Crash kills 84 Marines en route to Okinawa from El Toro
A Military Air Transport Service jet carrying 84 Marines bound for Okinawa crashed after takeoff from El Toro California. The four engine C135 exploded in the foothills north of the base, with wreckage scattered over a half mile area as crews searched amid fog and brush fires.
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Air Force
el Toro Marine Base
Calif
Stratford C. Jones
EL Toro
Military Air Transport Service
Okinawa
Here
Far East
Boeing
18Th Air Transport Squadron
McGuire Air Force Base
N.J
Irvine Ranch
Los Angeles
Santa Ana
Walker asks reevaluation of Eagle Creek Dam veto
Rep. E. J. Walker says he may ask the Secretary of Agriculture to order a reevaluation of the SCS January veto on Eagle Creek Dam plans. He cites $3 million flood damage in the Ruidoso Hondo area and urges a new study of feasibility.
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Walker
SCS
Eagle Creek
Soil Conservation Service
Ruidoso River
Johnny) Walker
D-Nm
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
Record
Ruidoso- Honda
Alamo Canyon
Jack M. Campbell
New Mexico
Ruidoso Hondo
Merritt Burdick
Albuquerque
Deadly twin blasts hit Saigon riverfront dining party
Two explosions ripped through the My Canh floating restaurant on the Saigon River during the dinner hour. Witnesses report 40 to 50 dead or wounded, including many Americans, with initial tallies from police listing 17 dead and 24 wounded.
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My Canh
Saigon
Viet Nam
UPI
South Viet Nam
South
East German Reds Threaten Tie Up Over West Berlin
East Germany warned of shutting barge and rail shipments to West Berlin if four power controls and new transit rules are not agreed by June 30. Freight rates may rise about 20 percent and air traffic control could shift after 1948 era basis ends.
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Edwin Kramer
Communist Party Central Committee
Neues Deutschland
Pary
Kramer
West Germany
West Berlin
East Germany
Bonn
Otto Winzer
Central Committee
Berlin
Allied Control Council For
Emergency Funds OK'd For Lincoln
Gov. Jack M. Campbell approved 50000 in emergency state aid from the disaster relief fund for Lincoln County to rebuild roads and bridges after floods. Lincoln officials sought help to repair public routes and school roads in the Hondo Valley. Campbell sent a letter to President Johnson seeking federal disaster designation for Colfax San Miguel Mora and Lincoln counties and requested 800000 in federal aid for public facilities.
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Santa FE
Jack M. Campbell
Lincoln County
Hondo Valley
Johnson
Campbell
Colfax
San Miguel
Mora
Lincoln
New Mexico
Welfare Aid In Chaves County Falls Again In April
Welfare records show 761 families on the rolls and $63 495 in aid for April with 98 new applications and 72 cases removed while 30 were added. Average aid per adult is $62 43 and per family $135 00 amid stricter welfare rules reducing payouts statewide.
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Chaves County
State Welfare Department
Lincoln Colfax designated SBA disaster areas
Lincoln and Colfax counties in New Mexico are named SBA disaster areas after last week's heavy rains and storms. Home, business, church, and charity property damage may qualify for loans at 3 percent interest through the Albuquerque office.
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Washington
Lincoln
Colfax Counties
N.M
Small Business Administration
SBA
Albuquerque
City Awards Insurance Contract
Roswell officials awarded a group life and hospitalization policy to Washington National Life Insurance Co. at 5098.88 monthly. Coverage is mandatory for city workers earning under 300 monthly, with the city paying half the premium or 8 dollars max. Estimated class three cost is about 15 dollars per policy including dependents.
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Roswell
Washington National Life Insurance Co
Hoyt McMinn
Gail Harris
First scientist astronauts named expected Tuesday
Houston AP report says the six members of the nation’s first scientist-astronaut group will be announced Tuesday. Each will hold a doctorate in natural sciences medicine or engineering according to Manned Spacecraft Center spokesmen.
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Houston, Tex
Manned Spacecraft Center
Johnson marks UN anniversary in San Francisco
President Johnson marked the United Nations 20th birthday in San Francisco calling for a global alliance for mankind to fight poverty, the arms race, and population growth. He urged peace efforts in Viet Nam and emphasized U.N. peace-keeping readiness and international cooperation.
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San Francisco
Johnson
United Nations
U.N
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
World Organization
Kansas City
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Cong
U.S
Hanoi Radio
Harold George Bennnett
Perryville
Ark
South Viet Nam Liberation Armed Forces
Sofar
Liberation Armed Forces
Viet Cong
Hanoi
Bennett
Pauline H. Bennett
Binh Gia
33Rd
Ranger
Pvt
Charles E. Crafts
North Jay
Maine
Harold G. Bennett
Honolulu
Marine Air Base
Santa Ana Mountains
Bank OF
Indochina
Dean Reeder
Lincoln, Colfax
City
Moscow
Tass
Algiers
Leroy Baca
Donald A. Deats
Harry S. Truman
Truman
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