Iowa primary results show Scalise narrowly ahead for attorney general
Official canvass from the June 1 Iowa primary reveals Lawrence F. Scalise of Carlisle won the Democratic nomination for attorney general by 269 votes over Don Wilson of West Des Moines. Scalise totals 46,393 to Wilson 46,124 with Wilson conceding and calling for election law reforms to allow late contests. Other races include Evan Hultman leading governor contenders with 163,523 votes and Harold Hughes renominated on the Democratic ticket with 103,956. Melvin Synherst tops secretary of state with 154,877. Bil Bump edges Garry Woodward for Republican attorney general with 80,259 to 77,? etc.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Lawrence F. Scalise
Carlisle
Scalise
Don Wilson
West Des Moines
State Executive Council
Wilson
Associated
Atty
Evan Hultman
Harold Hughes
Renominaton
Melvin Synherst
Melvin D. Synherst
W. N. (Bil) Bump
Garry Woodward
Muscatine
W. L. Mooty
Grundy Center
Robert Naden
Webster City
Robert Fulton
Waterloo
Melvin D. Lynhurst
Orange City
Gary Cameron
Fairfield
C. B. Akers
Ottumwa
Lorne Worthington
Lamont
M. 1
Abrahamson
Boone
Dean Reed
Paul
Scranton Heads to Harrisburg for Campaign Strategy
Gov William Scranton arrived in Harrisburg after his first Republican presidential bid tour. He said delegates were coalescing and that his late campaign effort was ripening. He and Mary Scranton then drove to the Indian Town Gap mansion to rest and plan debates with aides.
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Harrisburg
William W. Scranton
Harrisburg-York State
Mary
Indiantown Gap
Scranton
St. Louis
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Denver
Weather outlook: partly cloudy with storms and cooler temps
Partly cloudy and windy conditions with scattered thunderstorms spread over the slate territory Thursday night, turning cooler with lows around 70. Friday remains partly cloudy and cooler with highs in the 70s. Saturday Outlook calls for considerable cloudiness and scattered showers.
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Stele
Upper
Ste
Perder
Ways to Prevent Home Burglaries in Atlantic Week
Atlantic observ es Burglary Prevention Week from June 21 to 27 to educate residents on theft risks and prevention. Police urge use of pin tumbler or dead bolt locks, interior lighting with timers, pausing deliveries, notifying a neighbor, installing safety latches, and informing police of travel plans to curb burglaries.
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Atlantic
Rollie Hoffman
Town Association of Chiefs of Police and Peace Officers, Inc
Howard F. Lundberg
Hoffman
Husband Gets 30-Year Term for Assault in Wife Shooting
Alex James Clemens 30 was sentenced to 30 years at the Men's Reformatory for assault with intent to murder in the shooting of his wife Shirley Wells Clemens 28. A kidnapping charge is pending after a guilty plea last week. He admitted shooting his wife six times April 12 as she drove two of their three children to Sunday school in front of St. John's Lutheran Church.
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Sioux City
Alex James Clemens
Maurice Rawlings
Clemens
Uthorities
Shirley Wells Clemens
St. John's Lutheran Church
Boy in Critical Condition After Insecticide Inhalation
A 3 year old boy named Jonathen Medeel was in critical condition after inhaling fumes from a jar of insecticide used by his father to spray cabbages. He was taken to Neeve hospital in Albert Lea Minnesota on Wednesday for treatment.
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Albert Lea, Minn
Jonathen Medeel
Neeve Hospital
Becks Return From Longmont Visit
Mr and Mrs Jess Beck have returned from a week long visit with their son Dar rel L Beck in Longmont Colorado.
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Prem
Colorado
Jess Beck
Darrel L. Beck
Longmont
Colo
Prince Edward County Faces Deadline to Open Public Schools
A federal judge ordered Prince Edward County Supervisors to levy taxes and raise funds to reopen and operate public schools by June 25, one month after the Supreme Court ordered reopening. The court kept injunctions on private school tuition grants while schools remain closed and declined to mandate hiring a nondiscriminatory faculty.
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Richmond
Lewis
Supreme Court
Human Salvage Program Proves Disappointing
Washington AP reports the Johnson administration’s human salvage effort to rehabilitate rejected draftees has been a failure in its early phase. Of 134 500 youths contacted in three months only 189 entered training and 2 200 obtained brief jobs. Just 17.5 percent responded to letters offering help. Secretary Wirtz had called the program the most important in history.
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Washington
Johnson
W. Willard Wirtz
Race Problem Pyrotechnics Across America
Rev Harold D Long of Birmingham Alabama told the Iowa Conference of the United Church of Christ that the Negro revolution in America is an idea whose time has come. He described a sickness in America causing second class citizenship for Negroes.
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AMES
America
Birmingham
Ala
Harold D. Long
Iowa
United Church of Christ
Secret Service Questioned Over Kennedy Assassination
Secret Service Chief James J. Rowley testifies before the Warren Commission amid inquiries into improving presidential security and alleged drinking by agents the night Kennedy was shot. He will not provide first hand testimony on Dallas events.
