Cross Faces Grand Jury For Campus Slayings
In Austin a 22 year old University of Texas English major James C Cross Jr is bound over to a grand jury on charges he strangled two 21 year old Dallas women Susan Rigsby and Shirley Ann Stark and dumped their near nude bodies in a weed grown vacant lot. Autopsy indicates strangulation as cause of death and a faint fingerprint on the women's yellow sports car is cited as evidence. The case may go to criminal court with a trial likely in late September or early October.
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Austin, Tex
University of Texas
Austin
James C. Cross Jr
Fort Worth
Susan Rigsby
Shirley Ann Stark
Dallas
Dist. Atty
Tom Blackwell
Cross
Travis
Blackwell
Criminal District Court
Mace Thurman
T. O. Lang
Roy Minton
Miss Rigsby
Justice of the Peace
Jerry Dellana
Perry Jones
Jones
Miss Stark
Gemini 5 Flight Aims First Space Rendezvous With Little Rascal
Space agency details for Gemini 5 planned from Cape Kennedy with Lt. Col. L Gordon Cooper Jr and Lt. Cmdr Charles Conrad Jr. The mission includes a radar based rendezvous with REP satellite, aiming to orbit 121 times over about eight days and set a new U.S. record for flight duration.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Navy
Cmdr
Charles Conrad Jr
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
The
Space Agency
U.S
Atlantic
Bermuda
Cooper
Conrad
Globe
Rioting Erupts In Watts After Arrest Sparks 1500-Strong Mob
In Watts California, a crowd of about 1500 youths attacked police with stones and bottles after a White officer arrested Marquette Frye for drunken driving. Over 100 police, six teens and 15 civilians injured. 26 people booked.
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Los Angeles
Watts
California Highway Patrol
Lee Minikus
122Nd Street
Avalon Boulevard
Minikus
Marquette Frye
Frye
Rena Frye
Minibus
Job Corps assigns 11 more volunteers to centers nationwide
The New Mexico Employment Service reports 11 more Roswell area volunteers joining Job Corps in Kentucky Virginia Texas Michigan California for clerical data work auto mechanics forestry and road construction study. Of 66 screened only two declined with several rejected for medical reasons bringing total area appointments to 21.
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Kentucky
Texas
Virginia
Senaida R. Sedillo
FE. Mathews
Joe Sanchez
Mike Sanchez
Michigan
Terry Wilmot
New Mexico
Molasses Spill Closes Highway in Burlington
A tank truck rolled onto its side on Highway 36 in Burlington Wisconsin spilling 5,800 gallons of molasses. Police directed traffic while the pavement was sanded and the fire department washed the roadway.
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Burlington
Wis
Fire Department
Fraud Suit Over Roswell Mausoleum Crypt Sales
A $178000 damage suit filed in Fifth District Court accuses Van H Haynie Norman Anderson Sacred Shrine Association and Terrace Mausoleum Inc of fraud and breach of contract in 1962 crypt sales. Seven Roswell residents seek refunds of payments plus 5000 for suffering and 20000 punitive damages each.
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Fifth District
Roswell
van H. Haynie
Las Cruces
Norman Anderson
el Paso
Tex
the Sacred Shrine Association
Terrace Mausoleum Inc
Haynie
Anderson
Sacred Shrine Assa
Siege of Duc Co Lifted by U S Vietnamese Forces
U S and Vietnamese troops ended a 70 day siege of Duc Co near the Cambodian frontier as relief columns neared the camp. Air forces reported a Skyhawk shot down near Hanoi with one pilot missing. Battles raged 15 miles south of Can Tho with Viet Cong casualties heavy.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Duc Co
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Vinh
Ba Binh
Dien Bien Phu
U.S. Navy
Air Force
Mekong Delta
Can Tho
173Rd Airborne Brigade
1St Infantry Division
New Center Vate to Open 16-Storefront Center
Landowner Paul Beck of Roswell says a 16 store shopping center will rise on both sides of Second Street west of Main starting October 1. Montgomery Ward's will relocate from Main and Second late in September, with occupant names announced then.
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Second Street
Main
Paul Beck
Roswell
Beck
Montgomery Ward’s
Second
Navajo youths held after confrontation with volunteer worker
Four Navajo men were jailed in Holbrook on federal charges after an incident involving a 19 year old VISTA volunteer. A 12 year old was also detained. The victim, a Massachusetts native, worked with 23 volunteers in the Dinnehotse area near Window Rock.
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Holbrook, Ariz
Holbrook
FBI
Wilson Gray
Wesley Gray
James L. Frank
Tully Tsosie
Prescott
U.S
Massachusetts
Volun
Free Day at Roswell Library for Overdue Books
Friday the 13th will be Free Day at the Roswell Public Library. Overdue books may be returned without penalty or fine, says acting librarian Mrs Murial Weindorf. Many long overdue volumes are still out.
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Roswell Public Library
Murial Weindorf
House approves wage extension for millions of workers
Washington AP The House Education and Labor Committee approves extending minimum wage coverage to farm workers and others. No decision yet on raising the $1.25 minimum. subcommittee proposed $1.75.
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Washington
House Education and Labor Committee
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Twila Humphreys
Salmonettes
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Twila
American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Assn
UPI
Valery Bykovsky
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
Ric Wpwluvncu
Federal Building
Richardson
Ment
John C. Cornell Construction Co
Clovis
N.M
Job Corps
Manuel Sanchez
Louis Sanchez
Dexter
Sanchez
Great Onyx Job Center
Mammoth Cave
Anthony Job Corps Center
White Sulphur Springs
Richard Hernandez
Manuel Hernandez
Lake Arthur
Edward Henderson
Gary Job Corps Center
San Marcos
Ralph Henderson
Kansas
New Mexico State Employment Service
Charles E. Bartlett
Thurston E. Bartlett
N. Lea
Custer
Battle Creek
Mich
James O. Conrad
Ann Henderson
Parks Job Corps Center
Pleasanton, Calif
Johnny R. Sedillo
O.D. Stevens
U.S. Marhsall
Donald Martin
W.F. Sandifer
Truman Pierce
Albert Watson
R. Dan Thompson
Pleiku
2Nd Corps
Central Highlands
Plei Ya Ho
Girl
Teers
Dinnehouse
Window Rock
Arizona
Utah
VISTA
Dinnehotse
Glenn R. Landbloom
Navajo Agency
City Library
Congress
Johnson
Senate
House
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Viet Nam
United States
Farmington
Jo Boswell
San Juan Country Club
Boswell
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