Chief John Big Tree Dead at 102 of Onondaga Nation
Chief John Big Tree of the Seneca tribe died near Syracuse New York at the Onondaga reservation at age 102 The profile of the chief was used on the famous Indian head nickel after he posed for artist John Frazer 54 years earlier The image also appeared at a 1963 Illinois county fair in a UPI telephoto photograph
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John Big Tree
Onondaga
Syracuse
New York
Chief Big Tree
John Frazer
Illinois
Sniper Kills Professor and Wife in Vancouver Backyard
In Vancouver Point Grey a sniper fired from an upstairs window killing a university professor and his wife as they picked strawberries. The shooter then fired on the street, wounding three women before being arrested. a 35 year old suspect was taken into custody.
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Vancouver
B.C
UPI
Point Grey
Thailand train bus crash leaves forty dead in worst rail disaster
A bus carrying more than 100 passengers collided with a train in Bangkok causing 40 deaths and 39 injuries. The driver leaped to safety as his bus rolled into the train’s path. police arrested him on negligent homicide charges as authorities called it Thailand’s worst railway accident.
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Bangkok
UPI
Thailand
Gro ss receipts tax sparks Senate testim ony clash
In Columbus the Rhodes administration faces strong pushback as 16 witnesses, mostly businessmen, oppose a proposed 1 percent gross receipts tax on all business types during a Senate Ways and Means Committee hearing. In Cleveland Dr. Martin Luther King vows a large voter drive to defeat Mayor Locher.
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Columbus
UPI
Rhodes
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Cleveland
API
Martin Luther King
Ralph Locher
Weather and civic notices from Willard area brief
Variable cloudiness and mild conditions with upper 50s to lower 60s tonight and highs near 70 Thursday. Lake Erie wind southeasterly 8 to 16 knots. Marriage licenses issued for six couples from Birmingham Norwalk Bellevue Willard and related births and deaths reported for the Willard Bellevue Milan Milan area.
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Lake Erie
Space X rays reveal universe glow and distant quasars
Scientists report that space glows with X rays from a primeval fireball and confirm X radiation from a quasar. They identify M87 as a powerful X ray source and announce three unidentified distant X ray sources potentially quasars. discoveries were unveiled by Dr Herbert Friedman after Aerobee rocket tests from White Sands New Mexico.
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Washington
UPI
Milky Way
Herbert Friedman
Naval Research Laboratory
Friendman
White Sands
U S Planes Smash Cong Buildup In Biggest Raid
U S B52s bombed a major Communist buildup in South Vietnam in the largest raid yet as Leatherneck troops killed 150 North Vietnamese invaders without American casualties. Two B52s collided, seven of 13 crewmen rescued. four smaller jets downed. Westmoreland and McNamara pressed for more troops, with talks behind a high noon conference room door.
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U. S
Saigon
South China Sea
Vietnam
U.S
McNamara
Westmoreland
Milan Steel Low Bidder for Huron landfill project
Milan Steel Company submitted the low bid of 13813 dollars for a new storage building at the Huron County landfill. No contract has been awarded yet. Other bidders were William O. Mosser Co. 14797 dollars from Port Clinton and Bay Construction Co. 19800 dollars from Sandusky. Bids opened at noon Thursday.
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Milan Steel Company
Huron County
William O. Mosser Co
Port Clinton
Bay Construction Co
Sandusky
Jury Indicts Man Who Took Girl For Ride
Selwyn Alex Trust 44 of University City Missouri faces trial after being indicted by the Huron County Grand Jury for taking a 19 year old magazine saleswoman on a 60 mile ride from Akron to Norwalk while seeking a place to cash an invalid check. He was arrested in Fremont after the incident. The panel also indicted nine others on various charges including non support breaking and entering possession of stolen property felonious assault sodomy and associated counts. Three secret indictments are tied to suspects still at large.
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Akron
Norwalk
Missouri
Selwyn Alex Trust
University City
Huron County Grand Jury
Trust
Fremont
Richard Adkins
Third St
Mansfield
Lawrence D. Robinson
Sandusky St
Willard
Frederick Fairchild
N. Main St
Monroeville
Robert C. Windau
Jefferson St
Sandusky
Phillip Demma
Case Avenue
Raymond Elger Cramer
Benedict Ave
Mecklenburg health dept issues dress code for female staff
The Mecklenburg Charlotte County Health Department issued guidance to about 100 female employees restricting outfits. Prohibitions target tight or transparent clothing, mid knee skirts, hair above shoulders, high heeled shoes, long earrings, and heavy makeup. The directive stresses office appropriateness and avoids public dress on the job.
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Charlotte, N.C
New London Welcomes 38 Field Service Students
New London hosts 38 American Field Service students for a three day stay arriving by bus from Canandaigua New York. Hosts include Cecil Garrett Harold Landis and Herbert Sturges families for home stays with local activities and a community potluck supper at six tonight.
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Cecil Garrett
New London School
New London
AFS
Canandaigua
N.Y
Hewock Gugsa
Ethiopia
Guri Figenschou
Norway
Harold Landis
Freidrich Scheiber
Austria
Herbert Sturges
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Birmingham
Mich
U.S. Army
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James D. Lee
Bellevue
Patricia Ann Burgess
Frank G. House
Virginia L. Lewis
Haldon C. Ketchan
Nancy L. Austin
Leslie Dale Strecker
Cheryl Ann Druckenmiller
John Coovert
Rodney C. Owens
Ola Jones
Donald Elmlinger
Howard Phillips
Paul F. DeLamater
Toledo
Alzada M. Griffin
Milan
Cora O. Reitzel
Rural
N.M
Earth
Alameda Naval Air Station
Randolf Reyes
Enterprise
Tive Gaze
Richard
U.5s
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.9
Bunker
U.S. Army Vietnam Headquarters
Tan Son Nhut
Hewock Gugso
Virginia
Cecilia
Mrs. Garrett
Milan Steel
Wallace Kuralt
Kuralt
Custer
Little Big Horn
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