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...city of Grand Junction, Colorado sprawls out over a small piece of the Colorado Mesa Valley. It's population of 24,000 have gravitated there primarily because it is a "pretty place," according to one citizen. A rapidly developing population center, the city has clean streets, a couple newly built high schools, and it's own college scene, centered around Mesa College. In 1967, it won the All-American city award. Every year, the citizens host the national junior baseball tournament with teams coming from as far away as Miami, New York, and Houston...
...runway of Grand Junction's Walker Field, a turbo jet bound for Chicago was taxing for take-off. The control tower ordered the plane back to the hanger for minor repairs, and as the passengers disembarked, a deputy sheriff disarmed Stanley R. Bond, 26, one of the suspects in the $26,000 robbery of the State Street Bank, and arrested him for armed robbery, murder, and unlawful flight in the Sept. 23 robbery of the State Street Bank in Brighton...
...carrying a loaded 9 mm automatic at the time and his suitcase contained two other weapons and $10,000. The FBI had acted on a tip from a woman who recognized Bond from pictures in the press when she sat next to him on a flight into Grand Junction from Seattle, Wash...
...Syrian tank column was challenged near Ramtha junction by a smaller force of Jordanian armor whose vehicles carried the black, white, green and red Hashemite flag along with pictures of the King. Hussein's order to his troops, the best in the Arab world, was to "stand fast and teach the heretic leaders of Syria a lesson in heroism." His 40th and 60th armored brigades did just that. First they blunted the Syrian invasion by knocking out 40 tanks. In an armored tactic known as "the loop," the 40th hit the Syrians head-on while the 60th rolled around...
William Gilday and two other suspects in the machine-gun slaying of Boston Patrolman Walter K. Schroeder in a bank hold-up Wednesday eluded a nationwide police hunt for the fifth straight day yesterday, while another fugitive, Stanley R. Bond, was apprehended in Grand Junction, Colo...