Hiroshima POW deaths alleged in 1945 blast says Yanagida
Tokyo report cites Hiroshi Yanagida a Kempeitai officer claiming 23 American prisoners were killed or fatally injured in the Hiroshima atomic blast nine days before VJ Day. Twenty two died instantly the 23rd died of injuries the next day.
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Albert E. Kaff
Tokyo
UPI
U.S
Hiroshima
Hiroshi Yanagida
Secret Police
Kempeitai
Kyodo News Service
Japan
Yanagida
Washington
Pentagon
Defense Department
Kure
Bodies of Casey and six aides recovered from crash wreckage
In Saigon the bodies of Maj. Gen George W. Casey and six soldiers were recovered from the helicopter wreckage. Military spokesmen said seven bodies were pulled from the site but remain listed as missing in action until identifications are confirmed.
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Saigon
UPS
George W. Casey
Casey
Shepard Fears Morale Drop From Space Program Cuts
Apollo commander Alan B. Shepard warned that cutbacks and layoffs in the space program could lower morale among engineers and technicians preparing his moonship for a January launch at the Space Center in Houston.
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AL Rossiter JR
Space Center
Houston
UPI
Alan B. Shepard
Manned
Yukon Educator Returns Home After Two Years
Norwalk teacher Ilo Dolbee spent two years teaching in Teslin Yukon 114 miles from White Horse. She taught 26 students ages eight to 14, lived in a government teacherage paying 58 monthly, and earned 13 000 yearly. Dolbee aided students with after school activities and Sunday showers for those without winter facilities. She signed for next year and may return. The Yukon post included a 48 day Far East tour.
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Ilo Dolbee
Norwalk
Yukon
Far East
White Horse Chamber of Commerce
Canada
Go go dancing plan halted after dancer falls ill
Promoter Syd Friedman halted a world record attempt after 14 hours when Rene Nezdoly fell ill. She and partner Helen Broszuk planned to alternate hourly to beat the 77 hours 15 minute mark set in 1968. The event occurred in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
UPI
Syd Friedman
Friedman
Rene Nezdoly
Helen Broszuk
Purdue Board Rejects Kettler Hire Prompts Settlement
Ohio State professor David Kettler received about 15000 dollars as a settlement after withdrawing from a Purdue University political science faculty appointment. Purdue officials cited alleged participation in campus protests at Ohio State in May.
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Lafayette
Ind
UPI
Ohio State University
David Kettler
Purdue University
Purdue Board of Trustees
Kettler
Ohio State
Gambler Mickey Cohen seeks early parole for tax evasion term
Springfield report says onetime gambler Mickey Cohen, partially paralyzed from a penitentiary beating, is asking for six years off his 15 year sentence for income tax evasion.
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Springfield
UPI
Mickey Cohen
Weather and notices from Norwalk July 11 1970
Partly cloudy today with a 30 percent chance of showers and highs in the upper 70s. Fair tonight and Sunday with lows near 60 and highs in the 80s. Marriage license issued to Robert A. Penrose and Nancy E Banker. Births include a girl to Mr and Mrs Jerome Mason. Deaths noted for Elberta Blair and Emma Schwann.
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Norwalk
Robert A. Penrose
Nancy E. Banker
Monroeville
Beautician
Probe Sought Into Travel Agencies After U S Bankruptcy
Senator John J. Williams calls for a congressional inquiry into the travel industry after reports that 3,000 American students were stranded in Europe by a bankrupt agency. He asked the Senate Commerce Committee to examine the need for new legislation.
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Washington
UPI
John J. Williams
R-Del
Europe
Williams
Senate Commerce Committee
World Academy
U.S. District Court
Cincinnati
Cleveland Man Drowns After Boat Capsizes on Camden Lake
A 19 year old Cleveland man Frank Lapinski Jr. drowned when his boat capsized after he turned toward Reginald Ostrowski while fishing on Camden Lake west end one and a half miles south of U.S. 20. Ostrowski swam to shore and alerted a farmhouse, a rescue squad searched nearly two hours and he was taken to Allen Memorial Hospital.
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Cleveland
Camden Lake
U.S. 20
Gore Orphanage Road
Frank Lapinski
Reginald T. Ostrowski
Parma
Ostrowski
Lorain County
Lapinski
Owstrowski
Camden Township
Allen Memorial Hospital
Oberlin
Reunion Brings Rome Relative Back to Norwalk Family
In Norwalk Mrs. Paul Nardecchia and August Tomei welcomed their brother Joseph Tomei of Rome whom they hadn’t seen in 58 years. Joseph, 67, arrived from Italy, met by his son in New Haven, while relatives planned another visit next week and shared decades of catching up.
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Norwalk
Paul Nardecchia
Newton St
August Tomei
Joseph Tomei
Rome
Nardecchia
United States
Joseph
August
New York
Italy
New Haven
Conn
Tomei
Ramon Soldana Jr. Chooses to Fight for America
The Stokely Van Camp migrant camp family says Ramon Soldana Jr. would rather serve in Vietnam than return to Mexico. He is an infantryman with the Americal Division's 11th Brigade, recently earned the combat infantryman's badge, and expects to be home in August. His father, a World War II artilleryman, notes his son could seek Mexican citizenship but would dishonor the United States.
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Stokely van Camp
America
Mexico
Ramon Soldana, Jr
Vietnam
Soldana
Young Soldana
Ramon
Norwalk
Third Infantry
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Greenwich
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