Children Lead To Arrest Of Wanted Man In Florida
Lectures by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Department on child safety helped uncover a suspect. Thomas L. Collins, 28, of Pensacola, was jailed in Crestview on $2,100 bond for indecent exposure and lewd acts before a minor, after two children noted a lime‑stone marking the red car’s license plate on South Street. Deputies Vilardi and Donaldson, with Chief Investigator Marea White, made the arrest. Collins worked as a Fort Walton Beach area salesman.
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Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's
Thomas L. Collins
Route 3
Pensacola
Crestview
Fort Walton Beach
George Vilardi
Cecil Donaldson
Marea White
Decabia County
Sikes Urges Fly Control in Northwest Florida
Congressman Bob Sikes of Crestview urges action on the dog fly problem hurting Northwest Florida tourism. He notes limited dog fly control funding in eight coastal counties for 1966 67 with only 333000 allocated, calls for broader application of lab research and a more realistic coastal county approach.
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Bob Sikes
Crestview
Florida
Ies Sikes
Andrew J. Rogers
West Florida
West
Animals Panic as Mega Fire Hits Blackpool Department Store
A $3 million blaze leveled a five story department store in Blackpool England on Sunday. The fire sent terror through a basement circus, prompting veterinarians to sedate roaring lions tigers and elephants. Ten horses and ponies and twenty dogs were moved to a nearby beach as smoke spread into the 520 foot tower nearby.
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Blackpool
England
UPI
Irish Sea
Paris
Mansfield Opposes Bombing Haiphong Harbor and Red China Risk
Senator Mansfield leader of the Senate Democrats warned against bombing or blocking Haiphong Harbor citing risk of Red Chinese involvement and shifted Soviet overland shipments via China. He noted bipartisan concerns and recalled Truman era limits on hot pursuit across borders while advocating restraint.
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Washington
Senate Policy Committee
Mike Mansfield
Johnson
Repub
China
Red Border
U.S
Mansfield
Harry S. Truman
Yalu River
Haiphong Harbor
House
North Vietnam
Peking
Beal St. Work Road Board To Visit Fort Walton May 26
The State Road Department schedules its first Okaloosa County meeting in Fort Walton Beach on May 26 to hear the budget and program of work for the next fiscal year. Key item includes initial two segment Beal Parkway four-laning from U S 98 to SR 485A and 15 miles toward the Mary Esther Cutoff, plus entrance work for the Okaloosa Walton Junior College site. Governor Claude Kirk may attend. the meeting room is Fort Walton Beach City Hall conference room. The county commission pushed for right of way needs, with possible additional land for turnarounds.
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Okaloosa County
Beal Parkway
James Lee
Crestview
Road Department
Claude Kirk
Lee
Fort Walton Beach
Okaloosa -Walton Junior College
State Boad
Bill Landreth
Landreth
Hollywood Blvd
Wright Ave
Mary Esther
Torney Board
Ireland preps massive security for Kennedy visit
Waterford reports Ireland to guard Mrs Kennedy and her children with hundreds of detectives and uniformed police around Woodstown estate during a three week Irish stay. Kennedy will arrive June 16 at Shannon Airport. Local sources say she will stay roughly half the originally reported six weeks, amid tight patrols and padlocked gates.
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Ireland
UPI
John I. Kennedy
Woodstown
Kennedy
Shannon
Kennedys
Woodstown House
Truman declines attend to his own 80th birthday party
Kansas City reports former president Harry S Truman will skip the Hotel Muehlebach birthday party on May 7 to conserve energy for writing commitments. About 200 friends were invited, but the Eddie Jacobson Memorial Foundation will continue holding the annual event in perpetuity.
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Kansas City
UPI
Muehlebach
Harry
Truman
Harry S. Truman
Henry Talge
Alhough
Eddie Jacobson
Restores Education Cuts In Proposed Florida Budget
Florida lawmakers review a 1967 69 General Appropriations Bill that restores most education cuts urged by Gov. Kirk and trims agency head pay raises to fund higher wages for low paid workers. The plan lowers projected spending, omits teacher raises and capital outlay, and emphasizes belt tightening to protect property tax payers.
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Tallahassee
Claude Kirk
Senate Appropriations Committee
Reuben Askew
D-Pensacola
Florida
Askew
Associated Press
Budget Commission
Kirk
Four Miami Women Die In Canal Crash On U S 27
Four elderly Miami women died when their station wagon plunged into a canal north of South Bay on U S 27. The accident occurred as the car passed two vehicles and skidded off the road. An Eastern Airlines pilot rescued one survivor, Mrs Mary Harrod Pearch. The group was en route to Avon Park for a church meeting. Police reported 14 weekend deaths in Florida.
