Potshots by Teacher Ended in Siege at Home
Betty Potts a 37 year old school teacher in Claremore Oklahoma held nine officers at bay for over two hours after locking herself in her home and firing at neighbors. She kept a tally sheet noting names and shots including a crossed out President Johnson entry and a marked Deputy Dick Walker mistaken for the President. After tear gas and a break in the door she was subdued and taken to a psychiatric ward. no injuries were reported.
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Claremore
Okla
J. B. Hamby
Betty Potts
Amos Ward
Hamby
Miss Potts
Dick Walker
Depeuties
158 Year Old Agency Joins With Weather Men
In 1807 President Jefferson created the Coast and Geodetic Survey to chart coasts for safety. President Johnson plans to merge it with the Weather Bureau, a move under review by Congress. The survey, led by Rear Adm. H Arnold Karo, dates back to voyages and shipwrecks guiding early explorers.
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Washington
United States
Thomas W Jefferson
Congress
Coastland Geodetic Survey
Johnson
House
Senate
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Newark
N.J
Bay
Stock Market Fever Hits Wall Street In May
AP News analyst notes spring fever in stock trading as prices slid in the third week after May highs. Caution grows amid international tensions in Viet Nam and the Dominican crisis, with metals and defense firms affected. Auto sales and steel demand boosted profits and incomes, but investors disappointed by fewer dividends and splits.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
NEW York (Ap
Viet Nam
Travel in China: sea slugs ban urged and trains preferred
Editor notes a Southam dispatch from Peking describing travel in China. A tour by air is rare and crowded with provisional planes while trains dominate mass transit. The piece ends with two resolutions: travel by train whenever possible and avoid sea slugs.
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China
Southam
Canada
Associated Press
U.S
Red China
Charles Lynch
Peking
Harbin
Mao
Changchun
Canton
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