Escapee trio: Conger and Webb captured after eight-minute jailbreak
Las Vegas police recaptured Terry Lee Conger and Frank E. Webb seconds after a prison break from Clark County jail. The two fled with an iron pry tool and a sheet rope, sliding from the courthouse attic to Casino Center Boulevard before being arrested near railroad yards. Both men remain in custody on federal charges.
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Las Vegas
Terry Lee Conger
Clark County
Union Pacific
Frank E. Webb
Conger
Jay Bundy
Eldon Chappell
Donald Simmons
Frederick French
Webb
Casino Center Boulevard
Overton
Bank of Las Vegas
2000 Aircraft Experts Attend Week-Long Exposition
The Air Exposition and Conference hosts 2000 aviation specialists including FAA and NASA officials. Highlights include talks on airport congestion and air transport handling at major airports. Awards will honor Hedrick, Reynolds, Reagan, and Wolf for their aviation contributions. World aviation records by U.S. pilots will be presented.
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Pylle
Frank E. Hedrick
Beech Aircraft Corp
U.S
Leathernecks Repel N Vietnamattacks Near DMZ
U S Marines repelled strong assaults just south of the DMZ and killed 125 North Vietnamese in battles that cost 120 Leathernecks killed and wounded, the U S command reported yesterday. The battles Sunday shifted part of the war focus to the DMZ theater where the United States has proposed a pull.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
United States
Air War
U.S. Air Force
North Vietnam
Dong Hoi
Khe Sanh
Con Thien
Viet Cong Mortar Fire Hits Three Provincial Capitals
Viet Cong mortar attacks hit three provincial capitals killing or wounding 41 Vietnamese. Allied forces clash near Da Nang and Khe Sanh as Marines report 8 dead 34 wounded and 66 enemy bodies in major engagements. Air and artillery strikes target the DMZ region amid heavy heat.
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Saigon
UPI
Demilitarized Zone
Khe Sanh
Hanley Aide Sought in Alsup Slaying Probe
The 52 year old head of the American Federation of Casino and Gaming Employees bailed out. Investigators reopen Alsup murder case tied to labor disputes and a key witness Barbara Simmons, missing since 1966, amid a tangle of lawsuits and arrests involving Hanley and associates.
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American Federation of Casino and Gaming Employees
Hill
Hanley
Albert M. Dreyer
van Santen
Diamond Jim’s
Nevada Club
Lucky Nevada Club
Ralph Lamb
FBI
Barbara Simmons
Ralph Alsup
Miss Simmons
Alsup
Investigatio
Mike Marathon
San Francisco
Marathon
Brian Price
Price
Seattle
Wash
Nevada
Internal Revenue Service
the Sun
IRS
Reno
Lamb
Nevada Banks Seek Merger To Form Larger State Lender
Western Bancorporation plans merging First National Bank of Nevada Bank of Nevada to create a large Nevada bank with about 261.686 million dollars in resources per the April 18 1968 Call Report. Management for the three banks will largely remain. E Parry Thomas as chairman, Stuart B Webb and Herb Stout as vice chairs, Robert J Sullivan as president, Jerome D Mack as executive committee chair.
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Nevada
Western Bancorporation
United States
California
First National Bank of Nevada
Bank of Nevada
E. Parry Thomas
Stuart B. Webb
Herb Stout
North
Robert J. Sullivan
Jerome D. Mack
Police officers deliver baby at Turf Motel in Reno
Lt. Frank Kim and Sgt. Don Hanley, officers with no formal midwifery training, assisted in delivering a newborn at the Turf Motel on 13th and Fremont Streets. Mercy Ambulance driver George Rogers tied the umbilical cord and transported mother Linda Hale and her child to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital, both listed in good condition.
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Police Academy
Frank Kim
Don Hanley
Turf
13Th
Fremont
Kim
Hanley
Mercy
George Rogers
Linda Hale
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
France in Crisis as Americans Flee and Nationwide Strikes Grow
De Gaulle remains silent awaiting a Friday national address while Pompidou faces a looming censure vote. France endures a general strike with 5 to 6 million workers idle, 300 factories occupied, and widespread panic over fuel and banking shortages.
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de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Pompidou
Communist General Workers Federation
France
Royal Bank of Canada
Paris
First National City Bank of New York
Reno Man Named Assistant Health Welfare Director
Orvill A. Wahrenbrock 49, executive director of the Reno YMCA, named assistant state health and welfare director. He will assume the post June 17, succeeding an $11,500 vacancy left by Phil Hannifin.
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Reno
Carson City
UPI
Orvill A. Wahrenbrock
YMCA
Wahrenbrock
Phil Hannifin
Nevada school bond election faces voter decision
A 59.5 million General Obligation bond asks Clark County voters as enrollments rise and a 4 000 to 6 000 seat shortage looms. Bond funding relies on a $5 per 100 valuation tax with disputes over impact on city budgets and alternative revenue sources.
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Clark County
Mason
General Obligation Bond Commission
Nevada Taxpayers Association
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
McCarran Airport
Las Vegas Valley Water District
Southern Nevada Water Project
Reagan Rockefeller Discuss Dream Ticket in New Orleans
United Press International reports Reagan and Rockefeller downplayed any Rockefeller Reagan dream ticket while calling Reagan nearly a candidate for the GOP nomination. Reagan rejected a vice presidential spot. Rockefeller campaigned for delegates across the South and Florida.
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Reagan
Rockefeller
Dream
Guardsmen Use Tear Gas as Salisbury Racism Protests Escalate
National Guardsmen dispersed a crowd of 25 to 30 Negroes with tear gas in Salisbury Maryland after rioting over police actions and a deaf mute burglary suspect death. About 800 guardsmen and 350 state police patrolled the area as a 7 pm to 7 am curfew was reimposed.
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Salisbury, Md
UPI
National
Salisbury
George M. Gelston
Maryland National Guard
Cambridge
Princess Anne
Maryland State College
Tull’s
Harriman Says North Vietnam Wasting Time At Talks
UPI reports U.S. Ambassador Harriman says there is no deadlock in Vietnam talks and demands immediate substantive negotiations. He accuses North Vietnam of wasting time with polemics while others say Hanoi stands firm against scaling down fighting until bombing stops. Progress depends on North Vietnam. no time limit set.
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Paris
UPI
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
North Vietnam
United States
Harriman
South Vietnam
Write-In For Rocky Is Promised
In Portland Oregon supporters launch a bootstrap write-in campaign for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller who is not on the May 28 Republican primary ballot. Backers use direct mail cards urging Republicans to write in Rockefeller as Nixon and Reagan remain listed candidates. Local attorney Robert Ridgley leads the effort noting limited chances of success and citing voting equipment challenges.
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Gans
San Francisco
McCarthy
Thomas D. Finney Jr
Washington
Oregon
California
Finney
Iowa
Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Harold E. Hughes
William Sueppel
Tom McCall
Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Reagan
Portland
Ore
UPI
Guv
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Robert Ridgley
Floyd Hart
R-Medford
Viet Cong Claims Huge Allied Losses in Tet Offensive
Hanoi broadcast a Viet Cong communique claiming 253,500 Allied troops wiped out since January, with 3,000 aircraft destroyed, 6,000 vehicles sunk, 400 warships sunk or set afire, 400 bridges blown, and 1,000 positions wrecked in the past 100 days amid Paris talks.
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API
Viet Cong
Hanoi
Peoples Liberation Armed Forces
Paris Vietnam
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