Bloody fighting rages around Ben Het camp siege
AP dispatch from Saigon reports heavy bombardment around the Ben Het Special Forces camp with a US convoy breaking through to deliver ammunition and supplies. North Vietnamese forces shelled the camp daily as air strikes and B52s attacked nearby positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Esper
Saigon
Ben Het
U.S
Dak
Ters
Laos
Cambodia
U.S. 7Th Air Force
Leslie C. Jensen
Edinburg, N.D
LCU Campus Growth To 204 Acres Mapped
La Crosse State University plans a three phase expansion to reach a 204 acre campus and about 10 000 students by 1988 The first phase by 1973 adds 260 000 square feet of non residential space and 1000 dorm beds The project was presented by Daverman Associates to university and city officials with limited opposition and public airing planned for August
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse State University
LCU
Daverman Associates
Grand Rapids
Mich
Whitney Center
Samuel G. Gates
Gates
David Tules
Daverman
Theater honors top performers in Dionysos awards
Mrs Nora Kinney won best actress for Claire in A Delicate Balance and Robert Swanson best actor for Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man at the La Crosse Community Theater Dionysos Awards banquet. Scotty Quinn and Bill Nelson also received supporting acting honors as the season closed with pledges toward a new home for the theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora Kinney
la Crosse Community Theater
Claire
Robert C. Swanson
Harold Hill
Swanson
Community Theater Monday Night
Scotty Quinn
Eulalie Mackacknie Shinn
Bill Nelson
Hysterium
Nelson
Quinn
Dionysos
Bill Lindsay
Mysterious Contamination Shuts Rhine Water in Amsterdam
Health officials close Rhine water supply to Amsterdam amid deadly contamination. Millions of fish die as swimming is banned and cattle stay away from the river. Water purification begins after tests to locate the source.
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Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
Rhine
Wall
Lower Rhine
Meuse
Ijsel
Terror on the South China Sea Aboard Evans
Subic Bay Philippines AP three Evans crewmen recount horror when the destroyer Evans was sliced in half by the Melbourne during war games. Fireman Terry L. Baughman 21 and Michael W. Peacock 19 testified of burns and water flooding the engine room as the bow section sank. Melbourne crew aided survivors and temporary repairs were completed before heading to Sydney for a bow replacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Subic Bay
Philippines
Terry L. Baughman
Troy
Mich
U.S
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
South China Sea
Baughman
Evans
Board of Inquiry
Michael W. Peacock
Davenport
Iowa
C. Edmond Peters
Munich
Singapore
Sydney
Australia
Ralph J. Hall
Hartford
Wis
Plane crash in Miami kills ten as DC4 hits street
A Dominican Air Lines DC4 cargo plane en route to Santo Domingo crashed in a Miami street after takeoff. Ten people died including all four crew members and six on the ground, with about a dozen injured and property losses around one million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Federal Aviation Administration
Richard Skully
National Transportation Safety Board
James ‘Reese
Red Cross
Dominican Air Lines
Maxine Burmester
Charles Knapp
36Th Street
Burmester
Knapp
Californians Hunt Feared Spider Invasion
In Los Angeles a county health receptionist describes a two week influx of spiders from a South American violin spider hunt. Researchers found 103 specimens in parks buildings and clubs as residents deliver spiders in jars pill bottles and envelopes. County entomologist William Waldron seeks to learn how these spiders spread and their life habits.
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Richard E. Meyer
LOS Angeles
Delena Davis
Sierra Madre Park
Thompson
University of Southern California
North America
William Waldron
South America
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Richard Nixon
Warren E. Burger
United States
Earl Warren
Supreme Court
Burger
Viet Camp
Dak To
Cambodian
Vietnam
Pena
Food Service
Fons
Mrs. Kinney
Maple Grove Country Club
West Salem
Charles Hansen
Cavalier
N. 5Th Ave
Hansen
John Brown
Brown
Kenneth L. Albers
Eureka, Ill
Rhine River
Peacock
By Dennis Friel
Mel Thompson
Cambridge
Mass
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