Wind Damage Rips Through County Area
The storm destroyed homes and killed motorists on an open two lane highway in Frio County. Pat McKinley lost a rented house and a horse while his brother's home was also destroyed. A jackass survived. Sheriff Benny Sanders led the rescue with about 50 workers including deputies and state officers. The search paused at 1 p.m. Sunday with patrols kept out overnight.
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McKinley
Pat
Frio County
Benny Sanders
San Antonio
Sanders
Border Patrol
Texas Department of Public Safety
Pearsall Fire Department
Twister Kills Plainview Newsman and Child
A Sunday dawn tornado in Plainview killed a child fleeing to a storm cellar and newsman David C. Bryant of the Plainview Daily Herald who was 50 yards behind a patrol car. The storm destroyed 25 homes and two businesses and damaged 40 more, with injuries to an oil worker and others. Nearby Corsicana and areas near Rockport and Corpus Christi also reported damage and injuries.
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United Press
Plainview
Sunids Airng
Kevin Lewellen
David C. Bryant
Plainview Daily Herald
Corsicana
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Corpus Christi
Rockport
Light's Action Line Readers Solve Night Bird Mystery
Messages reveal readers discuss a phantom like big bird, a lost pet theory, and a Holmes style detective view. The column shares jokes about La Llorona and notes AL will investigate while keeping the neighborhood quiet. Readers also ask about a handwritten will validity and praise strangers who helped tow a sinking truck.
Five City Council Runoffs in San Antonio Election
The Wire reopens Tuesday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for a runoff to elect five councilmen from 16 candidates for two year terms. Key matchups include Charles Becker versus Roy Barrera in Place 3 with Becker leading by 62 votes. Other races pit Milton Guess against Glenn Lacy, Clifford Marton against Al Rhode, Alfred Beckmann against Joe Rainey Manion, and Leo Mendoza versus Robert Dunn. Independent and GGL candidates compete, with several endorsements noted. All registered San Antonio voters may vote with a 1972 registration certificate.
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Charles Becker
Roy Barrera
Good Government League
Becker
Barrera
GGL
Milton Guess
Glenn Lacy
Clifford Marton
al Rhode
Alfred Beckmann
Joe Rainey Manion
Leo Mendoza
Robert Dunn
Lacy
Mendoza
Morton
Beckmann
San Antonio
Wife Held For Murder In Akron Slaying
Bernadette Grant aged 29 was arrested and charged with first degree murder after returning from her husband Robert Grant's funeral. Grant and three men were charged in the slaying of 32 year old Robert Grant shot Thursday night in front of his home.
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Akron, Ohio
UPI
Bernadette Grant
Chinese on the Way to Open Washington Office
Seven Chinese diplomats arrive in Tokyo en route to Washington to establish a liaison office, led by Hen Hsu. The delegation includes Tsien Ta Yung, former deputy chief of the foreign ministry’s American and Pacific Affairs, and Chi Chao-Che, an interpreter from Nixon era teams. A Tokyo embassy official offered no timetable for remaining staff.
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Tokyo
UPI
Peking
Washington
United States
Hen Hsu
Waston
Iison
Tsien Ta Yung
Department of American and Pacific Affairs
Foreign Ministry
Chi Chao-Che
Nixon
Blood shortage prompts volunteers for San Antonio area
San Antonio area faces a severe blood shortage as Blood Services of San Antonio requests volunteer donors. The nonprofit aims to convert donors by July 1 and notes paid donors raise disease transfer risks. The service covers 57 South Texas hospitals and offers six months of free blood components through its blood assurance program. Those wishing to donate should contact Blood Services at 08 112 Auditorium Circle. The note ends with a stray line about rounders in old English baseball.
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United States Marine Corps
al Rohde
Hamatown
San Antonian
San Antonio
Blood Services of San Anand
Blood Services
South Texas
Bio Services Banks
Tes
Hoult
Auditorium Circle
Toronto fund hits 2.4 million with GM Canada gift
The Toronto fundraising drive for new facilities and animals reached 2.4 million after a 30000 donation from General Motors of Canada Ltd. The total covers 4.2 percent of the 6 million goal for expanded facilities and animals.
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Toronto
General Motors of Canada Ltd
Nixon Plans European Trip and Brezhnev Talks
President Nixon outlines a fall European tour to Great Britain France West Germany and Italy while Soviet leader Brezhnev to visit Washington in late June for follow up talks. Nixon plans to meet French President Pompidou and Italian President Andreotti as part of a broader diplomacy ahead of NATO and European economic discussions.
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Washington
Wpi
Nixon
Europe
White House
Great Britain
France
West Germany
Italy
Leonid 1. Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Moscow
Ropean
Vietnam
Giulio Andreaini
Willy Brandt
Brandt
Allattic Treaty Organization
Peare
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