Red MIG Shot Down By Yanks
U S air squadrons launched raids on North Vietnam after 109 missions on Wednesday including an attack on Nguyen Khe oil stores near Hanoi and a 20 car freight train in Thanh Hoa. One MIG17 engaged. no hits. Two American planes were lost, one crew missing, and a Crusader rescued after parachute. Casualties for the week Aug 7 13: 101 U S dead, 593 wounded, 11 missing. allied deaths total 243. South Vietnam suffered 128 fatalities. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese losses climbed to 1 436, a weekly record since March 2026.
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Hanoi
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Gulf of Tonkin
Central Highlands
Colorado
da Nang
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Boy Killed Brother and Two Others Hurt on Route 17
A car accident near Deposits on Route 17 killed 13 year old Richard Alanga of Floral Park and injured his 11 year old brother Robert Massa 29 from Brooklyn and their uncle Peter Massa in critical and aunt unnamed. The crash occurred yesterday as the vehicle overturned while traveling east of Binghamton.
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N. Y
Route 17
Binghamton
Richard Alanga
Floral Park
Peter Massa
Brooklyn
Robert
Binghamton General Hospital
Rochester Boy Dies When Hit By Train
Vincent J. Antonio Jr. 11 of East Rochester was killed when struck by a New York Central freight train crossing Lincoln Road. Deputies say the train was about 40 mph and the crossing had warning signals. The Antonio family lives at 21 Magnolia Ave.
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East Rochester
N. Y
Vincent J. Antonio Jr
New York Central System
Lincoln Road
Monroe County
Antonio
Magnolia Ave
Big Defense Budget Gets Senate Nod
The Senate approved a record defense package totaling over 58 billion dollars. It funds Navy operations with 939 vessels including 416 warships and submarines, four Marine air wings, and 8 315 aircraft. Defense agencies receive over 3 billion for interservice needs as the budget marks a historic peak outside formal war.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nighttime Furnishings Theft Suspects Apprehended
Two Bronxville widows Marie Bellotte and Nancy Stone were charged after Montauk Surf and Cabana Club night burglaries. Arraigned in Riverhead Town Court they posted 5000 bail each. Easthampton police noted frequent car loads of furniture and items missing from the club.
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N.Y
Bronxville
Long Island
Montauk Surf and Cabana Club
Marie Bellotte
Nancy Stone
Easthampton
Cabana Club
Montauk
Bellotte
Parkview Ave
Stone
Bolton Gardens
House Approves Four Year Pollution Control Plan Vote
The House Public Works Committee backed a four year program to curb river and lake pollution costing 2.45 billion dollars. It trails Senate and administration requests and would fund half the cost of basin wide treatment works with state cooperation. Expenditures would run 300 million in 1968, 400 million in 1969, 650 million in 1970, and 950 million in 1971.
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Washington
House Public Works Committee
Senate
Richard D. McCarthy
D-N
Water Bond Issue Falls Short By One Vote
FALLBROOK Calif AP a 4.5 million water bond issue believed to pass by two thirds failed by one vote after a state law requires more than two thirds officials said 444 yes 222 no though initial results showed passage the district board will canvass returns Monday but does not expect a change.
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Fallbrook
Calif
Water District Board
Nugents Return From Nassau Honeymoon at Kennedy
Mr and Mrs Patrick J Nugent arrived at Kennedy Airport from Nassau and left for an undisclosed destination in a limousine. The President daughter Luci Johnson and her husband traveled with Secret Service protection as photographers were kept away. The couple wed in Washington on August 6 and left for a Bahamas honeymoon.
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New York
Patrick J. Nugent
Kennedy Airport
Nassau
Nugents
Wallace Urges Alabama Legislature To Defy Federal School Guidelines
Governor Wallace asks lawmakers to declare federal desegregation guidelines illegal and nullify compliance pacts with school boards. He proposes shifting control to the governor and legislature, creating a special commission to enforce the law while warning of possible loss of federal funds.
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Wallace
Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
George C. Wallace
U.S. Office of Education
Court Bills Warrant For Fugitive Coppolino
Sarasota court quashed a New Jersey fugitive warrant for Dr. Carl Coppolino the 34 year old anesthesiologist linked to a 1963 New Jersey murder and the 1969 Florida death of his wife Carmella. He remains jailed with arraignment set for Sept. 1 and bond petitions expected.
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Sarasota
Fla
New Jersey
Carl Coppolino
Florida
Coppolino
William E. Farber
Middletown
Carmella
James Russ
Orlando
Russ
Folk Medicine Author Dr De Forest Jarvis Dies in Vermont
Dr De Forest C Jarvis 86 author of Folk Medicine and Arthritis and Folk Medicine died at a Vermont nursing home after two months of care. Born in Plattsburgh NY he lived most of his life in Vermont and was an eye ear nose and throat specialist until early this year. Survivors include widow Pearl Evans and daughter Sylvia Jarvis Smith of South Burlington Vermont.
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Jarvis
Plattsburgh
N.Y
Vermont
University of Vermont Medical School
Pearl Evans
Sylvia Jarvis Smith
South Burlington
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