Train vandalism reported rising across New York railroads
Four major New York City railroads report increasing attacks on trains with rocks and tampering. Private police patrol tracks, aid from radios expanding, while costs for cracked windows soar. incidents peak in congested urban routes with occasional summer declines.
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New York
New York City
Long Island
Penn Central
New Haven
Erie-Lackawanna
The
East Harlem
Bronx
Newark
Paterson
Swimmer Drowns in Falling Creek Reservoir
Curtis Ray Wall, 19, of Batley North Carolina drowned Monday in Chesterfield County's Falling Creek Reservoir near his construction work site. Fellow workers said he initially reached shore but later re entered the water and disappeared before rescue. Wall was employed by a Goldsboro firm on the sewer project.
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Richmond
Curtis Ray Wall
Batley
N.C
Chesterfield County
Falling Creek
Wall
Goldsboro, N.C
New 1969 Needlecraft Catalog Selections
Needlecraft catalog offers patterns for knitting crochet sewing and weaving with prices. Notable items include rug patterns 7175 20 by 28 inches and miscellaneous craft books priced at 50 cents each with mailing options and an order address at Old Chelsea Station New York.
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Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Needlecraft
Burglar Given 30 Years for Beltway Crime Spree
Alfred R. Saulsgiver Jr., 23, of Fairfax, was sentenced to 30 years by Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Barnard F. Jennings after pleading guilty to breaking and entering conspiracy to rob and burglarize. The case links him to 12 others in as many as 5,000 burglaries over 18 months.
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Fairfax
Washington Beltway
Fairfax County Circuit Court
Barnard F. Jennings
Alfred R.saulsgiver Jr
Saulsgiver
Jennings
Watt Reelected Rector by Virginia Tech Board of Visitors
Virginia Tech Board of Visitors reelected Harry C. Watt of Roanoke as rector. Watt, former senior vice president of Norfolk & Western Railway, was named Monday. The board also reelected Witt A. Williams, vice rector, and John W. Hancock to the executive committee along with Eugene Rowe, Edward Givens, and Mrs. Mavis M. Gibbs.
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Blacksburg
Virginia Tech Board of Visitors
Harry C. Watt
Roanoke
Watt
Norfolk & Western Railway
Witt A. Williams
Orange
John W. Hancock
Eugene Rowe
Greenville
S.c
Edward Givens
Richmond
Mavis M. Gibbs
Crewe
Child weeps atop scorched tricycle after Tay Ninh battle
Tearful Vietnamese boy sits on a burned tricycle as heavy fighting destroys his Tay Ninh home. The four block area was leveled in clashes between Allied troops and about 1,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces near Saigon.
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Tay Ninh
Saigon
Combat Vets Find Day At Beach Welcome Break
COSCO BEACH Vietnam unit members from Charlie Company 1st Battalion 505th Airborne Infantry of the 82nd Airborne and the 101st Air Cavalry enjoy a rare beach day at fire base Panther II near Hue. Soldiers in full gear swim, play games, and share a barbecue while reflecting on combat life and home.
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Cosco Beach
Vietnam
John Miedema
Grand Rapids
Mich
Steve Farnsworth
Wilburne
Ore
Charle
505Th Airborne Infantry
82Nd Airborne Division
101St Air Cavalry Division
Panther II
Hue
South China Sea
William F. Jones
Newark
N.J
Coleco Beach
Colo Beach
Chow
101St
Pfc
Michael Powell
Flint
Jones
John MacNeil
Boston
Zoeller Birthday Treat Sparks One Overcoat Club
On his 81st birthday C Urban Zoeller treated the One Overcoat Club with 28 gallons of mammoth strawberries imported from California by air express. The club requires members to wear just one overcoat as a condition of membership.
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New Albany, Ind
C. Urban Zoeller
Zoeller
Air Express
California
Foreign money boosts American stocks amid growing institutional demand
Foreign investor inflows into U S corporate stocks rise as Europe funds find U S markets. Mutual funds pension funds and life insurers push to deploy record cash, with institutions owning a growing share of NYSE stocks and projections to near seventy percent in the 1970s.
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New York
Mutual
Europe
United States
U.S
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Fowler
Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Dayce Unveils Flexible Alfa Blade for Mowers
Dayton Ohio firm Dayce Corp introduces the Dayco Alfa Blade a flexible mower blade designed to curve over solid objects reducing severing risk. Research head A L Freedlander notes improved safety versus rigid metal blades which can cut through feet or hands. Doctors advised blade will still jolt but not sever. ready for original OEM and replacement markets.
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Dayce Corp
Dayton
Ohio
A. L. Freedlander
Dayco
Freelander
Dayco Alfa
Dayce
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VPI Board of Visitors
Bekim Feyma
Vic Weisman
Wheeling
W. Va
Howard Johnson
George Washington Hotel
John Cunniff
AP Business Analyst
Associated Press
FDIC
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