Riot at Playland Beach Leaves Officers Injured
SAN FRANCISCO officers faced a riot as 1,000 youths clashed at Playland Beach. Three officers and two bystanders were hurt, booths looted, and windows smashed. One hundred police with tear gas and dogs restored order in two hours. two youths arrested for looting, twelve for inciting riot and related charges.
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San Francisco
Playland
Panhandle
Golden Gate Park
William Silvia Jr
Silvia
John Ashley
San Francis
Inez Tebino
Santa Rosa
Francis Fahey
Harold Hamilton
Dennis Baker
Big New Viet Battle Builds Near Demilitarized Zone
Heavy ground fighting and fierce shelling against U S Marines and North Vietnamese regulars increased U S casualties as a new battle formed south of the DMZ. Marines reported 12 dead and 92 wounded, with 351 North Vietnamese killed in the field and 69 Marines dead overall. air losses included three U S planes and multiple MiG engagements. Marines and an Army task force push to drive NVA from Leatherneck Square near Da Nang while probes and artillery hit Gio Linh and Con Thien.
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Saigon
America
U. S
Demilitarized Zone
U. S. Command
North Vietnam
Hanoi
da Nang
Ly Ly River
Quny Tri
Gio Linh
Con Thien
Vietnm
South Vietnam
Leatherneck
Edward Hutchinson
Merritt Island
Fla
Commader
Hutchinson
Communist
China
President Prayed During Haiphong Attack Night
President Johnson worried about World War III and prayed at a Roman Catholic church during a stormy night after ordering the first U.S. air strike on Haiphong oil facilities in North Vietnam. The Washington Post reported these details from newly published records.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
Haiphong
North Vietnam
Washington Post
Pat Nugent
Luci
Fabian
Rainy Weekend Adds Inches as May Totals Rise
Weekend rainfall at the Winchester facility brought May total to 2.78 inches and 1967 total to 11.41, with May average at 3.64 inches. Showers and thunder today into tonight may bring gusty winds and below normal temperatures for the next five days. The Bloodmobile visits Winchester Episcopal Parish Hall tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kiwanis drive targets 160 pints.
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Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Bloodmobile
Winchester
Episcopal Parish Hall
W. Boscawent St
The
Kiwanis Club
China vows to fight if North Vietnam threatened
Premier Chou En Lai told U N correspondent Simon Malley in Peking that China would send volunteers to North Vietnam if Hanoi seeks aid or faces an imposed peace. He warned Americans cannot approach Chinese borders and labeled a sellout peace as a potential trigger for war.
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CTE
Peking
China
Chou En-lai
Simon Malley
U.N
Jeune Afrique
Malley
Cairo
Egypt
U.S
Matley
Chou
Chicago Daily News and Publishers Newspaper Syndicate
Chicago
Forbidden City
Vietnam
Hanoi
North
Soviet Union
United States
North Vietnm
Weather trough To Virginia Brings Showers
A broad trough of low pressure extends from New York State to Louisiana and spreads showers and thunderstorms across Virginia today.
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Richmond
New York State
Louiseiana
Virginia
Bomb Threat Found in Sahara Hotel Room 4014
A bomb and a note demanding 75000 were found in room 4014 on the 12th floor of the Sahara Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. The device, in a wooden box with powder, was removed unharmed after evacuations of thousands from Del Webb hotels.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Sahara Hotel
Las Vegas Strip
del Webb
Nevada
California
Arizona
Clark County
Congress Asked to Boost Debt Ceiling to $365 Billion
Secretary Henry H. Fowler urged Congress to raise the national debt ceiling to 365 billion dollars, a 29 billion increase, and make it permanent. He also pressed for a six percent income tax surcharge to curb the deficit and proposed extending debt maturity and bond sales beyond current ceilings.
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Congress
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Fowler
House
Ways and Means Com
Treasury
Four injured in weekend two car crashes
Two-car crash at East Lane and Piccadilly Street injured two people, with more than $3,000 in damage. Sherling Settlemyer and Marion Bowen treated. Settlemyer’s rental car was a total loss. A second crash near Double Toll Gate on Rt. 340 injured Betty Lilly and four-year-old Jimmy Lilly, with $850 damage. A Fredericksburg man was taken to hospital after a one-car crash on old Rt. 50 near Millwood.
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East Lane
Piccadilly St
Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad
Sherling D. Settlemyer
Roan
Marion M. Bowen
Stephenson
Settlemyer
Linda W. Zombra
N. Loudoun St
Zombra
Piccadilly
B&m Chevrolet
B&m
Betty Lilly
Wilmington
Delaware
Jimmy Lilly
John H. Enders
James Lilly
D.A. Sheetz
Emanuel Bean
New Bloomington
Ohio
Lilly
Sheetz
Enders
Fredericksburg
Millwood
Auto Parts Manager Wanted at GW Motors in Lincoln
Immediate need for an experienced dealer parts manager to take charge of the department. Responsibilities include operating perpetual inventory and meeting qualification standards. Top salary and incentives offered. Call J. A. Sehroth at 667-3060 for appointment.
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J. A. Sehroth
GW Motors
Lincoln-Mercury
Supreme Court refuses Durham murder appeal
The Supreme Court refused a hearing to Luther Durham Jr. in the 1963 slaying of 85 year old Annie Snow in Frederick County Virginia. Durham claimed his constitutional rights were violated by statements to police during a mental examination and he lacked right to counsel. The denial follows an earlier Virginia court rejection and related appeals over interrogation without counsel.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Virginia
Luther Durham, Jr
Durham
David G. Simpson
Winchester
King George County
Stafford County
Simpson
Frederick County
Annie M. Snow
Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
Tariff Talks Hit New Difficulties in Geneva
In Geneva the Kennedy Round tariff negotiations again stalled as four major participants, after meeting this morning, stormed out of a shabby villa and returned to their delegations, missing the self imposed Sunday deadline. The fate of the 44 year effort to lower tariffs remains uncertain.
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Geneva
Bus Skids Off Mountain Curve Near Hackettstown
A Greyhound bus slid off U S 46 on Hackettstown Mountain in fog killing one and injuring 15 of the 16 aboard. The vehicle struck a guard rail and plunged down the embankment before being halted by trees.
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Hackettstown
Greyhound
New Jersey
Newark
U.S. 46
Hackettstown Mountain
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