Family Travels on Foot to Alaska with Monthly School Breaks
The Haycraft family from Denver Pa plans a three to four year trek to Alaska walking 15 to 20 miles daily with Kathleen riding a cart when possible. They pause September to May for Kathleen to attend school and stay with local hosts like Fred Knoll in Ohio. The family once lived in Anchorage and aims to return, citing hunting and fishing and friendly people as reasons for the journey.
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Janet Conway
Haycraft
Alaska
Kathleen
Fred Knoll
U.S. 20
Bruce Haycraft
June
Denver
Mrs. Haycraft
Seattle
Bruce
Wakeman
Norwalk
Anchorage
June Haycraft
Turkish drive on Cyprus sparks regional crisis
The Turkish General Staff says forces breached toward Cyprus east coast along a 65 mile Attila Line prompting Greek threats to expel US troops in Greece after Washington's actions. The U S 6th Fleet flagship moved to sea from Gaeta for an unknown destination. In Milford Ohio George D Colwell aged 56 Cincinnati suffered loss of both legs in a freak accident but survived thanks to a coworker who rendered life saving tourniquets.
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United Press International
Cyprus
Greece
Little Rock
Gaeta
Italy
Milford
Ohio
UPI
George D. Colwell
Cincinnati
Colwell
Telephone Company
Leonard Cooper
Queen Honors Anne for Calm Brave Daring During Attack
Queen Elizabeth II awards Princess Anne a 24th birthday medal and elevates her to Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order for calm and brave conduct during the March 20 shooting incident in the Mall near Buckingham Palace.
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London
UPI
Elizabeth II
Princess Anne
Anne
Royal Victorian Order
Buckingham Palace
Shaw dies at 60 from cancer after JFK plot case
Clay Shaw, 60, acquitted of conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy, died at home of cancer. He had filed a $5 million suit against District Attorney Jim Garrison and had been ill since February after being arrested in 1967 in New Orleans on the Kennedy plot charge. Boston also reports James D. St Clair, Nixon Watergate lawyer, would take the assignment again if given the choice.
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New Orleans
UPI
Clay Shaw
John F. Kennedy
Shaw
Jim Garrison
Garrison
Kennedy
Boston
James D. St. Clair
Richard Nixon
Presidential Compound
San Clemente
Calif
Haldeman
Nixon
Kenneth W. Parkinson
Washington
Parkinson
Venezuelan airliner crashes on Margarita island
A Venezuelan airliner smashed into a mountain top near Margarita while flying blind through a tropical storm edge. Forty eight people were aboard and only one survived. Co pilot Ivan Magallanes was carried down Pinche Hill and hospitalized in Caracas with multiple injuries.
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Porlamar
Venezuela
UPI
Caribbean
Margarita
Ivan Magallanes
Pinche Hill Mountain
Caracas
Fair and cool tonight with rising clouds Friday
Weather forecast notes fair cool conditions tonight with lows in the 60s and increasing clouds Friday with a 30 percent chance of showers late. Highs expected in the 80s, southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Also lists marriage licenses births and a death in the local area.
Nixon subpoenaed to testify in Watergate trial in Washington
Former President Richard Nixon is subpoenaed to appear September 9 as a witness in the Watergate cover up trial in U S District Court. Ehrlichman and Haldeman along with five others face conspiracy and related charges. Parkinson seeks separate trial away from Washington.
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Washington
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate
John D. Ehrlichman
U.S. District Court
Ehrlichman
Nixon
H.R. Haldeman
Andrew G. Hall
Korea’s First Lady Is Slain in Assassination Attempt
In Seoul a gunman shot and killed Mrs Park Chung-hee wife of the president and a 17 year old schoolgirl during a televised speech. The would be assassin, believed linked to an antigovernment group, was wounded and detained as Park ducked behind the lectern. Mrs Park died six hours after surgery.
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Seoul
UPI
Park Chung-hee
Park
Korea
Japan
Seoul National University Hospital
Chang Donghwa
Enrollment Goof Triggers Cross-District Tuition Issue
Norwalk City Schools may have spent over 16000 for 1973-74 education of about 30 pupils living in the Gibbs Laylin area who reside in Western Reserve District. Western Reserve officials expect 31 students to transfer this fall. Norwalk could bill tuition of 545.88 per pupil for 1974-75.
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Janet Conway
Norwalk
Western Reserve
Gibbs-Laylin Road
Gibbs Road
Thomas Lasley
Map Department
County Engineer’s Office
County Auditor’s
Laylin Road
Gibbs
van Ramsay
Ramsay
Western Reserve Supt
Elvin Ferres
Board of Education
Ferres
Watergate's Forgotten Hero Wins King Award
Frank Wills the 26 year old ex security guard who discovered the Watergate break in was honored with the Martin Luther King Award by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at its annual convention. He said he was glad to have opened Americas eyes and hoped they stay open as he aspires to new work after being rejected for five security jobs. He noted he would have received more recognition if he were white and questioned White House ties to the事件.
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Vivian M. Lingard
Philadelphia
UPI
Frank Wills
America
Wills
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King
White House
Watergate
SCLC
Washington, D.C
Grandstand Show Attendance at Huron County Fair Off Despite Good Weather
Ten thousand people entered the Huron County Fair gates on Wednesday but only 1,100 attended the grandstand auto dare devil shows. Officials cited attendance as the main disappointment amid a day of steady fair activity and a $3.50 admission for grandstand events.
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Kevin Tanzillo
Huron County Fair
Fairgrounds
Huron County
Blackwood Brothers
Flowers Family
Bellevue
Lyme Township
Becky Sherman
Mark Roland
Wenda Beiler
Brian Eisenhauser
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Lucille M. Valentine
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Monroeville
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Sandusky
Robert Stewart
Marion G. Geist
Valerie Coe
Randy Garner
Valerie
Paul Coe
Randy
Randall Garner
North
Fairfield
Democratic National Committee
Watergate Complex
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