Contractors and associates held in San Francisco union leader slaying
Four men were arrested in the April 5 shotgun death of AFL-CIO Painters Union Local 4 leader Don Wilson. Two contractors helped administer a union welfare fund, one is a contractors association secretary, and a Tenderloin saloon owner. A fifth man, an accountant reportedly in Miami, was being sought. Conspiracy warrants were issued for all five.
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San Francisco
Contractors’ Association
Miami
Don Wilson
Afl-Cio Painters Union Local 4
Natina Alaane
Rome Memorial Kennedy Symbols and Viet Cong Tunnels Captured
Guerrillas in the Rome Memorial area were captured with 16 killed and 30 suspects seized. Marines uncovered a vast Viet Cong cave system along the Tra Khuc River and a three quarter mile tunnel network with arms to village houses. Operation Montgomery began Monday but was only disclosed today. An additional 20 guerrillas were killed by four Air Force Phantom jets. Supporting the 1st Air Cavalry’s Operation Davy Crockett, 260 miles north of Saigon, allied air and naval forces flew 350 combat missions Wednesday in the South.
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Tra Khuc
1St Air Cavalry
Crockett
Saigon
Navy
Marine
Air Force
Memorial nail monument proposed in Rome and Saigon
An AP dispatch describes a planned memorial in Rome featuring a nine foot high concrete nail and a cross formed by a shaft in a public park to honor war martyrs. Veterans, including Navy personnel, are cited with discussion of exemptions and a Kennedy portrait on the project. In Saigon a guerrilla force is reported fleeing atop an electric yard mart.
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Ome
Hungary
Ashington
Navy
Rome's Bar
Viet Nam
John F. Kennedy
Rome
Nam
Amerigo Tot
Admi
Kennedy
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Slovery Yard
U.S
Penal System Hires Collegians For Summer Trainees
Texas Department of Corrections hires 30 college students as summer trainees at state facilities. Trainees from various Texas colleges work June 1 through September 4, earning 315 dollars monthly with uniforms, meals, and lodging provided.
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Huntsville
Tex
Texas Department
George J. Bete
SwRI to Test Exhaust From Die Sels
Southwest Research Institute will study odor and smoke from diesel powered vehicles under an $80,000 contract from the Department of Health Education and Welfare. Tests will run buses and trucks in the lab with simulated road conditions and an odor panel of 10 people. Buses provided by San Antonio Transit System. trucks by a leasing firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Research Institute
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
SWRI
San Antonio Transit System
Guatemalan Rebels Threaten Executions From Cuba
Guatemalan rebels in exile in Cuba threaten to execute those guilty of political crimes in Guatemala since 1954 and to try police and military officers serving the current government. Havana radio quoted the group in a Miami monitored broadcast. They cited the kidnapping of two officials as part of an ongoing intensification of the Guatemalan revolution.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Labor Party
Havana
Guatemala
Jefferson High Senior Wins $2500 Engineering Scholarship
James Andrew Morrisey, a Thomas Jefferson High School senior, won a $2,500 scholarship for electrical engineering from the Alamo City Electrical Contractors Association Scholarship Foundation. The award will fund five years of study at San Antonio College and the University of Texas. Morrisey is the son of Mr and Mrs Andrew J Morrisey.
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James Andrew Morrisey
Thomas Jefferson High School
Alamo City Electrical Contractors Association
Morrisey
San Antonio College
University of Texas
M. C. Donaldson
New Foundation
Andrew J. Morrisey
Army
Union Joins Strike in Tyler
In Tyler the International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers joined a GE plant work stoppage. Local 782 president Bob Few said 540 workers voted 68 against, following about 100 sheet metal workers who struck earlier. The company laid off 300 production employees after a 10 cent per hour pay cut for punch press operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IYLER
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Jin
General Electric Co
Bob Few
Few
Ship Rescues A Restaurant Off Rhodes After Sinking
The Great Sitking, a U S Navy ammunition ship, evacuated all staff and patrons from a floating restaurant near Rhodes as it began sinking. A Navy spokesman said the rescue saved everyone aboard the Kon THRU, with 14 hours of drifting before the incident.
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Naples
Italy
UPI
U.S. Navy
Rhodes
Navy
Kon
Seenae Paani
Blanchard, Okla
103-Year-Old Man Plans To Take Bride
London resident William Chapman 103 announced plans to marry soon with an engagement ring already in hand. A Boer War and World War I veteran, he says he was born 103 years ago in Tunbridge Wells and now runs a Thames estuary boarding house while remaining active.
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London
William Chapman
Chapman
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
Thames Estuary
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