Plane crash near Miami after Dominican flight from 4:30 p.m.
A Dominicana Air Lines four engine craft delayed at noon, finally took off at 4 30 p m bound for the Dominican Republic. It crashed eight minutes later amid wreckage with one engine aflame and another stalled. NTSB investigators search charred debris near Miami International Airport as police keep onlookers away. Damages estimated over 1 million.
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Dominicana Air Lines
Dominicana Air Line
Dominican Republic
Ht O
National Transportation Safety Board
Miami
Interna
Poison kills millions of Rhine fish across 185 miles
Emergency actions were taken in parts of the Netherlands and West Germany to guard water supplies as a mysterious toxin killed millions of fish along an 185 mile stretch of the Rhine River. Other items note air hijack concerns, campus talks urged by Rogovin, Pegler obituary, and May CPI showing slower inflation.
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Dueseldorf
Germany
Netherlands
West Germany
Rhine River
Crestview house destroyed by lightning fire injures family
A Crestview home on Williams Avenue burned after a Friday afternoon lightning strike. Firefighters arrived to find the house destroyed and a nearby shed truck on fire with a gas tank explosion. Only the chicken coop survived as residents face loss and need.
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Crestview
John P. Henderson
Williams Avenue
Patsy Ingle in 1969 Miss Northwest Florida pageant
Photo by Bill Tennis features Patsy Ingle 17 a Choctawhatchee senior from Fort Walton Beach. She stands 5 6 weighs 111 pounds with measurements 35 24 35 and lists talents in singing water skiing swimming horseback riding and running track. She aims to try out for summer Olympics in track someday and plans to attend college major in physical education to teach in high school. Patsy is dark haired brown eyed and was recently second runner up in Miss Billy Bowlegs. Piggly Wiggly sponsors her contest entry and picture appointments are via Bill Tennis at the Playground Daily News.
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Bill Tennis
Patsy Ingle
Billy Bowlegs
Piggly Wiggly
Patsy
Playground Daily News
Pat Whitfield
OWJC
Pat
University of West Florida
Hygela Coca- Cola Bottling Co
Bill Venr
Debbie Maynard
Debbie
Maj
C.L. Maynard
Andrews Drive
Valparaiso
OWJCG
Gulf Federal
Convoy Reaches Ben Het as Siege Persists
Allied convoy breaks through to Ben Het Special Forces camp in the central highlands 289 miles northeast of Saigon as North Vietnamese artillery and mortar bombardment continues. The 42nd South Vietnamese Regiment moves in to ease pressure around the camp near Laos, with reports of 105 North Vietnamese killed and five South Vietnamese soldiers dead in recent fighting.
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Saigon
Ben Her
Robert D. Ohman
Associated Press
Besieczed Ben Het
Highlands
Laos
U.S
Green Beret
42Nd Regiment
Ben Het
Ben Hot
Niceville to readvertise sewer bid after rejection
Niceville City Council voted to reject all five bids for water system pipe and materials for the Second and Park Streets project and readvertise for bids. The action follows concerns over freight costs bid acceptance periods and delivery terms, with Davis Meter and Supply Co. and Charles A. Born Co. named as observed bidders.
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Emma Goggin
Niceville
Second
Park Streets
Douglas Andrews
F.O.B. Niceville
Davis Meter and Supply Co
Thomasville, Ga
Charles A. Born Co., Inc
Fort Walton Beach
Davis Meter ND Supply Co
Andrews
City of
Fort Walton Beach adopts $3.2 million budget with mill cut
The Fort Walton Beach City Council approved a $3.2 million budget, reduced the millage to 10 mills, passed a first reading to ban abandonments of vehicles, and considered maintenance projects. Bids were let for football and playground equipment, a diesel golf course tractor was awarded, and a study on heavy plastic bag liners for garbage collection was noted.
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Marilyn Passell
Fort Walton Beach
Northwest
R. Ward Co
Ferry Park
Briarwood Circle
Kenwood
Pensacola Tractor
Winston Walker
Walker
Crestview
Apollo 11 crew rehearses moon landing and LEM descent
Astronauts Armstrong Collins and Aldrin practice lunar descent in a trainer while Saturn 5 fueling for a week-long countdown rehearsal proceeds at Cape Kennedy. Two minor computer issues slowed pumps and training slightly as July 16 launch remains the target. Separately Biosatellite 3 monkey mission advances with a 30 day earth orbit study set to launch tonight.
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Jim Strothman
AP Aerospace
Cape Kennedy, Fla
Moon
Earth
Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Aldrin
Armstrong
Spaceport
Biosatellite 3
Biosatellite
County OKs more trailer permits amid suit over authority
County commissioners issued two trailer park space permits despite a lawsuit brought by builder Nelson Davis alleging indiscriminate permission in the Port Dixie area of Shalimar. The action comes as Circuit Judge William Fryell hears the case.
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Sy Charles Brady
Nelson Davis
Davis
Port Dixie
Shalimar
Wiliam Fryellf
Hair Market Slashes Prices As Teens Trim Locks
A hair market slide hits teens in Panama City as Mitch Rexode and John Shaham cut long locks for cash and prizes. Mitch trades a $135 bass guitar for hair valued at $53.75 per inch amid rising heat and social pressure. Shaham’s eight inches shrink to a quarter inch, with $16.94 per inch and mixed motives including meeting his girlfriend’s parents. Both say they’ll keep shorter styles now.
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Marilyn Passel
Courage
John Shaham
Shaham
Maril
Passell
E.E. Owens
Herbert Whittaker
Mitch Rexode
Panama City
Mitch
Mini-Bretes
3 incumbents reelected in Shalimar
Incumbents Johnnie T. Sirmans Windom Sullivan and Donald W. Evans were reelected in Shalimar Newly elected were Mrs R P Ward and Thomas H Maulden Official count shows Sirmans 35 votes Sullivan and Evans tied at 34 Ward 32 Mauldin 26 Other candidates included Mrs Pete Ballas and L T Lee Sauders Mayor Jim Tras and councilman Roger Clary did not seek reelection Tras leads Okaloosa County Hospital System accreditation program Clary moves to Destin 44 of 130 qualified voters cast ballots
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Karen Christensen
Johnnie T. Sirmans
Windom Sullivan
Donald W. Evans
Shalimar
R.P. Ward
Thomas H. Maulden
Sirmans
Sullivan
Evans
Ward
Maudhin
Pete Ballas
L.T. “Lee” Sauders
Jim Tras
Roger Clary
Tras
Okatossa County Hospital System
Clary
Destin
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Tallahassee
Chester Blakemore
Florida
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Blakemore
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United States
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Republican State Executive Committee
Jerry Lee
News Digest
Jerusalem
Gulf
Suez
Hatta
Washington
Rocky Flats
Colo
Atomic Energy Commission
Charles H. Rogovin
Justice Department
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Ariz
Westbrook Pegler
Labor Department
Kiner
Jim Woodruff
Blountstown
Cape Fear
Abby
Apollo
Jimmy Beck
Eccles Road
Brady Ward
North Brett St
A.J. Rogers
State Board of Health
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St. Marks
Pensacola
William Landreth
South America
Okaloosa
Gloria Lewis
Welfare Board
Lewis
Jim Barefield
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