Aerial Crash Kills 83 in Midair Collision Over Indiana
A light plane and an Allegheny Airlines DC9 collided near London Indiana killing 83 people. The 35 year old solo student pilot Robert W Carey died along with 78 passengers and four crew. Carey trained from McCordsville on a 50 mile flight to Columbus. Investigators from the FAA and local crews combed a soybean field for bodies wreckage and luggage as residents watched in disbelief.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Robert W. Carey
Allegheny Airlines
Weir-Cook Municipal
Carey
Boston
Baltimore
Cincinnati
St. Louis
John Shaffer
Federal Aviation Administration
London
McCordsville
Columbus
Son In Law Considered For Dirksen Senate Seat
The death of Everett M. Dirksen leaves a GOP leadership vacancy. Howard Baker Jr of Tennessee is said to have strong support as a candidate. The field appears to be a three man race among Baker Scott and Roman Hruska with others showing interest.
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Washington
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Nebraska
Gordon Allott
Colorado
Syracuse City Official Dies In Plane Crash
Syracuse parks and recreation commissioner James E. Heath, 39, was killed when an Allegheny Airlines jet collided with a C- plane, near here. Heath, who served since 1966, was bound for St. Louis where he previously led city recreation. His brother Harlan, 46, president of a St. Louis consulting firm, rode with him.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Syracuse
Austin
Jerome P. Cavanagh
Toronto Kidnapers Take Wife Demand 200000
Wealthy Toronto couple seized Sunday at their Claremont home. Abductors bound the pair and left a $200,000 ransom on a country road after reducing an initial demand of 850,000. The wife Mary is daughter of trucking executive Marshall D. Davis.
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Toronto
Henry Radcliffe Nelles
Mary
Marshall D. Davis
Nelles
Claremont
Detroit mayoral primary led by Austin and Gribbs
Wayne County auditor Richard Austin and Sheriff Roman Gribbs won Detroit’s nonpartisan mayoral primary with 124 941 and 105 640 votes respectively. Councilwoman Mary Beck finished third as turnout reached 338 434 or 47.8 percent, the highest since 1927.
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Detroit
Wayne County
Richard Austin
Roman Gribbs
Mary V. Beck
Austin
Gribbs
Miss Beck
Alaska Opens Oil Tracts Bids in Billion-Dollar Lease Sale
Anchorage reports bids opened for 179 tracts on Alaska North Slope oil fields with floor bids of $1 per acre per 10 years. Gov. Keith Miller stated value limits as major oil companies submit sealed bids, with possible billion-dollar leases and bonus offers.
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Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
State of
Arctic
Keith Miller
Anchorage
New York
City Court to Tackle Noise and Speeding in Oswego
Citizen urges police and City Court Judge to crack down on noise and speeding in Oswego, contrasting with Fulton and asking for a firm response.
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Oswego
Fulton
Meet Stirs Talk Of Further U S Troop Pullouts
In Saigon meetings between U S and South Vietnamese leaders fueled speculation of broader troop withdrawals and extended allied scaling down. Gen Abrams met with President Thieu before heading to Washington for Nixon's Vietnam conference. Unconfirmed reports claim Abrams would accept a 35 000 troop withdrawal, cutting U S forces to about 475 000.
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Saigon
U.S
United States
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Creighton W. Abrams
Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Washington
Nixon
Abrams
Experts to Talk at Oswego Hearing On Lake Pollution Threat
An all day Oswego County hearing by the Legislative Committee on Environmental Management will consider whether thermal or nuclear pollution threatens Lake Ontario. Seventeen invitees include Dr. Robert Sweeney, William Chapin, Ferell Pyle, and state, federal, and local officials. The session covers pollution control, pesticide levels, and conservation of water resources.
