U S Admits North Korea Shot Down Spy Plane
The United States acknowledged that EC-121 was shot down by North Korea after violating its air space. Debris sightings prompted a multinational search with Soviet ships involved. Pentagon noted aircraft parts recovered and that two American destroyers joined the search near Ch'ongjin.
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AP Win
Thousands Routed as Floods Surge Across Plains and South
Flood crests loom as Minot evacuates a third of its 35 000 residents and Wisconsin declares 13 counties disaster areas. The Mississippi nears record highs while North Dakota’s Red River and Souris floodwaters force mass evacuations and school closures amid widespread damage in Iowa Illinois South Dakota and Alabama.
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Nixon
Big Sioux
Des Moines
South Dakota
Iowe
Iowa
Illinois
Tombigbee River
Gainesville
Ala
Augusta
Southland trustees reelected at three junior colleges
Incumbents were re elected to boards at El Camino, Compton and Cerritos junior colleges Tuesday as voters turned out about 10 percent. In El Camino, William Moss ran unopposed and won 5,421 votes for the sole open seat. Henry D. Dawkins also ran unopposed for the Compton College post representing the Enterprise-Willowbrook area. Samuel P. Block, defending the Compton elementary district area, led Lee A. Williams 3,079 to 1,231 with all 24 precincts reported. At Cerritos College, John A. Northbak 7,394, Leon W. Richards 7,007, and A. E. Sommer 1,445 led. rivals Valdez 6,429 and Rose Glarum 3,322 trailed.
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William Moss
el Camino Junior College Board of Trustees
Henry D. Dawkins
Enterprise- Willowbrook
Compton College Board
Dawkins
Samuel P. Block
Compton
Lee A. Williams
Board of Trustees of Cerritos College
John A. Northbak
Downey
Leon W. Richards
Hawaiian Gardens
A. E
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R. F. Valdez
Congo Air Crash Kills 49 Near Kinshasa Ndjili
A C46 transport plane of the Congolese Air Force crashed into the Congo River near Kinshasa Ndjili airport, killing all 49 aboard. The crew was foreign, chartered by the Congo Army from a Liechtenstein registered maintenance group set up in 1961 by the United States.
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World International Ground Mainetenance Organization
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United States
School Bus and Semi Crash Injures Fifteen Children
Fifteen grade school pupils were rushed to hospitals in Elkhart and Nappanee after a school bus collided with a semi trailer truck on U.S. 6 in dense fog five miles east of Nappanee. None of the injuries was serious. several pupils and both drivers received care, with the Wa Nee Community Schools bus transporting children to Union Center elementary nearby.
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Wa- Nee Community Schools
Union Center
Wysong
Pilot Identified in Downed Spy Plane Over Korea
UPI reports government spokesmen identified Lt Cmdr James Hoverstreet, 34, of McLaurin Mississippi, as the commander of the reconnaissance plane shot down by North Korea. He is married to Mary Ruth Taylor of Ellisville Mississippi and they have four sons.
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UPI
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North Korea
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Ovelstreet
Mary Ruth Taylor
Ellisville
Nixon Leads Fall Campaign Amid Pueblo Echoes
President Nixon in Miami urged new leadership to restore U S prestige citing the Pueblo affair. He noted Johnson avoided military action to rescue crewmen, a stance officials say would not have saved lives in the northern Sea of Japan.
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Spy Plane Crash Finally Bared
At Edwards Air Force Base the Air Force announced a spy plane crash investigation after a SA7L aircraft damaged on takeoff. The two crew escaped unharmed. names Lt Col William L. Sklar 42 and Landslide Kills LO Ibarr a were reported. A landslide in Ibarra, Peru, buried two peasant homes killing 19 people.
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Unruh Attacks Tax Plan Over Misstated Rate Claim
Sacramento Assembly minority leader Jess Unruh charges Gov Reagan misrepresented the tax reform plan. He cites a bill proposing a 14 percent tax on adjusted gross income versus the claimed 1 percent. Weinberger defends draft language and notes final figures may be lower.
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Jess Unruh
Gov. Reagan
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Riverside
Caspar W. Weinberger
Mae
Weinberger
Jess
Craig Biddle
U S and Soviet ships collide near Dardanelles
An American freighter the John Lykus and Soviet tanker Elbrus collided in the Dardanelles near Ge-Tibolu Turkey. Both ships reached Turkish harbors for damage assessments no casualties were reported. The John Lykus suffered minor damage while Elbrus listed after the impact. Captain Henry Eberson led the Lykus crew toward a survey in Tamir and both vessels headed toward their next destinations. In Hollywood Bill Cosby and his wife announced the birth of a son William Cosby I at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. The baby is the Cosbys third child.
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John Lykes
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Tex
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Bill Cosby
William Cosby
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Sirhan Talk Hints at Exchange for Yank Captive
The defense case describes potential prisoner swaps with Arab states as Sirhan Sirhan weighs his fate for Kennedy's murder. An unidentified State Department aide mentions prior discussions of an exchange, with no specific target named. Jurors resume deliberations after seven hours as Sirhan studies the Arab Israeli dispute and listens to proceedings.
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State Department
Robert Kennedy
John Kennedy
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Lynn Compton
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Gary Powers
Cal
Rudolph Abel
U.S
Dams Rob Beaches of Sand In California Rivers
Dr. W A Nierenberg of the Scripps Institute warned that dams along Northern and Central California rivers have reduced sand flow to the Pacific, harming beaches. He proposes submarine damming studies and ocean platforms to study marine dynamics with federal funding of about 16 million dollars. A Hong Kong report notes violent storms dropping over four inches of rain, injuring youths and causing flight diversions.
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Scripps Institute of Oceanography
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