Belfast killings by IRA gunmen shock Norw alk readers
In Belfast six gunmen believed IRA members killed three British soldiers after sharing beers at the Glen Inn. The victims Fusilier John McCaig 17 Fusilier Joseph McCaig 18 both Ayr Scotland and Fusilier Donald McCaughey 23 Glasgow. Soldiers ambushed luring them to Squires Hill Tavern.
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Northern Ireland
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IRA
Army
Family sues maker over vaporizer burn injuries
The parents of Daniel Blevins of Franklin Ohio sue Northern Electrical Co Chicago for 600000 in damages claiming a faulty design and poor instructions caused a vaporizer to topple onto Daniel as he slid from bed on March 10 1967. He suffered burns over 70 percent of his body with permanent injuries.
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Cincinnati
UPS
Willis Blevins
Franklin
Ohio
Northern Electrical Co
Chicago
Daniel
TV Set Marriage Breaker in Divorce Case
London judge Sir George Baker called television the main cause of matrimonial trouble in a divorce case. He said the TV set is an object of modern life nearly always at fault in such cases. The husband, John Edison, 52, a legal executive, was granted a divorce for cruelty.
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London
UPI
George Baker
John Edison
Cleveland Police Academy Faces Closure Over Rent Costs
Police Chief Lewis Coffey says the training academy may close because it cannot pay its $6,000 monthly rent. Since opening in March 1969 it has trained 443 officers, but the city budget allocates only $12,000 for yearly rents. No new recruits will be trained or hired under the austerity budget.
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Cleveland
UPI
Lewis Coffey
Coffey
Nixon calls for major courts reform and parajudges
President Nixon urged streamlining of U S court operations and creation of a national center for state courts to research procedures. He proposed parajudges to ease administrative duties and pressed prison reform as warehousing inmates, addressing 600 judges and officials at Williamsburg.
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Williamsburg
UPI
Nixon
National Conference On the Judiciary
Washington
Two Boys 15 Fire At Shaw High School Coach
Two 15 year old Shaw High School freshmen were arrested after one fired a .22 revolver at coach Charles Lebel four times as he escorted the student to the principal's office. The expelled boy reportedly supplied the gun from home and met Lebel in a class. Delinquency charges were expected to be filed.
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East Cleveland
UPI
Shaw High School
Charles Lebel
Lebel
Milton Jennerich
Jennerich
Maddox Burns A Newspaper in Senate Flight Over Logjam
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox symbolically burned a copy of an Atlanta newspaper on the senate floor amid charges the body is a do nothing chamber. He mocked a front page Atlanta Constitution story condemning the logjam of 30 unacted bills as the chamber debated for hours.
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UPI
Lester Maddox
Senate
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