Love-Crazed Gunman Kills Two in Pittsburgh Shootout
Leroy Scott, a 25 year old albino Negro armed with a 22 caliber rifle, killed Aaron Godfrey and a pro football player turned policeman before he was shot dead by more than 200 officers in a wooded area off Sylvan Ave. Several officers were wounded while Lt Coleman McDonough died at the scene. Police halted street lighting to use the hills as cover as they closed in on Scott who had hidden in a willow tree.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Leroy Scott
Sylvan Ave
Scott
Ruth Godfrey
Canine Corps
Aaron Godfrey
Coleman (Coley
Donough
Leo Mincin
McDonough
Chicago Cardinals
Pittsburgh Steelers
Mincin
Joseph Laffey
William J. Gilmore
Gilmore
Bandit Tries To Kill Cashier In $6000 Resort Robbery
ARDSLEY N Y UP I police hunt a bandit who shot a blonde cashier three times during a $6,000 robbery at Leighton's Woodlands Lake restaurant to conceal his identity. The cashier spoke by telephone shortly after the incident, naming the suspect as Sanford Ed.
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Ardsley
N. Y
UPI
Sine
Leighton
Woodlands Lake
Sanford Ed
Police Hunt Strangler of Student Nurse Patricia Joyce
Gardner Massachusetts police pursue a strangler who killed 17 year old Patricia M Joyce a nurse student found strangled with her nylon stocking along a woodland path near her workplace. Investigators named three good suspects and want to interview her Fort Dix soldier boyfriend though not considered a suspect. The body lay in a white nurse uniform with pocketbook nearby and no sexual assault cited by the medical examiner. Beer cans found at the scene are noted by police chief Renes.
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Fort Dix
N.J
Renes
Joseph P. Marnane
Common Market Near Collapse as France Withdraws Officials
France recalls ambassador Jean Marc Boegner from Brussels amid De Gaulle farm price dispute. Hallstein hastens crisis talks in Bonn with Italy and West Germany as France and partners refuse to comply with farm policy demands. Unanimous consent required, raising risk of a diplomatic split and deep freeze in the Common Market.
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Brussels
UPI
France
Paris
Jean-Marc Boegner
Charles de Gaulle
Six Nation Group
Walter Hallstein
Bonn
Hallstein
Giuseppe Saragat
Amintore Fanfani
West Germany
Italy
Benelux
de Gaulle
Boegner
Belgium
Riots Struck Resorts Then Quieted Across Several States
United Press International reports Fourth of July unrest at Lake George New York Rockaway Beach Missouri Arnolds Park Iowa Geneva-On-The-Lake Ohio and others. Police say nearly 1,300 arrests occurred over the three day weekend as youths clashed with authorities prompting bans and National Guard standby.
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United Press International
Lake George
N.Y
Rockaway Beach
Arnolds Park
Iowa
Geneva-On-The-Lake
Russell Point
Ohio
Newport
R.I
Portsmouth
N.H
Hyannis
Mass
Beckley Area Weather Forecast With Showers Possible
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Wednesday with a 40 percent chance of showers and scattered thunderstormsWednesday High in the 70s Low tonight 58 High Wednesday in the low 80s Beckley yesterday 74 at 12:30 pm low 61 at 3:30 am Greenbrier River normal Lake normal clear New gauge at Hinton 2 ft Today’s extremes include a high 117 in Palm Springs and a low 28 in Pellston
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Beckley
Hinton
Palm Springs
Calif
Pellston
Mich
Public figures weigh rights, Viet Nam policy, and marriage beliefs
U S Attorney General Katzenbach warns that millions of Negroes pay taxes but cannot vote during Freedom Week in Philadelphia. CORE leader James Farmer opposes Viet Nam withdrawal without linking civil rights and peace moves in Durham. Sophia Loren asserts she and Carlo Ponti remain married beyond legal definitions in Rome after a seven year court battle.
