Auctioneers sold Breckenridge firemen as slaves for charity
Auctioneer Curley Borchert sold 22 Breckenridge Colorado firemen as “slaves” for $1,912 to raise money for a new fire engine while Mayor Roger Gray bought $430 and ended up washing dishes in a tavern. Ex Envoy Battle wins Virginia runoff in first statewide vote. Andrew Miller defeats Farley for attorney general, shaping a fall ticket alongside Reynolds. Draft resister Erik Whitehorn confesses plans to evade the draft and seeks parole eligibility. A Chicago chase ends with Holt recaptured after fleeing a jail break. Charles Beal, 20, sentenced to death for an auto crash tied to a robbery chase. Atomic Energy Commission criticized as dangerous for wielding vast power.
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Breckenridge
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Roger Gray
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U.S
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Commonwealth
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Abingdon
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Attornney
Guy Q. Farley
Charlottesville
Miller
J. Sargeant Reynolds
Richmond
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Harry F. Byrd Sr
D-Va
Henry Howell
Norfolk
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Byrd Machine
Fred Pollard
Carrington Thompson
Charles Beal
Kansas City
Beal
Ward R. Wooderson
James K. Wooderson
Connie Jasper
Harold
Samuel L. Gillis
Nixon to host Park and Lodge in San Francisco visit
President Nixon plans meetings with South Korean President Park Chung Hee and Henry Cabot Lodge in San Francisco on Thursday and Friday. Lodge will attend the state dinner in Park’s honor, with in-flight talks possible. Officials prepare Welcoming salute at the Presidio and noontime hotel briefings, as San Francisco police assign about 19 400 officers for security.
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Americans among dead and injured in East Europe bus crash
In Baranovschi, about 200 miles east of Warsaw, a tourist bus spun out in rain and overturned, killing six people and injuring 40, including two Americans. A Russian doctor and two onlookers also died after being struck by a Soviet car during rescue efforts.
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UPI
Baranovschi
Warsaw
Poland
Five Men Plan Bath Tub Crossing of Lake Ontario
Five men from Welland and Port Dalhousie aim to paddle a reinforced plastic bathtub 1B feet across Lake Ontario to highlight water conservation. The trip to Toronto over the weekend is expected to take hours and the tub serves as an advertising stunt.
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Welland, Ont
Lake Ontario
Port Dalhousie
Toronto
Falling light nearly hits Red Skelton on TV set
North Hollywood OPI reports comedian Red Skelton narrowly escaped injury when a two pound light plunged about 40 feet to the stage during taping. A spokesman said Skelton had just completed a skit when the overhead fixture fell, missing him by inches.
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Bronze Star Awarded to Captain Henry W II at Dong Ha
General Cites Sen HONOLULU 12 Lt Gen Henry W Buse UI Pacific Marine command pinned the Bronze Star on his son Captain Henry W Base 2 during a recent tour of Marine Division headquarters at Dong Ha South Vietnam. The captain won the medal for heroism.
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Honolulu
Henry W
Pacific Marine Command
Ard Marine Division
Dong Ha
South Vietnam
Panther Chairman Seized by FBI in Torture Murder
FBI agents arrested Bobby Seale, Black Panther national chairman, on a fugitive warrant charging murder and kidnapping in the death of Alex Rackley in New Haven. Seale was captured near UC Berkeley and brought to San Francisco. police say Rackley’s burned body was found last May after a supposed plot to destroy buildings.
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FBI
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The
Black Panther
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Conn
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Berkeley
Charles W. Bales
Connecticut
Alex Rackley
New York
New Naven
Rackley
Panthers
U.S
Richard Goldsmith
James Ahern
Fragmentary Press Telegram Item Cites Carrier Office
Unclear clippings reference a second class matter and carrier duties. The readable text mentions a postal or office item with scattered words about a branch and sun bay with limited legible details.
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Ron Mane
Owt
Banchy
Esteres
Youth Fails in Theft of Gutenberg Bible
Cambridge police say a youth attempted to steal Harvard's Gutenberg Bible from Widener Library on Tuesday night. Vilo K. Aras of Boston was found outside the building with rope dangling from a second story window and the Bible in a knapsack. he was treated for a concussion at Cambridge City Hospital. The Bible is valued at over 1 million dollars and dates to Johannes Gutenberg's mid 1400s German presses.
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Gutenberg Bible
Cambridge
Mass
Forward University
Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg
Germany
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Widner
Harvard Yard
Vilo K. Aras
Boston
Cambridge City Hospital
Aras
$2 Million Lumber Fire in San Francisco
A rare fire alarm blaze caused $2 million damage to J. Higgins Lumber Co. early today. The flames destroyed eight buildings and threatened an adjacent yard and a service station. Firefighters battled the fire from 2:40 am with 180 personnel, led by Fire Chief William Murray. J. W. Higgins, firm president, and the founder's grandson estimated the loss.
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UPI
J. H. Higgins Lumber Co
Rees
Arthur Fiedler
J. W. Higgins
Wiliam Murray
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