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Robert Sweeney
Great Lakes
Federal Atomic Energy Commission
State Conservation Council
William H. Hicks
Department of Health
Syracuse
Public Health
State Health Department
John Judd
Lake Ontario Environmental Laboratory
SACO
P. Austin Burt
Nine Mile Point Atomic Plant
Rudy Swanson
Oswego
Niagara Mohawk Power Co., Inc
Ernest G. Wise
SUCO
George FE. Pitluga
Eugene Saloga
State Supervisors Association
Syracuse University
Kenneth Jensen
Lee E. Townsend
Lake Ontario
Water Pollution Control Administration
W. Herbert Pennington
New York Operations Atomic Energy Commission
Ae Glenn H. Harris
Dunkirk
Buffalo
Rochester
Lake
Ontario
Israeli Jets Bombing Egyptian Forces Again
TEL AVIV reports Israeli jets bombed Egyptian army vehicles at Ras Abu Dareg and Ras Za Afrana along the Gulf of Suez. The morning strikes hit both points as earlier armored columns moved in the area. The army said all planes returned to base. He warned of heavier strikes following alleged Egyptian ceasefire violations.
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Ras Za’ Afrana
Egypt
Gulf of Suez
Israel
Gulf 39
Port Suez
Suez Canal
Moshe Dayan
Gulf
Sinai
Golda Meir
Funeral rites for Senator Dirksen in Washington
Senator Everett Dirksen lay in state at the Capitol and was honored in a National Presbyterian Church service before burial in Pekin Illinois. President Nixon lauded Dirksen as a principled leader and the nation mourned the Republican figure who led the party in the Senate.
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Presbyterian Church At
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Elson
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Dirksen
Capitol Plaza
National Presbyterian Church
Illinois
Peoria
Ill
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Nixon
Pekin
Everett Dirksen
House of Representatives
Republican Party
Effort To Unseal Mine Where 78 Lost Lives Last
Washington AP reports work to reopen Mountain No 9 coal mine at Farmington West Virginia may begin Friday if weather allows. methane risk requires careful sealing and air clearance, with five to seven days until safe to enter and months to recover bodies of 78 miners from the Nov blast.
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Washington
West Virginia
Mountaineer No. 9
Farmington
Fog slows landings at Los Angeles airport strands thousands
Fog blanketed Los Angeles, delaying arrivals and forcing Jetliners to divert to San Francisco Las Vegas and Phoenix. Between five thousand and ten thousand passengers were affected by the disruption.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles International
San Francisco
Las Vegas
Phoenix
Blast Set For Today In Western Colorado
The delayed Project Rulis underground nuclear explosion in Grand Valley western Colorado is scheduled for 5 p.m. today unless weather changes intervene.
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Grand Valley
Colo
Colorado
Nless
Famed Surgeon Denton Cooley Resigns From Baylor Staff
Dr Denton A Cooley resigns from Baylor College of Medicine clinical staff. Baylor Board of Trustees chairman L F McCollum confirms the move. Cooley could not be reached for comment.
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L. F. McCollum
Baylor Board of Trustees
Cooley
Plenary Session Postponed in Paris Viet Nam Talks
Paris Viet Nam peace talks suspended the 33rd plenary session as the United States Saigon proposal for Saturday September 13 faces Viet Cong Hanoi scrutiny. The PRG cites Ho Chi Minh’s mourning period through Thursday in South Vietnam as the reason for the delay.
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Paris
Vietnam
United States
Saigon
Viet Cong
Hanoi
PRG
Ho Chi Minh
South Vietnam
Adam L. Gimbel Dies at 75 in New York Hospital
Adam L. Gimbel, who built Saks Fifth Avenue into the nation’s largest specialty chain, died Tuesday night in New York Hospital of pancreatitis at age 75. He served as Saks president from 1926 until his retirement on February 1. Saks’ 30 branches produced about 30 percent of the Gimbel Brothers’ over $600 million in annual sales.
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NEW York
Adam L. Gimbel
Saks
Saks Fifth Avenue
Gimbel Brothers
Former Klan Official Held in Fayette Plot Probe
A heavily armed man, Dale Walton, 44, of Tupelo, a former Ku Klux Klan official, was held in Fayette city jail after police investigated a reported assassination plot against Mayor Charles Evers. Police staked out the mayor’s office following a phone call.
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Dale Walton
Tupelo
Fayette
Charles Evers
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