Captured U.S. pilots send messages home
Four U S Air Force captains recently captured and listed as missing delivered filmed messages to families saying they are being treated well and in good health. A fifth seriously wounded captain and a sixth granted minimal information were also shown. The CBS Evening News aired the film from Tokyo on June 29. Captains Jackson Grant Dingee Beckman and Cerak spoke with affection for family, while Francis and Logan were unidentified by hometowns.
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New York
Air Force
CBS Evening News
Walter Cronkite
Denpa
Tokyo
Dearest Sue
Charles Allen Jackson
Lit
Tleton
Colo
David Ryan Grant
Chattanooga
Tenn
Linda
David Dingee
Homestead
Fla
William David Beckman
Bones discovered could be unique prehistoric skulls found
In Ely Minnesota AP reports that skulls bones and artifacts found four years ago in Boundary Waters are under Smithsonian study. If carbon dating is approved by Dr T Dale Stewart the University of Minnesota will not destroy any. the find may indicate an early human type possibly related to Neanderthals and older than previously known.
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Ely
Minn
Boundary Waters
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C
T. Dale Stewart
University of Minnesota
Duluth News — Tribune
Elden Johnson
Minnesota
Norman Saari
Tofte Lake
Western Hemisphere
Richard Adams
Texas Delegates Find Themselves On Losing Side
Texas delegates backed McGovern with 96 anti McGovern votes in early Democratic National Convention rounds. The 34 Texas McGovern delegates celebrated McGovern winning 151 California delegates, but acknowledged November campaigning will be tough. Frances Farenthold of Corpus Christi led Texas McGovern caucus while Hallo Timanus argued Texas cannot carry the state. Briscoe, a Wallace ally and Humphrey supporter, remained uncommitted and joined other delegates in challenges over South Carolina and California.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Texas
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
McGovern
California
Frances Farenthold
Corpus Christi
Hallo Timanus
Houston
George Wallace
Alabama
Briscoe
Len
Hubert Humphrey
Wallace
South Carolina
Cautionary guidance on solar eclipses for photographers
Experts warn solar eclipses are dangerous to view without protection. Kodak advises a dedicated viewing filter made from double layers of monochrome film, placed before the lens during setup, with exposure planning and bracketing. Never look at the sun with the naked eye or through an unprotected camera.
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Eastman Kodak Co
Tahlequah
Okla
Westminster Abbey and Its Rich Memorials Remembered
Westminster Abbey story surveys the ancient church in London, noting Roman roots beneath the nave and the Norman rebuilding, then chronicles famed monuments. It highlights Chaucer’s tomb, Mrs. Mary Beaufoy memorials, Armistice Day burials, Poet’s Corner, and the Queen Elizabeth I tomb with its lifelike effigy.
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London
Westminster Abbey
Christendom
England
Norman Abbey
Edward the Confessor
Henry IV
Westminster
Abbey
Chaucer
Mary Beaufoy
Henry Beaufoy
Guycliffe
Warwick
Charlotte Lane
George Lord Viscount Langborough
Lady Beaufoy
Mrs. Beaufoy
Worth
France
Shakespeare
Spenser
Dryden
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Longfellow
Keats
Shelley
Tennyson
Browning
Elizabeth I
Mary
Elizabeth
Rig count down eight in Permian Basin activity slips
Active drilling rigs in the Permian Basin fell by eight to 171, from 179 two weeks earlier, while showing a year over year rise of 24 from 147. Lea County New Mexico rose to 23 units, Pecos County Texas 22, Ward County 16, Eddy County 13, and Hockley County 19, with several districts up or down and a county by county tabulation of the oilfield activity.
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Permian Basin
G. W. Murphy Industries
Lea County
New Mexico
Pecos County
Texas Railroad Commission
Midland
Ward
RRC
Eddy
Hockley
Lubbock
U S to Cut Trade Deficit with Japan Talks
Washington plans policy talks with Japan from July 25 to 28 in Hakone led by Ambassador William Eberle. The United States seeks to reduce a growing 33.5 to 34 billion trade gap, pressuring liberalization of imports, ending agricultural and computer quotas, and encouraging Japan to buy more U S products including feed grains and military hardware.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Kakuei Tanaka
U.S
Protestants warn offensive as Northern Ireland violence rises
In Belfast militants threaten to strike back against the IRA as Protestant gun battles and bomb blasts escalate. The Ulster Defence Association claims 40,000 armed men and demands British action. 1,800 more troops are deployed, bringing total to 16,800. Eight terrorists and civilians die, dozens injured, as stores and offices are bombed across Belfast Londonderry Strabane and Armagh.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Ulster Defense Association
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Carr, Osorio, Novotny indicted in stock fraud case
Waggoner Carr the former Texas attorney general faced arraignment on four charges before U S Magistrate Patrick Mulloy with bond set at 3500 The indictments allege mail and wire fraud and false reports to the SEC and accuse Osorio and Novotny of participation in a wider conspiracy The case ties to the Sharpstown stock fraud scandal and involves multiple defendants including Dallas lawyer Tom Thomas and Houston attorney Thano Dameris with securities fraud and conspiracy charges potentially carrying prison terms and fines.
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Dallas
Waggoner Carr
Texas
U. S
Patrick Mulloy
Securities and Exchange Commission
Fort Worth
Tex
John Osorio
Ments
Joseph P. Novotny
Sharpstown State Bank
Houston
Carr
Osorio
National Bankers Life Insurance Co
Insurance Commission
Allan Shivers
National Bankers Life
Novotny
Tom Max Thomas
Jarrell Ormand
Securities and Exchange Commision
SEC
David Hoover
Dallas Money Broker
Thano Dameris
Thomas
Hoover
Ormand
Dameris
U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Frank McCowan
U. S. Attorney’s Office
Justice Department
U. S. District Court
Sarah T. Hughes
Frank W. Sharp
Preston Smith
Gus Mutscher
Sharpstown Bank
Mutscher
Tommy Shannon
Rush McGinty
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Johnson
Adams
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County
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Jul Andrews
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Ector Eddy
Id Edwards Fisher Gaines Garza Hockles Howard Irion Hent Kimble
Lea
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Reeves Roosevelt Runnels Schleicher Scurrs Sterling Stonewall Sutton
Terry Tom Green
Upton Ward
Ie Winkler Yoakum
Total Il
Army
Flying Class
Londonderry
Strabane
Mashersfelt
Armagh
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Sharp
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Shiver
John Tower
Hughes
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