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United Press International
Philadelphia
U. S
Durham
N. C
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
Viet Nam
Morgantown Man Held In Murder Of Wife
UPI reports murder charges filed against Earl B Merico after police found his wife Margaret shot six times in their downtown Morgantown apartment. Investigators described a bullet riddled scene as they recovered the couple.
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Morgantown
UPI
Earl B. Merico
Merico
Margaret
July 4 Weekend Accidents Kill Nine In W Va
Nine people died in West Virginia during the long Fourth of July weekend. Five were killed in traffic accidents, two drowned, and two died in other mishaps during a 78 hour period from Friday 6 p m to Monday midnight. Drownings included Randy Mitter 16 of Tunnelton and Nathan Higgins 24 of Mineral County.
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United Press International
West Virginia
Randy Mitter
Tunnelton
Nathan Higgens
Minjeral
Young Mitters
Higgens
Elkins
Upstate Crash Kills Pa. Couple
A Pennsylvania couple was killed instantly when their small station wagon collided head on with a logging truck on U S 19 five miles southwest of here. Ralph Pyles of Greensboro Pa. was the driver and his wife and infant son were aboard. Truck driver Robert Johnson of Uniontown Pa. said the foreign made car was on the wrong side of the road. Johnson avoided the collision by veering but the truck overturned. The infant, five to nine months old, was hospitalized in serious condition at University Hospital.
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Morgantown
UPI
Pennsylvania
U. S. 19
Here
Ralph Pyles
Box 118
Greensboro
Robert Johnson
Uniontown
Johnson
Pyles
University Hospital
Son disowned after wild beer party brawl in Detroit
Albert Scobie vows to disown his 18-year-old son after a rock n roll beer party at the Scobie home sparked a brawl with teenagers. Police broke up the gathering as 80 youths joined the three piece band, despite the father's ban due to prior disciplinary problems. Albert Jr. faces a 15 day jail term and the father refuses to pay his $100 fine.
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Detroit
UPI
Albert Scobie
Albert Jr
Scobie
Grim New Holiday Record 552 Killed In Traffic
The Fourth of July weekend set a grim traffic death record with 552 fatalities from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. California led with 53 deaths, followed by Ohio 37, New York 35, Missouri 31, Texas 29, Illinois 24, Michigan 21. Alaska and Delaware had no traffic deaths. The NSC projected 470 to 570 deaths for the 72 hour period, signaling a possible four-day holiday record.
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California
Ohio
New York
Missouri
Texas
Ilinois
Michigan
Alaska
Delaware
National Safety Council
Presons
Arizona
Howard Pyle
Four Children Die in Fire Spread By Fireworks
In Galesburg Illinois a fire in a two story frame house killed four children aged 18 months to six years. Police blamed the blaze on fireworks and smoke inhalation. neighbors heard explosions blocks away. The Lopeman family had just returned from Missouri with a large supply of fireworks. cause undetermined.
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Galesburg, Ill
UPI
Art Lopeman
Galesburg
Missouri
Lester Wreck Victim Dies in Car Train Crash
Raleigh County toll rises to six as Mrs. Alice Van Saunders, 22, Washington DC, formerly of Premier, dies at 12:05 am from injuries in a car train collision at Lester on June 30. Other six month fatalities include Massie, Bolen, Pyatt, Darlington, and Ward in crashes and hits.
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Raleigh County
Alice van Saunders
Washington, D. C
Odd
Helen
Clarence Pyatt
Saxon
Eccles
Carolyn Sue Darlington
Glen Morgan
Bluefield
Grandview
Chester Ward
Raleigh
Zone D Swept By American Aussie Viet Troops
American Australian and Vietnamese forces launched a second joint sweep through Zone D, north of Saigon, aiming to hit Viet Cong hideouts. No contact reported by late afternoon as B52 strikes and searches continue in the war zone. Meanwhile Ba Gia garrison near Saigon held out against repeated assaults with U S air support and mortar barrages.
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Ray F. Herndon
Saigon
UPI
Toops
U. S. Air Force
Guam
Ba Gia
U. S
U.S. Army
Pleiku
Officers
Kennedy returns from river trip refreshed in Washington
Sen Robert F Kennedy D NY returns to Washington from a holiday river trip with family guides along the Yampa and Green Rivers in Colorado and Utah.
