Vealey Pleads Guilty in Yablonski Family Murders
Claude E Vealey, co defendant in the 1969 slayings of United Mine Workers insurgent Joseph A Yablonski and his wife and daughter, pleads guilty to murder. He describes a plan by a figure named Tony to pay $4200 for the killings and details a dawn home invasion in Washington Pennsylvania. Kenneth and Joseph Yablonski listen as the statement is read.
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Washington, Pa
Claude E. Vealey
United Mine Workers
Joseph A
Jock’’ Yablonski
Tony ” Vealey
Yablonski
Vealey
Tony
Yablonskis
UMW
Woa
Tony Boyle
Beavie
George W Sweet
Richard Sprague
Philadelphia
Veales
FBI
Joseph Masterson
Cleveland
Boyle
Aubran W
Buddy" Martin
Paul Gilly
Cleveland Area
Gilly
Kenneth
Joseph Yablonski
Joseph
Washington
Health officials approve rock site in McCrea Louisiana
Health officials approved sanitation facilities at the postponed Celebration of Life rock festival in McCrea. Thousands of long haired youths waited in levee camps as promoters set up a check system allowing entry one by one. Music was expected to begin at sundown with crowds estimated from twenty thousand upward.
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Mccrea
River Stages Change Across Towns Reported
River stages show Camden at 3.9 feet, Monroe at 13.9 feet with one rise and two falls noted. The report tracks daily stage changes across locations including Camden and Monroe.
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Camden
Monroe
Securities Thefts Legislation Urged in Congress
Washington report states Robert W. Haack of the New York Stock Exchange urged Congress to craft federal crime laws and centralized reporting to combat a multimillion dollar securities theft racket. He cited lack of cooperation from the Justice Department FBI and NYPD and called for a single federal agency to investigate.
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Washington
UPL
Robert W. Haack
New York Stock Exchange
Congress
Haack
Justice Department
FBI
New York City
Exchange Ino
Swimming lessons registration at Moose Club post
Registration for swimming lessons will be held at the Moose Club post this Saturday morning. Lessons are offered only to Moose Club members and will begin Monday for children affiliated with the club.
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Moose Club
Burglars Lift Odd Armetas in Penny Jar Theft
Local enforcement officials report a peculiar burglary case in which a single suspect took a five-ration jar containing about 30 to 40 dollars in pennies. The incident adds to a string of odd petty thefts noted on the community page.
Blind man becomes auto mechanic in Antioch shop
Rudy Salazar born blind and aged 29 works as a journeyman auto mechanic at a Ford agency in Antioch. He identifies engine faults by feel and sound, tunes to within one percent, and tests road performance with a partner. He trained at Berkeley’s School for the Blind and Pacific Technical Institute San Jose, marrying wife Mary who drives him to work. they have two sons.
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Antioch, Chf
Rudy Salazar
Salazar
Ford Agency
al Eames
Rudy
Eames
Kames
Ron Groves
Concord
State School For the Blind
Berkeley
Pacific Technical Institute
San Jose
Mary
Edward
Anthony
Chicago Sun-Times prints Vietnam State Department report excerpts
Multiple papers face court actions over a Pentagon Vietnam war study with temporary orders blocking further publication. The Chicago Sun-Times publishes excerpts from a State Department report dated Aug 30 1963 covering Kennedy era. The Times Post and Globe face ongoing appeals and injunctions in Washington and New York courts.
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Chicago Sun-Times
State Department
Vietnam
New York Times
Washington Post
the Post
the Times
Boston Globe
The
Globe
Washington
New York
Post and Times
Supreme Court
Times and Post
U.S
Post
Pentagon
Indochina
Truman
Johnson
Sun-Times
Kennedy
Justice Department
LSU Supervisors Recommend Hike On School Fees
LSU board backs a proposed fee increase for campuses outside Baton Rouge. New Orleans would rise by 15 to 145 per semester, two-year campuses by 20 to 110, while Baton Rouge campus fees remain at 160 with July review planned.
