Newcombe Case Dismissed After Snowball Evidence Melts
Arlington man Edward J. Newcombe 34 appeared in East Cambridge District Court on a charge of assaulting Patrolman Francis E. McKenna with a snowball on Feb 23. The judge dismissed after defense cited melted evidence. A separate note describes a mock party titled phooey at the governor’s mansion in Georgia, lampooning Lester Maddox with 400 guests and plans to raze the mansion, including a breakable glass finale.
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Edward J. Newcombe
Arlington
Mass
East Cambridge
Francis E. McKenna
Newcombe
Mo Edward Viola
Governor's Mansion
Phooey
David Harris
Avanta
Georgia
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Morris
Tim
Harris
Bernadette Devlin Returns to Ireland with Fund Raising
Bernadette Devlin arrived in Ireland from the United States claiming she raised a great deal of money for Catholic victims of last month’s religious clashes in Northern Ireland. She refused to disclose totals, noting funds would be deposited in American cities and later sent to Ireland, with secrecy until the time is right. She emphasized the money would not be used to buy arms.
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Bernadette Devlin
Ireland
United States
Northern Ireland
American
Northern Trélant
Irish Republic
Stormont
Ulster
Capitol Steps Suicide of Despondent Youth Greg Rogers
A 19 year old youth described as despondent by his father died after shooting himself in the head on the steps of the U S Capitol late Tuesday. Greg Rogers son of Mae E Rogers of Fairfax County Virginia was found with a 32 caliber bullet wound near the peace monument at the base of the west steps. He had been despondent since his sister’s husband died in a B 29 crash on Guam July 27.
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Capitol Steps
U.S. Capitol
Greg Rogers
Mae E. Rogers
Pairfax County
Rogers
Federal Railroad Administration
Bureau of Railroad Safety
Peace Monument
Elaet Rogers
Alice
Guam
Teacher Strikes Spread Across Nation Ahead Of New School Year
Several thousand teachers went on strike nationwide as classes began. In Michigan 4000 teachers in 18 districts walked out over pay disputes per the National Education Association. Damaged schools from Hurricane Camille caused further idle time in Virginia Louisiana and Mississippi with more strikes reported in New Hampshire Massachusetts Indiana Utah Ohio and Tennessee. Chicago public schools opened claims with postponed strike votes while disputes kept many suburban and downstate classrooms closed.
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Michigan
National Education Association
Manchester
N. H
New Bedford
Mass
North Providence
NMA
Hammond and
Whiting
Ind
Aliquippa
Elizabeth Howard
Gateway
Shad-Central
Lawrence County
Tenn
Fort Atkinson
Wis
Carbon
Utah
Blue Island
Struthers and Howland
Ohio
Virginia
Louisiana
Mississippi
NEA
Chicago
Chicago Teachers Union
Woman Heads U S Arts Panel
Nancy Hanks, 42, named chairman of the National Council on the Arts by President Nixon. The New York expert on culture will advise the president on national cultural affairs and work with museums and the performing arts. Hanks is president of the Associated Councils of the Arts, a national nonprofit group, and graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in 1949.
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SAN Clemenye
UPI
Nixon
Nancy “Hanks
New ‘York
National Council On the Arts
Miss Hanks
Roger J. Stévens
Virts
U.S
Canada
B52s Pound Bastion in Southeast Asia Battle
U S and South Vietnamese forces pressed a prolonged assault near Song Bo as B 52 bombers pounded a major enemy camp for a fourth day. Casualties reached at least 300 South Vietnamese killed or wounded and 17 missing, with 4 American Green Berets advisers wounded. In the jungle near Cambodia, heavy fighting continued as a 400 man air cavalry battalion was reinforced and then pulled back.
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Saigon
Song Bo
Green Ferets
Libya’s new rulers urge U S to halt drills on Libyan soil
Damascus reports Libya’s new military government asked American and British bases in the country to stop training exercises on Libyan soil. U S Air Force base near Tripoli and small British bases at Tobruk and El Aden agreed to comply. Reuters dispatch notes regional reactions as Arab governments recognize the leftist regime and prepare for shifting alignments amid the coup that ousted the king.
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Damascus
Syriz i
Libya
Egypt
Middle East
Tripoli
U.S
Tobruk
el Aden
Tibre
North
Israelis Strike at Lebanon In Heavy Cross Border Attacks
Israeli warplanes bombed and strafed Lebanese artillery positions then hit suspected Arab guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon in a 20 minute strike. Lebanese officials reported separate attacks near villages southeast of Beirut. The assaults followed a Katyusha rocket attack on Kitlat Sihmona, drawing a U N reprimand.
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Lebanon
Tel Aviv
Israel
Beirut
Aulicir
United Nations Security Council
Kitlat Sihmona
al Ar‘kowh
Town Town by Sewer Explosions in Western New York
A state of emergency was declared in a western New York village after a tanker truck crash caused a gasoline spill into the sewer system. More than 8,000 gallons ignited, killing the car driver and burning four houses to ashes, leaving seven residents uninjured but contained.
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Warsaw
New York
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Charles E. Clary
Caroline S. Welsh
Clary
Cdt
Miss Welsh
Carson City
Nev
Combined News Services
Idris
Tre Wehele
Woman Heads
Bastion
S- Viet
Sai- Bon
Amas de Shalil
Weizmann Institute
Jor Science
Panéreas
Turkey
Volos
Aegean
Bors Ders
Edouardo Jerrold
United Press International
Suez Canal
Welch's
WELCH
Atlantic Ave
Long Beach
Press-Telegram
Eer
Vant Dine
Lins
Et Sain
Shay Bunny
Lakewood’ Center
Clark Ave
Lakewood
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