Alaska bacteriologist Williams may be released in two weeks
Dr. Ralph Williams, Alaska state bacteriologist, may be discharged from hospital within two weeks after a mugging and shooting left him with five bullets in his head. Dr. Dudley Fournier said Williams, 57, was unaware of the shooting until the next day and is reportedly walking about his room and looking better as headaches subside.
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Columbia student sentenced for marijuana possession
Melvyn Green, a Columbia University graduate student studying narcotics, received a two year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to possessing 18 pounds of marijuana. Federal agents traced the drugs to Green when a package bound for him broke open in a Los Angeles post office. Green is from Ottawa Ontario. Judge Ede mund L. Palmieri presided in U.S. District Court.
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Melvyn Green
Columbia University
Green
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Ont
Edemund L. Palmieri
U.S
Los Angeles
Police seek description of sockless burglar in Miami loan office heist
Miami police request public help to identify a bandit who robbed a local loan company for 250 dollars. The suspect wore no socks and had white spots on his ankles, according to investigators.
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Miami, Fla
Miami
New York City Faces 27 Claims for King Assassination Unrest
City Comptroller Mario A. Procaccino disclosed 27 claims against New York totaling 2,019,865 by Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant store owners over property damage in disturbances following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination in Memphis on April 14.
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Bedeford Stuyvesant
Martin Luther King Jr
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17 Year-Old Boy Receives New Heart in Houston
The heart of a 17 year-old boy beat today in the chest of Louis John Fierro, the world’s 15th heart transplant patient and the fourth at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. A team led by Dr. Denton A. Cooley implanted the organ in 30 minutes Tuesday night. Fierro, 54, of Elmont, New York, was listed in highly satisfactory condition half an hour after the operation. The donor was Hubert Brungardt of Pasadena, Texas.
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St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
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Elmont
N.Y
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Pasadena
Gary white march ends after talks with Negro mayor
Gary whites halted a planned march on City Hall after a meeting with Mayor Richard G. Hatcher and a school board plea. The seven day Negro boycott of Gary schools ended by court order. Demonstrators said they achieved their objective of returning children to classrooms and pledged to push officials to prevent future disruptions. The plan to stage a second phase, a boycott of the Gary Poste Tribune, was announced with defense of press fairness by publisher Walter Ridder, while local officials sought to end the protest via injunction.
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Allen Myers
Hatcher
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Gary Poste Tribe
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Walter T. Ridder
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Poste Tribune
Postre Tribune
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Lake County
Rockefeller calls for tax rise and spending cuts in Detroit
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller urged a temporary income tax increase and a halt to rising public spending in a Detroit Economic Club speech. He blamed the Johnson administration for inflation linked to Vietnam and the war on poverty, proposing four measures to restore confidence in the dollar, curb deficits, reassess global commitments, and spur urban redevelopment with private capital.
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Nam
Vietnam
Bombers strike North Vietnam as Saigon fears grow
Waves of U S bombers hit targets threatening Saigon and the Central Highlands while Navy jets from the Kitty Hawk hit a radar complex near Vinh. US losses rise to 840 warplanes. North Vietnam builds up air defenses as Westmoreland tours allies. Vietnam troops in the South reach an estimated 80,000 combatants, about 16,000 in April.
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Hanoi
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Dmz
America
Air Force Strategic Command
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Kontum
Paris
Gio Linh
Dong Ha
Panhandle
Johnson
Tear Gas Ends Dog Fight in Greenacres City
Town Marshal George Deese, Mayor Wally Tietboehl, and Councilman Harold Johnson used tear gas to stop a trio of fighting stray dogs. Five dogs were captured and taken to the West Palm Beach dog pound, ending the incident after a sprayed can misfired slightly.
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Fila
Animal Rescue League
George Deese
West Palm Beach
Wally Tietboehl
Harold Johnson
Johnson
GIs in Vietnam Use New Night Vision Rifle Sight
GI personnel in Vietnam are using a new electronic rifle sight that lights the enemy at night without exposing soldiers. The device, in use for a year, is announced by the Army Electronics Command at Fort Monmouth New Jersey, part of a family of scopes that amplify faint light in the target area.
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N.J
Vietnam
Army Electronics Command
It's Easy To Shake 'Em
The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission says public confidence in the securities markets is easily shaken by mere suspicion that insiders are taking advantage of a company's privileged information.
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NEW York
Securities and Exchange Commission
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