Toll to Climb Quake Area Is Searched For Bodies
Rescue teams in Montana battled aftershocks while seeking survivors after a massive earthquake and landslides near Hebgen Dam Yellowstone Park. Reports listed nine to 11 dead and about 60 injured as authorities evacuated and searched a 50 million ton slide zone. Authorities cited uncertainty about how many lie buried and noted hundreds trapped between the slide and the dam with many identified casualties from California Nevada and Montana communities.
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West Yellowstone
Mont
UPI
United States
Surteen
Hebgen Dam
Air Force and Forestry Service
Bozeman
Hugh Potter
Montana Civil Defense
Ennis
Reynolds Pass
Madison River
Cliff Lake
Idaho
Adrian Smith
E. H. Stryker
San Mateo
Calif
Margaret Holmes
Billings
Purley Bennett
Coeur D'Alene
Mark Stowe
Sandy
Utah
Eddy County Grand Jury Probe Set
A grand jury investigation into Eddy County officials begins September 4 as Judge C Roy Anderson schedules the panel. Prospective members will be drawn Monday after a petition with 263 signatures, checked by county treasurer Thelma Lusk, asked to exclude the district attorney and assistants and bring in the state attorney general to prosecute.
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Carlsbad
UPS
Eddy County
Dist
C. Roy Anderson
Anderson
Thelma Lusk
Grand Jury
Fitch District Court
Dy County
Kansas City Seeks Cause of Explosion at Service Station
Authorities probe the service station blast in Kansas City that sent flaming gasoline along a line of firemen. Two Kansas City firefighters Virgil L. Sams age 28 and Neil Owens age 28 died. More than 100 were injured including at least 60 firefighters with several in critical condition.
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Kansas City
UPI
Virgil L. Sams
General Hospital
Neil Owens
General
Lyndon Johnson to Open El Paso Juarez Bridge Ceremony
In Paso, Texas a ribbon cutting will open the Cordova bridge linking El Paso and Juarez on August 27. U S ambassador to Mexico Robert C Hill and Mexican ambassador Antonio Carillo Flores will attend, with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B Johnson invited to speak.
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Paso
Tex
UPID
Robert C. Hill
U.S
Mexico
Antonio Carillo Flores
M ‘S
Wouicas
Cordova and Bridge
el Paso
Juarez
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Lower New Mexico asphalt bids under new plan emerge
Apparent low bidders Continental Oil Co. of Artesia and Thunderhead Oil and Gas Co. submitted prices for most of 112 delivery points in the state bid opening. The contest highlighted a price drop versus June bids, aided by lower railroad freight rates authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Santa FE
UPI
Continental Oil Co
Artesia
Thunderhead Oil and Gas Co
Thunderhead
Continental
Albuquerque
State Corporation Commission
Carlo Bachechi
Pete Domenici
J. D. Hampton
Hampton
Bachechi
Southwest Distributing Co
Dante Vaio
C. E. Mitcham
Monarch Refineries Inc
Oklahoma City
Skelly Oil Co
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Texas
Malco
John Burroughs
Spencer
Burroughs
Marco
Highway Department
General Asphalt Co
General
City Court Fines Hit Record Pace Under Judge Greaves
Judge Reese Greaves presided over six cases in city court on Monday and collected $450 in fines. Three DWI charges each warranted $100, an illegal sale charge was $100, and two drunk and disorderly counts yielded $25 each. DWI payers were Jack McDonald Velma McCoy and Ted Hodges. Elijah Taylor paid the illegal sale fee Kenneth Babb and Tommy Smith covered the remaining $50 on the two disorderly counts.
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Reese Greaves
Greaves
Jack McDonald
Velma McCoy
Ted Hodges
Elijah Taylor
Kenneth Babb
Tommy Smith
British and U S Urge UN Action on Laos Situation
Washington reports that the United States and Britain press for a rapid United Nations review of the Laos situation. American officials say the Laos kingdom is infiltrated by communists and require international scrutiny.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Britain
United Nations
Laos
Southeast Asia
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
U.S
International Control Commission
China
Rockefellers Honor Wedding Strains Rasmussen Family Budget
In Sogne Norway Anne Marie Rasmussen plans a first class wedding to Steven Rockefeller. Father Kristian Rasmussen funds church fees champagne reception and dinner possibly over 10000 kroner. Local view says the cost may exceed one day’s income for the bride’s father.