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Baton Rouge
LSU
LSU Board of SuperVisors
Jake Staples
Staples
New Orleans
Ife
Showers Return as Heat Persists in Northeast Louisiana
Warm conditions continue across Northeast Louisiana with partly cloudy skies through Thursday. Scattered showers and a risk of brief thundershowers persist tonight and today, with highs near 90 to 94 and lows around 68 to 72. Rain chances 60 percent today, 20 percent tonight and Thursday. Humid drying conditions above 60 percent, dew points near 70 easing to the mid 60s by Thursday. FAA Monroe reports 88 and 72 with only a trace of precipitation Tuesday.
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Louisiana
FAA
Monroe Municipal
Senate votes for limit on draft debate in Indochina
The Senate approved a Mansfield amendment to constrain debate on the draft extension and seek a nine month plan for ceasefire talks, troop withdrawals, and prisoner releases in North Vietnam. The vote was 45 to 27, with House conferees signaling opposition to adding an end the war provision to the draft bill.
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Washington
Senate
Indochina
Senate House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
North
Vietnam
Ronald N. Ziegler
Congress
Hebert
House
Hcuse
Paris
U.S
United States
Zietzler
Inside The News Star Four Section Spread
A descriptive note outlines the newspaper’s Inside The News Star feature, highlighting four sections and fifty eight pages of content. The item signals a broad layout with multiple columns and varied articles.
House Probes U S Document Labeling In Senate Hearing
A House subcommittee begins examination of the government's document classification system led by Rep. William Moorehead. The aim is to assess how Top Secret Secret and Confidential labels are applied and declassified, with focus on a secret Pentagon Vietnam study and the Nixon era legal battles.
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Washington
House
Ren
William Moorehead
D- Pa
Pentagon
White House
State and
Defense Departments
Agriculture Department
Post Office
Tennessee Valley Authority
National Defense
United States
Defense Department
Nixon offers full Pentagon Vietnam study to Congress
President Nixon announced he will provide Congress the complete 47 volume Pentagon study on U.S. involvement in Vietnam on a top secret basis. The White House cited incomplete data from unauthorized publications that could distort the report, and said declassification will await Pentagon review. The move follows court battles over sensational newspaper disclosures and includes a 1965 Tonkin Gulf incident study.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Pentagon
U.S
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Justice Department
Ziegler
Senate Majority
Mike Mansfield
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Tonkin Gulf
Mansfield
Key Biscayne
Flo
Nixon to Sign $2.25 Billion Public Works Jobs Bill
President Nixon is expected to sign the public service jobs bill authorizing 2.25 billion dollars. The measure would place at least 150,000 unemployed people into public service roles in cities, states and government units in its first year, across education health recreation conservation law enforcement fire protection and transportation.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate House
Conference Committee
Americans Begin Visit In Red China
A first group of American scholars arrived in Canton to visit Communist China for one month. The group, linked to the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, included academics from Stanford Columbia Wisconsin UCLA Berkeley Indiana CSU MIT and others. They described a warm reception and planned itinerary uncertain at arrival.
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Canton
China
UPIC
Hong Kong
Tung Fang
East Wind
Stanford
Calif
Kim Woodward
Stanford University
United States
Chou En- Lats
University of West Florida
Pensacola
Fla
Woodward
Raymond Whitehead
Columbia University
Paul Pickowicz
David K. Levin
Kay Ann Johnson
University of Wisconsin
Garavente
University of California At Los Angeles
Paul S. Levine
Berkeley
Kruze
Indiana University
Cleveland State University
Susan Lee Shirk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Record heat toppled across Buckeye Needles Blythe trio
The National Weather Service logged Tuesday highs reaching 114 degrees at Buckeye Needles Blythe and similar scorching readings. A chilly start opened at 38 degrees near Rena New.
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New York
Cupli
National Weather Service
Hawai
Alaska
Buckeye
Needles
Blythe
Rena
New
Today's Chuckle There's plenty of money around
A witty quip notes that abundant cash exists yet it remains unsettled as many owe debts to others, highlighting a financial tension with a playful voice.
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