Mexico Plane Crash Kills 79 Near Monterrey
A Mexicana de Aviacion plane crashed eight miles west of Monterrey due to bad weather killing all 79 aboard. Among the dead were tennis star Rafael Osuna and political leader Carlos Madrazo. Debris scattered on Friars Mountain with no signs of survivors. authorities say sabotage not ruled out.
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Monterrey
Mexico
Mexican Airlines
Mexicana de Avicion
Mexico City
Rafael Osuna
Australia
Carlos Madrazo
Mexicana de Aviacion
Blast's Origin Still Mystery
In Carneys Point New Jersey a series of chain reaction blasts at DuPont explosive plant killed at least four workers and left three missing. Over 100 tons of gunpowder exploded leveling three 30 by 60 foot corrugated iron buildings along the Delaware River. Investigators hunted for cause amid cratered marshland and shattered homes miles away.
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Carneys Point
N. J
DuPont Co
Delaware River
Woman Treated After Door Opened In Car Crash
Caroline A. Lang, 22, of 1419 Ohio St, treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a door flew open and she fell from a car driven by her husband in a collision at 8 31 p m Wednesday at 14th and Tennessee Streets. Ronald L Lang, 23, and Lilly S Strand, 63, of 1505 Ohio St, were the other drivers. Police report the Strand car was westbound and the Lang car southbound. Two other minor injury accidents were reported: John T Steed, 61, De Soto, injured when his car and a McCoy car collided at Iowa and 25th Sts at 10 56 p m, with damages $75 and $600 respectively. Wayne A Montney, 21, Garden City, slowed for a left turn near 6th and Midh Sts, and was rear ended by William R Walters, 21, Rt 1, with Susan J Montney, 15, injured mildly. damages $113 and $250.
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Caroline A. Lang
Ohio St
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
14Th
Tenn
Sts
Ronald L. Lang
Lilly S. Strand
Lawrence
Strand
14Th St
Lang
Tennessee St
John T. Steed
DeSoto
Patricia A. McCoy
Naismith
Susan J. Montney
Garden City
Montney
Walter
Food on Table Goal of Rocket Sent Up Today
A Thor- Agena rocket launched the 1393-pound OGO 6 from Vandenberg AFB at 7 43 am carrying 25 experiments to study space radiation and solar flares. The mission also aims to improve weather and agricultural forecasting by sampling Earth’s magnetic environment for over a year.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Thor
Eight deacons and ten elders ordained in Kansas East Conference
Eight deacons and ten elders were ordained Wednesday at the Kansas East Conference annual meeting. Bishops W McFerrin Stowe of Kansas and Roy Nichols of Pittsburgh presided. Deputed deacons include Brownrigg Iola Gibson Prairie Village Hall Kansas City and others, while elders named include Crider Shawnee Mission Neufer Emschler Huffman and Jones plus McBride and Mitchell among others.
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Baldwin, Kan
Kansas East
United Methodist Church
W. McFerrin Stowe
Kansas
Roy Nichols
Pittsburgh
Joseph Brownrigg
Iola
Terrill Gibson
Prairie Village
Jon A. Hall
Kansas City
Steven Hughes
Overland Park
H. Dale Morse
Coffeyville
Steven Larry Hysom
Salina
Rex D. Kelly
Eudora
Tom Dewey Sheldon
Wichita
Carl E. Crider
Shawnee Mission
Sharon Neufer Emschler
Lawrence
Theodore Huffman
Pleasanton
Allen A. Jones
Olathe
Michael McBride
Alta Vista
Paul B. Mitchell
Junction City
Robert Morley
Larry Seybold
Centerville
Lowell Spencer
Ronald Bumstead
Frankfort
KU Won’t – Disciplinary Board hears May disruption details
Disciplinary Board testimony and field photos identified Miss Bowman among those on the May nine disturbance. John Wright, new associate professor of history, also appeared on the field but will be handled separately. Wright lacks tenure as he has not yet completed two years on the EU staff.
