Prison takeover ends in deadly shootout at Texas Penitentiary
Fred Gomez Carrasco and an accomplice died after emerging from a makeshift library fortress in a prison siege. Two hostages were killed and several others wounded as officers fired to end the standoff. Warden Husbands and corrections officials condemned the violence and pledged a full investigation.
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Huntsville
Tex
UPI
Fred Gomez Carrasco
Texas State Penitentiary
Texas
W.J. Estelle
Carrasco
Julia Standley
Elizabeth Beseda
Josep O’brien
Novella Pollard
Estelle
Rodolfo Dominguez
J.W. Beeler
Idaho Transportation Board Sealed Bid Notice for Highway Project
The Idaho Transportation Board invites sealed proposals for reconstructing 0.379 mile of Clark Fork East county road in Bonner County Idaho Federal Air Project No ER 5788 2. Bids due August 7 1974 at 2 PM at Boise office. Includes Civil Rights assurances and wage requirements.
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Idaho Transportation Board
Idaho Transportation Department
Division OF Highways
West State Street
Boise
Idaho
Clark Fork
Idaho Federal Air Project
Federal Aid
Coeur d’Alene
Idaho Transporation Department
State Contractors License Board
Secretary of Labor
Injured Youth Improves after Lewiston Crash
Spokane dispatch reports Spirit Lake Idaho youth Rick Johnson 16 in critical but slightly better condition after a July 27 crash near Lewiston Montana that killed Dawn Willmore 16. Johnson, driver, suffered head injuries and loss of more of his left leg may follow surgery. Two other passengers were unhurt.
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Spokane
Wash
UPI
Spirit Lake
Idaho
Rick Johnson
Lewiston
Mont
Dawn Willmore
Roy
Deaconess Hospital
Johnson
Willmore
Twin Falls Police Defeat Fire Department in Beer Barrel Race
Four Twin Falls policemen Gary White Bob Mengel Pat Birmingham and Roy Poiter won the annual beer barrel race defeating the firemen. Using fire hoses to propel an empty barrel attached to an overhead pulley the police team became the event’s first winners. Other teams from Hayden Lake Jerome Buhl Filer and Wendell also competed Saturday and Sunday.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
UPI
Gary White
Bob Mengel
Pat Birmingham
Roy Poiter
Men In Blue
Hayden Lake
Jerome
Buhl
Filer
Wendell
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Father O’brien
Cuevas
Ignacio Cuevas
Hal Husbands
W. N. Richardson
P.E. Division OF Highways Administrator
Dennis Bend A
Democrat
Bonner County
Dennis Benda
Mon
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
County Court House
Bernier
Henry F. Samuels
Samuels, Idaho
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