Gaffney Strangler Confession Frees Husband of Victim
Roger Zane Dedmond, 28, freed on a court order after new evidence cleared him in the slaying of his wife Lucille. The Gaffney Strangler case tied to Lee Roy Martin, a suspect in three Gaffney area killings. Dedmond planned to pick up his two year old son in Forest City and start anew in Charlotte.
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Charlotte
Dedmond
Francis B. Nicholson
Greenwood
Union County
Nicholson
Lucille
Lee Roy Martin
Gaffney
Gaffney-area
Cambodia Hints U S Aid If Red Guerrillas Persist
Phnom Penh reports Prince Sihanouk warning China against continuing anti government guerrilla activity in western and southwestern Cambodia Then he warned he might resign and seek American aid through anti Communist Gen Lon Nol if Beijing and other powers do not halt the Viet Cong Viet Minh style campaign Cambodian troops report heavy casualties while requests for 5000 more men are hampered by finances The situation mirrors Cambodia Viet Nam tensions and Sihanouk's stance toward North Vietnamese and pro Peking forces.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Norodom Sihanouk
Peking
Cambodia
Sihanouk
Nhiek Tioulong
T Hat
Lon Nol
Nol
Vietnam
Nova Scotia wages lag national average in 1966
Halifax reports personal income rose 6 percent from 1965 to 1966 yet Nova Scotians earned an average of 1575 dollars while the Canadian average reached 2144 dollars. Chicago notes 1968 freight car fleet at 1.8 million with 1.2 billion spent on new and rebuilt cars, down 400 million from 1966.
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Halifax
Nova
Chicago
Pittsburgh Teachers Strike Shuts Schools Sparks Vandalism
Pittsburgh’s 3100 public school teachers walked out over collective bargaining demands, leaving about 23000 of 76970 pupils sent home. Vandals damaged 9 high schools, 35 windows at Taylor Allderdice, and a small fire at Schenley High. No injuries or arrests reported.
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Pittsburgh
UPS
Rike
Schenley High School
Marland
Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers Pft
Stanley March
Taylor Allderdice High School
Taylor Allderdice
Oil wells drive US crude output share revealed
In Houston a report notes that half the nation’s crude oil is produced by roughly ten percent of its active wells, highlighting concentration of production among a small subset of wells.
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Houston
Tex
United States
Record-Heavy Week for U.S. Deaths in Vietnam War
UPI reports 470 American service members killed and 2,675 wounded in the past week, the bloodiest four weeks of the war. The total U.S. combat deaths since Jan 1, 1961 reaches 18,709, with Communist losses at 300,305 since 1961.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
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