Pilot lands crippled airliner in field miracle save
In Williamsport Pennsylvania a two engine crippled Allegheny Airlines Convair with 49 aboard made a controlled crash landing in a rural area after engine trouble near takeoff. Captain Allan J. Lauber 36 guided the craft to a safe belly landing. 38 injured including the pilot. All passengers survived.
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Williamsport
UPI
Allegheny Airlines Convair
Allan J. Lauber
Lauber
Pittsburgh
Newark
N.J
Williamsport - Lycoming Airport
Scranton
U S Chief Slain in Viet Nam
U S air and Vietnamese planes conducted at least 165 strikes against Viet Cong strongholds across North and South Viet Nam. About 50 Viet Cong guerrillas were reported killed with two Americans dead and six wounded in various incidents. Saigon’s regime also announced harsh penalties for rumor spreaders.
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Saigon
Jack Ryan
Public Safety Division
The
Viet Nam
U.S
Senseless Killing of Priest in LA Over Interview
A distraught woman shot and killed a secretary to James Francis Cardinal McIntyre in the Los Angeles archdiocese chancery office. The weapon was a derringer, and the incident occurred on Friday.
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Los Angeles
UPI
James Francis Cardinal McIntyre
Stand Comments Stir Controversy Over Las Vegas Life
A local teacher writes anonymously about life in Las Vegas sharing warmth, heat discomfort, and a siesta routine while praising neighborliness and condemning improvised streets. The piece also notes a shooting incident in which Rev. John B. Thom, 32, was killed and Dorothy M. Bressie, 55, of Los Angeles, was arrested. Thom had been a Catholic University doctoral student filling in for the cardinal’s secretary.
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John B. Thom
Dorothy M. Bressie
Los Angeles
Thad Brown
Thom
William Munkers
Catholic University
Washington, D.C
Weather Outlook With Scattered Showers Expected Today
Variable cloudiness with scattered afternoon showers and gentle winds. High near 97 and low around 70. Yesterday’s high 97 and low 74. Noontime humidity 25 percent. Sunrise 5 41. Sunset 7 52.
Berserk man slays wife and children then ex wife
Police said a 35 year old man killed his wife and two step children before driving to Worcester to kill his former wife. All four victims died by stabbing. The suspect was captured in Worcester and unnamed. Victims were Beverly Ludovico Erickson 31 Susan Ludovico 8 Frank Ludovico 2 Martha Erickson.
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Leicester
Mass
UPI
Worcester
Beverly Ludovico Erickson
Susan Ludovico
Frank Ludovico
Martha Erickson
Missing UT coeds prompt public search across Texas
Austin police and the Texas DPS urge tips in the disappearance of Susan Rigsby and Shirley Ann Stark both 21 from Dallas last seen in Austin. Despite hundreds of tips from Mexico to the Carolinas, no solid lead emerges. A local woman found a large bundle of the girls clothing as authorities appeal for public help.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
University of Texas
Susan Rigsby
Shirley Ann Stark
Dallas
Austin
Mexico
Carolinas
Texas Department of Public Safety
DPS
Texas
Noah Phillips
Engineers End Long Strike With New Five Year Pact
Operating Engineers Local 12 voted to return to work after a month long walkout that idled schools hotels and public works. The five year contract provides 1.55 in wage increases over the period with 35 cents first year and 30 cents annually after, plus fringe benefits funding and a health and welfare collection bond.
Striking Carpenters Change Leaders in Confidence Vote
Two thousand carpenters 1000 on a no contract no work walkout voted little confidence in union leadership and negotiators Friday night. Mack M. Morris ousted as president of Carpenters and Joiners of America Legal 1780. defeated by Ray Moore. New business agent Figie Thompson elected. other officers listed with names and titles.
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Carpenters
Carpenters and Joiners of America Legal
Mack M. Morris
Ray Moore
Figie Thompson
Nudists and gendarmes clash on Saint Tropez beach
In Saint Tropez France authorities declare a weekend ban on nudity at Pampelonne Beach as 300 nudists confront four gendarmes. Reinforcements arrive while scouts and bikinis stand by amid the tense standoff noted by hopeful locals.
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Saint Tropez
France
UPI
Riviera
Pampelonne
Johnson weighs bigger draft calls for Vietnam
Washington US President Lyndon B Johnson and advisers discussed increasing draft calls to meet expanding troop needs in South Vietnam. Moyers said studies will be done over the weekend and the Defense Department had issued a September draft call of 17,000 Army draftees, same as July and 500 more than August.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
South Viet Nam
White House
Viet Nam
Bill D. Moyers
Moyers
Defense Department
New Look Bank Fraud Nets Trip 146s With Bum Check
A trio of con men led by an executive type swindled $14,000 from the Casino Branch of the Bank of Las Vegas on Las Vegas Boulevard South. A mid forty bald man in a blue suit posed as a client of Leonard Burnett from H. B. Burnett. The scheme used a cashier’s check request while bank staff remained unaware of the deception. Police launched a manhunt for the suspects.
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Bank of Las Vegas
Las Vegas Blvd. South
Thomas W. Shields
Shields
Leonard Burnett
H. B. Burnett
Riviera
Stardust Hotels
Nevada tops crime rate despite drop in 1963
FBI report shows Nevada had 11,387 crimes last year, the highest national rate at 2,799.9 per 100000, with Las Vegas and Reno accounting for most offenses. Clark County logged about 6,500 crimes. Las Vegas PD reported 2,601 and Reno 2,453 incidents.
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Reno
UPI
Nevada
Federal Bureau of Investigation
California
Arizona
Las Vegas
FBI
Clark County
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