
Laotian Pan
Johnson
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Vietnam
Saigon
Sai
Battle near Trang Bang ends with heavy casualties
Government troops, reinforced, killed 19 enemy in day long fighting Thursday. Seven South Vietnamese were killed and six wounded. The battle occurred four miles east of Trang Bang, where North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces previously held the area until U.S. infantrymen of the 25th Division pressed into their ranks.
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Gon
Trang Bang
U.S
25Th Division
Weather Station Report for Arkansas Forecast
Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Friday shows high 82 and low 60 with 03 inches of rain. Forecasts showers and thunderstorms ending this evening, then mostly fair and cooler and less humid tonight through Saturday. Tonight’s low 50s north to mid 60s extreme south. Saturday highs range from the mid 60s in the north to the upper 70s in the south.
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Weather Experiment Station
Arkansas
UMW Chiefs Indicted in Campaign Conspiracy Case
Two district officials Michael Budzanoski and John Seddon were found guilty of conspiring to divert 8500 to the 1969 re election campaign of UMW President Tony Boyle. Each faces up to 10000 fine and one year in jail on four counts.
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Gary Mihoces
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
Michael Budzanoski
District 5
John Seddon
W.A
Tony” Boyle
Budzanoski
Seddon
Boyle
Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court
Hubert I. Teitelbaum
District 5 Board
Leon Yablonski
Joseph
Jock” Yablonski
Yablonski
Francis McAllister
McAllister
UMW International Executive Board
Germany to let Reichsmark float for parity with dollar
Bonn's expert committee urged West Germany to let the Deutschemark float to a new parity with the dollar, paired with domestic stabilization. The move, opposed by France and Belgium in Brussels, would widen fluctuation limits and reduce currency speculation without unilateral revaluation.
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Peter Rehak
Associated Press
Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Karl Schiller
Conrad Ahlers
International Monetary Fund
Brussels
France
Belgium
Common Market
European Economic Community
Italy
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Brandt
Ahlers
Webb Says Captors Brain-Washed By Radio Hanoi
UPI’s Kate Webb, held in Cambodia over three weeks, says most captors are North Vietnamese indoctrinated and speak like gramophone records from Radio Hanoi. She was freed May 1 after an ambush on Highway 4. Webb refused to reveal locations or details of her captivity.
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Kate Webb
UPI
David J. Paine
Associated Press
Hong Kong (Ap
Cambodia
Radio Hanoi
Miss Webb
United Press International
Phnom Penh
Highway 4
Hanoi
Indochina
Miss Bacon to Limit Her Replies
Seattle report says Leslie Bacon, 19, a material witness in the U S Capitol bombing, will answer only questions about the New York bank bombing. Judge Boldt ordered further questioning, keeping her $100000 bond, as others plead guilty in the Capitol attack arson case. Separately in Canterbury, England archaeologists enlist schoolchildren to help excavate a 1st to 3rd century BC Iron Age site uncovering huts and pits.
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Seattle
Leslie Bacon
U.S. Capitol
New York City
U.S. Dist
George Boldt
Atherton
Calif
Capitol
New York
Manhattan
First National City Bank
Canterbury
England
West German currency moves cited in European context
West Germany contemplates wider fluctuation bands and domestic monetary steps to curb dollar inflows and speculation. Officials say U S dollar pressure raised prices by expanding the money supply, while Brandt's government seeks coordinated European measures to blunt the effect.
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West Germany
U.S
Willy Brandt
Graduation at Blevins May 16 at 4 p m in gym
The Blevins Senior Class will hold baccalaureate and commencement on Sunday May 16 at 4 p m in the high school gym. Rev Jerry Westmoreland will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. The class lists 60 plus students including Janie Askew Darrell Baker Johnny Bonds Mary Ann Carman Lonnie Carrigan Jo Ann Clendenen Donnie Ray Davis Anthony Dixon and many others. A separate note quotes Montoya on Spanish speaking progress and nonviolent union. Oyster power story follows noting Aberdeen University researchers screen sea creatures for tumor fighting chemicals including mollusks crabs fish and protozoa for potential medical use.
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Blevins
Blevins High School
Jerry Westmoreland
Janie Askew
Darrell Baker
Johnny Bonds
Mary Ann Carman
Lonnie Carrigan
Jo Ann Clendenen
Donnie Ray Davis
Anthony Dixon
William Dixon
Mable English
Weldon Fulton
Charles Gamble
Earlean Glasgow
Dean Head
Louise Hill
Kenneth Hoover
Debbie Jackson
Larry Johnson
Rebecca Justman
Judy Kidd
Leroy McFadden
Ruby McGill
Willie Miller
Cathy Montgomery
Eunice Morrison
Michael Morrison
Barbara Myrick
Lee Artis Patterson
Betty Sue Rogers
Scotty Schultz
Diane Snowden
Randy Spell
Lois Strong
Tommy Taylor
Edward Thaxton
Julia Thompson
Johnny Turner
Carol Walters
Ernest Wesson
Bruce White
Johnny White
Norma Williamson
Tommy Wilson
Dickie Woods
Tim Yarberry
Oyster Power London
Aberdeen University
MRS ZELMA PATTERSON RITES FOR HOPE AREA NATIVE AND JOHN KOONCE DIED
Friday deaths in Texarkana and Little Rock report Zelma Patterson 71 longtime Hempstead County resident. Survivors include three sons and two daughters, fourteen grandchildren, four great grandchildren. Funeral at Oak Grove Methodist Church 2 p.m. Saturday. Burial Oak Grove Cemetery. John B. Koonce 69 WWII veteran self employed died in Little Rock Veterans Hospital. Survived by wife Celia Doyle Koonce and brother Rear Admiral (Retired) Paul B. Koonce. Graveside services Saturday 10 a.m. Rose Hill Cemetery. Both under Herndon Funeral Home Hope.
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Zelma Patterson
Texarkana
Hempstead County
Song
Herschell Patterson
Hope
Briant Patterson
H. E. Patterson, Jr
Hazel] Walker
Dallas
Billie Sawyer
Herbert Skinner
Lester Beckham
John B. Koonce
Little Rock
Celia Doyle Koonce
Paul B. Koonce
Clearwater Florida
Rose Hill
Norris Steele
Herndon Funeral Home
No Appeal on Court Pen Ruling
Governor Bumpers signaled a possible lack of grounds for further appeal on federal Judge Henley’s ruling that the Arkansas state penitentiary system is unconstitutional. He noted rapid prison improvements may satisfy the court, while reserving judgment on appealing to the Supreme Court amid the 8th Circuit’s affirmation. Donna Caponi won the 1969 and 1970 U.S. Open golf championships by one stroke in each event.
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Sarver
Arkansas
Rockefeller
Bob
General Assembly
House
Senate
Bumpers
Cummins Prison Farm
John Haley
Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
J. Smith Henley
U.S. Supreme Court of Henley
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Henley
Donna Caponi
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