Brush Fires Ravage Los Angeles Area Leaving One Dead
A string of brush fires scorched the Los Angeles region burning 26 000 acres and destroying 22 homes in Chatsworth as a 10 000 acre fire spread from the San Fernando Valley. A 3 000 acre blaze in Simi Valley joined the perimeters near U S 101 with Red Cross shelters opened for evacuees. A fatal crash killed Janet Cameron in Simi while a fire truck collided with her car and several firefighters and motorists were hospitalized.
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Los Angeles
Chatsworth
San Fernando Valley
Simi Valley
Ventura County
U.S. 101
Ventura Freeway
Janet Cameron
Simi
Simi Area
Jake S. Dukes
Red Cross
Edward Collins
Thousand Oaks
North American Rockwell Corp
Four Area Haulers Held in Cincinnati Shooting Case
Four Middletown Teamsters Local 836 members were seized by Hamilton County authorities on aggravated assault and malicious destruction charges after a steel hauler shooting on Ohio 128 near Miamitown. The group Lenze Cox Lenze Cox 43 Franklin Ohio 6655 S Dixie Highway. June Campbell 26 Alfred Fletcher 37 William Estes 42 were arrested by Indiana police. Campbell was fined for speeding. A separate mediation proposal in Pittsburgh offered $13.70 hourly wait time pay. A third incident reports Yankee Lines pickets shot at from a car near Cincinnati Dayton Road.
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Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Teamsters Union
Lenze Cox
S. Dixie Highway
Franklin
June Campbell
Moore St
Alfred D. Fletcher
Columbia Ave
William Estes
N. Fourth St
Miamisburg
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Ohio 128
Miamitown
Sheriff's Department
LaVerne LaFollette
Pittsburgh
National Steel Carriers Association
Jim Lanier
Upper Springboro Road
Yankee Lines Inc
Cincinnati - Dayton
Ford UAW talks press on amid 160000 strike
In Detroit Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers press ahead with secrecy in a third day of bargaining led by Walter Reuther and Malcolm Denise. A 10 hour Sunday session produced no disclosed results as a two day old strike nears six weeks with $140 million in wage losses and car sales down 60,000 in early September versus last year.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Malcolm L. Denise
Ford
Three Marines Killed in Con Thien Bombing Error
A U S Marine plane accidentally bombed Con Thien killing three Marines and wounding nine, the second mistaken strike there in three days. Eight more Marines were wounded by shellfire at the base near the DMZ as North Vietnamese pressure continued.
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Saigon
U. S
Con Thien
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam
Mu Gia
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Mystery China rail stockpile fuels Vietnam war doubts
U S intelligence questions shrouded shapes in a Chinese railyard near the North Vietnamese border amid reports of heavy self-propelled artillery and possible Soviet 152 millimeter guns. Observers note tarpaulin covered objects at Ping Hsiang on the Hanoi Nanning line, with weather and logistics shaping movements toward Hanoi and the Marine front at Con Thien.
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the Pass
Thailand
Laos
North Vietnam
Con Thien
Marine Fortress
Washington
Conthien
South Vietnam
U. S
P'ing Hsiang
Hanoi
Nanning
South China
U.S
Haiphong
Red China
Ben Hai River
North
Castro Declares Mourning for Guevara and Upholds Legacy
Fidel Castro announced three days of mourning in Havana after the death of Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia. Castro said Guevara's influence endures despite his physical death, ordered half mast for 30 days, and proclaimed October 8 a holiday while questioning Bolivian reports and suggesting possible betrayal.
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Havana
Latin America
Ernesto Che Guevara
Bolivia
Fidel Castro
Castro
Che
Guevara
Fulgencio Batista
Cuba
Two Women Escapees Sought By Police At Marysville Reformatory
Four inmates escaped during a Sunday disturbance at the Marysville Reformatory for Women. Two were captured in a corn field. two, Sue Nunnary and Jeanette Gill, remained at large. Names of those in custody are Delores Shambaugh and Shirley Parker. About 100 officers searched the campus amid fires and property damage estimated at $500.
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Marysville
Ohio
Marysville Reformatory
Reformatory
Delores Shambaugh
Richland County
Shirley Parker
Muskingum County
Sue Nunnary
Jeanette Gill
Franklin County
Maury Koblentz
Elizabeth Cottage
Koblentz
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LOS
Angeles
Indiana
Campbell
LaFollette
Pacific Fleet
Hawaii
7Th Fleet
John J. Hyland Jr
Hyland
Pentagon
U.S. Command
Hanoi- Haiphong
U.S. Sports
Ann Laagefs
Seeenee
Crane
Petereas
Heloise
O'S
Union County
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