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United Press International
Miami
South Bay
Florida
Highway Patrol
U.S
Mary Harrod Pearch
Eastern Airlines
Robert Taylor
Plantation
Pearch
Helen Grace Warner
Belle Quinerly Joiner
Virginia Bryan Deitrich
Jean Byrd McCrelis
Avon Park
Robert S. Perking
Louise
Fort Myers
Eisenhower Hospitalized After Vomiting and Stomach Cramps
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was hospitalized after an episode of vomiting and stomach cramps Saturday night. Walter Reed Army Hospital reported the provisional diagnosis as acute gastroenteritis and said his condition this morning is satisfactory.
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Wasitington
UPI
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Florida drought worsens as light sprinkles offer faint relief
The Weather Bureau said showers will not relieve a long drought in Florida. Forecaster Charles Wise remained hopeful, but recovery seemed distant as Everglades water holes shrink and pasture grass dies. Gov. Claude Kirk warned conditions could become disastrous without rain amid animals dying on hot roads.
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Florida
Weather Bureau
Charles Wise
Everglades
Ihe
Claude Kirk
Bombers Hit Target Sites Near Hill 831
North Vietnamese forces launched coordinated mortar and rocket attacks on four American strongpoints along the DMZ near Gio Linh Camp Carroll Con Thien and Dong Ha. At least 13 Americans wounded. One ground attack repulsed after over an hour of fighting. B52s targeted supply routes in the air war.
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Gio Linh
Dmz
Camp Carroll
North Vietnam
Dong Ha
3Rd Marine Division
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Leatherneck
Beaufort
the Times
Safire Publo Relatons Inc
The
Development Commission
PR Agency To Boost Kirk Beaufort Says
In Tallahassee AP reports that a PR firm voiced plans to boost Gov Claude Kirk for a Republican ticket with Richard Nixon. The quote comes from former Development Commission Chairman Bill Beaufort during a New York public relations night coverage.
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Beaufort
Tallahassee
St. Petersburg Times
New York
Development Commission
Bill Beaufort
Claude Kirk
Richard Nixon
Richard Bogeny Turns Self In To Face Charge
Richard Bogeny 26 of Mary Esther is jailed on a 515000 bond after turning himself in at Crestview for grand larceny of store receipts he allegedly diverted while a former manager. He fled to Nassau last Monday before an audit and was arrested after return.
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Self
Mary Esther
Crestview
Bogeny
Nassau
Bahamas
Driscoll Oglesby
Howard Williams
Oglesby
Dick Nixon
Nixon
Kirk
Beaufort
Jacksonvill
Thre Times
Dan Pride
Tallahassee
Beaufort resigns as commission chair amid Safire Firm furor
Beaufort quit the commission chairmanship after Kirk appointed John Smolko as Commission Executive Director. She alleges the hiring of the Safire public relations firm was pushed by Kirk aide Tom Ferguson and she did not deal directly with the firm. She recalled Ferguson explaining the firm would “develop the image of the governor.”
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Beaufort
Commission
Kirk
John Smolko
Tom Ferguson
Safire
The
Times
Ferguson
Development Commission
Store Chief Notified After Fort Walton Escape Bogeny Flight
Charleston headquarters was alerted after Bogeny left Fort Walton Beach and the general manager checked the situation. The comptroller was ordered to audit all accounts. Losses were estimated between 7500 and 12000 dollars, with indications that some losses came from personal email transactions rather than store receipts. The general manager said Bogeny hid some receipts from daily bank deposits over several months.
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Charleston
South Carolina
Bogeny
Fort Walton Beach
Moon Orbit Slated Today For Satellite
In Pasadena California the Lunar Orbiter is set to enter lunar orbit Monday to photograph large areas of the Moon. It will join Lunar Orbiters 2 and 3 still tracked on Earth as it fires its engine to slow into an elliptical polar orbit and map at least 97 percent of the Moon using a twin lens camera.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPT
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Moon
Tfarth
Velocity
U S Hearings Open On Flag Defilement
Washington reports that Congress opens hearings on proposals to criminalize flag defilement by antiwar protesters and draft opponents. The bills seek penalties from fines to imprisonment, spurred by recent incidents of flag desecration during peace demonstrations.
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Washington
UPT
Congress
House Judiciary Subcommittee
New York
Central Park
Charman Emanuel Celler
Honse
Rules Committee
Hiloor
House Armed Services Committee
Toesilay
Warning Flags Rise as Twister Season Hits Dixie
Tornado touched down near Moncks Corner north of Charleston Sunday afternoon causing minor damage. Gusts up to 20 mph reported in Cleveland Ohio Blairsville Pa and Theckley WVa. up to 40 mph in Wisconsin Nebraska and Dakotas. Brownsville Texas reached a near 100 degree high. an earlier Saturday tornado toll in Alabama Mississippi and Georgia included one killed and many injured. Birmingham rain totals set a Mayo one day record with 3.85 inches. a 20-block Birmingham tornado caused widespread damage.
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Ohin Valley
New England
Monks Corner
Charleston
Cleveland
Ohio
Blursville Pa
Theckley
Wva
Wiakotas
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Brownsville
Virgan
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South Carolina
George
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Biringham
Ala
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Birmingham
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