Buzzards Draw Crowds to Hinckley Weekend Observation
In Hinckley Ohio residents and visitors packed the Hinckley Reservation for an annual buzzard sighting, with about 20 000 to 1 passerby-to-bird ratio noted. Birds arrived from across Ohio, the event drawing pancake sellers and local merchants as a Cleveland radio station broadcast nearby.
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Hinckley
Ohio
Whipps Ledges
Cleveland
Cleveland Zoo
Medina County
Buzzard
Israelis Strafe Jordan Bases Amid Gaza Attacks
Israeli warplanes bombed Arab guerrilla bases in Jordan for a second day as bases southeast of the Sea of Galilee came under attack. An Al Fatah spokesman claimed six jets were downed. Four dead and seven wounded were reported in Amman. Golda Meir presented her new government to the Knesset and urged direct negotiations for peace.
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Tel Aviv
Jordan
Gilead Mountains
Sea of Galilee
Amman
al Fatah
Golda Meir
Knesset
Levi Eshkol
Sheffield Lake Soldier Dies After Wounds in 1966
Wayne Benge a 21 year old Army sergeant from Sheffield Lake died from wounds received in 1966 after nearly three years of pain. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Johnson and lived at 4386 Lake Road. He died in Veterans Hospital.
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Sheffield Lake
Wayne Benge
Joseph Johnson
Lake Rd
Walther
Interpreting a likely true false quiz on whooping cranes
The passage notes Interior Secretary Hickel ordered more protection for whooping cranes in Everglades National Park and asks if this is true or false. It references a hospital case in Cleveland, a Vietnam wound story, and a Sheffield Lake police dispatcher named Wayne Benge.
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Walter J. Hickel
Everglades National Park
Maracaibo Jet Crash Leaves 152 Dead
Witnesses described a Viasa DC plane catching fire on takeoff, slicing through Ziruma suburb and La Coruba, killing 152 and injuring 125. All 85 aboard perished including 47 Americans. 46 Americans confirmed aboard. Rescue and hospital crews mobilized as authorities declared disaster area.
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Maracaibo
Venezuela
UPI
Ziruma
Grano de Oro
Suarez Romero
U.S
United States
Midwest
Caracas
Clark Equipment Co
Battle Creek
Mich
All-Nippon Airways
Tokyo Bay
Thai Outpost Foils Viet Cong Attack Near Saigon
A Viet Cong battalion attacked a Thai held outpost 20 miles east of Saigon in waves but was repelled in hand to hand fighting. The clash left 109 Viet Cong dead and 2 Thai soldiers killed with 19 wounded while U.S. air and artillery aided the defense.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Soviet Slave in Siberia Speaks at Holy Name Banquet
John Noble, an American who spent nine years in a Soviet Arctic labor camp, told his story to about 700 attendees at Lorain County’s Holy Name Society banquet. He recalled brutal conditions, a life of imprisonment, and a 1955 release after Eisenhower’s Moscow note.
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John Noble
Arctic
Siberia
Lorain County
Noble
Dwight Eisenhower
Moscow
Silver Star Awarded Posthumously To Wellington Soldier
Wellington soldier Sgt. Timothy J. Cottrell, 19, was killed in Vietnam August 27. He received the Silver Star for gallantry after returning fire on a sniper, saving his patrol. His parents accepted five posthumous awards at ceremonies in Cleveland including Bronze Star Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Commendation Medal, and Purple Heart for injuries leading to his death at Loc Ninh near the Cambodian border. Cottrell, a Ranger with Co. B 1st Bn 1st Infantry Div 16th Infantry, graduated Wellington High School in 1967 and enlisted June 29, 1967.
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Wellington
Timothy J. Cottrell
Vietnam
Roy E. Cottrell
Quarry Road
RD 3
Federal Building
Cleveland
Cottrell
Loc Ninh
Lai Khe
First Infantry Division
16Th Infantry
Wellington High School
Army
Weather Outlook Shows Warmer Temperatures Ahead
Sunny and warmer today and tomorrow with fair cool nights and 30s lows. Highs reach 50s to 60s tomorrow and little change Wednesday. Sunset today at 6 35 p m and sunrise tomorrow at 6 34 a m. High 43 at 1 p m yesterday and low 32 at 1 a m today. Details Page 18.
New York Faces Urban Renewal and Rising Costs
A fragmented column comments on New York's urban renewal struggles describing a perceived edifice crisis and noting consumer prices such as Henry o pitous-Daly items priced at $2.49. The text hints at sharp housing and development pressures amid general cost concerns.
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New York
Accident injures and death rock Lorain
Lorain reports a second traffic fatality of the year as Stanley Szymanel 46 dies at St Joseph Hospital from injuries in a Saturday crash. He lost control of his car on Henderson Drive striking a utility pole and suffered internal hemorrhaging per the coroner. He worked as a carpenter at U S Steel Lorain Works.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Maracaibo
Charles Jack Whitman
Ohio
United States
Whitman
U. S
Lorain
Stanley Szymanel
St. Joseph Hospital
Szymanel
Colorado Ave
Henderson Dr
Lorain County
Paul Kopsch
Lorain Works
U.S. Steel Corporation
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Israel
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Emiliano Savelli
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Elio
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