Lompoc aviators race in Reno with Pitts Special craft
Lompoc aviators C R Blackburn and Lee Miller prepare a Pitts Special for the Reno National Air Races. Miller will fly in demonstration and qualifying flights before the main events. The crew aims for 150 160 mph in the three mile closed pylons while Blackburn builds a second plane and recounts past safety scares.
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Vandenberg Afb
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Mercury Avenue
Vandenberg Village
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Reno
Pitts
Russia
Washington
General Telephone Company
GM Strike Shuts Down Auto Assembly Lines Nationwide
The National UAW strike against General Motors halts production across 16 states and Canada, with 343,610 workers walking out. Ford and Chrysler contracts expired simultaneously but were exempted from a strike. White House and railroad disruptions add to a broad labor tensions era.
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General Motors Corp
United Auto
States
Canada
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
Ford
Chrysler
Lompoc Soldier Killed in Vietnam
Lompoc High School graduate First Lieutenant Nicholas Christopher Petanovich, 22, son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Petanovich of 213 North X Street, died September 9 from wounds received on September 8 while serving with the 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized). Born in Sheboygan Wisconsin, he graduated from Lompoc High in 1966 and was commissioned at Fort Benning May 1969. He had earned the Bronze Star and had served with the 1st Division prior to his current unit.
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Nicholas Christopher Petanovich
Andrew Petanovich
North X Street
Petanovich
5Th Infantry Division
United States
Fort Benning
Passenger shoots hijacker on TWA jet in San Francisco
A passenger on Trans World Airlines Flight 15 from New York shot the hijacker armed with a blank-cap pistol as he tried to force the aircraft to North Korea. The wounded man, Don Irwin of Reseda, California, was hospitalized. no other injuries were reported among 63 aboard.
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UPI
Trans World Airlines
North Korea
TWA
New York
U.S
Nixon
Brinks
Robert DeNisco
Brooklyn
N.Y
Don Irwin
Reseda
Calif
Burlingame
Tougher demands by guerrillas
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says the United States is their enemy as Israel and will hold hijack hostages until Israel accepts ransom demands. The group lists its terms and warns against military intervention, with captives held in Amman. Some hostages appeal to embassies for release as the Front bypasses the U.S. and negotiates with Britain, Switzerland and West Germany.
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United Press International
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
United States
Israel
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Amman
Jordan
President Nixon to tour Western Europe and Yugoslavia
Administration sources say President Nixon will depart around September 27 for a week to 10 days visiting Yugoslavia Spain Italy and England. He is also expected to board ships of the U S 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean for meetings with American ambassadors in Europe.
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Francis H. Beattie
Sheriff's Benefit and Relief Assn
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George Kading
Wilbur S. Wagstaff
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