Parks Receives City Honors Before Philippine Assignment
Senior Master Sergeant Charles Parks, key figure in converting Walker AFB to Roswell Industrial Air Center, leaves for the Philippines with his family. Mayor Gail Harris presented him a key to the city and RIDC plaque in a farewell luncheon.
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Charles Parks
Walker Air Force Base
Roswell Industrial Air Center
Philippine Islands
Parks
Gail Harris
Bob Hoffman
Roswell Industrial Development Corp
Saturn 0 Rocket Soars on Maiden Test Flight
The Saturn 5 achieved a historic maiden flight from Cape Kennedy. It placed a 140 ton payload into orbit and sent the unmanned Apollo 4 toward a high altitude as the nation renewed hope for a manned moon landing.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Howard Benedict Cape Kennedy
America
U.S
Globe
Moon
Earth
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Atlantic
NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
Air Force
Samuel Phillips
Hubert H. Humphrey
Tijerina Testifies in Land Grant Trial Amid Mexico Research
Reies Tijerina took the stand in his defense in a federal trial with four co-defendants linked to an October 1966 Echo Amphitheater confrontation. He described research in Mexico as documentary proof of valid Southwest land grants. Other witnesses included Gov. David Cargo and sociologist Clark Knowlton, with testimony detailing tensions between northern New Mexico Spanish speakers and the Forest Service.
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Las Cruces
Reies Tijerina
Mexico
Tijerina
Forest Service
Carson National Forest Echo
Fall City
Tex
New Mexico
Charles Driscoll
Albuquerque
Russia
Cuba
Texas
Indiana
Arizona
Walter Taylor
Philip
Cargo
Driscoll
Clark S. Knowlton
University of Texas
el Paso
Cristobal Tijerina
Ranger Taylor
Isabel Garcia
Taylor
Mrs. Garcia
Ladies
Federal Alliance of Land Grants
Echo Amphitheater
Supreme Court
David Cargo
Lorenzo Tapia
FDA Chief’s marijuana remarks called a disservice
Dr. James L. Goddard head of the Food and Drug Administration told a House Commerce Committee panel that his Minneapolis remarks on marijuana were taken as a license and a great disservice to those interested in the issue. He repeated his view that marijuana poses less health risk than alcohol and urged harsh penalties for sellers while opposing penalties solely for possession. He stressed he opposes legalization.
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Washington
James L. Goddard
House
Goddard
Food and Drug Administration
Minneapolis
Dan Kuykendall
R-Tenn
House Commerce Committee
Marjuana
Hearings Set in Tierra Amarilla Raid Case
Preliminary hearings begin January 29 on state charges against land grant leader Reies Tijerina and 18 others for the June 5 raid on the Tierra Amarilla courthouse.
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Associated Press
Santa FE
Reies Tijerina
Tierra Amarilla
Chrysler UAW strike ends with tentative three year pact
Chrysler and the UAW reach a three year agreement covering about 95 000 workers amid walkouts and plant idling. Wage gains exceed one dollar hourly with Canadian parity promised by mid 1970 and a plan to restore production within days.
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Bill Simmons
Associated Press
Detroit
Chrysler Corp
United Auto Workers Union
Chrysler
UAW
Walter P Reuther
Chrysler-Uaw
Walter P. Reuther
Ford
Reuther
Racial Militance School Described in Nashville Program
Nashville officials opposed an antipoverty project that funded a Negro liberation school preaching racial militance. The stop order halted all 5846 dollars in OEO funds after police linked the school to SNCC militants and racial hatred. Mayor Briley blamed OEO guidelines for turmoil in the Metropolitan Action Commission.
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Washington
Nashville
Nathaniel H. Williams Jr
Metropolitan Action Commission
Senate
Williams
Office of Economic Opportunity
Senate Judiciary Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
OLC
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Beverly Briley
Briley
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
OEO
Congress
Posse Seeks Five Wallabies in Westchester Chase
Westchester County Sheriff John F. Hoy leads a posse to recapture five wallabies that escaped from a Bedford chicken coop last August. The wallabies, owned by an animal importer, have been living in the woods. two were killed by hit and run drivers on a county road.
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New York
Westchester
John F. Hoy
Bedford
N.Y
Hoy
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United Fund
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Roswell
Villa Solano
Thiokol
Utah
R. L. Marquardt
United States
John Parrott
First Baptist Church
Oklahoma City
Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma
Parrot
Baptist Convention of
Land Grant Group
Lansing
Mich
State Executive Office
George Romney
Veterans Memorial Building
Lexington
Miss
Robert G. Clark
London
Bank of England
Vatican City
Vatican
Gary
Ind
Richard G. Hatcher
FBI
Johnson
White House
Ford of
Canada
Posse
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