37 Killed In Jail Camp Fire Racial Clash
AP reports 37 prisoners died when a recently integrated Florida jail camp burned after a dispute between a Negro and a white inmate. Fourteen escaped, eight more transferred or jailed, and investigators blamed a broken gas line and a fluorescent lamp ignition inside flaming barracks.
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Wainwright
G.C. Mayne Jr
Raiford
Mayne
Pasco Rowells
State Highway Department
Cocker Nelson
Santa Rosa
H.C. Crawford
Milton
Gerald Milligan
Milligan
Allies in Vietnam May Hold Summit in Bangkok
Premhiet Thanom Kittikachorn said the seven allied nations fighting in South Vietnam may hold a summit conference in October with Bangkok as the probable site.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Premhiet Thanom Kittikachorn
South Vietnam
Newark Violence Flares Across New Jersey Cities
Newark ends a violent stretch with relative calm on Sunday while Plainfield and Jersey City suffer with gunfire vandalism and looting. National Guardsmen patrol streets as officials report 24 riot deaths and over 1100 injured with property damage surpassing 5 million dollars.
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Newark
N.J
New Jersey
Plainfield
Jersey City
East Orange
Springfield Avenue
Richard J. Hughes
Watts
Hughes
U S Bombers Hit Five Viet Cong Concentration Areas
US Air Force and Navy bombers pounded five major communist concentration areas in South Vietnam from the Mekong Delta to the north. The raids targeted the infiltra tion route into the central highlands as a renewed offensive loomed. Two American planes were shot down but both crews were rescued. One Skyhawk and one F100 jet were lost, marking additional combat losses in South and North Vietnam.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
Central Highlands
North
U.S
Hanoi
Thanh Hoa
North Vietnam
Air Force
Cambodi Bémser
Church Roof and Wall Collapse Damages Syracuse Church
St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Syracuse along with an adjacent house sustained damage when the church roof and a wall section collapsed at 2 30 a.m. No injuries were reported. the 107 year old church had been used only for Sunday school and social events. Debris damaged the office and waiting room in the neighboring physician's house. cause and damage estimates were not available.
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N.Y
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
White House
New England
South
Scarsdale
New York
Winnetka
Chicago
Manhattan
Philadelphia
Defence Taber S. McNamara
Vietnam
Alan S. Boyd
Southern Pacific Railroad
San Fernando Valley
Yuma
Aris
Lawrence O’brien
O’brien
Congress
International Association of Machinists
W. J. Staudenmaier
Machinists
Lewis W. Menk
Northern Pacific
Department of Transportation
Union Pacific
Portland
Hinkle
Ore
Sons of Hickok President Die in Ontario Crash
Raymond T. Hickok Jr. 17 and brother John 13, sons of Hickok Manufacturing Co. leaders of Rochester New York, were killed in a two car collision near Huntsville Ontario. Also killed Robin Palmer 17 of Dwight Ontario. Two others injured. Dawson of Pomona California and his wife suffered serious injures and were hospitalized.
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Raymond T. Hickok Jr
John
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Hickok Manufacturing Co
Rochester
N.Y
Here
Robin Palmer
Dwight
Ont
Raymond T. Hickok
Brighton
Hickok
Robert Dawson
Pomona
Calif
Dawson
Huntsville Hospital
Congo Mutineers Seize Vast Plantations Ties to Tshombe
White mercenaries and Katangan troops who mutinied against Mobutu’s government are believed holed up on Maj. Jean Schramm’s plantation in the Congo forest 155 miles southeast of Kisangani. Schramm, a Tshombe ally since 1961, led mercenary forces during the Katanga era.
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Kinshasa
Congo
Jean Schramm
Kisangani
Stanleyville
Bukavu
Europe
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Algiers
Joseph Mobutu
Schramm
Katanga
Staten Island Blonde Crowned Miss New York State
Kari Marie Pedersen, 21, of Staten Island, educated at Wagner College, was named Miss New York State. She will compete in Miss America in Atlantic City in September. Pedersen emphasized the scholarship program and receives a $1,500 state scholarship. Her Norwegian heritage and fond memories of wearing dungarees as a child are noted.
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N.Y
Kari Marie Pedersen
Staten Island
New York State
Atlantic City
Ridgewood
N.J
Kari
Pedersen
Norway
Peder
Martime Commission
New York City
Madame Jerfly
English grocer Alec Rose sails solo around world
The 59 year old Portsmouth grocer Alec Rose begins a 28 000 mile solo circumnavigation in his 36 foot cutter Lively Lady. He expects the voyage to take nine months as he sails alone across the Atlantic and around the globe.
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Portsmouth
England
Atlantic
Alec Rose
Surveyor 4 lands on moon but contact may fail
Pasadena AP reports Surveyor 4 touched down on the moon as planned but officials fear a crash or loss of control. Contact was lost seven miles above the surface with engineers planning reconnection efforts from Goldstone to determine the craft's condition. The probe weighed 2290 pounds and shutdown procedures followed as teams considered an explosion in the rocket case.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
Howard Haglund
Goldstone
Barstow
Moon
Haglund
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Two Papers In Utica Suspend Due to Strike
Utica papers The Observer-Dispatch and The Utica Press halted afternoon and Sunday editions as a strike by the Printing Pressmen’s Union entered its third day. Pickets protested outside the plant while negotiations, led by Leonard Villeneuve, failed to yield a deal on staffing and wages.
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Utica
N.Y
Observer-Dispatch Inc
Observer-Dispatch
Utica Press
Gannett Group of Newspapers and Broadcasting Stations
Rochester
Printing Pressmen's Union
Herman Moecker
Leonard Villeneuve
Villeneuve
American Newspaper Guild
Sylvia Hitchcock Crowned Miss Universe at Miami Beach
Sylvia Hitchcock, 21, was crowned Miss Universe in Miami Beach, edging out Maruela Perez Brangee of Venezuela. The University of Alabama senior to be said she hopes classmates forget the pageant and know her as Sylvia rather than Miss Universe.
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Fla
Sylvia Hitchcock
Sylvia
University of Alabama
Venezuela
Maruela Perez Brangee
England
Jennifer Lewis
Finland
Ritva Helena Lehto
Israel
Batya Kabiri
Warm with almost daily rain forecast for Upstate New York
The five day forecast from the U S Weather Bureau covers Tuesday through Saturday for all of Upstate New York. Temperatures will run near or slightly below normal with highs in the 70s to low 80s and overnight lows in the 50s to low 60s. Rainfall is expected to average half an inch or more with scattered showers and thundershowers nearly every day.
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Albany
N.Y
New York
U.S. Weather Bureau
Campfire tragedy: family perishes in camper blaze near Catskill
A Pennsylvania mother and her two daughters were among 16 weekend deaths in New York State. The blaze, caused by a kerosene stove leak, occurred on Route 9W near Catskill en route to Expo 67. Eight others were injured as showers lingered over western New York.
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Pennsylvania
New York State
New York
Philip Herbert
Catskill
Glen Rock
Montreal
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