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Balfour
David Awbrey
Hutchinson
Miss Bowman
John Wright
Wright
Americans See Violence As Solution, Task Force Says
A National Commission on Violence task force reports Americans are a violent people likely to remain so while violence is viewed as a final answer to social problems. The 300000 word Johns Hopkins and Princeton authored study covers U.S. violence history, 1963 to 1968, with comparisons to 17 Western democracies.
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Washington
National Commission On Violence
Ursa Major Seen Directly Overhead in May 1969
Ursa Major, a constellation that has intrigued people for centuries, was visible almost overhead in early May evenings of 1969.
ACLU Opposes Crime Legislation Expansion in Senate
The American Civil Liberties Union testified against several crime bills, arguing they would bypass constitutional guarantees. Lawrence Speiser warned against broad grand jury reports and immunity provisions that could expose dissenters, students, or activists to penalties and prosecutions.
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Washington
American Civil Liberties Union
Senate
Lawrence Speiser
ACLU
Subcommittee
Criminal Laws
Congress
Speiser
Grand Juries
Policy change prompts new traffic charge in Douglas County Court
Lawrence reports two items raise court workload. A policy now charges drivers without licenses if stopped, replacing prior practice of issuing citations that were then dismissed. Kansas Highway Patrol has swamped the area with about 100 troopers on May 9 and near-daily since, conducting traffic checks and generating many citations. The Union Pacific Expo Train will visit Lawrence June 11 near the depot as part of a 1969 centennial celebration. Free shows run 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. More than 200000 have passed through the train to date. Walter Schwarz notes May rainfall 2.47 inches in Worden area versus 5.0 normal. Year-to-date rainfall is 10.80 inches, 3.78 inches below normal. Hefner trip to Kansas Color Press in Lawrence canceled due to no contract, with plans to meet later.
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Douglas County
Kansas Highway Patrol
Kansas University
Union Pacific
Walter Schwarz
Worden
Lawrence
Death ruled a suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning
The May 15 death of Ronald Frederick Casteel aged 18 of 321 Kan was ruled a death by own action by coroner Dr James Reed. He was found in a car in the garage with a hose connected to the exhaust and transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Casteel.
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Ronald Frederick Casteel
Kan
James Reed
Douglas County
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Ralph Casteel
Topeka Officers Investigate Body Found in Car Trunk
Shawnee County sheriff's office and Topeka police probe a man's death after his body is found in the trunk of a car abandoned in a Topeka field. Investigators say the man appears to be in his mid 20s and the cause of death is unknown.
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Topeka, Kan
Shawnee County
Israel names currency unit shekel replacing lira
Jerusalem AP reports Israel's parliament voted Wednesday to rename the currency unit from the lira to the ancient Hebrew shekel, marking a shift in national monetary symbolism.
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Jerusalem
Israels
Kennedy Halts Burger Nomination Review Until Monday
Acting Senate Democratic Leader Kennedy delayed consideration of President Nixon's nomination of Warren Burger for chief justice until Monday. He said the hearing record and committee report were not ready, and he would seek a roll call then. Burger rejected being labeled conservative or liberal, calling himself midway and noting liberal rulings from his prior judgeship.
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Senate
Ledward M. Kennedy
Nixon
Warren E. Burger
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Burger
Earl Warren
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Friends of 4-H honor Journal-World editor Dolph Simons
Dolph Simons, editor of the Lawrence Journal-World and vice chairman of the Kansas 4-H Board of Trustees, received the Friends of 4-H honor at the Rock Springs Ranch ceremony. About 250 people attended the 4-H day as a shelter house funded by the Kansas Master Farmer and Master Farm Homemaker associations was dedicated. The Rock Springs Ranch, ten miles southwest of Junction City, hosts 18 000 youth visits yearly for camps and conferences.
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Lawrence
Kaw
Junction City
Journal-World Photo
Kan
Friends of 4-H
Dolph Simons
Lawrence Journal-World
Kansas 4-H Board of Trustees
Rock Springs Ranch
Kansas
Kansas Traffic Deaths Log For June 1969
Kansas traffic death toll for June 1969 shows 255 fatalities, compared to 262 in the same period in 1968. The AP report covers 24 hours to 9 a.m. Thursday and provides daily tallies for Topeka and statewide totals.
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Topeka
Kansas
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