Hicks Cleared in Murder Case of North Las Vegas Cab Driver
Kenneth Hicks, a 35 year old San Diego convict, was cleared by Justice of the Peace Joe Pawlikowski of murdering North Las Vegas cab driver Glen Christiernsson. The preliminary hearing found no sufficient cause or timing link to Hicks and the state failed to prove the death was connected to him. The proceeding drew national attention as 18 witnesses testified behind closed doors.
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Kenneth Hicks
Las Vegas
San Diego
Justice Court
Justice of the Peace
Joe Pawlikowski
Clark County
Earl P. Gripentrog
Hicks
North Las Vegas
Glen Christiernsson
Pavlikowski
Gripentrog
Warm Springs Road
Paradise Road
Christiernsson
Paviikowski
Franklin
Mullen
Jeannie McColl
William Dale Archerd
Ira Reiner
Los Angeles
Archerd
Resignation of Clark County Probation Chief Moon Mullen
R E Moon Mullen resigns as Clark County chief probation officer due to ill health with an expected long incapacitation period. He offers limited availability to assist his successor and notes the position to be filled after his accrued sick leave ends around April 5 1968.
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R. E. Moon
Mullen
Moon
Clark County
Las Vegas
Marines Prowl DMZ After C123 Downed Near Khe Sanh
UPI reports a Communist antiaircraft strike brought down a U S Marines C123 cargo plane near the Khe Sanh strip. The crash killed all 44 servicemen aboard and left the wreckage smoldering.
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Pleiku
Highlands
U. S
Saigon
UPI
Richard V. Oliver
Phu Bai
Omaha Race Unrest Prompts relocation of Class A Tournament
In Omaha Nebraska police jailed six Negro youths amid fire bombings and vandalism including Molotov cocktails rocks and a loaded gun found in a car. The North Side unrest forced the state Class A prep basketball tournament from Omaha to Lincoln as 17 injured five stores looted and 12 cars damaged over two nights. A 16 year old Negro boy was killed during looting and a private guard shot another suspect.
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Omaha, Neb
UPI
Omaha
North Side
Lincoln
Alabama
George Wallace
Hopes High For Trapped Salt Miners
Miners trapped in a Morgan City Louisiana salt mine faced fire and smoke after a shaft blaze. Emergency breathing gear and air supplies were rushed in as rescue plans awaited Bureau of Mines guidance. The 28 by 28 foot chamber and 11 oxygen bottles inside raised hope of escape if they kept their heads.
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Morgan City
Alfred Brizzard
Joseph W. Martin Jr dies former GOP House speaker
Joseph W. Martin Jr., once a newsboy turned publisher, and the last Republican speaker of the U.S. House, died in a Hollywood Florida hospital at age 82. He had moved to Florida for the winter after leaving Massachusetts in October. He served as speaker from 1946 to 1948 and 1952 to 1954.
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Bryan
Public Defender’s Office
Joseph P. Martin
GOP
Hollywood
Fla
UPI
Joseph W. Martin Jr
U.S House of Representatives
Hollywoood
Albert T. Martin
Martin
Memorial Hospital
Johnson seeks $500 million for American Indian aid in USS
President Johnson urged Congress to fund a civil rights welfare program for American Indians, proposing about 500 million dollars for economic social and educational improvements and tribal rights. He created a National Council on Indian Opportunity led by Vice President Humphrey to push reforms while offering Indians options to stay on reservations or relocate with skills for equality.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
White House
National Council On Indian Opportunity
Hubert H. Humphrey
Still a Mystery if LSD Causes Birth Defects
Washington reports that Dr. Stanley F. Yolles of the National Institute of Mental Health told a Senate panel that evidence linking LSD to birth defects is presumptive. He noted incomplete biological hazard data and said further study by 20 investigators would take years to reach a definitive conclusion.
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Washington
UPI
Stanley F. Yolles
National Institute of Mental Health
Senate
Venezuelan government loses control as parliament polls rebuked
In Caracas Venezuela the government invalidated parliamentary elections triggering a loss of congressional control. President Raul Leoni refused to recognize the votes citing lack of quorum after five opposition parties ousted the Democratic Action coalition. Armando Vegas and Cesar Rondon Lovera, independents, were elected senate and lower house leaders.
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Caracas
Venezuela
UPI
Venezela
Congress
Democratic Action Party
Raul Leoni
Armando Vegas
Senate
Cesar Rondon Lovera
Lurleen Wallace Makes Small Recovery After Surgery
Governor Lurleen Wallace, America's only female governor, is recovering from her third cancer operation in two years at St Margaret's Hospital. She sat up in a chair and began taking nourishment as doctors report chest congestion and fever subsiding gradually with guarded optimism.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Lurleen Wallace
St. Margaret's Hospital
Slap Fine on 40 Teachers As State Strikes Continue
More than 40 striking Pittsburgh teachers were rounded up and fined for violating an antipicketing injunction. At least 42 were arrested and fined 25 dollars each. Governor Bartlett urged Oklahoma teachers to accept a 37 million education program as a three year compromise.
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United Press International
Pittsburgh
Oklahoma
Dewey Bartlett
Florida
Claude Kirk
Manchester
N.H
Wellston
Board of Education
Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
Oklahoma City
Bartlett
Senate approves broad civil rights crackdown amendments
The Senate voted 72 to 23 to outlaw transporting or manufacturing weapons for civil disorder and to criminalize interfering with police and firemen. It refused to make inciting a riot a federal crime, with the longshot proposal defeated after initial narrow margins.
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Washington
Senate
Long
Louisiana
Stokely Carmichael
Rap Brown
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
D Mass
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California
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George Franklin, Jr
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the Sun
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Compton
Juvenile Welfare Advisory Committee
Juvenile Services Administrative
Clark County Youth Services Program
Nebraska
Hastings
The
Jaycees
N. Leona St
U.S. Marines
Dmz
Jlumes
Khe Sanh
Quan Long
U Minh II Battalion
Delta
Robert Taylor
Central Highlands
Ban Me Thuot
South Vietnam
Cargill, Inc
U.S
al Carter
UPI Telephoto
USS
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