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Washington
Secret Service
James J. Rowley
John F. Kennedy
Earl Warren
Rowley
Dallas
FBI
Stephen Young
D-Obio
Fort Worth
Kennedy
Low bids set for Western Iowa I-80 resurfacing project
The Iowa Highway Commission approved a combined low bid of 1 446 178 from Kaser Construction Co Des Moines and Norris Construction Co Ottumwa to resurface a stretch of Interstate 80 near Dexter to Highway 25 with five inch asphaltic concrete. The project will be paid equally by state and federal governments and follows a prior design misstep on the 1960 paving.
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AMES
Iowa
Iowa Highway Commission
Kaser Construction Co
Des Moines
Norris Construction Co
Ottumwa
Dexter
Highway 25
Commission
Harry Bradley, Jr
al Munson Construction Co
Boone
Clarke, Polk and
Warren Counties
American Wrecking Co
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Indictments Returned in Des Moines Gambling Probe
A federal grand jury in Des Moines returned six indictments in a gambling investigation that also targeted out-of-state participants. US Attorney Ronald A Wine said the cases remain sealed until arrest. The probe focused on enforcing a 1960 federal ban on interstate betting by telephone or telegraph. About 36 people were questioned by the grand jury.
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Des Moines
Igread Jury
Refuses to Set Aside Murder Conviction in Illinois Case
Belleville Illinois AP Circuit Judge Joseph Fleming denies John Edwain Myers 35 further post trial relief. Fleming says Myers death sentence and murder conviction stand and any appeal must go to higher courts. Myers slain 10 year old Carol Ballard near Belleville and was linked to other 1961 killings.
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Belleville, Ill
Joseph Fleming
John Edwain Myers
Texas
Illinois
Fleming
Myers
Carol Ballard
Belleville
Iowa
Missouri
Fire crews gain control of Niigata oil blaze
Flames from burning oil storage tanks along Niigata waterfront were brought under control as firefighters aimed to finish containment by tonight or Friday. Thousands displaced by Tuesday's earthquake began returning home. The inferno started after the earthquake struck the northern port city, a center of the domestic petroleum industry.
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Nigata
Japan
Niigata
Morrison says Omaha flood could have been prevented
Gov Frank Morrison blamed lack of watershed planning after a flood that hit Douglas Sarpy and Washington counties causing 6 to 8 million dollars in damages and seven deaths. Chamber of Commerce leaders criticized delays in flood control action while residents scrubbed mud from homes.
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Wilbur Jenny
Omaha
Morrison
Papio Creek
Barbara Fowler Named to ENMU Dean’s Honor Roll
Barbara Anne Fowler of Atlantic, a sophomore at Eastern New Mexico University, is among 472 students named to the dean’s honor roll for the spring semester with a 3.1 grade point average.
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Bean
Barbara Anne Fowler
Atlantic
Eastern New Mexico University
Last of Southern Proposals Defeated
Plans for a June 28 Atlantic Jaycees flight breakfast at the airport were outlined by Floyd Van Ert and Gene Ronfeldt as co chairmen. The event features pancakes and prizes for fly ins, with rides and airplane displays, plus a driving Road-E-O report and a club ball on June 2. Also covered are Senate Civil Rights bill actions and expected House reception.
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Floyd van Ert
Atlantic Jaycees
van Ert
Gene Ronfeldt
Jaycees
Chamber of Commerce
Ottumwa
Atlantic
Jim Clemensen
Phyllis Hood
Don Leach
Sunnyside Park
American Legion
Washington
Senate
House
Girl Hit By Flowerpot Leaves Family in Shock
Monica Lesser, 9, remained in a coma in New York after a flowerpot fell from a 16th floor window and struck her on 65th Street in Manhattan. Her mother, Mrs Hans Lesser, was accompanying her at the time of the accident.
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New York
Monica Lesser
Monica
Hans Lesser
65Th Street
Manhattan
LTV unveils XC142A vertical takeoff plane in Texas
Grand Prairie Texas officials display the XC142A transport capable of vertical takeoff and landing and speeds over 400 miles per hour. Ling-Temco-Vought describes it as a deflected slipstream design set for first test flights next month.
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Grand Prairie, Tex
Ling-Temco-Vought
LTV
Fire Chiefs to Meet Here in Atlantic Iowa
Atlantic hosts the Iowa Fire Chiefs association convention in November drawing about 150 chiefs from across the state. Fire Chief Pat Crawford announced the Ames awarded event at a midyear meeting attended by Chief Crawford and assistant chief Matt Mathisen.
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Atlantic Firemen
Pat Crawford
Atlantic
Ames
Crawford
Matt Mathisen
Lead Race in Dallas Ends at Halfway Mark
Fort Scott Kansas AP reports the two man team of Lyle Kesemeier and Jim Bradford from Sumner Iowa led at the halfway point of the Jew's Junior Chamber of Commerce tan dem bicycle race in Dallas.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Lyle Kesemeier
Jim Bradford
Sumner
Iowe
Southwest Iowa Coin Collectors Meet at City Hall
Coin hobbyists from the Southwest Iowa Coin Collectors association will gather at the city hall this Sunday at 2 p.m. The meeting invites all interested in coin collecting to attend.
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Southwest Iowa Coin Collectors Organization
Bobby
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Bump
Chestnut Street
John Lang, Jr
Max Maas
Paige
Prince Edward
Jfk
Frank Morrison
House Action
William M. McCulloch
Ohio
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Cub Scout Pack
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