Dazed Tot Survives Tragedy in San Gabriel Mountains
Rescue workers found Michael Berg, a 4 year old boy, alive on a rock in the San Gabriel Mountains after his mother Elizabeth Berg and brother David were found dead in a car wreck below a 300 foot cliff. His father, Los Angeles officer Michael Berg, was later found dead at home in Pico Rivera, ruled suicide amid a family tragedy. The boy was carried out on a makeshift stretcher, treated for an ankle splint, and taken to Glendora hospital as authorities pursued the double murder mystery and suicide in a grim sequence of events starting with the auto crash.
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San Gabriel Mountains
Elizabeth
David
Michael
Los Angeles
Michael Berg
Pico Rivera
Norwalk
Berg
J.G. Lawton
William Fowler
San Dimas
Jim Gibney
Gibney
Ron Sorgani
Dave Smith
Glendora Hospital
Azusa
Sheriff's Homicide
Betg
Los Angeles Force
Flooded Rio Grande Swamps Cities and Evacuations
The Rio Grande flood swamped Reynosa and Matamoros with up to 300000 residents displaced across cross border areas. Brownsville’s levees plus nearby towns faced crest levels 20 to 21 feet as six Texas rivers carried record floods toward the Gulf. Beulah’s storms killed dozens, left hundreds of thousands displaced, and caused about 1 billion dollars in damage across Texas and northern Mexico.
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Reynosa
Matamores
McAllen
Tex
Harlingen
Mercedes
Rio Grande
Rio Grande City
Weather Bureau
Brownsville
Texas
Gulf
Beulah
Mexico
Caribbean
Voices Heard Before Kirschke Deaths During Nightly Incident
A neighbor testified hearing angry voices and two sharp thumps at 2 30 am from the Kirschke apartment as authorities investigated the deaths of Mrs Kirschke and Crankham. Christine Kirschke, 16, also heard voices between 10 30 and 11 30 pm.
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Cornell
Christine
Kirschke
Wilson High School
Reagan Candidacy Backed At Unanimous Convention
The California GOP convention praised Ronald Reagan for his economic policy and fiscal reforms while adopting resolutions endorsing his candidacy and calling for a unified Republican delegation to the next national convention. The event also lauded Governor Reagan for appointive inclusion of minorities and urged delaying congressional district reapportionment until after 1970.
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GOP
Halley
State Committee
William A. Gaither
Ben Perry
Los Angeles
Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Spencer Willams
Leaflets Urge South Vietnamese to Flee North Infiltration Route
Leaflets directed at No Viets call on civilians to leave the northern zone as a Communist infiltration route is described. The report notes B52s attempting to relieve pressure on Con Thien and quotes a leaflets threat of swift death for those remaining. It cites 34,000 South Vietnamese who used safe conduct passes to seek peace.
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Con Thien
South Vietnam
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Florsheim
Florsheim Shoe Shops
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Broadway
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William Penn
Patrick
Pen Press
Earl Warren
Potomac
Clay Barham
Holiday Magic Cosmetics
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California
Max Rafferty
Thomas H. Kuchet
Rafferty
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Paramount
Lang Rawth
Shakey's Pizza Parlor
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National Airlines
Atfomal Atti
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