Toddler Allen Flowers Found After Exhaustive Search
After thousands of man hours by police REACT and volunteers, toddler Allen Flowers was found safe with his natural father Alfred Scott. Police had searched the Oasis Trailer Park area near Las Vegas Blvd for the missing boy, who had been wearing only a T shirt and diaper.
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Allen Flowers
North Las Vegas
Robert Miller
Sheree Flowers
Lee Walker
Alfred Scott
Oasis Trailer Park
Las Vegas Blvd
Las Vegas
Floods Drive Many From Homes Across Regions
Sunny Fourth of July weekend amid high heat as Rio Grande floods in Texas force evacuations. Storms kill a couple and injure a woman in Springfield Illinois while a thunderstorm racks the Midwest. Temperatures reach into the 80s and 90s in major cities from New York to Los Angeles with scattered showers elsewhere.
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Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Texas
Rio Grande
el Paso
Springfield
Ill
Florida
Miami
New England
New York City
Chicago
Kansas City
Denver
Los Angeles
France resumes Pacific nuclear tests at Mururoa atoll
France detonated a conventional atomic device at Mururoa atoll 800 miles southeast of Papeete in the Tuamotu archipelago. The test, at 6 p.m. EDT, aimed to measure instruments for a planned hydrogen bomb series this summer while weather delays kept the danger zone in place.
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Papeete
Tahiti
Mururoa Atoll
Tuamotu
France
French Atomic Energy Commission
Weather Summary for Today and Yesterday
Mostly sunny today with gentle winds. Today's high 95 and low 75. Yesterday's high 95 and low 77. Noontime humidity 34 percent. Sunrise at 5 31. Sunset at 8 90.
Six Die in Missouri Holiday Car Crash Near Winfield
Six people died in a two car collision near Winfield Missouri as the Independence Day weekend traffic casualties climb toward six hundred nationwide. Officials noted a sharp rise in late weekend deaths compared with last year and cautioned the final tally may still rise.
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Winfield
National Safety Council
Missouri 79
Yanks Power Saigon War Drive Against Viet Cong
U S Marines with tanks artillery and air support reported heavy fighting just south of the DMZ in which 134 North Vietnamese troops were killed. B52 bombers pounded artillery positions and base camps near the DMZ and 13 miles from downtown Saigon. Naval patrols near the Tonkin Gulf reported no hit on a U.S. destroyer.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
America
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Dmz
Tonkin Gulf
Harris Survey Shows Old Politics Favored By Democrats
The Harris poll finds Democrats prefer Humphrey over McCarthy 48 to 40 percent nationally with two months to the convention in Chicago. Among independents McCarthy leads 54 to 30 percent, while Kennedy loyalists favor Humphrey 50 to 37 percent, reflecting Humphrey’s appeal to the gut vote and broader party base.
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Chicago
Democratic Party
Hubert Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
Humphrey
McCarthy
Carthy
Kennedy
South
Reid seeks District Court seat in Las Vegas
Las Vegas attorney Robert Reid announces his candidacy for the district judge department three to fill the unexpired term of Supreme Court Judge John Mowbray. Reid, a 1964 start in Las Vegas law practice and eight year Air Force veteran, is noted as Nevada’s first Black to perform judicial duties locally.
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Las Vegas
Robert Reid
Reid
Supreme Court
John Mowbray
Paul Laxalt
Alvin Wartman
Mowbray
U.S. Air Force
Nevada
Humphrey Rates Crime as Top Campaign Issue
Vice President Hubert Humphrey said crime and violence in American streets will be the leading issue of the coming presidential race. He also urged keeping Vietnam settlement terms out of U S politics to protect progress in Paris talks with North Vietnam.
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McCarthy
Humphrey
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Democratic Party
Washington
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
America
Vietnam
Paris
United States
North Vietnam
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Henderson Horoscope
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Nevada Savings and Loan Co
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