15 Indicted For Brutality In Arkansas Prisons
A federal grand jury charged 15 people with brutal treatment of inmates across four Arkansas penal institutions. Indictments allege willful punishment under color of law, including electrical shocks and whippings at Tucker Prison Farm from 1964 to 1966.
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Little Rock, Ark
Arkansas
Jim Bruton
Tucker Prison Farm
State Penitentiary
Tucker
Bruton
Pulaski
Mississippi
Gary L. Haydis
Cummins Prison Farm
Cum
O. Morton
Winthrop Rockefeller
J. Smith Henley
U.S. District Court
Justice Department
State Board of Correction
No Parking Warned As City Plans Street Resurfacing
The F H Brewer Co will begin hot mix paving Monday on Walnut Market and Spring Streets with no parking in designated zones. Parked cars will be towed. leveling on Walnut from Hunter to Vine Market from Second to Front and Spring from Second to Front. The program may take about two weeks with curb repairs on Main Street by Brewer crews. City appropriated 59040 for the project plus additional streets slated for resurfacing and final steps.
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F. H. Brewer Co
Walnut
Market
Spring Sts
James Parkinson
Walnut St
Hunter
Vine St
Market St
Second
Front St
Spring St
Parkinson
W. Hunter
Main Sts
Rt. 33
Capital Improvements Fund
Summer Street
Second St
Hunter St
Gallagher Ave
Main St
North St
Warner Ave
Mound St
Brewer
Army Admits Open Air Nerve Gas Tests Draw Congressional Fire
Congressmen voiced alarm after the Army disclosed open air nerve gas tests at Dugway Proving Ground Utah Edgewood Arsenal Maryland and Fort McClellan Alabama The Army said tests include small lethal amounts in weapons and training exercises at Ft McClellan officials asserted no open air biological testing has occurred Edgewood and Dugway had a history of chemical tests with safety precautions and sheep deaths at Dugway last year sparked scrutiny
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Washington
Army
Henry S. Reuss
House
Government Operations
Dugway Proving Ground
Utah
Edgewood Arsenal
Maryland
Fort McClellan
Ala
Charles McC. Mathias
Dugway
Ft. McClellan
EOD
Reuss
Pentagon
Department of the Army
Rockets Hit Dong Tam Processing Center Killing Soldier
Eighteen Americans were hit when a So Viet built 107mm rocket struck a 9th Division processing center at Dong Tam. One soldier died and seven were wounded. Eight of the 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry members were among the casualties. The incident came as Nixon ordered a 25,000 troop withdrawal by August.
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Saigon
9Th Division
U.S
Dong Tam
47Th Infantry
United States
Nixon
9Th Marine
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Tri
Vietnam
Okinawa
9Th Marines
South Vietnam
Larry D. Aiken
Jamaica
N.Y
da Nang
Ohio Storm Damage Estimated at 100 Million
The SBA estimated Ohio storm and flood losses at 100 million dollars and declared the state a disaster area. July 4 thunderstorms and flooding displaced thousands and killed 40, with Ada Elliot and Earl Elliot among the latest victims. Loans available at Cleveland and Columbus regional offices. In Bellevue, waterborne germs prompted boil orders and city pumps and chlorine to curb contamination.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Small Business Administration
Ada Elliot
Killbuck
Holmes County
Earl
SBA
Columbus
Bellevue
Sandusky
Huron
John Bushman
Missing Sailor Crowhurst Believed Lost After Fourth Vessel Found
London AP report says British yachtsman Donald Crowhurst is presumed lost after his trimaran Teignmouth Electron was found abandoned 700 miles west of the Azores. In the same 12 days three other unmanned boats were found in the area, prompting search teams to suspend efforts.
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London
Donald Crowhurst
U.S. Air Force
Azores
London Sunday Times
Crowhurst
Clare
Trimeran
Globe
Lloyd’s Shipping Exchange
Peter Wallin
Sweden
Golar Frost
Wallin
Helisoma
Maplebank
North Africa
Lloyd's
LHS Grad Receives Purple Heart Before Home Leave
Pfc. Robert E. Saunders, Logan High School class of 1967, son of Jean and Everett Saunders, earned a Purple Heart for wounds in action at Cam Ranh Bay Vietnam. After 30 days at home he heads to Fort Dix for deployment to Germany. He enlisted November 1967, trained at Fort Jackson and Fort Belvoir, arrived in Vietnam June 1968.
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Robert E. Saunders
Jean Saunders
Sugar Grove
Everett Saunders
Circleville
Cam Ranh Bay
Vietnam
U.S. Air Force Hospital
Fort Dix
N.J
Germany
Fort Jackson
S.C
Fort Belvoir
Goodyear Recalls 1045 Power Cushion Tires in Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co recalls 1,045 passenger car tires in Akron. The size 8.55-14 bias-ply Power Cushion models may be unusually susceptible to bruise breaks and could fail under severe highway use.
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Akron, Ohio
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Astronauts to Leave Flag Messages and Junk on Moon
Apollo 11 astronauts will plant a nylon American flag and a commemorative plaque on the moon. They will leave 4100-pound descent stage, tools, scientific instruments, a television camera, and assorted debris before departing for lunar orbit.
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Moon
Space Center
Houston
Neil A. Armstrong
Lunar
Air Force
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Armstrong
Planet
Earth
Nixon
Cape Kennedy
Fla
The
Space Agency
Aldrin
United Nations
U.N
District Columbia
U.S
U.S. Senate
House of Representatives
Charles A. Berry
Nixon era program chief resigns amid audit of Black Capitalism plan
Philip Pruitt, 32, resigned after four months as director of the SBA minority enterprise program. He cited personal trouble facing himself in the mirror and suggested aides may be giving President Nixon faulty advice. The shift follows broader administrative questions on civil rights and economic policy.
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Washington
Philip Pruitt
Nixon
Small Business Administration
Pruitt
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Red Rockets Hit Processing Center
LHS Grad
Purple Heart
Goodyear
NEM A. Armstrong Astronaut
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Colinx
Richard Nikon
United States OF America
Edwin E. Aldrin
Washington (Ap
Ways and Means Committee
Chicago
Hubert L. Will Friday
Northwest Industries
B. F. Goodrich Co
Northwest
Evansville
Ind
Congress
Treasury
Cape Kennedy, Fla
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Soviet Union
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