Missing Texas teachers Susan Rigsby and Shirley Stark
Susan Rigsby and Shirley Stark, both 21 and last seen leaving an Austin restaurant in Stark’s yellow Corvair, vanished after planned summer school meetings. Police, Texas Rangers, and FBI conducted searches with few leads, while a found car trunk held clothing and a possible blood stain prompted abduction theories.
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Garth Jones
Austin
University of Texas
Susan Rigsby
Shirley Ann Stark
Dallas
Texas Rangers
FBI
Joe Perry
Department of Parapsychology
Duke University
Miss Stark
Associated Press
Texas Department of Public Safety
Perry
Texas State
National Guard
Department of Public Safety
Shirley
J. F
Blount
Susan
Martha
Miss Blount
Ewin
Miss ‘Blount
Kilgore
Joe Shackelford
Rancho
Cordova
Sacramento
Calif
C. T. Rigsby
Fort Worth
Rigsby
Richland High School
Texas High School Football Coaches Association
Stark
Vernon J. Johnson
Woodward
Okla
San Diego
South Carolina
Sanderson
San Antonio
Pilot credited with saving 40 lives in Williamsport crash
Allen Lauber, 36, of Philadelphia, said he remembers nothing of the Convair 440 crash that forced a wheels-up landing near a rural church. He and three crew members saved 40 aboard while 15 investigators examine the wreckage for causes. Barbara Cresiski, 23, aided passengers as flames licked the aircraft. Lauber remains in fair condition with a broken leg and other injuries.
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Williamsport
Allegheny Airlines
Allen Lauber
Philadelphia
Lauber
Pennsylvania
Civil Aeronautics Board
Williamsport-Lycoming County
Hospital
Williamsport Hospital
Pittsburgh
Wilkes
Scranton
Western States Life Receives Certificate to Do Business
Western States Life got its certificate of authority to operate as a life insurance company and is licensed to offer all life insurance forms. The Dallas based firm carries an active Board of Directors committed to building the company into a leading national life insurer.
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Western States Life Insurance Company
Western States Life
Dallas
Leule E. Thregmerton
Explosion in Gas Pipeline Kills Welder
A welding tie-in on a 24 inch gas line near Tescott Kansas caused an explosion and fire that killed one welder and injured 15 others. The incident happened around 7 a.m. and involved a Northern Natural Gas Co line connecting to the upper Midwest.
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Juown Town
Salina
Lincoln
Tescott
Kan
Upper
Midwest
Northern Natural Gas Co
Omaha
Neb
Mormon Pioneer Day Rites At Mackenzie State Park
About 250 people attended the Mormon Pioneer Day celebration in Mackenzie State Park Saturday afternoon. The Lubbock LDS group led by Lt. Gordon Hasen organized games a picnic and relays to mark the July 1847 arrival of pioneers in Salt Lake Valley Utah.
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Mackenzie State Park
Lubbock
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Gordon Hasen
49Th St
Salt Lake Valley
Utah
Times Square Gets Finishing Touches On Allied Tower
In Manhattan, the 24 story Allied Chemical Corp Tower nears completion replacing the old New York Times Tower at Broadway Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street. The exterior is redone in white marble with a moving light scheme and a New Year ball. The building will serve as Allied showplace with display floors and public dining rooms on upper levels plus an observation platform.
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NEW York
Manhattan
Times Square
Allied Chemical Corp
New York Times Tower
Broadway
Seventh Avenue
42Nd Street
Times
New York Times
The
Chemical Corporation
Sand Street
Independents Seeks Study on Oil Tax Breaks and Imports
Malcolm D. Abel of the Texas Independent Producers Royalty Owners Association said the 27 percent depletion tax allowance for foreign operations may be too high and urged a congressional study. The group also pushed stabilization of oil imports, modernization of production allowables, and opposition to bonus allowables and federal lease intervention off Texas.
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San Antonio
Texas Independent Oil Operators
Malcolm D. Abel
Texas Independent Producers — Royalty Owners Association
United States
U. S
Abel
Congressional
Agens
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Banking Committee
Joint
Senate House Economic Study Committee
Patman
Executive Committee
Texas
J. G
Texas Railroad Commission
Byron Tunnell
Independents
Interior
Stewart Udall
Tunnell
Louisiana
Near Riot Fizzles After Tear Gas At Danbury Drive-In
Police broke up a disturbance described as a near riot involving about 200 Negro and white youths after two dances in Danbury. Four arrested on breach of peace charges, one boy hit by a club. crowds dispersed by tear gas and police with Civil Defense aid.
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Rundberg Lane
Austin
Kinard Ditch
Mitchell
Stark
Phillips
Danbury, Conn
Main Street
Route 7
Route 37
J. Howard McGoldrick
Glenn A. Farmer
Elks Auditorium
Universalist Unitarian Church
Lynda Johnson Ends Tourist Tour in Minnesota
Lynda Bird Johnson winds up an eight week tour of American attractions in Ely Minnesota and leaves for Washington D C with two miniature crossed canoe paddles declaring her a Dame of the Wilderness. She met reporters after a canoe trip near the Minnesota Canada border and praised both the Arizona desert and northern Minnesota forests. Her party included Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs Orville L Freeman.
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Arizona
Minnesota
Orville L. Freeman
Former U S Attorney Hartman Dies at 89 in Texas
John Hartman, who served as U S attorney for the Western District of Texas from 1921 to 1935, died Friday at age 89. A native of Ohio, he had lived in San Antonio for 60 years. India plans to develop more natural resources in a related note.
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Miss Stark
Dallas
Susan
Chi Omega Sorority
Shirley
San Antonio
John Hartman
U. S
Western District of Texas
Ohio
New Delhi
India
Stop Jump From London Hotel Ends With Bind
Two Scotland Yard detectives grappled with a gunman at a central London hotel near Trafalgar Square. He dangled from a third floor window after slipping free, but they bound his ankles with sheets and secured him to a wall until police rescued him. A loaded revolver fell during the struggle.
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London
Scotland Yard
Trafalgar Square
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Robbie Rigsby
Johnson
Washington
UPI
Bill D. ‘Moyers
Prsident Johnson
Moyers
Camp David
Thurmont
Noah
William D. Wilson
Avery
Board OF Directors
D.W
Bee) Campbell
W. R. Brockett
Jean R. Johnson
Donald G. Furr Lubbock
Furr's, Inc
M. Scott Carpenter Houston
United States Navy
Na.s.a
A.C
Riverside
Hartford
Alen D. Feld
Deiles
Goldber, Gump, Strauss Heuer
Irvin Keplan Houston
United Foods, Inc
Houston, Texas
Philip A. Sanger
Gene One
Senger Insurance Agency
Waco, Texas
Bon Epstein Houston
Kansas City Life Insurance Company
Neil Bronfmen Londe Houston
H. E. Hartfelder
South Bend Corporation
Hartford Building
Dallas, Texas
Times Tower
Park Row
Martin
Association
Lynda
U.S
West Texas
Gunman
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