Fathers and Son Earn Silver Stars for Heroic Actions
Lt. Col. H Miles McFann and his son Petty Officer 2 C Miles T McFann received Silver Star medals for separate acts of heroism in World War II and Vietnam. Col McFann earned his in 1943 aboard a B 17 after enemy fire crippled the aircraft near Paris. his son earned his during a Vietnam search and destroy mission in Quang Nam Province.
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McFann
H. Miles McFann
Office of Intelligence
1St
Strategic Aerospace Division
2.C
Miles T. McFann
Col. McGann
Eighth Air Force
Vietnam
Ninth Marine Amphibious Brigade
Quang Nam
Sweinfurt
Germany
England
Paris
I T
Young McFann
Marine Corps
United States Naval Service
Air Force
Navy
Marines
U.S. Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
USAF
Rob Slocum
Hess 75th Birthday in Spandau Prison Highlights Loneliness
Rudolf Hess, Hitler deputy, marks his 75th birthday in Spandau where he lives alone. He refuses visits from family, saves scraps for birds, and recalls his 1941 flight to Britain. Allies guard the prison as Hess dwells on Nazi glories but shuns talks of the camps.
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Joseph B. Fleming
Berlin
UPI
Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Hess
Spandau Prison
Luftwaffe
English Channel
Scotland
Britain
Nazi Germany
Hitler
Nuernberg
Spandau
Third Reich
LAFCO extends hearing on Carpinteria tidelands annexation
Local Agency Formation Commission votes to continue informal hearing on Carpinteria tidelands annexation two miles offshore until May 8. State Lands Commission consent needed. Carpinteria City Council action awaited. City seeks tidelands revenue this fiscal year and aims for swift resolution.
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Carpinteria
State Lands Commission
Santa Barbara
Commission
R. Lockwood Tower
Carpinteria City Council
Allen Coates
LAFCO
Rafferty Seeks Third Term as State School Superintendent
Sacramento UPI Max Rafferty state superintendent of public instruction says he will run for a third term next year. I came here to do a job he told UPI in an exclusive interview Friday. I got most of it done. When I
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Sacramento
UPI
Max Rafferty
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Rafferty
U.S
Thomas H. Kuchel
Senate
Alan Cranston
State Department of Education
George Murphy
Cranston
California
Index Associates
Lyn Nofziger
Ronald Reagan
Nof
Mutiny inmates in Presidio stockade have sentences cut
Lt. Gen. Larsen reduced two inmates sentences from 16 and 14 years hard labor to five years each after reviewing mutiny trials at the Presidio. Other inmates faces include 7 year reductions for Nesrey Sood and ongoing trials at Fort Ord.
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San Francisco
UPI
Sixth Army
Presidio Stockade
Stanley R. Larsen
Louis Osczepinski
Florida
N.Y
Lawrence Reidel
Crescent City
Cal
Laresen
Larsen
Army
Judge Advocate General’s Office
Pvt
Nesrey D. Sood
Oakland
Calif
Judge Advocate’s Office
Ave Deen
Fort Ord
Richard Gentile
Hampton
Gentile
Terence Hallinan
Friends In Court
Letterman General Hospital
Letterman
Vietnam
Hallinan
Lawrence Levitin
Air West sale hearing reopened by Civil Aeronautics Board
The Civil Aeronautics Board reopened the expedited hearing on the Air West purchase by Hughes Tool Co. to obtain further evidence about ties between Hughes Tool Co. and Hughes Aircraft Co. and the implications for approval conditions under the Federal Aviation Act.
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Air West
Hughes
Hughes Tool Co
Hughes Aircraft Co
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
U S Navy Task Force Leaves Sea of Japan After EC121 Incident
Tokyo reports Task Force 71 moves from the Sea of Japan toward the Yellow Sea after North Korea shot down an EC121 reconnaissance plane. USS Enterprise sighted en route with destroyers. 31 crewmen died in the attack. President Nixon ordered protests against reconnaissance flights.
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Tokyo
UPS
U.S. Navy
North Korea
Sea of Japan
U.S
Yellow Sea
Korea
Washington
Nixon
Viet troops trapped at lighted outpost. 213 reported dead
UPI reports North Vietnamese troops were drawn to a bait base near Saigon where floodlit American fire killed 213 attackers. At Frontier City, 45 miles NW of Saigon near Cambodia, U.S. forces repelled the assault with AC-47 air strikes and infantry, leaving one American dead and 157 enemy bodies found later.
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Saigon
UPI
Cambodia
U.S
Ellis Williamson
Fayetteville
N.C
U.S. 25Th Infantry
Frontier City
Harry Ray
Dillon, Mont
AC47
Williamson
Ray
Ray Pulliam
Chattanooga
Tenn
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Aspen
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Elizabeth Mansfield
Nitro
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State Board of Education
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Japanese Defense Agency
Tsushima Island
Japanese Maritime Safety Agency
U.S.S. Enterprise
Eisaku Sato
Japan
United States
United Services Agency
North
Walnut Plaza Shopping Center
Lompoc Record
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L. Adam
J. Donald Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Gaylen Jackson
Jim Ainsworth
John Alexander
Wesley A. Huffman
E. C. Stevens
Bill Cockshott
Betty Laurent
Vaughn Proctor
Wilma Jack
Dan Duffy
California Newspaper Publishers Association
United Press International
International Press Institute
Inter-American Press Association
National Newspaper Association
California Press Association
Valley Drive-In
Boston
Howl OG
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Glenn Ford
S Smith
Walt Disney
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Vane Theatre
Hiway
Conunty
Boston Strangler
Tony Curtis
Henry Fonda
George Kennedy
Mike Kellin
Murray Hamilton
Robert Fe Tger
Richard Fleischer
Eeard Arnt Ger Dla Frank Y DelLuse
SMA
Century Fok
Frank Sinatra
Enon
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Pomona
Calformia
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