Innocent Man Freed Wins Local Reporter Pulitzer
Tampa based journalist John A Frasca wins the Itzer Prize for special local reporting for his investigation that freed a young father after a 10 year prison term. Frasca and Lakeland private detective Clark Stone traced a case involving Mulberry Florida police chief Horace Branch and officer Dale Kelley linking to a robbery, confession, and lengthy sentences.
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Tampa
Fila
John A. Frasca
Itzer
Frasca
Watson
Mulberry
Fla
Clark Stone
Lakeland, Fla
Bertram Dale Durden
Frostproof
Horace Branch
Dale [Kel
Branch
Kelley
Durden
Mississippi College
Globe Wins Pulitzer For Morrissey Story
New York AP reports a newspaper campaign to block Boston Municipal Judge Francis X Morrissey’s confirmation in literature and law aided by Sen Edward Kennedy helped Globe win a Pulitzer. The award honors journalism and fiction achievements alongside other category winners like Perry Miller and Katherine Anne Porter.
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New York
Boston
Francis X. Morrissey
Arthur
M. Schlesinger Jr
Globe
John F. Kennedy
White House
Perry Miller
America
Katherine Anne Porter
Morrissey
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Peter Arnett
Associated Press
South Viet Nam
News Service
Haynes Johnson
Washington Evening Star
Los Angeles Times
Alabama
Malcolm
Watts
New York Sun
Per
Gemini 9 Bolted To Titan 2
Cape Kennedy Florida technicians bolt Gemini 9 to the Titan 2 booster as astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan prepare for launch. NASA outlines readiness reviews and rehearsals before a May 11 launch for a three day mission including a spacewalk and rendezvous maneuvers.
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Cape Kennedy
Air Force
Col
Stafford
Navy
Cmdr. Cernan
Cernan
Agena
Millionaire Lewis Leaves $5.5 Million Estate to Causes
Los Angeles AP reports dog food magnate J Dallas Bedford Lewis left about $5.5 million in his will. He bequeathed $1 million to the John Birch Society, $1 million to Dan Smoot, $1 million to Pepperdine, and $1.5 million to create the Defenders of Liberty to defend constitutional limits, with the bulk going to his family.
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Los Angeles
J Dallas Bedford Lewis
John Birch Society
Dan Smoot
Pepperdine College
Defenders of American Liberty
Lewis
Lewis Food Co., Inc
Dr. Ross
The
FBI
Smoot
Peperdine
Iis
Defenders of Liberty
American’ Civil Liberties Union
United States
Poland Celebrates Christian Millennium Observance in Poland
Thousands of Polish Roman Catholics gathered at the Shrine of the Black Madonna for the millennium celebration marking the introduction of Christianity in Poland. Cardinal Wyszynski led events in Czestochowa while Gomulka appeared in Katowice for a related observance. The Pope and American bishops faced travel bans from Poland.
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Warsaw
Poland
Czestochowa
Polish Communist Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Katowice
Silesia
Germany
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
Pope Paul VI
St. Peter's Basilica
Rome
Wyszynski
Stanislaw Kociolek
Kazimierz Kowalski
Ceplin
Mieszko I
Europe
Cardinal Wyszyrski
Divorce notice and city sale bids in Butler County Ohio
Legal notices announce divorce petitions in Butler County Ohio. Jeanne Busch seeks divorce from Henry Busch Jr filed April 14 1966 with a June 4 response deadline. Separate bids invite leasing Lot 81 in Trenton for a 99 year term to operate a rescue squad.
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Jeanne WH. Busch
Lower Lock Vista Rad
Williams Bay
Wisconsin
Henry F. Busch, Jr
Common Pleas Court
Butler County
Ohio
Joseph T. Kiep
Susan Hulshult
Anthony Valen
Trenton
Harry Stretcher
Villege
Dale E Schubert
Louise M. Derkson
Academy Street
Williamsport
Pennsylvania
David L. Derkson
Joseph T
Storey
Hook Field Industrial Park
Middletown E City
Middletown
Mook Field
Olmec
City of
Hook Field
Hunt continues for suspect in fatal shooting in Ohio
Police search in northeast Muskingum County for ex convict William Hill 32 sought after a fatal shotgun shooting of his brother in law 18 and a wounding of a 16 year old girl Elsie Saylor. Hill allegedly abducted the girl forced her from a car and shot her. Leo Lucas 18 was found shot and dead. Hill had his eight year old daughter with him during the incident.
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Zanesville, Ohio
Muskingum County
Fred Uffner
William Hill
Ohio
Elsie Saylor
Zanesville
Good Samaritan Hospital
Here
Hill
Leo Lucas
Saylor
Uffner
Stewart
Athens County
Lucas
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Tom Kelly
George Washington Bridge
New Jersey
Hudson River
Manhattan
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Moore Road
Stolz Drive
City Commission
B. D Morgan and Co. @ corporation
Marshall Road
Sophie Avenue
William W. Donham
Sylvia WM. Hughes Clark
Sylvie Ho Hughes
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