Bum Prefers Rags In Independent News Item
A man living under a Los Angeles bridge, named Clinton Wescott, declines more than 19 thousand dollars owed by a New York gas station project. With 44 cents, he says he enjoys life in the weeds and has no plan to claim the funds or move.
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Burnt Hills
N.Y
Wescott
New York Supreme Court
Bunker Hill
Los Angeles
Burt Hills
John P. Brown
Clinton
Wee NAB BONNIE CLYDE PAIR AFTER 4STATE CHASE
A 23 year old Benny Brown and his 16 year old girlfriend Faye Daw son were moved to Prattville Alabama jail after a four state crime chase that killed two and wounded four. Brown fled through Georgia Alabama Mississippi before being captured near Macon Mississippi while Daw son faced murder charges for shooting four teenagers who flirted with her. A Georgia trooper compared the duo to Bonnie and Clyde due to their rapid escape.
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Benny Brown
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Macon
Miss
Faye Dawson
Brown
Refugee Camps In Saigon Face Viet Cong Infiltration
Refugee shelters in the Saigon area hold about 217000 people with 167000 in 72 shelters inside the city and 69000 in surrounding suburbs. Officials warn Viet Cong may infiltrate camps to sway civilians against the Saigon government and exploit their vulnerability.
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Saigon
U.S
Doctors Strike Across Italy Demands Health Plan Pay Increases
Italian doctors surgeons and X ray technicians from 2 000 hospitals began a three day strike to press for better and more regular payments through national health plans.
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Rome
Sanitation Dept Chief Rants at Union Bargaining Tactics
National SAP RS AT EEE the sanitation department Lindsay branded the postponement as not realistic and questioned bargaining with a union that can force the maximum from the governor by waiting. About 6,000 sanitation workers labored overtime to clear 100,000 tons of disease breeding refuse from New York sidewalks.
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Rockefeller
New York
Humphrey Dropped ADA Role Amid McCarthy Backing
Hubert H. Humphrey, founder of the ADA, quietly left the group three years earlier. The ADA board voted to back Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy for the Democratic nomination, while adviser John P. Roche resigned in protest after the resolution. Humphrey’s press secretary said he stopped paying dues when he became vice president in 1963.
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Hubert Humphrey
Americans For Democratic Action
New York Times
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
John P. Roche
Johnson
A.D.A
Humphrey
Norman Sherman
Tax Hike Predicted This Year
Washington Chairman Mahon of the House Appropriations Committee said Congress would likely approve a tax increase this year after spending cuts. He expected Wilbur Mills to reconsider his opposition to the 10 percent income tax surcharge later in the year.
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House Appropriations Committee
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Wilbur Mills
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House
Ways and Means Committee
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Mayor and officials refute Ambrester death by police bullet
The mayor and police commissioner of South Pittsburgh Tennessee said prominent citizen Harry Ambrester died of a heart attack, not a police bullet. An autopsy found the wound superficial. Policeman Lee Beene was jailed for murder as 150 residents protested at the station in Jasper Tennessee.
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William L. Headrick
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Lee Beene
Jasper
Hit writer Howard Lindsay dies at 79 in Manhattan
Howard Lindsay, 79, long time collaborator with Russell Crouse on Broadway hits including Life with Father and Arsenic and Old Lace, died Sunday at his Manhattan home. An actor and playwright, Lindsay was best known for Life with Father adapted from Clarence Day sketches in The New Yorker. his wife Dorothy Stickney starred as the mother in the play.
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Russell Crouse
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New Yorker
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Benson backs Wallace and views third party bid favorably
Former Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson praised George Wallace on Sunday in Milwaukee saying Wallace is a good man and approving several stands on law enforcement street cleanliness and trade with the enemy. Wallace said he has two prospective vice presidential choices and will pick one this week, noting one candidate is a Southerner and the other is not.
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Richard M. Nixon
America
Pacific
St. Paul's School
New Hampshire
Ezra Taft Benson
Milwaukee
Alabama
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Wallace
Benson
Skydiver drowns during parascuba dive attempt off coast
A skydiver attempting what was believed to be Australia s first parascuba dive died after plunging into the sea from 3400 feet on Sunday.
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King Invited to Speak at Washington Cathedral pulpit
The Very Rev Francis B Sayre Sr invited Dr Martin Luther King Jr to preach at Washington Cathedral about his planned mass march on the capital for the poor. Sayre praised King as this generation's apostle of nonviolence and said his message would emphasize faith in God to redeem both rich and poor in love to build a better world.
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Francis B. Sayre Sr
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Pope Paul VI Defends Vatican Pact with Italy
On the anniversary of the 1929 Lateran Pact Pope Paul VI voiced confidence that the Vatican acted correctly in submitting to Italy’s guardian ship. The pact established Catholicism as the state religion and protected Vatican sovereignty under Italian protection.
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Vatican
Italy
Art Find Raises Whistler Link at Estate Sale
Minneapolis barber Lan Wells bought five small etchings and lithographs for 10 dollars and learned one may be worth 2000 to 10000 dollars. Edward A. Foster of the Minneapolis Institute of Art named a Whistler etching as the likely work. A separate dispatch notes a 24 year old Puerto Rican claimed in JFK assassination plot was deported, escorted by Philippine immigration and a U.S. Embassy official aboard a U.S. bound plane.
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Lan Wells
Wells
Edward A. Foster
Minneapolis Institute of Art
James A. McNeill Whistler
Whistler
John F. Kennedy
Luis Castillo
U.S
Father Plea As FBL Agents Search For Missing Truax
Federal agents widened their hunt Sunday for 26 year old Tom Truax accused of stealing over 510000 as his father Corte Truax of Redding urged him to surrender. Truax vanished Thursday in Oakland after missing work as assistant administrator of ABAG.
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Tom Truax
Truax
Oakland
Association of Hay Area
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