Sailors Describe Racial Disturbance Aboard Kitty Hawk
About 100 black and white sailors fought aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk last month. The melee with knives and chains lasted hours and left 46 injured before Marines quelled the violence. Navy officials confirmed an incident and a three man congressional panel is probing.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
San Diego
Vietnam
I Navy
Shipy
Manila
North Vietnam
Philippines
Admitted Killer Jailed in Texas Ranch Slayings
Kenneth Adams, 60, rancher and admitted killer of five men, remained silent in Webb County jail on $100000 bond after surrendering to federal agents. He led officers to a remote Freer area house where five bodies were found, one shot in the head. Adams has a prior murder conviction and may have targeted Mexican ranch workers whose identities were not confirmed.
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Lakedu
Tex
Kenneth Adams
Webb County
Adams
W.s.order
Freer
Texas-Arexico
Vews Oten
Roberts
Justice of the Peace
Ernesto Sali
Munder
Texas
United States
Statewide health plan eyed for New Mexico educa tors
An advisory committee to the State Educational Retirement Board plans a single group health insurance for NM education employees replacing district and university policies. The plan would be negotiated by the ERB, covering about 30,000 workers with an estimated first-year cost of 3 to 4 million dollars. Legislative review is expected when the legislature convenes in January.
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Santa FE
N.M
State Educational Retirement Board
New Mexico
Kenneth A. Davis
Davis
ERB
My Friend Irma star Marie Wilson dead at 56
Marie Wilson known for My Friend Irma show and radio programs died of cancer on Thanksgiving Day at age 56. A teen when signed by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, she fought censorship over low cut gowns and later lived with her husband television producer Robert Fallon and adopted son Greg. Funeral plans were pending.
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Hollywood
Marie Wilson
Misa Wilson
Irma
Warner Brothers
Lucille Bail
Miss Wilson
James Cagney
Pat O'Brien
Weland
WAC
Robert Fallon
Greg
Murder Suspect Indicted In 1971 Albuquerque Slaying
A 19 year old Albuquerque man, Mike J. Chavez, was indicted again for the murder of Mary Lee Franson, 2, whose body was found May 8, 1971, in her Northwest Valley home. Two other men, John Will Plant and Frankie Martinez, faced aggravated burglary charges. Martinez and Plant had the murder charges dropped after a Supreme Court ruling on immunity. Chavez had been deemed competent for trial and was ordered to Las Vegas State Hospital.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Mary Lee Franson
Bernalillo County
Mike J. Chavez
State Supreme Court
Chavez
John Will Plant
Frankie Martinez
Martinez
Plant
Supreme Court
Franson
Northwest Valley
Las Vegas State Hospital
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6Th & Pinos Altos
Martin Kennedy
Europe
Sam Padilla
Silver City
Armando Macias
SFC
Karsten Edmonds Jr
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