‘Combo 7’ tops 1967 music poll results
(Guyana Graphic: January 7, 1968)
A LUCKY score of 777 points was scored by Des Glasford’s Combo 7 to win the top place in the Guyanese Band Division of the first ever music poll just concluded.
Runner-up bands included the fabulous Rhythmaires (474), the Thunderbirds (329) Telstars (256), and the Young Ones (250).
Composer-vocalist, Mark Holder won the Best Guyanese Vocalist poll, with a score of 888. Keith Proctor was named by fans as the Best Instrumentalist in 1967.
Other winners were the Guyana Hotshots as Top Indian Band (1321); the Debrelles as the Best Vocal Group (800); and Matthew Allen as the Best Disc Jockey with a score of 828.
At the international level, the late Otis Redding was voted Best Male Vocalist (Soul); Carla Thomas as Best Female Vocalist (Soul); Tom Jones as Best Pop Vocalist; and Miriam Makeba scored 1164 against Sparrow’s 659 to win the Folk Singing Division.
The poll attracted voters from the Corentyne to Kabakaburi and all the way from the Rupununi to the Roraimas.

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Missing woman dies after being found
(Guiana Graphic: January 5, 1968)
AN 89-year-old woman, who was reported missing since last Saturday, died yesterday shortly after she was found by a search party about 11 miles away from her Suddie home.
The woman, Mary Browne, a pensioner who lived alone in a cottage, was picked up in an unconscious condition near an Amerindian settlement.
The search party, headed by Edgar Martinboro, was taking her to the Suddie Hospital for medical attention when she died.
A relative of the woman said it was believed that she had wandered and lost her way in the backdam.

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New commemorative stamp issue
(Guiana Graphic: January 6, 1968)
IN honour of the visit of the MCC cricket team to Guyana and the West Indian islands of Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad during 1968, it has been proposed that there should be an issue of Commemorative Stamps to mark the occasion.
The stamps being issued by the four countries are to be the same design and format. They are in the form of a panorama of cricket action, spread over three stamps printed on a strip depicting a wicket-keeper, batsman and bowler in action.
There is a new innovation in the presentation of these stamps, in that they are miniature sheets of nine stamps to a sheet; the denominations being issued for Guyana are 5¢, 6¢ and 25¢.
These stamps will be released at all Post Offices and postal agencies throughout the country on 8.1.68, and will be on sale for a period of three months, or until stocks are exhausted.
No First Day covers are being issued in connection with the release of these stamps.
As usual, arrangements are being made at the General Post Office for a special First Day service on 8.1.68.

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Cessna vanishes in hilly Mazaruni area
(Guyana Graphic: January 8, 1968)
THE Guyana Airways Corporation, the Civil Aviation Department and private aircraft are expected today to intensify the search launched on Saturday for an American businessman who disappeared in his Cessna plane in the rugged mountains and heavily forested Mazaruni River area on Friday.
Mr. Curtis Myers was flying his aircraft in company with another Cessna, piloted by his son, David Myers, when it is believed that he crashed into high ground during very poor visibility caused by rain and low cloud.
Director of Aviation, Mr. Alex Phillips, who spearheaded the search, said that the Cessna 180, with the registration 8R-GB 1, left Imbaimadai at 2:30pm on Friday for Atkinson,  via Chi-Chi, which is about 308 miles up the Mazaruni River.
A few minutes after leaving Chi-Chi airstrip area, the two aircraft, which, up to that time, were in sight of each other, encountered bad weather. At that stage, David Myers lost sight of his father’s plane, and he continued to Atkinson.
Up to yesterday, Sunday, his father had not arrived at Atkinson, nor had anything been heard of him and his plane since.
The DCA said that the search will be confined today to an area of about 10 square miles northeast of Chi-Chi airstrip, where it is believed that the aircraft ran into trouble.

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YOUR NEW CAR FOR 1968
(Guyana Graphic: January 5, 1968)
Your new car for 1968 is here; it gives spacious riding comfort for four.  It is 117’ 9” long, and 51” wide. It has a four-stroke, air-cooled overhead cam-shaft engine, and a maximum speed of 71mph. It does over seventy miles to the gallon in in-town driving, and has front wind-down windows and a unique ventilation system. It has front reclining seats, and fold-down rear seats for extra space. It’s the Honda N (Mini) 360, and it costs only $3,050. MARICS & Company, 107 Charlotte Street, Georgetown.

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Myer’s body is found
(Guyana Graphic: January 20, 1968)
THE body of 45-year-old American businessman, Curtis Myers was found yesterday inside the Cessna 180 which crashed three weeks ago near Chi-Chi mountains.
A three-man team of US paramedics found the aircraft perched on a small tree atop a steep cliff in the Merume River gorge.
They were, however, unable to remove the body. Further attempts will be made today to do so.
Mr. Myers, accompanied by his son, David, flying in another plane, was flying from Imbaimadai to Atkinson three weeks ago, when he and his plane disappeared after encountering bad weather.
His son, however, succeeded in reaching Atkinson.

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Hunt ends; the jungle to keep its victim
(Guyana Graphic: January 21, 1968)
A CESSNA 180 aircraft lies precariously perched atop a massive tree overhanging a 1500-foot cliff in the Merume area, with the body of wealthy Texas rancher, Curtis Myers inside it.
A rainstorm or a heavy wind could topple it over the cliff down below, still deeper into the impassable foliage, or the swift flowing river. Even a slight touch could tilt it over.
So, a United States search-and-rescue mission yesterday abandoned its attempts to recover the body. And there it will remain, perhaps forever, the tomb of Curtis Myers.
Mr. Myers, 49, was born in Oklahoma, and owned a ranch at Eagle Pass, Texas before coming to Guyana with his son about three-and-a-half years ago. (Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or cell-phone # 657 2043)