Discrimination drive targets US troops overseas
The State and Defense Departments sent a joint message to embassies and commands urges reports on positive actions against discrimination of black GIs abroad. Nixon, Laird, and Rogers stress eliminating unequal treatment is a priority. Laird seeks closer diplomacy with NATO as he hunts a new civil rights chief after Bender’s resignation.
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Man in Custody After Woman Identified Dead
Clayton Missouri AP A 25 year old St. Louis County man remains in custody after the decomposed body of Mrs. Lawrence Lucas 36 was identified by dental records as the missing suburban housewife. Anthon y Damico has refused a lie detector test and faces charges of interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle and credit card fraud tied to her disappearance. Lucas mother of two daughters aged 12 and 16 disappeared after a shopping trip and was last seen before a riding stable meet.
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Anthony P. Darnico
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Lucas
Babler State Park
Damico
Panama City Beach
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Sidewheeler In Last Run
New York AP reports the Alexander Hamilton, last Hudson River sidewheel steamer, ends a 164 year steamboat era begun by Fulton's Clermont. Captain Edward M. Grady prompts the whistle as 100 Steamboat Historical Society members join about 2,700 passengers on the final trip up to Poughkeepsie and back with stops at Bear Mountain and West Point.
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Robert Fulton
Clermont
Edward M. Grady
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Poughkeepsie
Bear Mountain
West Point
Bomb fails to detonate in attempt on U S ambassador
Terrorists tried to kill Ambassador Emory C Swank in Phnom Penh as a bicycle bomb failed to detonate. The attack occurred amid desegregation rulings and heightened tensions with U S embassies in multiple cities.
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Phnom Penh
U.S
Cambodia
Emory C. Swank
Swank
Jumbus, Ga
Jacksonville
Irish Dead Girl 14 Is 100th Victim in Northern Ireland
The death of 14 year old Annette McGavigan in Londonderry’s Bogside quarter marks Northern Ireland’s 100th victim as fighting flares after a nine hour Chequers talks between Prime Ministers Lynch and Heath. Police clash with demonstrators outside the Irish Embassy as nine officers are injured and three protesters arrested amid protests over internment without trial of IRA activists.
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Edward Heath
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Lynch
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Poison And Guns Cut Eagle Count
An Associated Press report from Casper Wyoming notes a major decline in eagles as poison baits cyanide guns and gunfire kill many. Conservationists fault predator control with broad wildlife deaths including bears bobcats and prairie dogs. Authorities study birth control repellents and new methods while lawsuits challenge the predator program and MPs seek to limit poisons.
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Associated Press
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Mrs Valentine Joins Culver-Stockton Student Teaching
Mrs Susan Valentine of Mexico daughter of C L Black participates in Culver Stocktons student teaching program under supervision of Dr Vearl G McBride. A senior art major and Mexico High School graduate she teaches in Mendon Indiana under a regular teacher.
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Mexico
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Culver- Stockton
Mexico High School
Culver-Stockton
Mendon
Mississippi Youth Missing In Missouri
John Holmes an 18 year old Mississippi State University book salesman and nephew of Bill Wallace Mississippi gubernatorial candidate has been missing in Kansas City since August 28. He was dropped at an intersection by coworker Eddie Richardson who waited at 9 pm then left. Holmes moved from Jackson with friends to door to door sales. His father hired a detective agency and doubts he is alive.
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Kansas City Times
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Richardson
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Mississippi State
Foam May End Spray Drift Of Chemicals
Bakersfield AP reports a visible foam spray method may curb drift of herbicides and insecticides, letting farmers see where chemicals land. UC weed specialist Harold Kempen notes benefits for tree crops and vineyards, with potential water protections and possible registration for some formerly banned herbicides.
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Troop 253 to Meet Girl Scout Troop 253
Troop 253 will hold its first regular meeting at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at St Matthew's Episcopal Church Parish Hall. Girls who did not register last Thursday night are asked to bring their $2 fee.
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Jethro Burns joins Chet Atkins as permanent partner
Jethro Burns of Homer and Jethro will tour permanently with country Western star Chet Atkins after Haynes’s death. Burns, on the Du Quoin State Fair grandstand bill with Atkins, Boots Randolph and Floyd Cramer, says Atkins, his brother in law, asked him to travel with him. Burns and Atkins married twin sisters.
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Ill
Jethro Burns
Homer
Jethro
Henry D
Homer” Haynes
Chet Atkins
Burns
Atkins
Boots Randolph
Floyd Cramer
du Quoin State Fair
Hiker Survives 200-Foot Fall on Half Dome
Yosemite rangers report 20 year old Steve McRee of Lakewood California survived a nearly 200 foot fall on the back side of Half Dome during an electrical storm. He held a fixed steel cable on a 40 foot slope when he fell, was stopped by boulders, and airlifted to a hospital with fractures and injuries.
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Yosemite
Calif
Half Dome
Yosemite National Park
Steve McRee
Lakewood
Lew Albert
McRee
Four Pass Bar Examination Reects 271 Successful Examinees
The Missouri Board of Law Examiners reports 271 law students passed the June bar exams. Among them are three men from Mexico and one from Centralia. Names listed include Joseph Rockne Calhoun of Centralia, Kenneth Prenton Dean II, James William Gallaher III, and John Petten Letham Walker Jr. from Mexico.
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Centralia
Missouri Board of Law Examiners
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Kenneth Prenton Dean II
James William Gallaher III
John Petten Letham Walker Jr
Welk to Lead 83rd Tournament of Roses Parade
Lawrence Welk, famed "champagne music" bandleader, chosen as grand marshal for the 83rd Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year’s Day in Pasadena. The 68 year old icon called the honor one of the finest things that has ever happened to me after the Monday announcement.
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Calif
Lawrence Welk
Telethon reaches record pledges for muscular dystrophy
New York AP reports comedian Jerry Lewis closed his annual television marathon benefiting muscular dystrophy with pledges totaling 8,125,387 dollars. The telethon aired coast to coast on 121 stations and set a record for programs of its kind.
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