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Sogne
Norway
UPD
Kristian Rasmussen
Hansens
Rockefellers
Anne Marie
Steven Rockefeller
British Plane Crashes Killing 32 Students Near Barcelona
A British chartered DC3 carrying 27 English students and crew crashed into Monseny Mountain 25 miles north of Barcelona while returning from a Spanish vacation. First reports said all 32 aboard were killed. The plane departed Prat Airport at 9 57 a m east. Transair Ltd. operated the aircraft from Gatwick Airport near London.
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Barcelona
Spain
England
Here
Monseny
Prat
Kennecott Faces Unfair Labor Practices Claim
In Salt Lake City the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers announced it will file an unfair labor practices charge against Kennecott Copper Corp with the National Labor Relations Board in San Francisco. Union board member Al Skinner said Kennecott refused to bargain after May 1 demands and provoked the strike by offering no money concessions. The union insists talks will resume only when the company shows willingness to bargain.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Kennecott Copper Corporation
al Skinner
Mine Mill Union
Kennecott
Skinner
National Labor Relations Board
San Francisco
Uranium Miners Get Health Check
Grants and Ambrosia Lakes uranium miners are being given radiological health tests this week. The tests, led by Carl Jensen of the State Health Department and Darrell Anderson of the US Public Health Service, aim to determine radioactive exposure and its harm, if any, to the miners.
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Grants
UPC
Ambrosia Lakes
State Health Department
Carl Jensen
Department
Darrell Anderson
US Public Health Service
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mother Sentenced On Check Charges In Roswell Case
Julia Davis, 29, of Carlsbad was sentenced to five years in Chaves County jail for writing worthless checks. The mother of three had undergone psychiatric treatment for a compulsive urge to issue bad checks.
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Roswell
Julia Davis
Carlsbad
Chaves County
Policeman Appeals Civil Verdict Over Bar Incident
A Santa Fe police officer appeals a $7,000 civil award to the New Mexico Supreme Court arguing scope of authority, improper punitive-damage instruction, and the credibility of the bar patron. Justices McGhee Compton and Carmody heard three-point arguments as O Conner awaits a high court ruling.
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Santa FE Upi
State Supreme Court
Asst. Attys
William Baggett
Phil Ashby
Jerry O’conner
Supreme Court
High Court
Lower Court
O'Conner
Melvin Mead
Phil’s
Chama
James B. McGhee
J. C. Compton
David Carmody
Socorro
Faubus Considers Action Over Pine Bluff Desegregation
Gov. Orval Faubus said he is studying the Dollarway school desegregation case near Pine Bluff and will decide whether to call out the National Guard or state police. He awaits a petition from residents and a conference before responding, with school opening set for Sept. 8 and federal orders requiring admission of three Negro students.
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Little Rock
Ark
UPI
Orval Faubus
Arkansas
National Guard
Faubus
Dollarway
Pine Bluff
Mrs Shipp Rites Held In Lovington Funeral
Rev. Leon Rice of Northside Baptist Church officiated at the funeral for Mrs. Alice Jane Shipp held at 2 pm Monday in the Smith Yarbro Funeral Chapel. She was born November 22, 1866 in Fayettesville Georgia and died August 15 at home after seven years of invalidism. Survivors include two sons Elbert Shipp of Loving ton and Homer R. Shipp of Carls bad, a daughter Mrs. Harry Huston of Hobbs, ten grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren. Pallbearers were Berry Freeman Spencer Graham Harry Huston Damon Shipp Crawford Culp and James Foley. The Shipps lived on a ranch near Hobbs until his death, after which Mrs. Shipp moved to Lovington.
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Leon Rice
Northside Baptist Church
Alice Jane Shipp
Smith Yarbro Funeral Chapel
Billy Beauchamp
Shipp
Fayettesville
Thomas S. Shipp
Elbert Shipp
Lovington
Homer R. Shipp
Carlsbad
Harry Huston
Hobbs
Berry R. Freeman
Spencer R. Graham
Harry H. Huston
Damon Shipp
Crawford Culp
James H. Foley
Shipps
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United Press International
Madison County
W. H. Bowman
Yellowstone Park
Bowman
US Forest Service
Pacific Northwest
University of California In Berkeley
Charles Richter
California Institute of Technology
Nevada
California
Lovington Chamber of Commerce
Jarod Denton
Roy L. Jones
Life and Industrial Companies of New Mexico, Inc
Charles Taylor
L&i
KLEA
Eddy County Grand Jury
Lyndon
el, Paso Bridge
U.N
Papa Rasmussen
Nelson Rockefeller
Bjoerg Faerseth-Nodeland
Klubben
Rockefeller
White House
Olav
James M. Scarborough
Rio Arriba
Mead
O’conner
J. Axel Beck
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Mrs
Allie Jane Shipp
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