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Newspaper
Silver City Daily Press
Location
Silver City, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1969
Page
1
A wife of a prisoner of war requests permission to visit her husband in North Vietnam. The letter is sent through diplomatic channels and mentions efforts by officials to arrange a meeting, amid calls for humane treatment and family contact.
Authorities report three hikers rescued from a Cove area in Glacier Park after becoming stranded. Officials described rapid weather changes and rough terrain delaying the operation but all climbers were brought to safety without injuries. Local rangers coordinated with search teams near the glacier and valley shelters.
The fragmentary text mentions football related terms and several garbled phrases with names like Arai Kayden and references to places near Saigon and various entities.
A Jersey firm gained control of a large bank in a turbulent weekend saga. Directors warned against challenging the move, while a fiery airplane crash nearby injured a pilot as authorities investigated possible links to broader market strain.
A chartered Canadian jetliner carrying 260 people landed at Shannon airport after two fuselage holes and a blown engine cover caused rapid depressurization. Royal Air Force escorts guided the stricken plane 600 miles from land. Passengers, mostly Canadians and British emigrants, debarked unharmed and spent the night at Shannon.
AP reports a munition laden Western Pacific train exploded near the Salt Lake City line 150 miles west. Four injured including conductor Taylor Johnson. Bombs scattered over brush, fires started, explosions warned by Army officials.
In Seattle on Sunday two bombs and two firebombs exploded in separate locations. The attack damaged the University of Washington administration building and a paint store, with two blasts suspected as hoaxes. No injuries were reported as police linked the incidents to the same suspect or group. Two cars were damaged by firebombs in the Green Lake area, the pattern pointing to a single culprit.
Washington reports Bonny The Monk, a Thailand pigtail monkey, launched from Cape Kennedy aboard a Nelta rocket into orbit for 30 days. Spokesmen say the monkey will help establish medical guidelines for long space stays, with implanted sensors monitoring brain and heart function while the animal completes behavioral tests and receives food rewards.
Los Angeles AP reports Bad Lytton founder of Ue Lytton Savings and Loan Association, once a major Que nation financier, died Sunday. Aerie Sigmed, former head of Lytton Financial Corp, led the parent company during its peak.
The University of New Mexico School of Medicine enters its fifth year as a significant economic and health drive for New Mexico. State funding of 31.5 million supports a 36 million annual infusion from federal grants and research, yielding high returns and supporting programs from Bernalillo County Mental Health Center to regional medical care initiatives. The school runs a, Estancia pilot clinic, trains new doctors and para medical staff, and provides statewide physician education and statewide medical services, including open heart surgery and a toll free information center for 268 subjects.
Three people died in separate New Mexico weekend crashes. A pickup pulling onto a highway from a roadside store killed driver Terral Duane Welch, 41, Arrey, and left 29 aboard the bus driven by John Henry Quinn, 27, Albuquerque, with no bus injuries. In Mescalero a collision killed Brooks Wendall Way, 18, Hollywood, and Mitchell Robert Luck, 18, Ruidoso, while a Day Helen Betts, 18, Hollywood, was hospitalized in El Paso after a Hollywood pickup and a car crash. Earlier in the weekend two more died in Albuquerque and one in an automobile pedestrian crash Friday night.
Reies Lopes Iyerina, held on a charge of assaulting a federal officer, is to face a preliminary hearing today in Albuquerque. Federal marshals delivered him from the La Tuna reformatory after a June revocation of his $2,000 appeal bond linked to a 1087 liberal conviction.
Kioland Anderson, foreman of the Silver City Smokejumper Unit, received an award on behalf of the crew from regional forester Kenledy for superior services from 1951 through 1954. President Eisenhower opened the St Lawrence Seaway ceremony in Montreal on June 26, calling it a symbol of democratic nations working together.
El Paso voters rejected bonds and a maintenance tax for a new community junior college on Saturday. Property owners and nonowners opposed the levy up to 60 cents per 100 of assessed value and the $14 million general obligation bonds aimed at a 4 acre campus and initial enrollment of about 4,311, with defeat of any one proposal crippling the overall plan.
Astronaut Eugene Cernan from Bellwood returns home to a crowd of about 20,000 as Thomas P. Stafford joins him in a motorcade through town. The pair appear at a rally at Proviso Bask High School, Cernan’s alma mater, with his mother Kase living in Bellwood.
The 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver set a daily hearing date and ordered additional trial transcripts in the case involving assault on a Forest Service officer in the Carson National Forest. The appeal centers on the revocation of a bond.
A fragmentary note mentions Heetie Coane and Lestendieni in connection with a fetus case. The unreadable lines leave the precise action unclear but indicate a local public record item or notice involving these entities and a court or agency.
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