Clash Near Sino Soviet Border Rages as Both Sides Trade Allegations
Reports from Hong Kong and Moscow describe a border clash less than 500 miles north of China's Lop Nor base. Peking charges Soviet tanks and helicopters crossed into Chinese territory, killing and wounding troops. Moscow counters Chinese invasion of Kazakhstan with up to 700 reinforcements. Both sides exchange notes at their embassies amid ongoing Sino Soviet border clashes since March.
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Hong Kong
UPI
China
Sinkiang
Usurri River
Peking Radio
Russia
Moscow
Kazakhstan
Peking
Lop Nor
Singkiang
Tibet
Khabarovsk
Tass
Tess
Yumin County
Silk Road
Persia
Walnut Avenue Property Owner Introduces Self Propelled Lawn Mower
A Walnut Avenue property owner unveils a new self propelled lawn mower while Evelyn Hilden serves as the city hall engineering secretary. The city library awaits a chandelier gift for the main lobby from Mr and Mrs Lawrence Grossman. Moore Mill and Lumber Co unveils a two hole outdoor facility harking back to a bygone age.
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Walnut Avenue
Evelyn Hilden
Lawrence Grossman
Moore Mill and Lumber Co
New York Welcomes Apollo 11 Astronauts Parade
Apollo 11 trio Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins received a jubilant New York welcome with ticker tape confetti bands and a City Hall ceremony. crowds numbered over ten thousand as Mayor Lind say and UN Secretary General Thant hailed the moon landing. The day included a motorcade through Manhattan and a state dinner in Chicago and Los Angeles with President Nixon. Weather forecast called for mostly fair skies with highs near 60s coastal and 60s–70s inland.
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Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
New York City
Financial District
Broadway
Armstrong
City Hall
New York
John V. Lindsay
Chicago
Los Angeles
Nixon
Apollo
John F. Kennedy International
Air Force One
Aldrin
Wall Street
Lindsay
City of New York
Bowling Green
Peter Minuit
Manhattan Island
Lindy
Ike
Macarthur
Canyon of Heroes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Brooklyn
John Gallo
Terence J. Cooke
City Council
Frank Smith
Park Avenue
42Nd Street
United Nations
Collins
Lompoc Library Board Boosts Budget With County Funds
The Lompoc Library Board added 7650 to the budget from a higher county allotment. Funds restored small cuts and funded a part time custodian an extra pages and a part time clerk. The budget reaches 158646 with about 90000 from the county general fund and the rest from a 15 cent city library tax and other revenues. Board President Lawrence Grossman and his wife will donate a swinging chandelier for the main service desk. He thanked Valley residents and officials for supporting the county per capita rate increase for library funding, naming Ronald Saladino and several directors and officials.
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Lompoc
Lawrence Grossman
Grossman
Valley
Board of Supervisors
Ronald Saladino
Gail Steiger
Richard Jacoby
Bruce Boyer
William Keyes
Big Viet battle on outskirts of Saigon reported
U S tank crews and Allied infantry with heli gunships fought North Vietnamese troops in a rubber plantation north of Saigon. Officials counted 79 NVA killed in the flare up to that night, with U S losses of two killed and six wounded.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Ambour
Vietnam
da Nang
Demilitarized Zone
Fire destroys garage and kitchen in Mission Hills mishap
Fire damaged a two car garage and adjoining kitchen at 3857 Via Porte in Mission Hills after a motorcycle fuel leak ignited on a concrete floor near a hot water heater pilot light. No injuries or repair estimates. a car inside was saved and many personal goods destroyed. Fire crews from Station 5 Vandenberg Village and Buellton assisted.
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Mission Hills
Terry Yeager
Porte
Vandenberg Village
Buellton
Autopsy Bid Faces Hurdles in Kopechne Case
Dist Atty Edmund S Dinis seeks autopsy on Mary Jo Kopechne as part of the inquest into her death from the Kennedy auto accident. Pennsylvania officials say a court order is required, not a petition, and Massachusetts must establish basis for autopsy.
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New Bedford, Mass
UPI
Edmund S. Dinis
Mary Jo Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
Dinis
Luzerne County
Miss Kopechne
Massachusetts
Nixon to nominate Clement Haynsworth to Supreme Court
President Nixon plans to nominate Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. of South Carolina to the Supreme Court, potentially giving the court a second Nixon appointee after Warren Burger. Dirksen said the announcement would come Thursday unless signals shift, as Haynsworth brings 12 years on the 4th Circuit and a strict constructionist view.
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Abe Fortas
Louis E. Wolfson
Burger
Haynsworth
Supreme Court
Nixon
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Two FCI Inmates Walk Away From Work Detail
Federal and local officers searched Lompoc Valley for two inmates who left a farm work detail at the Federal Correctional Institution. Martti Ruona from Seattle and Randall Crawford of Azusa are 20 and 21, about 6 ft 2 in 200 pounds and 5 ft 11 in 160 pounds, respectively. Both are serving indeterminate terms for weapon and postal offenses. The sitdown incident in the Industrial Section ended with inmates returning to their jobs yesterday and no further disturbances reported.
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Lompoc Valley
Federal Correctional Institution
Martti Quetzi Ruona
Seattle
Wash
Randall Eugene Crawford
Azusa
Quetzi
Crawford
Ruona
U.S
Joseph Bogan
Nixon urges $5 billion federal kickback to states
President Nixon calls on Congress to return up to 5 billion dollars in federal revenues to states by mid 1975 with no strings attached. He proposes starting with 500 million to share with states to ease budget pressures and shift power toward state and local governments.
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Merriman Smith
UPI
White House
San Clemente
Calif
UPN
Nixon
Congress Today
Washington
America
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Library Board
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Dirksen
FCI
Republican Party
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