Tragic Skakel Family Sees Multiple Losses
Joan Patricia Skakel 39, sister in law of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, dies after choking at a Greenwich dinner. Her husband George was killed in a 194? plane crash, and son Mark injured in an explosion last month. autopsy planned.
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Greenwich, Conn
Joan Patricia Skakel
Robert F. Kennedy
Skakel
George
Mark
Ter
Ethel
D.N.Y
Tulsa
Okla
Joan Patricia Corroon
James F. Corroon
George III
Kathleen
Susan
Sen. Kennedy
Greenwich
Virginia
St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church
Doctors retrace Lindbergh route in single engine flight
Two physicians Dr Francis Xavier Sommer and Dr John Rieger launched from Kennedy Airport aiming to reach Paris in 22 hours, retracing Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight. They fly under visual rules with survival gear and Navy developed equipment as weather windows open before the 40th anniversary.
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New York
Charles A. Lindberg
Paris
Lindbergh
Roosevelt Field
Long Island
Atlantic
Francis Xavier Sommer
Barbourville
John Rieger
Los Gatos
Calif
Kennedy
le Bourget
Sommer
Rieger
Nova Scotia
Soldiers Play Dead Fool Foe In Desperate Viet Battle
Survivors of a U.S. infantry platoon in the central highlands recount how they feigned death to fool North Vietnamese forces after artillery fire struck their own position. Twenty two Americans died and eight wounded as reinforcements found the overrun area, while others slipped through to safety.
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Peter Arnett Ducco
Vietnam
U.S
Highlands
U.S 4Th Infantry Division
Clifford Roundtree
Anderson
Calif
Melvin W. Schultz
Culver City
Roundtree
Schultz
Kenneth N. Barker
Brownstown
Ill
Graf
Arizona Man Added to Toll and Indian Youth Dies
State Police added Elvin Valle a 15 year old Indian youth on the Acoma Reservation road to the New Mexico traffic death toll. Tom Gene Crawford 69 of Ganado Arizona died from injuries after a May 10 crash near Gallup on U S 666. Las Cruces agents plan to survey 1400 farms statewide on acreage livestock wages and labor next month.
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Associated Press
Arizona
New Mexico
Acoma
Elvin Valle
McCartys
Tom Gene Crawford
Ganado
Ariz
Public Health Service
Gallup
U.S. 666
Crawford
Las Cruces
Apollo project chief resigns for personal reasons at Cape Kennedy
Maj. Gen. John G. Shinkle, Apollo program manager at Kennedy Space Center, resigns effective May 31 for personal reasons not linked to the Apollo 1 fire. The vacancy may remain unfilled as plans shift toward launch operations managed by Rocco A. Petrone. Shinkle, 55, joined NASA in 1965 after a 30 year Army career including command of ARMA and White Sands.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Kennedy Space Center
John G. Shinkle
Apollo
The
National Aeronaut
Shinkle
Rocco A. Petrone
Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
NASA
Manned _ Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
George Low
Center
Joseph F. Shea
Shea
Washington, D.C
Office
Teachers Survey Probes NM Status and Salary Needs
About 1,100 New Mexico teachers will receive a questionnaire from the governor's council on teachers' salary needs. The survey, sent to 10 percent by random sampling, asks ratings on status classes, communications with administrators, community attitudes, and opinions on governor and legislature efforts toward education. It includes questions on experience education background salary benefits age marital status and dependents.
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Bud Jorgensen
Santa FE
New Mexico
Governor’s Council On
David Cargo
Fred Comstock
Medical Society Award Goes To Dr. Jack Redman
The New Mexico Medical Society gave its 1967 A. H. Robins community service award to Dr. Jack Redman of Albuquerque at the 85th annual Santa Fe meeting. Redman will soon depart on a 60 day medical mission to Vietnam. Senator Carl Curtis warned Medicare costs may rise and noted hospital costs rose 12 to 16 percent last year.
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Santa FE
New Mexico Medical Society
A. H. Robins
Jack Redman
Albuquerque
Redman
Vietnam
Society
Carl Curtis
R-Neb
Political Action Committee
Sen. Curtis
Congress
Deputy Resignation Prompts New San Juan County Deputy
Bruce Brimhall of Farmington will replace Joe Benally as San Juan County deputy sheriff on June 15. Sheriff J. C. Cattaneo announced the transition on Thursday. Benally, who served five years as deputy, resigned to join the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity.
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AZTEC
Bruce Brimhall
Farmington
Joe Benally
San Juan County
J. C. Cattaneo
Benally
Office of
Navajo Economic Opportunity
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Pamela Jo Talmado
Miami
U.S.A
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Navy
Carl M. J. Crowder
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Roswell
Apollo Project
By Jim Strothman
Ics and
Space Administration
Medical Society
Curtis-Mathes
Winks
N. Main
Springfield
Kelly-Springfield
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
Actionland
Pecos Valley Tire CO
Wlma
S.E. Main
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