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Robert F Kennedy
N. Y
Washington
Yampa
Green Rivers
Colorado
Utah
Atomic Energy Commission
Cambridge
Mass
Paris
Soviet Union
France
International Center of Research Against Cancer
Tornado and Cyclone Strike Northern Italy Fatal, Widespread Damage
Parma Italy report notes a tornado and cyclonic storms over two days killing at least 19 and injuring more than 2,000. Damage reaches about 150 million dollars with over 1,000 left homeless and many still missing, police said.
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Parma
Italy
43 Dead in Crash of RAF Transport
In Dorchester England a Royal Air Force Hastings transport crashed during a parachute training exercise. There were 43 aboard and an RAF spokesman said there were no survivors. Cause was not yet determined.
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Dorchester
England
UPI
Royal Air Force
Hastings
Rebaptism Direct Slap At Episcopal Church Bishop Pike Demands Apology
Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike in Grace Cathedral denounces Luci Johnson rebaptism by Catholics as void of sacramental effect and sacrilegious. He says a staffer’s role in pressuring the rite shows personal whim over church teaching, calls for an apology, and notes Episcopal baptism and Catholic confirmation are valid across traditions.
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San Francisco
UPI
Episcopal
James A. Pike
Luci Johnson
Washington, D.C
Episcopal Church
Grace Cathedral
California
Luci
Pike
James Montgomery
Lyndon B Johnson
Our Church
Vatican calls Luci Johnson baptism regrettable for unity
Vatican spokesman says Luci Johnson's Catholic baptism at St Matthew's Cathedral in Washington on her 18th birthday harmed Christian unity. He notes baptism is valid in Episcopal practice but questions the need for a second baptism and criticizes conditional baptism as a bad US practice.
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Vatican City
UPI
Luci Baines Johnson
Johnson
Christian Unity Movement
Vatican
Secretariat For
Prone
Christian Unity
Thomas Stransky
Milwaukee
Wis
Augustin Cardinal Bea
Miss Johnson
Washington
St. Matthew's Cathedral
Luci
Father Stransky
White House
Episcopal Church
Stransky
United States
Ground Broken For ARC Act Highway in Salem
The first groundbreaking for an Appalachian area development highway was held in Salem with officials Len Jennings Randolph John L. Sweeney and Gov. Hulett C. Smith attending. The project links I 77 at Parkersburg to I 79 near Clarksburg along U S Route 50, with upgrading planned.
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Clarksburg
Randolph
West Virginia
Appalachian
Wreck Kills Latin Lover Porfirio Rubirosa
Porfirio Rubirosa the famed Dominican Republican playboy was killed when his grey sports car crashed into a tree in the Bois de Boulogne near Paris. He was alone, returning from an all night party to his fifth wife Odile Rodin. Rubirosa had long courted rich women including Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton. He had slowed his jet set pace in recent years.
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Paris
UPI
Porfirio Rubirosa
Bois de Boulogne
Prince Aly Khan
Rubi
Odile Rodin
Polo
Doris Duke
Barbara Hutton
Miss Rodin
Rubirosa
East German Cyclist Defects to West Germany
Monika Horig a 22 year old East German cycling champion slipped away from teammates in London and sought asylum at the West German Embassy. Her request was granted as she said East German cycling discipline pushed her to leave. She planned to pursue hairdressing in West Germany and left London for relatives after the embassy incident. The team had competed at Herne Hill near London over the weekend.
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London
UPI
Monika Horig
Miss Horiig
Miss Horig
West Germany
Herne Hill
Sophia Loren Bigamy Trial Opens in Rome Court
The bigamy case against Italian actress Sophia Loren and her husband Carlo Ponti moved into a Rome courtroom after seven years of wrangling. Neither defendant was expected to attend as Loren and Ponti were in England making a film. They could face up to five years in prison if convicted.
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Rome
Sophia Loren
Carlo Ponti
UPI
Miss Loren
Ponti
England
Italy
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