English boy plans Alamo home movie in progress
Angus Robertson of Cheam Surrey writes to Jacqueline Espy curator of the Alamo, sending a self portrait dressed as Bowie and photos of actors. He aims to film siege reenactments using authentic props, adjust scenes for accuracy, and finish with sound and narration by December or January. He notes delays after exams and thanks San Antonio pen pals.
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Jacqueline Espy
the Alamo
Angus
Himself
San Antonio
Alamo
House Group Paves Way to End Air Strike
National emergency exists as the Commerce Committee approved legislation to end the airline strike. The 60 percent of weekly traffic from major carriers faces disruption if a settlement fails. The bill, backed by Staggers, would order striking machinists back to work for up to 180 days while mediation resumes. Opposition warns of chaos between Congress and the public.
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House Commerce _Committee
iTrans World Airlines
Harley O
Oes
D-W.va
Alamo Heights
Staggers
Chamber of Commerce Will Holding
Sunset Ridge
Con
New Braun
Els
David T. Dillon
International Association of House
Dillon
Machinists
IAM
Northwest Civic Assn
Lions Club
Organ
John Bell Williams
Richard Burton
Oxford
Isi University
Burtons
John Dingell
D-Mich
Johnson
Christopher
Marlowe
Doctor Fallsby
Washington
UPI
Thei
Oil Firm Merger Plan Told
A consolidation of Blanco Oil Co with Consolidated Royalty Oil Co of Casper, Wye, announced by Hugh Halff Jr. Blanco Oil Co is a Halff enterprise. The merger includes South Texas Development Co leases. The new company will be Conroy, Inc with HQ in San Antonio and will list on the American Stock Exchange pending approvals.
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Blanco Oil Co
Consolidated Royalty Oil Co
Casper, Wye
Hugh Halff Jr
Halff
South Texas Development Co
Albany
N.Y
Consolidated
South Texas Company
Conroy, Inc
Tts
San Antonio
Contay, Inc
American Stock Exchange
Ky Predicts Less Need Of U S Force
South Viet Namese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, after a Manila visit, predicted a possible partial U S troop withdrawal from Vietnam in 1968. He said Vietnam could stand strong by then to fight the Communists, while noting continued ally aid for two more years. Ky stressed Asians solving their own problems and that U S assistance comes from free men.
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UPI
Neuyen Cao Ky
Philippines
Saigon
Viet Nam
Ferdiand E. Marcos
San Antonio
David H. Brune
Texas Water Plan
Brune
SARA
Texas
Associated Press
Galiad
Detained actress Jayne Mansfield in Caracas transport delay
Bosomy actress Jayne Mansfield was fingerprinted and detained after tax authorities questioned her earnings in Venezuela. She appeared before Judge Rene Faria and awaited another judge, as officials demanded proof she earned acting fees during a two day personal appearance tour before flying to Panama City.
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Caracas
Ap1
Jayne Mansfield
Venezuela
Miss Mensfield
Fifth District
Rene Faria
Panama City
Maiquetia Oe
San Antonio
Corisetva
Tion
HemisFair
Antonia
New Civil Service Unit Opens in South Central Texas
A new interagency board of Civil Service Examiners for South Central Texas will begin operation Monday at the federal building. The board, replacing several existing examiner groups, is chaired by Maj. Gen. Frank E. Rouse with Harry B. Dolph as executive officer and Elliott Friday directing the information center. In St Louis, a triple murder and suicide at a Webster Groves home left a family of four dead and a man dead from self-inflicted gunshot.
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Interagency Board of Civil Service Examiners
Texas
Federal Building
Army- Air Force? Board
Civil Service Examiners
South Texas
Frank E. Rouse
San Antonio
UPI
Free Zinn
Webster Grove
Masaid Herbert Hausler
Powell Cited By N Y Court
New York State Supreme Court Justice Irving H Saypol cited Rep Adam Clayton Powell for criminal contempt describing him as guilty of misconduct. The contempt trial is set for September 6 and another hearing will decide Powell can pay 500 dollars weekly toward a defamation judgment of 1600.
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NEW York
UPI
State Supreme Court
Irving H. Saypol
Adam Clayton Powell
New York Democrat
Saypol
Powell
Harlem
Esther James
Exhumed Ft. Sam Body Is Identified
A body exhumed near Fort Sam Houston was tentatively identified as Herbert Maddlone of Coxsackie New York, not George A. Miller as previously thought. Identification awaited fingerprint results after a tattoo on the left arm suggested Maddlone. Miller, a World War I veteran, died in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
New York
Canada
Ft.Sam Houston
Maddione
Miller
Alamo
Bly
Herbert Madd Han
Belon
United States
Joné
Coxsackie
Maddlone
Guadalajara
Mexico
Glovia Chappell
N.Y
Brigitte Bardot on Honeymoon in Saint Tropez
Brigitte Bardot and her German husband Gunther Sachs arrived in Saint Tropez to continue their honeymoon aboard a private twin engine plane from Munich. A spokesman said reports claim up to 400 Americans were living in Canada to avoid US draft, with potential prosecution for draft evasion upon return. A separate incident reports Charles Edward Jagours Jr. of Wickliffe killed in a Plano Texas car crash when his vehicle veered off Interstate Highway.
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Saint Tropez
France
UPI
Brigitte Bardot
Gunther.Sachs
Munich
Germany
Canada
United States
Plano
Tex
Charles Edward Jagours
WicKinney
Interstate
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Iine
Ed Schneider
N. Y. Court
Chamber
Liz Taylor
Society
Lauds City
Ft. Sam
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