Collision in New York Harbor Kills Seven Crews
An American container vessel rammed a Belgian oil tanker near the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor. Both ships burned as explosions followed. at least seven dead including the American captain, more than 20 injured, 68 survivors, and four crewmen missing. The harbor entrance bridge was closed as flames rose high over the strait between Brooklyn and Staten Island.
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New York
New York Harbor
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Brooklyn
Staten Island
William Patterson
Clifton
N.J
Sea Witch
Esso Brussels
David Bracy
Bar Harbor
Maine
Bracy
Michael O'Connor
West Orange
Edwin Sheppard
Sheppard
Counties Reject Local Option Tax In Majority
Most counties vote down the local option income tax with 41 rebuking and 31 approving by Friday midnight. Republican Thomas Milligan predicts wider adoption, while Senate Democratic leader Fair notes rural areas favored the measure. Governor Bowen supported it for urban areas, and repeal chatter grows for 1974.
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Thomas S. Milligin
Robert J. Fair
Princeton
Otis R. Bowen
Milligin
General Assembly
Fair
Senate
Bowen
Elkhart
Judge to Name New Panel for School Suit
A Vigo County school closing case seeks to limit board powers and halt planned elementary closures. Judge C Joseph Anderson reports difficulty finding attorneys to serve as special judges. two panel members are chosen and a third will be named Monday with public announcement and subsequent name strikes by both sides.
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C. Joseph Anderson
Vigo County
Anderson
School Corporation
Jordon Lewis
Samuel Beecher Jr
Gus Sacopulos
Gerald H. McGlone
Preston House Oldest in City Hidden Murder Mystery
Terreh Haute's Preston House 1339 Poplar St claims a 1823 Dewees origin and a troubled past with violent deaths and a rumored missing body. The 150 year old landmark may pass to a new owner amid probate and possible DAR bequest, as locals recall Natalie Preston Smith and the house's grim history.
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Terre Haute
Adams
Preston
Poplar St
Preston Walls
Natalie Preston Smith
Dewees
George Dewees
New Orleans
Smith
Fort Harrison
Daughters of the American Revolution
Weather Update Terre Haute Area Forecast
The National Weather Service notes warm conditions with showers and thundershowers likely tonight and Sunday. Lows around mid 60s, highs in the mid 80s. Indiana faces 60 percent rain chances, Illinois mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms. highs upper 70s to low 80s. Street thermometer reads 62 at 6 am and 70s by 2 pm.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Man 41 hanged himself in Linton jail
Floyd Vest, 41, of RR 2 Linton, Ind., took his own life late Friday night by hanging with a garden hose in his jail cell. Police say he procured the hose, looped it over an overhanging bar, and jumped from a cot. Vest had been arrested earlier the same evening on public intoxication charges.
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Linton
Ind
Floyd Vest
Indiana
Vest
West
Watergate conspirators to testify before L A grand jury
Three convicted Watergate figures E Howard Hunt Bernard L Barker and Eugenio Martinez asked to testify before a Los Angeles county grand jury investigating a psychiatrist's office burglary tied to Daniel Ellsberg. They would be released temporarily from Danbury prison for sworn testimony next week.
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Los Angeles
Joseph Busch
E. Howard Hunt
Bernard L. Barker
Eugenio Martinez
Daniel Ellsberg
Watergate
Archibald Cox
Danbury
Conn
Cox
Samuel Cash
Senate Watergate Invesigating Committee
Senate
Hijackers Escape After Airline Seizure Across Latin America
Two masked gunmen hijacked a Colombian airliner spanning Central America and the Caribbean, demanding prison releases and cash. They fled with 50,000 in Aruba after forcing pilots through Panama and multiple countries, while 86 aboard were reduced at each stop.
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Argentina
Latin America
Hugo Molina
Molina
South America
Resistencia
Here
Charo
Asuncion
Paraguay
Air Force
Panama
Aruba
Ecuador
Peru
Jorge Lucena
Central America
Caribbean
SAM
Vigo Applies for FDA Multi Million Rural Development Program
Indiana officials pursue a federal state rural development test program that could bring up to 10 million in long term, low interest loans to Terre Haute. The plan, tied to a 300 million USDA budget proposal, aims to expand industry and emergency medical services in rural Indiana. District Seven of the West Central Indiana Economic Development District won backing over Columbus and Evansville districts, aided by already completed local planning.
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Terre Haute
Otis Bowen
Indiana
Indiana State Rural Development Committee
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Hoosier
Earl Hogan
Farmers Home Administration
Indianapolis
Agriculture Department
U.S. Senate
Bowen
Congress
West Central
Wciedd
Don Foltz
Jerry Dooley
John Sheehan
Charles Staats
USDA
District Seven
Columbus
Evans ‘Ville
WCIDD
Hous
Motorists in LA logged 18.5 billion miles last year
United Press International reports that Los Angeles drivers traveled 18.5 billion miles in the past year, a distance equivalent to traveling to the moon and back about 37,000 times.
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Los Angeles
Iran Adviser From Indiana Shot to Death
Gunmen killed Lt. Col. Lewis L. Hawkins 42 of Plymouth Ind as he left his Tehran home. He advised the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces and was with the U S Military Assistance Advisory Group. Two unknown gunmen on a motorcycle fired at point blank range near Ab basabad.
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API
Lewis L. Hawkins
Plymouth
Ind
U.S
Douglas MacArthur Jr
Ahwaz
Hawkins
Abbasabad
Iran
Imperial Iranian Armed Forces
The Country Parson Observes Public Perception
In a reflective column the writer contemplates how a person's value is judged by others whether widely disliked or widely liked and questions the fairness of popular opinion shaping one's fate.
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