Woodstock Festival Paralyzes Small Town in Catskills
White Lake New York AP reports that over 200000 young concertgoers overwhelmed the Catskills resort, stranding roads and prompting festival organizers to urge turnbacks. Troopers used helicopters as jams persisted amid thunderstorms and food shortages. Police arrested 50 to 60 for drug charges and 100 more statewide. most attendees remained peaceful as acts by The Who Jefferson Airplane Joplin Hendrix Crosby Stills Nash drew crowds. many slept in fields with minimal shelter and limited facilities.
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White Lake
N.Y
Catskill Mountains
New York City
Richie Havens
The
Who
Jefferson Airplane
Danis Jopkin
Jimi Hendrix
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Liberty
Both Ships Blamed For Tragic Collision
A joint American Australian board of inquiry blamed both the US destroyer Evans and the Australian carrier Melbourne for the collision that killed 74 sailors. The panel said primary responsibility rested with Evans as it cited misread signals and failures to take decisive action. Capt. John P. Stevenson of the Melbourne faces court martial for failing to issue a positive direction and to reverse engines when needed.
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Manila
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
Australian Naval Department
U.S. Navy
Evans
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
South China Sea
John P. Stevenson
Autopsy hearing set for Kopechne case in August
A court schedule shows a hearing on autopsy exhumation for Mary Jo Kopechne, sought by Dukes County DA Edmund Dinis. The inquest is planned for September in Edgartown, following a July 18 car incident on Chappaquiddick Island involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Kennedy pled guilty to leaving the scene and received a suspended two month sentence plus probation. license suspended. The Kopechnes oppose exhumation efforts.
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Wilkes-Barre
Mary Jo Kpechne
Edmund Dinis
Dukes County
Mass
Bernard C. Brominski
Common Pleas Court
Dinis
Robert F. Kennedy
Edgartown
Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Martha’s Vineyard
Kennedy
Kopechnes
Protestants Attack Catholic Bars in Belfast Violent Unrest
Protestant gangs in Belfast burned Catholic bars using gasoline mixtures and looted in several districts while British troops moved to separate Catholics in Falls Road and Davis Street. Two killed and 224 wounded as Northern Ireland faces its fourth night of sectarian clashes. Londonderry saw British troops negotiate with civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin in the Bogside, amid barbed wire barricades and road checks. IRA elements were reported slipping north and a Belfast theater was seized by a group claiming IRA allegiance. Dublin mobilized 2000 army reserves for a potential peacekeeping force. London blocked UN action, citing internal Irish issues.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Falls Road
Britain
Queens and Wales
Davis Street
Londonderry
Bogside
Bernadette Devlin
Miss Devlin
Irish Republic
Irish Republican Army
The
IRA
Brother Paul Meinhardt Monk at St Benedicts Dies
Brother Paul Meinhardt an eight year monk at St Benedicts Abbey and College died in a hospital Friday after a brain hemorrhage Aug. A Paxico Kansas native he joined the abbey in 1932 and from 1951 managed Raven Roost snack bar on campus also serving as postmaster and resident hall counselor The funeral is set for Monday at 11 am.
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the Abbey
Raven Roost
Body Found In Missouri River Near Kansas City
The body of Mrs. Willa Lorene Geiler, 29, was found in the Missouri River at Kansas City Friday night. Police say she jumped from a bridge at Leavenworth, Kansas, Wednesday after breaking free from two men who tried to prevent the suicide.
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Kansas City
Willa Lorene Geiler
Missouriver River
Fatality and electrocution in Missouri River region crashes
Helen Aren son, 71, of St. Louis, died Friday on U S 24 east of Topeka after a car struck a bridge. Brother Lewis Arenson, 58, and sister Ruth Aren son, 73, were injured. Thomas R. Carter, 16, of St. Joseph was electrocuted at a resort near Lewis and Clark Park while wiring a house trailer after a heavy rain.
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Topeka
Helen Arenson
St. Louis
U.S
Lewis Arenson
Ruth Arenson
Atchison
Lewis and Clark Park
Missouri River
Alton
Earl Ray Carter
Record 24 hour rainfall hits Kansas City milestone
The Weather Bureau gauge at Municipal Airport measured 7.44 inches of rain Friday the highest 24 hour total since 1888, surpassing the 7.08 inch record set on Sept 7, 1914. While streams stayed clear, several streets and hundreds of basements flooded.
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Kansas City
The
Weather Bureau
Municipal
Welcomed Home Army Reservists Return From Vietnam
In Independence Kansas a brief ceremony in Memorial Hall welcomed sixty Army reservists from the 100th Supply and Service Company home from Vietnam after 15 months of service. Senator Bob Dole urged the service members to remember they met their responsibilities to America and the free world.
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Independence
Kan
Vietnam
Memorial Hall
America
Free World
Bob Dole
R - Kan
100Th Supply and Service Company
Peaceful Trip For Gas By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two trains carrying phosgene neared their destinations industrial plants where it will be converted to peaceful uses. The 300 tons of gas moved across the country from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado while facing protests and a delay. One train headed to Geismar Louisiana for plastic making and another to Vandemark Industries in Lockport New York for potential uses.
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Associated Press
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Colorado
Mississippi
Geismar
Illinois Central Railroad
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Vandemark Industries
Lockport
N.Y
Army
Jones Chemical Co
Batavia
Canada
Chicago
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ravenna
Ordnance Plant
B&o
U.S. Department of Transportation
Ravenna Ordnance Plant
Grie- Lackawana Railroad
Buffalo
Wov
Robert D. Ray
Iowa
New York
White House
Allen Vandemark
Jerald Gerson
Co Chemical Commodities Corp
Olathe
Kan
Louisiana
de. H. Peter Metzner
Boulder
Colo
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Dublin
Patrick Hillery
London
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Paxico, Kan
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Boys’ Club
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
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Butler
Mac Tosh
Tosh
Peoples National Bank
Paul Joanne Newman
Woodward
Sun
Henry Fonda
Charles Bronson
Claudia Cardinale
West
Paramount Picture
Jack Lemmon
Catherine Deneuve
PS Aes
Richard Widmark
Bub Mitchum
Kirk Douglas
Plainsman
Dunaway
Bonnie ‘Bclyde
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