Eight Allied Positions Hit in South Vietnam Attacks
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong mounted eight attacks in South Vietnam, including four near Saigon. U.S. reports one American killed and 13 wounded in five assaults, with one civilian killed and 12 wounded among South Vietnamese casualties. An attack on a Mekong River Navy repair barge wounded six Americans, and an armored column security unit suffered one dead and four wounded. A separate mortar barrage near Saigon caused one civilian death and ten injuries.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Mekong River
United States
Highway 1
Bu Dop
Siuol
Highway 7
Trang Bang
Mrs Alma Hanna Dies Rites Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs Alma V Hanna 82 will be 2 p m Sunday at Arnold funeral home with Rev Robert R Collins of First Presbyterian Church officiating Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery She died at 9 a m Friday at her home 314 W Maple St Born March 26 1889 in Santa Fe she was married in 1910 to Alva Hanna who died in 1965 Survivors include daughter Mildred Thomas two brothers Russell and Dick Bishop a grandson Ron Thomas and a two year old daughter who died in 1914 The family will receive friends after 7 p m Saturday The Ledger will not publish Monday Memorial Day observance closes plant and office
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Alma V. Hanna
Arnold Funeral Home
Robert R. Collins
First Presbyterian Church
East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Santa Fe
Alva Hanna
Railroads To Fix Jefferson Street Crossing Start Monday
Norfolk and Western and GM&C railroads will begin work on the Jefferson Street grade crossing Monday, June 7, coordinating after city requests since April. Jefferson Street crossing will close to traffic during repairs with alternate routes required.
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Norfolk and Western
Gm&c
Jefferson Street
Jefferson St
Calhoun St
Neil Nielsen
Gm&co
Jefferson St. Crossing
Killer Labelled Maniac In Yuba City Massacre Probe
Investigators found a bloodstained wooden club and a machete at Juan V Corona’s home as authorities expand a mass murder probe in Yuba City California. Twenty one bodies have been unearthed near an orchard along the Feather River with victims described as itinerant farm workers most recently buried over a square mile area. Corona, a farm labor contractor, is jailed on murder charges. a court affidavit cites his mental illness and suggests he may be a homicidal maniac.
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Yura City
Calif
Roy D. Whiteaker
Juan V. Corona
Whiteaker
Feather River
Yuba City
Corona
Skid Row
Marysville
Mexicoan To Consular Post Edward P Dobyns Named Consul General
Edward P. Dobyns a 32 year State Department veteran will become consul general in Monterrey Mexico in June as he turns 55. He plans to visit his father Carl F. Dobyns in Mexico. Dobyns born in Mexico joined the department in 1939 and earned a BS from Georgetown in 1943. He married Rosemary Nechkash in 1941 and they have three children. He served in World War II and held posts in Dublin Copenhagen Madrid and Washington. He has been chief of career management since 1970 and was elected president of the State Department Federal Credit Union in January. Both Dobyns and his wife speak Spanish.
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Edward P. Dobyns
U.S. State Department
Monterrey
Mexico
Carl F. Dobyns
St. Brendan High School
Rosemary Nechkash
University of Wisconsin
Department of Justice
Roston Miller
Nassau
Bahamas
John Gulley Jr
Washington, D. C
Edward Dobyns Jr
Coast Guard
Association of American Foreign Service Women
Dobyns
State Department
Division of Foreign Service Planning
Foreign Service
Dublin
Ireland
Copenhagen
Denmark
Latin America
Europe
Middle East
Africa
Madrid
American School
Washington
Department
Bureau of African Affairs
American Foreign Service Association
Office of Personnel
State Department Federal Credit Union
Symington Seeks Full Laos Story
Sen. Stuart Symington called for a secret Senate session to reveal the full story behind the long and tragic Laos war. He spoke at Harvard Faculty Club after a December secret session that barred U.S. ground troops, citing CIA funded Thai troops and Congressional ignorance as reasons for informed debate before more Laos funding.
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Cambridge
Mass
Stuart Symington
Senate
Laos
Missouri Democrat
Harvard
U.S
Thailand
Symington
Foreign Relations Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard Benjamin found dead in car near Williamsburg
Robert T. Benjamin 61 of 1609 Sherwood Dr. was found dead in his red Opal Kadette in a wooded area near Callaway County Route YY. Coroner says apparent death by suicide from carbon monoxide by exhaust hose. funeral set for Tuesday at Precht Pickering, burial Elmwood Cemetery. Survivors include wife Norma Kislingberg and five children.
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Robert T. Benjamin
Sherwood Dr
Williamsburg
Callaway
Gene Maupin
Mr. Benjamin
Callaway County
Benjamin
Mexico
Alfred
Marjorie) Fagerstrom
Dayton
Ohio
Nobody Would Miss Them in Yuba City Murders Case
In Yuba City California a series of murders targets transient laborers in Sutter County. Sheriff's deputies and a mechanical digger uncover at least 21 bodies in orchard soil near the Feather River. Juan Vallejo Corona, 37, a labor contractor, is jailed on murder charges as investigators seek motive among skid row residents and migrant workers.
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Yuba City
Calif
Feather River
Sutter County
Juan Vallejo Corona
Old County
Roy Whiteaker
Skid Row
Marysville
Joe Miguel
State Farm Labor Office
E Street
Pete
Joe
Miguel
Man flees with cash and ring after police impersonator in St Louis
Ray Jones, 33, told police a man posing as a police officer halted his car on the West Side and relieved him of 540 dollars and a 1000 dollar diamond ring. The imposter then fled in an automobile and ordered Jones to follow to police headquarters but Jones lost him in traffic.
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ST. Louis
Ray Jones
West Side
Jones
13 Month Pregnancy Produces Healthy Baby Girl
London AP reports Christine Houghton gave birth to Tina a 7 pound 7 ounce girl after a 381 day pregnancy at Zachary Morton Hospital Rustington Sussex Gynecologist Lynn Evans supervised the birth and said a 13 month baby seemed impossible though facts were checked. A stray line notes a man shaved his beard making him look younger.
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London (Ap
Tina
Christine Houghton
Zachary Morton Hospital
Rustington
Sussex
Lynn Evans
Topeka cadet wins Fry Speech Cup at Missouri Military Academy
The 39th Fry Speech Cup went to Cadet Jim Edmonston of Topeka for There’s Hope But, urging love and understanding to beat apathy and intolerance. Cadet David Schaefer and Cadet James Graves placed second and third. About 800 attended as commencement week opened with reviews and awards. Dr. C Brice Ratchford will deliver the commencement address.
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Topeka
Kan
W. Wallace Fry
Missouri Military Academy
Jim Edmonston
John Carter
Winston Churchill
Charles Stribling III
Academy
Edmonston
John Randolph
Division of Fine Arts
Westminster College
Carter
David Schaefer
St. Louis
James Graves
Edwardsville
George Wraith
First Christian Church of Mexico
C. Brice Ratchford
University of Missouri
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Jefferson Davis
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Alma Hanna
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Bu Dap
Loc Ninh
Cambodia
Snuol
San Diego
Killer
Maniac
del Pero Bros. Meat Co
del Pero
Mexicoan
Robert Ollis
Springfield
S. I. Smith
Lester Cox Memorial Hospital
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