Army Offer Is Spurned By Rancher
ALAMOGORDO NEW MEXICO John Prather 82 who built a ranch in Otero County southern New Mexico rejects Army plans to seize his land for the McGregor Firing Range near Fort Bliss Texas The Army offers a lifetime lease on his ranch house with a surrounding strip Prather vows he will not leave saying they must carry him out in a box Neighbors have an extension to August 1 before government acquisition of the lands.
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Alamogordo
N.M
John Prather
New Mexico
McGregor
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Prather
Otero County
Key Witness Is Indicted For Brawling In Japan
MAEBASHI Japan a key witness Hidetsugu Onozeki 29 testified he saw Specialist Sam Girard entice a Japanese woman onto a military firing range where she was killed by an empty grenade launcher cartridge. Girard indicted today on charges of injuring Pfc Wilbur R Smith during a June 9 brawl near Camp Weirgate.
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Macashi
Onozeki
Pfc
Wilbur R. Smith
Mound City
Camp Weirgate
Hobo King Plans Tour Across North America
Cincinnati's Jeff Davis, hailed as the Hobo King of the Knights of the Road, Air and Seven Seas, outlines a 30000 mile tour across the continent and to Alaska and Cuba. He will attend the hoboes convention October 12 to 19 in Tucson, Arizona, hosting about 300 attendees.
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Cincinnati
North America
Jeff Davis
Knights of the Road
Air
Seven Seas
Davis
Cuba
Tucson
Ariz
Cops Round Up Steer With Cars in Bloomfield Rodeo
Pittsburgh officers using radio scout cars chased a 1,400 pound steer that escaped from a Bloomfield Packing Co truck and roared along Liberty Avenue. After an hour two policemen pinned the animal against a fence and fired ten shots to kill it.
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Pittsburgh
Bloomfield Packing Co
Liberty Ave
Bloomfield
Union To Build Hall At Fishermans Wharf
The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union began constructing its new 1.3 million dollar headquarters and hiring hall at Fisherman's Wharf. A pile driver started the first of 128 piles to support the auditorium and adjacent two story office structure.
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San Francisco
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Fisherman's Wharf
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