Fires, Blasts Injure 10 At Train Wreck
Explosions and fire tore through four derailed chemical cars near Texarkana injuring ten people including seven firefighters and three Red Cross workers. Six thousand residents were evacuated within a 1.4 mile radius as authorities feared poisonous fumes from acids and solvents.
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Texarkana, Tex
Highway 59
Texas-Arkansas
State Department of Public Safety
T. O. Manley
Texarkana
Rain Prows Texas With Strong Showers Across Coast
Rain intensified across Texas with heavy coastal showers. Corpus Christi Naval Air Station recorded 2.69 inches in six hours and Brownsville 2.20 inches. Radar showed thundershowers from the Texas Oklahoma line to the Gulf. Readings varied from 102 at Presidio to 81 in Houston Galveston and Brownsville. A funnel cloud was sighted southeast of San Antonio but did not touch ground.
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Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
Brownsville
Texas- Oklahoma Line
Gulf Coast
Kingsville
McAllen
Rio Grande Valley
San Antonio
Presidio
Houston
Galveston
Soviet Warns of Retaliation Over U S Vietnam War
Moscow reports that the Soviet news agency Tass condemned Washington for escalating the Vietnam War and warned that it would inevitably lead to necessary retaliatory steps. The statement did not specify the actions or scope of retaliation.
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Moscow
U. S
Vietnam
Tass
Washington
Merrifield elected to West Texas Chamber board at Odessa event
Gene Merrifield Snyder Chamber manager won a director seat on the Chamber of Commerce Executives Association of West Texas. Grady Elder was named president for 1967 68, as the annual conference rotated through Odessa. Officers from Amarillo, Breckenridge, Tulsa, Denton and other cities were also elected.
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Gene Merrifield
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce Executives Association of
West Texas
Odessa
Grady Elder
Snyder Chamber
Elder
Chamber of Commerce At
Mineral Wells
Cceawt
Snyder
Don Hileman
Amarillo
James Hestand
Breckenridge
Don Crocker
Tulsa
Greg Lewis
Denton
E. H. Sheffield
del Rio
Wayne Smith
Borger
James Smothers
Cisco
Frederick Tyler
Midland
Keith Vaughn
Kermit
Carroll Davidson
Big Spring
Merrifield
British Warn China After Peking Mission Burning
The British Foreign Office accuses the Communist regime of an uncivilized act in burning the British diplomatic mission in Peking and vows to sit tight while imposing travel and visa restrictions on Chinese diplomats in Britain. Fifty four staff and dependents sought refuge in embassies as Red Guards attacked the mission during a day of protests and violent clashes in Hong Kong and London.
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Rodney Pinder
London
British Foreign Office
Peking
Britain
Red China
Donald Hopson
Mao Tse-tung
Hong Kong
Whitehall
China
Foreign Office
Shen Ping
Fice
Hopson
Red Guards
Kyodo
Plane Falls Into South China Sea
A plane crashed into the South China Sea near Hong Kong with nine aboard. Two critically injured Nationalist Chinese were rescued by a U.S. amphibian plane from Clark Airbase and flown to Hong Kong. A third survivor was saved by a ship. British and American forces scoured the area for more survivors.
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Hong Kong
South China Sea
U.S
Clark
Five Cuban Refugees Reach Corpus Christi After perilous Gulf Crossing
Five Cuban refugees arrived at Corpus Christi aboard the Esso Exeter after a four day sea trip from near Havana. They faced rough seas a leaking boat and circling sharks while being passed by several ships without aid before boarding a larger vessel.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Texas
Florida
Esso Exeter
Alfred Fritz Guthner
Selma
Alfred
Guthner
Selma Dupont
Roberto Ramon Garcia
Havana
Gulf
Key West
Fla
Sun Avenue
Go Go Dancer's Children Slain in Indiana Field
Three young children of John Linn were found shot to death in a brushy field near Heltonville Indiana. Linn led investigators to the bodies and faces a preliminary murder charge. The victims were Jerry Dale Linn 5 Debra 4 and Kathy 2.
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Bedford, Ind
Heltonville
Indiana
Robert Collier
Lawrence County
John Linn
Seymour
Ind
Jerry Dale Linn
Debra
Kathy
Linn
Donald Kerr
Bedford
Red Rooster Club
Jeffersonville
Youth Fatally Crushed In Crash With Logging Truck
In Nacogdoches Texas on Tuesday a car collided with a logging truck. William C. Bil Falk 15 was pronounced dead at the scene after being trapped in the wreckage for about 30 minutes.
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Nacogdoches, Tex
Nacogdoches
William C. “Bil” Falk
Calm Returns To New Haven After Racial Disorder
Calm returned to New Haven after three nights of unrest. Police enforced an 8 p.m. curfew in four predominantly Negro neighborhoods surrounding downtown, as officers kept streets quiet and residents sensed the worst was over in the city of 139000.
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New Haven
Weather snapshot for Texas regions forecasts warm stretches
Snyder and Texas zones report high temperatures around 90 today with lows near 62. Forecasts show partly cloudy, warm conditions across North Central and Northeast Texas through Thursday with scattered afternoon and evening storms. Other regions anticipate highs from the mid 80s to mid 90s and varying overnight lows, with showers and thundershowers and winds near coastlines.
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Snyder
North
Texas
Pecos
Federal forces claim victory in Biafran conflict at Ore
Lagos reports federal troops have driven Biafran forces from Ore, 20 miles inside West Nigeria, with 3,000 troops and armored cars reinforcing as bridges near Ore are blown. The battle could shape seven week civil war, while other fronts see Warri post seized by federals and threats of a new assault toward Enugu.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Radio
Ore
West
Midwest
Lagos State
Warri
Enugu
Biafran
United States
Balkan
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Mex
Cocoanut Workers Union
Red Cross
Mare Corps Reserve Center
International Creosote Plant
Dave Hall
The
Texarkana Gazette
U.S. 59
Hall
Associated Press
Towle Park
M. L. Broman
Nita Farren
City Hall
Bill Blythe
Dale Hoyle
George Patterson
Dupont
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Customs
Esso
Garcia
Cuba
Ministry of Trade
Jean de Voielier
Ple
Rath Ya Do
South Vietnam
Jean
Nancy
France
Ize
Soviet Union
State Department
Biafra
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