Scout Trip Tragedy Kills Twelve Near Escalante
A truck carrying 12 killed and 27 injured when it plunged off a mountain road 5 miles southeast of here. Seven Scouts and five adults including two BYU professors and a woman reporter died as the brake failed and the vehicle rolled down the embankment. Two Scouts escaped, walking three miles to find help from a rancher who led authorities to the scene.
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Here
Colorado River
Brian Roundy
Tom Heal
Escalante
Bitter Pill For Gov. Wallace
Federal troops escorted two Negro students into the University of Alabama yesterday ending Gov. George C. Wallace's defiance and sweeping aside the last symbolic bastion of school segregation in the South.
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Tuscaloosa, Ala
Kennedy Addresses Civil Rights Amid Alabama Crisis
The White House asked networks for an 8 p.m. address on Civil Rights as Vivian Malone and James Hood registered at the University of Alabama escorted by U.S. Army troops he federalized. Federal troops arrived after Governor Wallace blocked the two students, marking a pivotal federal state clash and a tense sequence of actions culminating in peaceful registration and a quiet campus.
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White House
Vivian Malone
James Hood
University of Alabama
U.S. Army
Kennedy
Mississippi
State University
Bayonet Point
South Carolina
Clemson College
Gov. Wallace
James A. Hood
National Guard
Foster Auditorium
Wallace
Alabama
Alabama National Guard
Missing Column Leaves Las Vegas Heart Absent
Hank pledged allegiance to Las Vegas but his feet took him to Phoenix, and now both are missing as we go to press leaving no column today.
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Hank
Phoenix
Las Vegas
Cabinet to Hear Keeler Testimony in Profumo Scandal
Prime Minister Macmillan orders a Cabinet huddle as Lord Chancellor Dilhorne prepares to hear testimony on whether Christine Keeler discussed security with John Profumo and Eugene Ivanov. The Ward prostitution case looms as a potential factor, with tensions rising over leadership and a looming scandal expansion.
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Lord Dilhorne
Christine Keeler
John Profumo
So‘et
Eugene Ivanov
Miss Keeler
Ivanov
Profumo
London
Society
Stephen Ward
Ward
Macmillan
Paris
Britain
Vassall
Weather Snapshot Partly Cloudy With Showers Possible
Partly cloudy today with a chance of showers or thunderstorms. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. High near 85 and low around 65. Yesterday reached a high of 85 and low of 62. Noontime relative humidity about 24 percent. Sunrise at 5 23 and sunset at 7 57.
Candy Peddler Sought in Triple Slaying
An all-out search for Marvin Berry was ordered after a possible link to the bodies of three Negro children. Berry, driving a 1962 green station wagon with Arizona and California plates, may have accompanied three children on a candy-selling tour. He was wanted for questioning, not as a suspect, and officers statewide urged tips from the public.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
UPI
Marvin Berry
Arizona
California
Berry
Nevada vice king Conforte jailed again sentenced to time
Federal Judge William Mathes sentenced former Nevada vice figure Joe Conforte to three years in prison for evading $5 000 in 1956 income taxes. The three count indictment was partly dismissed after a guilty plea to one count. the sentence runs concurrently with a Nevada term and will be completed in a federal facility.
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Nevada
Carson City
UPI
William Mathes
Joe Conforte
Conforte
Asst
U. S
Tom Wilson
Mathes
Washoe County
William Baggio
Seven Dangerous Cons Escape Arizona Prison
Seven armed escapees overpowered guards and fled from a state prison in a dump truck near Florence Arizona. The group seized rifles and a pistol during an outside work detail and headed toward Queen Creek with deputies and patrol units in pursuit. Names listed include Gerald Collins and John Burrell among others with crimes ranging from robbery to assault.
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Florence, Ariz
Upl
Arizona Highway Patrol
Queen Creek
Leo Hochstatter
Hum
Pinal County
Gerald Collins
John Burrell
Robert Kaiser
Bobby Favors
Soviet Border Guards Delay Berlin Convoy Over Head Climb
Soviet border guards halted a Berlin-bound U.S. Army convoy after the commander refused requests for troops to leave their vehicles for a head climb. The Russians then allowed the convoy to pass amid Communist denouncements of Kennedy's West Germany and West Berlin visit as aggressive.
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Berlin
UPI
Light Vote Reported For Tax Increase
Las Vegas voters cast a light turnout in the sales tax election as polls closed early. A survey across 2 precincts in North Las Vegas and surrounding areas showed turnout under 20 percent by 4 p.m. with the highest tally 96 of 405 and several precincts reporting as low as 121 of 811 registered.
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North
Las Vegas
White Winged Astronaut Begins Germany Training
Former X15 pilot Bob White America s only winged astronaut starts 60 days of operational aircraft training with the 4520th combat crew training wing at Nellis AFB. He then does survival training at Stead AFB Reno before assignment to Bitburg Air Base Germany with the 36th TAC Fighter Wing.
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Bob White
America
Germany
4520Th Combat Crew
Nellis Air Force Base
635Th Advanced Training Group
Stead Afb
Reno
White
Bitburg Air Base
36Th Tactical Fighter Wing
Californians Kill Anti-Gaming Bill In Assembly
The California Assembly voted 45-8 to kill AB2376 which would bar air lines and bus companies from transporting residents to Nevada for gambling or prostitution. Rep Don Allen said the entertainment industry suffers while opponents call the measure unconstitutional or overly complex. The bill would have made transporting someone to gamble or visit a prostitution venue a misdemeanor.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
Allen
Los Angeles
Nevada
California
Jesse Unruh
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