Oil Lease Auction Sets Record High Bids in Alaska
In Anchorage the Alaska oil lease auction drew 1,100 bids for 450,858 acres on the North Slope. Gulf Oil, British Petroleum, and BP Alaska led an opening sweep with tract one at 6,066 per acre and total bids reaching over 97 million dollars after nine tracts. Officials predicted potential state revenue exceeding one billion dollars, calling the sale a milestone in Alaska history.
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Sydney Laurence Auditorium
Downtows Anchorage
Gulf Oil Corp
British Petroleum, Ltd
B.P.5 Alaska
Prudhoe Bay
Atlantic Richfield Co
Humble Oil and Refining Co
North Slope
Gulf and
British Petroleum
Kelly
Standard Oil Co
California
Mobil- Phillips
Amerada-Hess-Hunt and Getty Group
Gay
Keith H. Miller
Alaska
Statehood
Ford Motor Co. fires president Knudsen after brief tenure
Ford Motor Co. announces reshaping of its leadership with True major operating groups each led by its own president reporting to Henry Ford. Ford remains chairman and CEO. Knudsen leaves the company amid a reorganization aimed at new structure and direction.
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Mgr. Ford
Knudsen
Ford
Ford Motor Co
Egypt Air Raids Israeli Desert Posts In Sinai Fight
Egyptian planes attacked Israeli desert posts in the Sinai as Cairo claimed heavy strikes and dogfights with Israeli aircraft. Israel reported losses of seven Egyptian planes with another possibly destroyed, while Cairo counted four Israeli planes down in the battles across the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. The raids were described as retaliation for Israel's Tuesday landing in Egypt. Israeli strikes also targeted Jordanian bases southeast of Meir and Beisan Valley positions. Amid the air war, Arab guerrillas attacked a Jordan River dam, flooding settlements and causing tens of millions in damage.
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Egypt
Isra
Sinai Desert
Aemy B
Cairo
Irael
Mediterranean
Hed Sea
Israel
Unitn
Jordan
Miall
Beisan
Amman
Jordan River
Calf of Supe
Zafar
Gulf of Suez
Calro
Ismailia
Port Said
Suez City
$20,000 TWA Flight for Negro Militant
A Justice Department source says a flight was arranged to transport a Negro militant with no other revenue passengers aboard and he will face arrest by the FBI on landing. Williams, who fled the U S eight years ago after a kidnapping charge amid racial unrest, seeks return amid exile. He resisted travel aboard U S airlines and staged a hunger strike in Pentonville prison.
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Justice Department
Willams
Cuba
Williams
Cairo
United States
Pentonville
Britain
U.S
United Arab Airlines
Wingate
N.C
Willaams
London
Airpark
China
Tanzania
Singer Brown Admitted Relations Testimony Details Hearing
In a Sacramento paternity hearing a witness testified James Brown admitted having sexual relations with Parlette Jones, a Hair cast member, claiming Brown spoke by telephone three weeks after conception. Miss Brown seeks fatherhood acknowledgment and $3,000 monthly child support for her year old son. Additional testimony cites a Burlingame motel visit and Brown’s denial of paternity.
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Sacramento
UPI
James Brown
Brown
Parlette Jones
San Francisco
Mary Florence Brown
Chile
Miss Jones
Philadelphia
Miss Brown
Burlingame
James Quirk
President's Plane Carries Dirksen's Body Home
The body of Senator Everet Dirksen aboard Air Force One departed Washington for burial near Pekin Illinois. Vice President Agnew and over 100 senators and congressmen joined three other jets to pay last respects. The cortege landed at Peoria then moved a 10 mile drive through farmland to the cemetery five miles from Pekin.
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Pekin
UPI
Iverelt M. Dirksen
Congress
Dirksen
Louella
Charles J, Percy
Bill
Air Force One
Spirol
Agnew
Senate
Peoria
Umness Farm Country
Skeleton Found In Lake After Car Sinks In Drainage
A submerged car owned by Shirley Blankenship was pulled from Talbert Lake during road work. Police halted dredging to inspect human skeleton remains likely from the driver who may have drowned after losing control and plunging into the lake.
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Talbert Lake
Ramsey pleads guilty in destroyer collision case at court martial
Ramsey admits failing to warn Evans skipper of station change and to take avoiding action after a collision with the Melbourne. Judge James Keys allows only one officer to be tried and cites publicity as hindering a fair verdict. Melemo re facing separate trial. Jopson receives a reprimand. Frances Jean Howard is named Alaska's first female state trooper by Gov Miller.
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Ramsey
Navy
Phoenix
Long Beach
James EB. Keys
Keys
RAMS
Hard Laler
Key T
Albert S. MelLemore
Melemore
Vallejo
Calif
Evans
James A. Jopson
Kansas City
Kan
Tazari H. Benrubi
Coronaca
Genrubi
Benrubi
Lady’s
Innhau
Alaska
UPT
Frances Jean Howard
Grants Pass
Ore
Miss Howard
Keith HL. Miller
Anchorage
Long Beach House Crash Kills Woman and Injures Son
A Long Beach housewife died instantly when her car slammed into a residence at 611 Luray Street. Her son was critically injured. In a separate crash near Bakersfield a Paramount man died when his truck-trailer combo lost control on Highway 9. A Santa Ana woman died after her car overturned on Santa Ana Way near Main Street.
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Long Beach
Paramount
Highway 9
Bakersfield
Phyllis Stein
Jerome Stein
Luray St
Joel
Memorial Hospital of
Stanley Wenkaul
Robert Riechlar
Wiemer St. Paramount
California Highway Patrol
Garland Foe
Louise St
Richler
Santa Ant Ieaway
Main Street
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Spain
Washington
Nixon
John P. Mames
New York City
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TWA
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Montanmey
Lloyd M. Bucher
Pueblo
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20Th St
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Long Deach
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Imperial
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Jueprimand
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Walker
Victoria
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