Two Youths Dead After Highway Crash Near Pelham
Two black men in their early 20s were found dead on Highway 19 near Pelham after being run over multiple times. State Patrol seeks identification while investigators examine why the victims walked four miles unidentified with no pockets or ID. Remains were taken to a Camilla funeral home as police report burglaries, a blood drive, Kiwanis auction, and a campus speech event in town.
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Roy Trefftzs
Pelham
Hwy. 19
Mitchell County
Bobby McLemore
Americus
Tallahassee
Vince Fallin
Thomasville Post
Fallin
State Patrol
Americas
Camilla
Thompson Shoots to Kill Policy Cites Low Macon Crime
Macon mayor Ronnie Thompson defends a shoot to kill policing stance saying it reduced crime and kept officers safe after 1968 civil rights unrest. He claims he ordered police to fatally reply to attackers, cites 875 officers killed nationwide last year and asserts no Macon police fatalities.
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Roy Trefftzs
Macon
Thomasville
Kiwanis Club
Ronnie Thompson
Sam Massel
Atlanta
Martin Luther King
Georgia
Ralph Abernathy
Hosea Williams
Thompson
City Hall
U.S. Firms Sign Gas Agreement With Russians
El Paso Natural Gas Co and Occidental Petroleum sign a letter of intent to import over 25 years more than $10 billion in Soviet natural gas. The plan envisions a 2000 mile Yakutsk to Vladivostok pipeline, a large liquefaction plant, and 20 cryogenic tankers with 2 billion cubic feet per day potential. Japanese firms may participate and provide hard currency financing about $2 billion.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
el Paso Natural Gas Co
Occidental Petroleum Corp
Ministry of Foreign Trade
Occidental
Armand Hammer
U.S.S.R
U.S
Hammer
Yakutsk
Vladivostok
First In Series More Than 30 Projects In Works
City Manager Buford McRae reports over 30 city programs are in the works as he departs June 1. Projects cover paving, airport plans, urban renewal, planning, police and fire upgrades, sewer analysis, wages, and auditorium improvements funded by a $100,000 bond.
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Roy Trefftzs
Thomasville
Buford McRae
McRae
Lowndes
Fred Lynn
Federal Judge to Rule on Watergate Coverage
Federal Judge John J. Sirica said he will rule Tuesday on whether his court can restrict television and radio coverage of Senate Watergate committee hearings. The ruling responds to prosecutors asking the court to order the committee to limit witnesses in sessions broadcast publicly.
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Thomasville Area
Kiwanis Club
N. Spair St
John Sam Griffin
Tom Vancel
Vancel
Grady Burgess
Birdwood College
Annie Mae Powell
Burgess
Washington
US. Dist
John J. Sirica
Watergate
Sirica
Senate
The
Washington Post
Ervin
Hall Smith
Smith
Nixon nominates Kelly as FBI director amid Watergate turmoil
President nominates Kelly for FBI chief as hearings loom. UPI report notes Cox will push for closed testimony and possible indictments by summer. Sirica seeks immunity ruling while Ervin's committee faces open session battles and broadcast rights clash with networks.
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Kelly
FBI
Nixon
Franco To Give Up Presidency Of Spain
In Madrid Gen Francisco Franco will abdicate the government post while remaining head of state. Adm Luis Carrero Blanco is named as likely new government leader with Prince Juan Carlos set to succeed as king. The move would mark Franco’s first transfer of power since 1939 and follows a Secret Council meeting.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Spain
Associated Press
Adm
Luis Carrero Blanco
Franco
Juan Carlos
Carrero Blanco
Secret Council of the Realm
Hector J. Campora
Alejandro Rodriguez de Valcarcel
Cortes
Valcarcel
Movement
Ex-convict Coxson slain in Cherry Hill mansion
In Cherry Hill New Jersey Major B Coxson 43 a flamboyant ex convict tied bound and killed in his bedroom with his hands and feet bound and gagged. His wife Lois 35 and daughter Lita 15 were wounded and his son Toro 12 escaped unharmed. Four armed men fled the scene.
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Cherry Hill
N.J
B. Coxson
Camden
Coxson
Lois
Lita
Toro
Camden County
Tom Daley
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Kenneth Collins
Ed Shepard
Henry Ferst
Albert Simmons
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Bloodmobile
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U.S. Attorney’s Office
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