Mourning Pope John XXIII As Vatican Eyes Conclave
Vatican City mourns Pope John XXIII at 81 after four days of illness. The body lay in state in red robes as cardinals diplomats and citizens paid tribute and prepared to elect his successor. A nine day mourning period and daily congregations set the schedule for the conclave to elect a new pope.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
Vatican
St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's Basilica
Pope John
Papal
Con
Clave
Corpus Christi
Antonio Segui
Amintore Fanfani
Italy
Catafalque
L'Osservatore Roma
Royal Staircase
Antonio Gashbarrini
Benedetto Aloisi Masella
Cardinal Chamberlain
St. Peter's
John
Rome
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
College of Cardinals
Sacred College
Sistine Chapel
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini
Milan
Pius XII
Ancient Indian camp unearthed near city along highway
Nine feet below the expressway site at East Gore near Lost Bridge, archaeologists uncovered 12 to 14 stone hearths eight to nine feet in diameter with bone fragments and charcoal. The site, likely a village from an early archaic culture around 4000 B.C., also yielded Travis projectile points. excavations proceed amid rain delays and absence of a key archenologist.
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Borrow Pit
East Gore
Lost Bridge
Marvin Tong
Museum of the Great Plains
Tong
Travis Points
Edwards Plateau
Austin
Tex
Museum
Southwest Chapter
The
Oklahoma Anthropolog
Pension Fraud Counts Name Hotta and 7 Pals
A federal grand jury indicted James R. Hoffa and seven associates for fraudulently obtaining more than 20 million dollars in loans from the Central States Pension Fund. The 28 count indictment cites over 1 million diverted for personal benefit, including 100,000 used to aid Hoffa’s separate ventures in Sun Valley Florida. Indicted are Benjamin Dranow Abel Weinblatt George Burris Herbert Burris Samuel Hyman Calvin Kovens Zachary Strate Jr. The conspiracy count carries five years and a 10,000 dollar fine. other counts carry prison terms for interstate fraud.
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Chicago
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters’ Union
Central States Pension Fund
Grand Jury
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoffa
Rockefeller Says He's A Candidate For President
Gov. Rockefeller declared he remains among potential Republican presidential candidates. He dismissed marriage as a liability and said he will weigh all factors before deciding to wage a campaign. He noted custody arrangements for his wife’s four children are moving along and she may not accompany him on all trips.
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Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
Margaretta
Happy) Murphy
City seeks ambulance plan amid wrecker service debate
Lawton Oklahoma hears a proposal by Bill Langfitt to operate city ambulance service using his wrecker and impoundment firm for nonpreferred accident calls. The plan stalls as council committee reviews, while Langfitt would provide three ambulances and free service for city workers and inmates.
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Act
Ted
Bill Langfitt
Central Ambulance Co
Mercury Ambulance Co
Langfitt
See Council
Paget Colt
SEC Seeks New Powers to Curb Stock Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission urged Congress to grant broad authority to crack down on fraudulent securities sales. The request follows a major market study and would extend to securities traded outside major exchanges, require financial disclosures, and apply exchange-style regulations to more firms.
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Washington
UPI
Securities & Exchange Commission
SHC
Congress
SEC
U S Army Officer Wounded by Communist Fire Near Saigon
A United States Army officer was critically wounded by Communist ground fire while riding as a passenger in a helicopter south of Saigon on Monday.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Negroes Seek Court Plea To Desegregate Schools
In Birmingham Alabama Negro attorneys appeal to the U S 3rd Circuit for a preliminary injunction to desegregate the citys schools The appeal follows Judge Lynnes refusal to order desegregation but his warning to consider an integration plan under the state pupil placement law The Justice Department seeks an injunction to prevent Gov Wallace from blocking Negro enrollment at the University of Alabama as the university prepares to admit a third Negro student for the summer session and two named students are expected to enroll
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Birmingham
Ala
W. L. Williams Jr
U.S. 3Rd Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
U.S. Dist
Seybourn H. Lynne
Lynne
U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Department
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
James A. Hood
East Gadsden
Vivian J. Malone
Mobile
Oklahoma panel hikes starting teacher pay by 200 dollars
A key legislative committee advanced a 252 million dollar state budget boosting starting teacher salaries to 3800 dollars a year. The plan moves to the House and Senate and then Gov. Henry Bellmon with approval likely. Operational funds would rise to 8 dollars per student. Additional actions included shifting narcotics enforcement debated but delayed.
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Oklahoma City
Crime Bureau
Alcoholic
Bey Control Board
Appropriations
House
Senate
Henry Bellman
Fine
J. D. McCarty
Narcotics Enforcement Division
Attorney General's Office
Public Health Department
Sunny Skies Gives Way to Storms in Oklahoma
Forecasters expect cloudiness and scattered thunderstorms by Wednesday across much of the state. Temperatures inland may reach near 90 today with a low around 64 tonight, then climb to about 87 Wednesday.
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Oklahoma
U. S
Cement Man's Son Aboard Plane Missing Off Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska search lists 101 aboard a Military Air Transport Service plane missing. John Crimmons, 31, of Cement, Oklahoma, son of Percy Crimmons, and Sp Alfred Atkins of McAlester, Oklahoma, are among the missing. Crimmons, a civilian aircraft worker in El Paso, attended McAlester schools, served in Korea with the 45th Division, and later studied aviation on the GI Bill in Wichita. Atkins, married about a year, and his wife in Tulsa, was en route back from leave to Alaska when the plane disappeared.
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Military Air Transport Service
Gulf of Alaska
John Crimmons
Percy J. Crimmons
Cement
Alfred Atkins
Brosha E. Atkins
McAlester
Crimmons
el Paso
Tex
Alaska
Wichita
Kans
Atkins
Tulsa
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Hotta
Sun Valley, Inc
Florida Homes
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Teamsters
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Minneapolis
Dranow
Sandstone, Minn
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Miami Beach
Fla
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George Burris
New York City
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Samuel Hyman
Key West
Calvin Kovens
Fila
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British Columbia
Northwest Airlines
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Coast Guard
Juneau
Northwest Orient Airlines
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