Snowdon at party as police hush after curfew
In London a private party for film workers at the Lord Snowdon pub drew police after closing time with an officer ordering drinks to stop. Snowden slipped out, then returned fifteen minutes later. Also in brief, Harold L. Gray creator of Little Orphan Annie has died at 74 after cancer. His long running strip will continue under Robert Leffingwell. Shirley Temple Black urged halting bombing of North Vietnam at peace talks in Honolulu, urging swift talks and triggering political action.
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London
Lord Snowdon
Margaret
George and Dragon
East End
Snowden
Alan Thompson
Thompson
Harold L. Gray
Scripps Hospital
le Jolla
Anne
Gray
Annie
Sandy
Daddy Warbucks
Daddy
Punjab
Asp
Kankakee
Ill
Sidney Smith
the Gumps
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Black
Honolulu
United States
North Vietnam
Congress
California
Republican Party
Yucaipa Teen Left Note Before Apparent Suicide
Police say 17 year old William B. Moore sealed himself inside a shed refrigerator in Yucaipa California and wrote a chilling note at 1 am. He claimed to have sealed the interior with masking tape and taken sleeping pills, passing out soon. A flash light lay nearby and scribbled words on paper and cardboard formed Goodby Thanks Love. Four friends reported letters stating he intended to end his life. He was described by a school official as a genius with straight A grades and accepted to MIT next fall.
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Yucaipa
Calif
William B. Moore
Moore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ex Kansan Unruh Diet A Political Move In California
Kansas born Jesse M. Unruh speaker of the California assembly told Kansas City area audiences he shed 100 pounds in four months for political health. He explained the weight loss began after a cartoon mocked him and described giving up everything worthwhile to lose the weight. The report notes his visit included conferences on state legislatures and his origin in Newton Kansas.
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California
Kansas City
Jesse M. Uaruh
California Assembly
Newton
Kaw
Lawrence
Unruh
Oakland
Houston Transplant Patients Face Mixed Outcomes
In a sequence of heart transplant developments, Eli-Joseph Reynes in Montpellier died after a transplant with Jean-Claude Amarger’s heart. Houston patient James Cobb died days earlier, and John Stuckwish remained gravely ill on a respirator. Cooley’s team reported Stuckwish uremic but alive, while Everett Thompson rode meals and TV.
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Montpellier
France
UPI
Eli-Joseph Reynes
Europe
Secomories
Houston
John M. Stuckwish
Denton A. Cooley
Cooley
Alpine
Tex
Everett C. Thomas Jr
Ellie-Joseph Reynes
Jean-Claude Amarger
Eric Negre
Amarger
Negre
Ty Cooley
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
James B. Cobb
Alexandria
Thomas
Phoenix
Helen
Cobb
Azxotea tunnel completed between New Mexico and Colorado
The 12.8 mile Azxotea tunnel under the Continental Divide near northern New Mexico has finished boring. The Interior Department says the $13,791,000 project will carry gravity fed water at 950 cubic feet per second from the Colorado River basin into the Rio Grande basin. Work spanned three years with the final “hole through” completed this week 12 feet in diameter after 1,200 feet beneath the divide.
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Washington
New Mexico
Colorado
Interior Department
Colorado River
Rio Grande Basin
Army to Train 200000 Reservists for Riot Control
Washington reports the Army will begin riot control training for 200000 Army Reservists, expanding to over 500000 trained civilian soldiers for potential civil disturbances. About 300000 National Guardsmen already trained. most Organized Reservists to receive 33 hours for enlisted and 18 hours for officers, with completion by June 17.
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Washington
UPI
Army
Army Reserve Command
Labor Party Suffers Rout in Cities
London and Britain nationwide municipal election results show a sweeping Conservative gain as Labor loses 560 seats while Conservatives gain 570. Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces weakened grassroots support. pound and stock market slide amid Cecil King editorial attack and a Bank of England resignation. Conservative tally in England and Wales leaves Labor with only 43 of 368 town halls and seven in big cities. The House holds its 74 seat majority, but local machinery is severely eroded for years.
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London
Harold Wilson
Labor
Britain
London Stock Exchange
Wilson
Cecil King
Daily Mirror
Bank of England
King
Roy Jenkins
England
Wales
Labor Party
House of Commons
Burda Circulator Reeled In For Court Action
A local circulator named Burda is facing legal action as authorities pursue charges. The case involves ongoing proceedings in the city court and potential penalties for the accused.
1918 Biplane Ends Flight Across U S
WASHINGTON A 67 year old former air mail pilot wound up a 3000 mile sentimental journey over the old transcontinental air mail route Thursday landing at Anacostia Field while dignitaries waited on the runway at Washington National Airport across the river. Bill Hackbarth said he was asleep when he landed and he hopped to National Airport after a mistaken landing. He left Santa Paula California April 19 and made 23 stops including an emergency field landing.
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Washington
Air Mail
Bill) Hackbarth
Anacostia Field
National Airport
Hackbarth
Calf barn fire near Sitten kills 130
A fire at a breeding farm near Sitten Switzerland killed more than 130 calves. Police reported the blaze burned Thursday and wiped out a large portion of the herd at the facility.
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Sitten
Switzerland
UPI
Education Board OKs New Texts Rafferty Rebuffed
The State Board of Education approved a new series of public school reading texts Rafferty opposed. The board also backed a Rafferty favored Lippincott set for some early grades, with districts allowed to accept or reject them. Debate over scope and cost highlighted a 10 hour Los Angeles meeting.
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Education Board
Rafferty
State Board of Education
Max Rafferty
J. P. Lippincott Co
Beach
Los Angeles
Lippincott Books
Thomas Harvard
George Brown
Lippincott
W. Howard Day
Long Beach Realtor
State Curriculum Commission
Day
Serra Building
Curriculum Commission
New York
Harper & Row
Elaine H. Stowe
Sacramento City
State Department of Education
John Church
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Stockwish
Frederick West
Philip Blaiberg
Cape Town
South Africa
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Ph Ayant
Burda
U.S
Church
Collegienne Sportswear
Clark
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