Grand Jury Indicts 15 Over Inmate Brutality in Arkansas
A federal grand jury charged 15 persons with brutality against inmates across four Arkansas penal institutions. Indictments cover Tucker Prison Farm, Cummins Prison Farm, and Mississippi County Penal Farm from 1964 to 1966, including shackle punishments, electric shocks, whip lashes, and birdshot injuries to about 100 inmates.
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Little Rock, Ark
Arkansas
Jim Bruton
Tucker Prison Farm
State Penitentiary
Tucker
Bruton
Pulaski
Mississippi
Gary L. Haydis
Cummins Prison Farm
Cummins
Lawrence E. Hudson
G. W. Thompson
Thom O Q. Morton
Winthrop Rockefeller
J. Smith Henley
U.S. District Court
Justice Department
State Board of Correction
Herman Belk
Pulaski County
Gene Emmerling
Curtis Lee Ingram Jr
Little Rock
Belk
Ingram
Emmerling
Bruce McCorley
White Trusty
Edwin Lucas
Howard McCain
Mississippi County
Preliminary Winners Chosen Friday Night in Miss Kansas Pageant
Pratt Kansas AP report notes Joleen Kay Claassen of Newton and Pamilla Kay Kohler of Beloit won Friday night prelims. Miss Kansas will be crowned tonight, with ten finalists chosen from 32 contestants. Claassen is a 19 year old Fort Hays State College sophomore representing Newton. Kohler, 21, a KU senior, represents North Central Kansas and performed Shakespeare in talent. Also highlighted is Bernita Lighty of Ulysses who danced on a sprained ankle in Wednesday’s prelim and was helped offstage then back to the show.
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Donald Claassen
Newton
Kohler
North Central
Kansas
University of Kansas
Keith Kohler
Beloit
Bernita Marie Lighty
Ulysses
Southwest Kansas
Lighty
Nixon accused by Hanoi in Vietnam War memo
Hanoi charged that Nixon does not truly seek to end the war despite campaign promises. The North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry memorandum said de Americanization and Vietnamization are efforts, but claim the move is a trick to prolong U.S. presence and avoid defeat.
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Tokyo
Hanoi
Nixon
U.S
South Vietnam
Open air nerve gas testing alarm in Congress
Congressional leaders express alarm after being told the Army conducts open air nerve gas tests at Dugway Proving Ground Utah Edgewood Arsenal Maryland and Fort McClellan Alabama The Army says tests involve small amounts for training with safety measures in place and no open air biological testing since 1967
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Washington
Henry S. Reuss
House
Government Operations Subcommittee
Army
Dugway Proving Ground
Utah
Edgewood Arsenal
Maryland
Fort MacClellan
Ala
Reuss
D-Wis
Charles McC. Mathias
R-Md
Clarence D. Long
Dmd
Edgewood
Congress
Long
Dugway
Fort McClellan
Ft. McClellan
EOD
Pentagon
Department of the Army
Die Days Before Return
An enemy rocket hit a 9th Division processing center at Dong Tam killing one American and wounding seven, three days before planned homecoming. The 107mm strike also killed two others and wounded 21, with eight from the 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry, set to fly home Sunday under Nixon’s 25,000-man troop cut. The 9th Marine Regimental Landing Team moves toward Quang Tri as typhoon risk looms.
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Saigon
9Th Division
U.S
Dong Tam
47Th Infantry
United States
Nixon
9Th Marine
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Tri
Vietnam
Okinawa
Weather Outlook With Record High and Low Dates
Friday’s high reaches 91 with a today’s low of 73. Year ago, high 95 and low 69. Record highs 117 in 1954 and record low 50 in 1898. Hourly temps end at 8 am today with readings from 76 to 89 across day parts. Barometer 29.90 inches.
Moon visitors plant flag and leave space junk on moon
Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin will place the American nylon flag, a plaque, and filmed messages on the lunar surface during a two hour, 40 minute stay. They will leave 4100 pound descent stage, tools, sensors, and a television camera while planning to return to the command ship.
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Moon
Earth
Nixon
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Astronauta
Armatrong
Aldrin
Armstrong
United Nations
U.N
Russia
Cuba
U.S. Territory
District of Columbia
U.S
U.S. Senate
House of Representatives
Soviet envoy Do Brynin to attend Apollo 11 launch
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin of the Soviet Union has accepted an invitation to observe the upcoming Apollo 11 launch. If he attends he would be the first Russian to visit Cape Kennedy officials hope for a reciprocal invitation. The Russians have been invited before but declined.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Soviet Union
Cape Kennedy
Frank Borman
Andrei Gromyko
Ottawa Firemen Discourage Poles as Tradition Fades
Ottawa's fire department has removed its traditional fire poles. The last pole was taken out in 1927 and another earlier in the century when the city shifted from volunteer to city operation. Modernization followed with 24 hour shifts, more equipment, and expanded quarters, raising efficiency but erasing a piece of local lore.
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Harry Gilliland
Ottawa
Gilliland
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