Pima County Fair Opens With Traffic Plan and Variety Acts
The Pima County Fair starts Tuesday with livestock, midway amusements, and entertainment by Polack's Bill Meigs and Frazier's World Shows. Admission is 25 cents to children 16 and under, live shows free, with new fair entrances and a doubled parking lot to ease congestion.
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Pima
Polack
Bill Meigs
Teed
Frazier
Fairgrounds
Flowing
Wells
Aimphitheater
Puthigania
Rincon High School
Pima Community
Chysse
University Peanzona
Tucson Wisdoms
Ist ‘Toro Matse
Interstate 10
Houghton Road
Paennellin
Fair Grounds
I-4
Tucson Transit Co
Fir Grounds
Seven Die in Arizona Traffic Crashes
Five people died in a fiery collision north of here on U.S. 89 involving a Femi truck and two cars towing another vehicle. Victims include Barbara Avlen 22 and Shirley Adele Van Naten 19 of Opden Utah, plus James Allen and Joe Allen. A sixth fatality was Frank Locastro of Glendale in northwest Phoenix, and a seventh was Robert Johnson of Douglas Alaska in Gila Bend. The cause remains under investigation. toll for 1974 reaches 147, thirteen fewer than a year ago.
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Playstate
Here
Arizona Highway Patrol
U.S. 89
James Allen
Williams
Joe Allen
Barbara Avlen
Shirley Adele van Naten
Opden
Utah
Iffs
Frank Locastro
Glendale
Phoenix
Robert Johnson
Douglas
Alaska
Interstate & Heat
Gila Bend
Hell's Angels chieftain convicted and sentenced
Ralph Sonny Barger head of the Hell's Angels in Oakland is sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug offenses. Alameda County Superior Court orders five narcotics terms to run consecutively, with parole hearing after a decade. He was convicted of heroin for sale, cocaine marijuana and other drugs, plus a 1964 marijuana probation violation and a $4500 contempt fine.
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Oakland
UPI
Ralph
Sonny” Barge
Hell's Angel
Lse
Vaceville
Alameda County Superior Court
William J. Hayes
Barger
Hopes fade for 1328 missing in Southeast Asia
Defense officials abandon hopes of finding many of the 1328 missing American servicemen alive after debreifs from 19 former POWs. About 30 are believed dead in crashes or from wounds. only a small number may remain alive beyond 562 acknowledged as prisoners of war.
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UPL
Imore
U.S
Southeast Asia
Defense
Elliot L. Richardson
Richardson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine
Valley Forge Army Hospital
Philadelphia
Scott Air Force Base
St. Louis
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Norfolk
Department
of Defense
Scott
Pentagon
Laois
Laos
Tucson Man Dies in Mobile Home Fire
A 64 year old Tucson man, Arnold D Williams, was found dead in a burning mobile home on St Joseph Court. Investigators say death from smoke inhalation occurred as two passersby and firefighters battled two separate fires in the city. The trailer suffered major damage and an earlier North Side house fire caused about 20000 dollars in damage.
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Tucson
Arnold D. Willams
St. Joseph Court
Roor
Howard Briggs
Astronaut Charles Duke Recalls Moon Walk Experience
Charles Duke told Air Force Association members at Pioneer International Hotel that his moon walk made him act like a child. He joked about using the word fantastic too often and recalled the moment he looked at Earth and the Moon and asked, What am I doing here. He also discussed space program costs and its potential to solve energy and pollution issues ahead of Davis Monthan AFB’s Arizona Aerospace Day open house.
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Charles M. Duke
Jipustun Space Center
Duke
Air Force Association
Pioneer Interational
Air Force
Moon
Earth
Space
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Arizona
POW Families Await Five Tucson Men Return Home
Families of Col. Laird Guttersen and Capt. Myron Donald greet the recently released POWs aboard a Phoenix to California flight. The five Tucson men, shot down near Hanoi in 1969, arrived to good health reports despite back and leg injuries. The scene at March Air Force Base centers on a wave of reunions and medical checkups for returning servicemen.
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Edward J. Sylvester Cunken
March Air Force Base
Calif
Laird Guttersen
Myron Donald
Tucson
Philippines
Gutterson
Donald
Hanoi
Guttersen
Virginia Guttersen
Alan
University of Arizona
Karen
Lyndall
Susan Donald
Donalds
Lance
Theodore Guy
William G. McMurray
McMurray
Clark
Diane
Phoenix
Travis Air Force Base
California
Army
Susan Guy
Ted Jr
Michael
Don
Air Force
Guy
Aero Space in Arizona Day opens at Davis Monthan AFB
Davis Monthan AFB hosts Aero Space in Arizona Day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a long schedule of displays and performances including CAP drill team, Thunderbirds flybys, U2 Maximo, Luke AFB band, Golden Knights autograph session, and AFROTC drills as Festivities conclude. Brigitte Bardot reports two dogs missing amid accusations of animal cruelty.
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CAP
Luke Afb
Golden Knights
Afrotc
Thunderbirds
Dog Wandlers
Paris
Brigitte Bardot
Haman
Miss Bardot
Steamboat Derby Race Set Between Belle of Louisville and Delta Queen
The annual steamboat race between Belle of Louisville and Delta Queen resumes after talks at Cincinnati. Delta Queen drops demands to eliminate run arounds, and the race is scheduled for May 2 during Derby Week in Louisville.
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Louisville, Ky
UPI
Belle of
Louisville
Sion
Queen
Cincinnati, Belle
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