Rooftop crops and political clashes mix in odd news
Corn potatoes and watermelons grow atop a Fountain NC store attracting motorists. The piece also covers comedian Pat Paulsen defending Jess Unruh in Milwaukee and a Cedar Falls man robbed while trapped in a car trunk. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox walks out of a Burke County meeting during J B Stoner’s White Panther speech amid racist remarks.
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George Wallace
Five Killed Declare Martial Law in Colombian Unrest
A state of siege is imposed in Colombia as unrest swirls around the Pastrana inauguration. Ex-dictator supporters threaten revolt while the army and police guard against violence as Latin America watches the outcome. In Tucson a desert flood kills five from the Sui family and a bystander, with electrocution and floodwater hazards cited.
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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Missel Pastrana Barrera
Chicanos Protest Over Los Angeles Killings
In Los Angeles a Chicano rally planned in front of the Federal Building to protest the mistaken shooting deaths of two men during a skid row apartment raid. About 30 demonstrators held a vigil outside police headquarters. three arrests were reported as the moratorium day committee led the action.
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Unclear fragmentary text from Sunday issue
Readable portions point to a damaged page fragment with minimal discernible content mentioning a Sunday single copy and scattered names, lacking a coherent event, date, or location to summarize into a full report.
Cycle Gang Beats Dope Detectives
Three plainclothes narcotics detectives were recovering in a hospital after a parking lot assault by about 30 Hessian Motorcycle Club members. Ten or more people, including a woman, were booked for investigation of assault with intent to commit murder as investigators cited bricks and a chain used in the attack. Police said Oxnard officers Sgt. Bil Bowen and Ventura County deputies Guy Ingris and Hank Chandler were assaulted, and a passerby helped subdue an attacker. The motorcycle club members dispersed as police arrived. no narcotics were found on those arrested.
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Oxnard
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Indochina Fighting Intensifies Across Fronts
UPI reports Communist forces overran a Cambodian outpost near Phnom Penh and renewed the Kikom mid-utain clash on the capital’s highway to Kompong Som. Fighting rose in Cambodia and South Vietnam as rockets hit Saigon near the presidential palace, killing four Americans and wounding 11, with allied shelling and a Cambodian counterattack underway.
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UPI
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Kikom
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Cambodia
South Vietnam
Saigon
Ame Tanding
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Air Rescue Device Aims To Save Pilot Life
The Air Force tests a ballute system that combines a parachute and hot air balloon to keep a bailout pilot aloft for about thirty minutes at up to 10 000 feet. It would allow rescue planes to locate and retrieve the pilot or tow him to safety. Tests have featured dummies and details of future tests remain undisclosed.
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