Northeast Air Crash Kills 27 and 15 Survive
A Northeast Air crash on Moose Mountain killed 27 with 15 survivors. Rescue efforts faced pea soup fog and freezing conditions as Navy and Coast Guard crews worked to extract survivors amid rugged terrain and advancing weather.
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Robins Air Force Base
Georgia
Coast Guard
Salem
Mass
Dartmouth College
Moose Mountain
Bombers Press South Vietnam While Front Quiet
U S Air Force B 52s conducted heavy raids across South Vietnam as ground forces seized rice and engaged enemy units. Ambassadors met Thieu in Saigon amid talks described as decisive to ease Washington Saigon peace tensions.
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Saigon
UPS
North Vietnam
Bombing Halt Accord Seen By November 5
Asian sources say North Vietnam hopes a U S bombing halt accord can be arranged before the November 5 presidential election to limit Johnson Administration actions. Hanoi negotiators study Souvanna Phouma’s Laotian statement while U S diplomats deny comment.
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Johnson
Hanoi
Washington
Souvanna Phouma
Souvanna
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William H. Sullivan
United States
U. S. State Department
Las Vegas Bank Robbery Stuns City During Friday Rush
FBI agent apprehended a bank holdup suspect within an hour, after a 4 p.m. heist at the Bank of Las Vegas. The bandit, who used a note and simulated weapon, fled with more than $19,000. Two other robberies followed at a credit union and a 7 11 market, with suspects sought.
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Las Vegas
Harold Campbell
Bank of
Ensign Federal Credit Union
N. 9Th St
SUN
Tam Drive
Betty Christensen
Good News Told Over Most Of U S
Barbara Montgomery and Tom Roberts 20 year old Pottsdown Mercury staff writers posed as Amish on assignment in Philadelphia to test how strangers treat plain folk. They received helpful glances and offers of aid including a woman who fixed a hem. Across the world in Italy a group of children rescued 86 year old Josef Messner from icy water, taking him to hospital with only a cold.
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Tom Roberts
Pottsdown
Mercury
Bressanone
Italy
Josef Messner
Florida Southern College extends dating time this weekend
Florida Southern College Lakeland will observe an extra hour of dating this weekend as campus clocks revert to standard time at 8 a.m. Saturday. President Dr. Charles T. Thrift Jr. ordered the change, allowing men an extra hour for dates while coeds must be in dorms by 1 a.m. on Saturdays.
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Florida Southern College
Lakeland
Charles T. Thrift Jr
the Methodist College
Thrift
The Great Pumpkin Tank Sighting at Wilmington
The Union Oil Co in Wilmington California painted its 80 000 barrel pumpkin shaped storage tank orange for Halloween. It features four foot eyes a nose and a toothy grin spanning 73 feet wide.
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Wilmington
Calif
Union Oil Co
Irish Guards Break Down Shed to Help Windsor Pensioner
Seven burly men from the First Battalion Irish Guards aided Mrs Beatrice Harris an 83 year old pensioner in Windsor England by smashing down an old shed in her back garden. She welcomed the effort noting it will save her property taxes and ease her burden.
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Windsor
England
Big Invitation at Iowa State University Ames
Roger Bauer a student says he has written a letter to God inviting him to speak on November 4 at Iowa State University Ames to discuss aspects of human nature He notes no word of God not coming and stresses the event must stay serious
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Iowa State University
Ames
Roger Bauer
Iowa State
Big figures wow Wall Street crowd during lunch hour
Carol James of Marshfield Massachusetts stands 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds and records 40-22-35 as the fourth entrant to parade in the financial district this month following Francine Gottfried of Brooklyn who is listed 43-25-37.
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New York
Wall Street
Carol James
Marshfield
Mass
Financial District
Francine Gottfried
Brooklyn
Clairvoyant Madame Kilner Raises Dog for Psychic Fees
In Brighton England Madame Kilner a 38 year old self described clairvoyant says she raises the life of dogs and earns part of her living by receiving psychic vibrations from dogs paws and telling canine fortunes.
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Brighton
England
Madame Kilner
Compulsory inspection saves man during car trouble
An unidentified Orlando man arrived at a vehicle inspection station for his compulsory test and was struck by an A frame and parts that fell from his car as he waited. An attendant called it the luckiest accident, noting a highway failure could have caused a serious crash.
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Orlando, Fla
Name kept secret at White House baby born to Lynda Robb
President Johnson announced the birth of his first granddaughter a healthy seven and a half pound girl born to Lynda Bird Robb at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Capt Charles Robb was in Vietnam as the baby’s photo was to be rushed to him. The White House set a noon public release for the first portrait and a Secret Service detail guarded mother and child.
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UPI
Johnson
Vietnam
Lynda Bird Robb
Lynda
Charles Robb
Lewis Walt
Marine Corps
Walt
White House
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Patrick Lyndon Nugent
James B. Allred
Texas
Robb
the Johnson
Luci Nugent
Luci
Patrick Nugent
Little Patrick
Bethesda, Md
Secret Service
Humphrey Attacks Nixon In Hoarse Las Vegas Speech
Vice President Humphrey delivered a caustic 45 minute speech in Las Vegas, assailing Nixon as wrong and irresponsible for Defense issues and mocking his economic stance. He warned of dangers in Nixon’s leadership, ridiculed Agnew and called for a debate, urging trust in his own national security record and programs.
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Humphrey
Nixon
America
Spiro Agnew
National Security Council
Mr. Agnew
Agnew
Sun to Release Straw Vote Poll Results
The Sun will publish the Clark County straw poll results tomorrow covering Boulder City Henderson North Las Vegas and county areas. The first in a series of opinion samplings ahead of the November 5 election focuses on presidential senatorial and congressional races.
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Clark County
Boulder City
Henderson
North
Las Vegas
Cardinal Cushing Plans Resignation From Boston Archdiocese
Cardinal Cushing announces plans to resign as archbishop of Boston by year end. He notes 75th birthday on Aug 24, 1970 and 50 years as a priest, 30 as bishop, with public attention prompting the step. He will offer resignation to Pope Paul VI at year end.
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Boston
Pope Paul VI
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