Texas prisoner claims he killed in Chicago and elsewhere
Howard County officers quoted 27 year old John M. Peters saying he beat to death three Chicago women in a 1960 city park and killed others in Texas New Mexico and Illinois. Sheriff Harris said Peters offered few details and Illinois police were to be consulted for confirmation.
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Miller Harris
Starved Rock State Park
Ottawa
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Joliet
Peters
Sam Blackburn
Big Spring Herald
Harris
Illinois
East Texas
New Mexico
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Capitan
Ruidoso
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Weger
Stateville Penitentiary
Lillian Decetting
Frances Murphy
Mildred Lindquist
Alabama
Las Lunas
Hobart
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Races Set At Bottomless Lakes With 100 Cars Expected
More than 100 sports cars from the western United States will race next weekend at Bottomless Lakes State Park in Roswell. The eight mile closed circuit will reach speeds over 160 mph, with classes from stock roadsters to Cobras Ferraris and Lotus. Spectator areas and practice times are announced with admission at 1.50 per person per day.
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Cabral
United States
Bottomless Lakes State Park
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Rio Grande
Sports Car Club of America
Roswell
Car and Driver
Southwest Racing News
Chamber of Commerce
S. Main St
Lincoln Sheriff Checks on Peters Acknowledges Possible Kinship
Lincoln County Sheriff Glenn Bradley said there may be truth to John M. Peters claim he killed a man and hid the body in a canyon near Ruidoso. Peters, 27, jailed in Big Spring, Texas, was arrested June 28 between Capitan and Ruidoso by state police.
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Big Spring
Peters
Bradley
Fred Jones
Midland
Tex
Carrizozo
Roswell
Albuquerque
Los Lanas
Rebels in Congo threaten fate of held Americans and Belgians
Rebels in Stanleyville threaten to move 60 American and Belgian captives to unspecified fates as Belgian paratroopers and Congolese troops close in. Stanleyville refuses to send a negotiating envoy, while radio broadcasts warn of harm to captives and a three-member surveillance scheme.
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U.S
Stanleyville
Kenya
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Kindu
Lowa
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South Atlantic
Soviet Union
Gbenye
Tass
United States
Bangui
Central African Republic
Car Turns Over On Pine Lodge Road After Hunting Trip Ends
A Volkswagen sedan overturned 15.5 miles northwest of Roswell on Pine Lodge Road Saturday afternoon ending a hunting trip. Driver Morris Michael Ward, 17, and passenger Louis C. Cox III, 16, both of Roswell, were not injured. Investigation by State Patrolman Melvin West.
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Morris Michael Ward
W. Frazier Sr
Louis C. Cox III
New Mexico Dr
Melvin West
Kennedy Memorial Services Scheduled
Memorials mark the first anniversary of John F Kennedy's assassination with Masses and prayers in Washington Dallas Austin Boston Rome and various sites. Wreaths at Arlington include a group from St Margaret's Bronx while Dallas clergymen are asked to keep personal remembrance private. Cardinal Cushing leads a Boston Mass and Pope Paul VI may pray at private audience.
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New York
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Tex
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Jonsson
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Austin
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Boston
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Ard
Cushing
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Jacqueline Bouvier
Newport
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Massachusetts
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Paul VI
Rome
Santa Susanna
St. Paul's
Arlington
UPI
New York City
American Guild of Organists
Glee Club of
Franklin & Marshall College of Lancaster
New York Metropolitan Area
Nassau Community College
Garden City
College
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Salem
Ore
St. Edward’s Church
San Francisco
Kidnapped baby found in Bronx woman's apartment
Police arrested Anna Canabal after locating 5 week old Evelyn Denise Toro in a Bronx apartment. The infant had been snatched from her grandmother, who was beaten with a claw hammer. Detectives traced the suspect through a prostitution arrest description. The grandmother identified the intruder from a health clinic meeting.
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New York
Bronx
Anna Canabal
Evelyn Denise Toro
Zeno Mercedes
Julio
Carmen Toro
Mercedes
William Stapp former NMMI commandant dies at 53
Tom Stapp 53 longtime Roswell resident and former commandant of New Mexico Military Institute died Saturday after a heart attack at Ball and Ray Clothiers. He served as NMMI commandant for seven years beginning in 1946 and retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. Funeral services set for Monday at 3 30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church with military honors at South Park Cemetery.
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First Presbyterian Church
Tom Stapp
New Mexico Military Institute
Ball & Ray Clothiers
Stapp
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Ballard
Ball & Ray
N. Main St
NMMI
Roswell
Las Vegas
N.M
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Denver University
Bill Deane
New York Life Insurance Co
Army Reserve
Armor
Stephen Thomas
John William
Michael Joseph
James Berry Stapp
F. Homer Tegler
Ballard Funeral Home
South Park Cemetery
Mr. Stapp
Labor strike delayed as railroad walkout paused
Washington a Labor Department spokesman said Saturday night a strike against the nations rail roads threatened for Monday morning has been postponed. Detonation of multiple city dispatches reports a Kansas rescue and a Philadelphia area incident.
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Labor Department
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