Seven Die As Chester Station Wagon Plunges Into Mississippi
A station wagon carrying one woman and nine girls plunged into the Mississippi River at Chester. Seven of the girls are dead and two survived. four others remain missing. The car was impounded for inspection as divers searched the muddy current and a river-side death rite is planned for Deborah Canady, 11.
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Chester
Mississippi
Fern Clark
Tamorah Canady
Leonard Canady
Donna Phillips
Darwin
Mike” Roberts
Clark
Charles Clark
Tammy
Beck
Norma
Cindy
Phillips
Robin
Rebecca Roberts
Deborah Canady
Tamorah
Chester Community Grade School
Roberts
Canady
Carlton
Randolph County
Clarence Alms
Vernon Dasher
Arms
Water Street
Chester Civil Defense Unit
Chester Rescue Squad
Carbondale Emergency Squad
Cahokia Civil Defense Underwater Recovery Team
Walter McCauley
Cahokia
McCauley
Rail clerk charged in hijacking case at Kennedy Airfield
Gregory White 23 of Harvey Illinois faces homicide and sky piracy charges after hijacking a Trans World Airlines jet during a Chicago O Hare to New York flight. He demanded 75000 dollars and a plane, exchanged gunfire with crew and law enforcement, and was wounded when captured by FBI at Kennedy Airport. Slain passenger Howard Franks 65 of Darien Connecticut died in the incident.
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New York
Chicago
Gregory White
Harvey
Ill
White
FBI
Kennedy Airport
U.S
Max Schiffman
Brooklyn
Schiffman
Vietnam
Howard Franks
Darien
Conn
Franks
Albuquerque
N.M
Connecticut
Paul C. Franks
New York University
Trans World Airlines
O’hare
Frank
Catherine Culver
Fond du Lac
Wis
Miss Culver
Joseph Zito
William Jurlay
Zito
Government to turn Alcatraz into national park site
The U S government plans to convert Alcatraz Island, seized from Native Americans who occupied it 19 months, into a wilderness national park. Indian spokesman John Trudell, 25, says the move does not address the nation's treatment of Indians and accuses the government of lying and rights violations.
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San Francisco
Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz
John Trudell
Local Weather Outlook Pleases Warmth Through Week
Partly cloudy and warm with a chance of thunderstorms today. Highs 90 to 95, lows 63 to 69 tonight. Monday will be partly cloudy and cooler with highs 83 to 88. Rest of week shows little change, lows in the 60s and daytime highs in the upper 80s to low 90s.
Tricia Nixon Marries Edward Cox in Rose Garden
Tricia Nixon Cox wed Edward F. Cox in a 10 minute outdoor ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House witnessed by about 400 guests. The father President Nixon attended the reception and danced with his daughter for the first time since his presidency.
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Washington
Tricia Nixon
White House
Edward Finch Cox
Nixon
House of Representatives
Edward G. Latch
Tricia Nixon Cox
Mary Ann Cox
Cox
Tricia
Secret Service
Caribbean
Constance Stuart
United States Army
Edward F. Cox
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Chester Search
DeMaris Berry
The
Southern Illinoisan
St. Louis
Deborah Rennee Canday
State St
Schroeder
Jack Archer
Evergreen Cemetery
Red Bud
J. Leonard
Bessie Faulker Canady
Pentecostal Church At
Jesse Leonard Canady Jr
Tamorah Sue Canday
Elizabeth Ann Canday
Mississippi River
Cindy Clark
Norma Clark
Tammy Clark
Debbie Canaday
Becky Clark
Robin Phillips
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