Evansville plane crash claims 29 including Evansville team
A twin engine DC3 charter carrying 14 Evansville basketball players and supporters crashed into a muddy hillside seconds after takeoff in fog and rain. All 29 aboard died, including 14 players, the coach, three crew, and 11 others. Weather, visibility, and flight timing are under NTSB review.
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Evansville
Ind
University of Evansville
Dress
Bill Phipps
Vanderburgh
Patrick Alvey
Metro Beechcraft Corp
Alvey
Evansville Tragedy Strikes Evansville Basketball Family
Brad McCutchan helped build the Evansville program as fourteen players a coach and others perished in a DC3 crash en route to a game in Tennessee. The crash killed 14 players coach Bobby Watson and two boosters and left missing captain Ty Van Pham and James Stewart.
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Evansville
Ind
Brad McCutchan
University of Evansville
Bobby Watson
Tennessee
McCutchan
T Ken
Newburgh
Charles Shike
Bob Hudson
Greg Knipping
Marv Bates
WUEV
Charles Goad
Maurice King
Ty van Pham
James Stewart
National Jet Service Inc
City approves six per cent raise for employees
City Council, in a four hour meeting at City Hall, approved a six per cent wage increase for employees as the cost of living raise. The session also authorized a 960000 revenue bond to partly finance drought relief construction, with a 240000 federal grant supplementing the 1.2 million project. Bonds, at five per cent, will fund well drilling and a 42 inch delivery line connecting to existing pipelines. Kent Nowlin Co. of Albuquerque won the bid for 857991.
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Robert J. Owen
Robert Wafful
Tom P. Stephens
Stephens
Sterling R. Grant
Grant
Frank K. West
N. Pontiac Drive
Owen
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Kent Nowlin Co
Albuquerque
County panel delays amphitheater bid to fit grant funds
The County Commission postponed awarding a 473 154 amphitheater bid from W R Bouskie Co to fit an 819 000 federal grant for county projects. The panel also approved a 58 997 grader bid from Border Machinery Co, with two other Albuquerque firms previously offering higher sums. Tax collections show about 70 percent of 3.9 million due, ahead of last year, as plans for remodeling Eastern New Mexico Medical Center include an eight bed ICU to save 149 000 for the county.
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W.R. Bouskie and Co
Clovis
Federal Economic Development Administration
Border Machinery Co
el Paso
Texas
Commission
Richard W. Corn
Tom Growney Co
N.C. Ribble Co
Chaves
Gail Harris
Harris
Charles Malone
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Board of Trustees
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