Oakland man charged after sign theft spree
Oakland police arrested Samuel Wards, 34, after he was seen removing a civil defense shelter sign from a downtown building. Officers found 30 more signs in his car and he admitted taking them from buildings citywide including the Police Department. He claimed motives tied to an anti nuclear group and was charged with grand theft.
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Samuel Wards
Wards
Police Department
Warda
San Francisco
College President Marries Coed Amid Surprise Union
Dr Don A Orton 50 president of Lesley College Cambridge Mass marries Leslie Ellen Fever 20 a junior education major from Teaneck N J in Las Vegas on Nov 18 They will live in the president's house on campus The news surprised students and was announced to faculty by letter Orton appointed Lesley president in 1960 previously dean at State College of Education Utah He is divorced father of four and has held posts as Idaho school administrator and Albany State Teachers College professor The article also mentions a Milwaukee wedding where Mrs Salick 21 and husband 22 were involved in a car mishap after the ceremony.
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Lesley College
Cambridge
Mass
Women's College
Orton
Leslie Ellen Fever
Teaneck
N.J
Las Vegas
Lesley
State College of Education
University of Utah
Driggs
Idaho
Albany State Teachers College
Pope to celebrate Christmas Mass at Taranto steel mill
Pope Paul VI plans a rare midnight Christmas Mass at Taranto seaport steel mill. He will stand before the furnaces as a symbol of Christ among workers, marking one of the church’s most unusual celebrations. The IRI mill aims to revitalize a poor region and the Pope recalls a similar distant mass in 1966 after Florence floods.
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Pope Paul VI
Taranto
Rome
Christ
IRI
Istituto Ricostruzione Industriale
Europe
Italy
St. Peter's Square
Vatican
Florence
British Singer Grace Fields Stages Comeback at 70
Grace Fields, once Britain's top music hall star, wowed a 1,000-strong Batley Variety Club crowd on Sunday night at age 70. She earns about 10,000 pounds for a two-week run at the Batley venue, a site famous for factory crowds and acts like Louis Armstrong and Eartha Kitt. Fields, living in Capri, called the ovation unmatched and thrilling.
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Britain
Miss Fields
Batley
England
Louis Armstrong
Eartha Kitt
Missfields
Capri
Boy and Uncles Rescued From 100-Foot Canyon Ledge
Sunland had a dramatic rescue as Leo n DeJohn Jr 13 and two uncles were saved by sheriff's deputies from a 100-foot Mogul Canyon ledge about five miles northeast. The boy’s 11-year-old brother David alerted authorities after he became stranded during a hike near Big Tujunga Canyon. Archie Douglas 39 and Rodney Douglas 29 attempted to help as night fell and deputies were summoned.
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UPD
Leon DeJohn Jr
Sunday
Canspon
Here
Nmogel Canyon
Big Tujunga Canyon
Archie Douglas
Rodney Douglas
David
Sheriff's Department
Attack by Reds Crushed Near Saigon in Ben Cat Battle
U S troops halted a 600-man North Vietnamese assault near Saigon at Ben Cat as Spec. 4 David Thom of Quincy California and Sgt. David Evasco of Lincoln Nebraska led daring actions. The fighting left 44 communists dead, one American killed and 36 wounded, with Marines near Da Nang sustaining heavy engagements during Operation Dodge City as helicopter gunships drove off attackers.
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UPS
U.S
David J. Thomas
Quincy
Calif
Ben Cat
Pierre Issot
Ben Cal
Thomas
Evasco
Alfred Siegler
Three Rivers, Mich
Carl A. Sanders
Dallas
Tex
Siegler
da Nang
Dodge City
Jersey Poised Near DMZ to Aid Troops
The US battleship New Jersey moved close to the DMZ in Vietnam for the first time since bombing halted, ready to fire 16 inch guns if North Vietnamese forces threaten US Marines. It supported paratroopers near Hue and conducted shelling south of the DMZ with orders to avoid the zone unless asked.
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Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam
Dmz
U.S
Quang Tri
Johnson
South China Sea
Nha Trang
Hue
U.S. 1St Airborne Division
Sap
Per
Edward Snyder
Fairfax
Explosion Injures Panther Leader in Newark
In Newark, New Jersey, the Black Panther Party leader and three others were injured in a mysterious explosion outside the storefront headquarters. Police issued a pickup order for two white men in a late model sedan. An arson unit suspected an acid bomb and found bomb-making materials at the scene. Captain Carl C. Nichols, 36, suffered a broken arm and knee burns and was listed in fair condition.
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Newark
N.J
Black Panther Party
New Jersey
Anthony Kaiser
Jersey City
Joseph Kinney
John P. Caufield
Black Panther
Caufield
Carl C. Nichols
55 Foot Tree Arrives for Rockefeller Center Christmas Display
A 55 foot white spruce arrived by truck from Vermont to be the centerpiece at Rockefeller Center. The tree, weighing about 6,000 pounds, will be erected at the ice rink and its lights are set to be turned on December 12.
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New York
Versmont
Tce
Rockefeller Center
Hunt Cleaver in San Francisco No Federal Warrant
Authorities say no federal arrest warrant for Eldridge Cleaver yet issued as no firm evidence he left California. Despite rumors of sightings worldwide, search focuses on San Francisco Bay area where he and wife Kathleen Cleaver have been described as missing from their home after a November disappearance related to parole violation proceedings.
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San Francisco
UPI
Eldrige Cleaver
California
Cleaver
San Francisco Bay Area
Kathleen
The
Black Panthers
Ship Attack Off Mexico Protested
The American Tuna Boat Association filed a protest with the State Department over a report that the 120 foot Southern Pacific was fired upon by a Mexican naval vessel about 90 miles south of Ensenada while en route to San Diego. August Ferando called it the first such trouble off the Mexican coast.
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San Diego
UPD
American Tuna Bot! Association
State Department
Southern Pacific
Ensenada
August Ferando
Genera
Association
Prague Puts Up First Yule Tree in Years
Prague will install a Christmas tree in the city center for the first time in many years. The mayor will switch on the lights on Christmas Eve, with the wives of President Ludvik Svoboda and other top officials expected to attend the ceremony.
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CTK
Ludvik Svoboda
Communist Party
Alexander Dubeck
Oldrich Cernik
Parliament
Josef Smrkovsky
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