Scouts to Camp Near Carlsbad for Aquatic Night
Puerto Rico scouts traveling to Philmont Scout Camp in northern New Mexico will spend August 4 at the Conquistador Council aquatic camp near Carlsbad for a Pecos swim. Villa Solano boys enjoyed a pleasant evening with the Steins in Roswell, including swimming and a lawn picnic.
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Puerto Rico
Philmot Scout
New Mexico
Conquistador Council
Carlsbad
Pecos
Villa Solano
Roswell
Dave Stein
Pat Henderson
Solano
Steins
Cahoon Park
Porter Forest
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Air Force defers pullback of 5900 guardsmen from Korea duty
Secretary Brown refused to suspend orders pulling 5900 air guardsmen from activated local units. He said they have had months since being called up to align their personal affairs before any further action.
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Associated Press
Washington
Air Force
Harold Brown
Korea
Brown
Cambodians Seize U.S. Craft In Mekong Delta
The Cambodian navy seized an American patrol boat in the Mekong Delta and arrested 11 Americans and one South Vietnamese aboard. U.S. authorities confirmed the missing landing craft with 10 Americans aboard, while noting no South Vietnamese passengers were listed.
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Saigon
Mekong Delta
U.S
Delta
Phnom Penh
Dong Tam
My Tho
Binh Thuy
Can Tho
Mekong
Bassac
United States
Cambodia
Australia
Norodom Sihanouk
Washington
South Vietnam
Ray arrives at Shelby jail for MLK murder trial
James Earl Ray, in a bullet proof vest and handcuffed, is moved from the Memphis Naval Air Station by Boeing 707 to the Shelby County jail where he will await arraignment on the Martin Luther King Jr. murder charge. Judge W. Preston Battle will oversee the case with a no publicity order in effect.
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Ray
Shelby County
Tennessee
William Morris
James Earl Ray
Memphis
Bill Johnson
Associated Press
Memphis, Tenn
Martin Luther Kino
Millington
W. Preston Battle
Battle
Morris
Criminal Court
John Coulton
Coulton
London
Wandsworth
England
Sheriff's
Contempt Cited for Chicago Gang Leader Jeff Fort
Eighty senators vote to direct prosecution of Jeff Fort vice president of Blackstone Rangers for refusing to answer Senate investigators questions. Fort walked out of a hearing after being asked about ties to a job program and other gang, with grant funds reportedly used for weapons and drugs. The resolution moves to the U S attorney for action.
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Washington
Chicago
Senate
U.S. Attorney’s Office of
District of Columbia
Jeff Fort
Blackstone Rangers
Fort
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
The
Rangers
Devil’s Disciples
Office of Economic Op
Marshal Patner
Patner
Illinois
Everett M. Dirksen
Charles H. Percy
Percy
Arthur Brazier
Woodlawn Organization
July Rest of Month May Break Roswell Rain Record
July in Roswell ranks as one of the wettest on record with 4.98 inches by Thursday evening and 13 days left in the month. The city’s wettest July was in 1939 with 5.32 inches, while July 1905 had 4.97 inches and this month surpassed 1905.
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Roswell
Akron Curfew Enforced Second Night in City Turmoil
Akron imposes a second curfew from 9 pm to 6 am as National Guard may begin withdrawal if no further racial disturbances occur. Police report 123 arrests total since Wednesday with tear gas used to disperse groups in Afro American Liberation Front clubhouse incident.
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Akron, Ohio
Akron
National Guard
John S. Ballard
Ballard
Judson Kirk
Summit County
Harold Craig
Craig
Kirk
New
Afro-American Liberation Front
Wooster Avenue
Summit County Sheriff's Deputies
Girl Reads Fast Clip Defies Reading Speed Records
In Chicago AP reports 15 year old Maria Teresa Calderon from Manila reads up to 50 000 words a minute with near perfect comprehension. Her Northwestern University teacher confirms the feat after she finished a four page 3 135 word article in 3 5 seconds.
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Chicago
Maria Teresa Calderon
Maria
Manila
Philippines
Florence Schale
Northwestern University
Traffic Kills Three In New Mexico Accidents
Two teens and a truck driver died in separate New Mexico crashes on a rainy day. Nemo Snow 15 Hachita died in a pickup rollover while George Weyland Ballard 35 Albuquerque perished in a double semi crash near Moriarty. Larry Coriz 18 Santo Domingo Pueblo died in a motorcycle accident on the reservation, not counted in the state toll. A fuel tank fire damaged a phone line and cut service to Moriarty Vaughn Estancia Corona and nearby communities for hours.
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Associated Press
New Mexico
Larry Coriz
Santiago
Lupe Coriz
Santo Domingo Pueblo
Nemo Snow
Hachita
George Weyland Ballard
Albuquerque
Moriarty
I-40
Dorian E. McBeth
Vaughn
Estancia
Corona
Canadian Mail Delivery Tied For Second Day
Nationwide strike by 24 000 post office workers halted regular mail for a second day. Canadians used telephones, telegraphs and U S Mail. border towns rented U S boxes and arranged pickups. U S stamps rushed to Blaine Washington as Vancouver post office swamped. Bell Canada Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Telecommunications saw 50 percent business jump while Air Canada and Canadian Pacific Airlines reported surges in air cargo and express services. Experts hired extra staff to cope with demand.
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Ottawa
U.S
Blaine
Wash
Vancouver
Toronto
Bell Canada
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific Telecommunications
Air Canada
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Air Express
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Reexaarka
Phil Cooke
State Parks and Recreation Commission
Kbim-Tv
Bluewater Lake
Caballo Lake
City of Rocks
Navajo Lake
Pancho Villa
Santa Fe River
Cooke
Bottomless Lakes State Park
el Paso
West
Johnny Walker
Walker
H. Kenneth Rhodes
B. C. Rhodes
N. Sherman
Lubbock Christian College
Enmu-Portales
Church of Christ
Elida
Artesia
Rocky Ford
Colo
Lakeview
Tex
New York
Seafarers International Union
Democratic Party
Dean Rusk
Canada
Wall Street Journal
Prague
Alexander Dubcek
New Mexico Racing Commission
Gene Hensley
Ruidoso Downs
Hensley
San Francisco
Haight- Ashbury
Michael Moore
Vientiane
Laos
North Vietnam
James Frederick Low
Sausalito
Calif
Maitland
Fla
Fred Neal Thompson
Taylors
S.C
Big Spring
Joe Victor Carpenter
Victorville
Uppsala
Sweden
World Council of Churches
Vietnam
Iinois
Bell Telephone
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Miami
Rogelio Hernandez Leyva
National Airlines
Havana
Ray Back
King
Snow
Victoria Ranch
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