Congress Awaits Fresh Reports on Viet Nam
Congress waits for new Viet Nam briefings before an inquiry. Johnson hosts leaders at the White House for policy talks with McNamara Ball and Gordon to follow. Bundy briefing to lawmakers behind closed doors expected to inform on South Viet Nam conditions.
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Viet Nam
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House
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McGeorge Bundy
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Everett M. Dirksen
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Face Substitute Resolution in Iowa Senate Probe
The Iowa Senate Democratic majority passed a substitute resolution for a general investigation of the State Department of Agriculture. The session opened at 7:30 a.m. after a 20 minute delay as Republicans pressed for an inquiry into personnel politics at the department.
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Senate
Des Moines
State Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Huda Felland
Kenneth Owen
Richard Dennler
LeMars Democrat
Farmer
Nuclear subs urged as top deterrent by British admiral
In Londonderry a British admiral called nuclear submarines with Polaris missiles the world’s best deterrent as NATO officials from 12 nations discuss antisubmarine warfare. The conference includes 150 delegates, with Iceland Turkey and Luxembourg absent.
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Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Adm
Charles Madden
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Iceland
Turkey
Luxembourg
Tragic Eastern Air Lines DC7B Crash Kills 84
Coast Guard ships and Coast Guard boats search a 200 square mile area off Long Island for bodies and wreckage after Eastern Air Lines DC7B crashes into the Atlantic near Jones Beach. Seven bodies recovered by dawn, total 9 later. no survivors reported.
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Coast Guard
Eastern Air Lines
Atlantic
Kennedy Airport
Divorce Granted Girl 16 Nullified by Iowa High Court
Iowa Supreme Court unanimously overruled a district court ruling granting Connie Nichols a divorce from Robert Nichols in Pottawattamie County. The 16 year old had wed 34 year old Nichols while he was imprisoned for a crime. the court noted their marriage lasted eight hours and found grounds invalid. The decision cited admissions of adultery by the girl and held that if both parties qualify for a divorce, neither is entitled.
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Iowa Supreme Court
R. Kent Martin
Connie Nichols
Robert Nichols
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Nichols
Supreme Court
Monona County
Asil
Iowa
NG Officer Named to CD Staff
Lt. Col. Clinton G. Johnson of St. Cloud has been appointed to head the civil defense planning staff at New Guard headquarters. He will advise Adjutant General Chester Moeglein on military support for civil defense under a plan assigning state adjutants general to coordinate such operations. Johnson, Hibbing native, previously served as executive officer for the 2nd Brigade of the 47th Infantry Division at St. Cloud.
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St. Cloud
Guard
Chester Moeglein
Clinton G. Johnson
Moeglein
Johnson
Hibbing
47Th Infantry Division
Iowa High Court Rules No Fraudulent Statements in School Merger
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously that no fraud occurred in the Coralville Independent School District merger with Iowa City Community School District. Taxpayers sought to void the election, alleging Paul Johnston misled voters with statements about district removal from an approved list. Johnston believed his statements to be true, and the court held no coercion or fraud affected voters.
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Supreme Court
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Dr Herbert M Platter Honored by Medical Boards
Dr Herbert M Platter 95 is honored by colleagues who rename their annual meeting the Herbert M Platter luncheon The veteran physician helped found the Federation of State Medical Boards and has served as secretary of the State Medical Board since 1917 The Chicago session will adopt his name for good
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Ohio
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Federation of State Medical Boards of the
United States
Chicago
Platter
The
State Medical Board
Austin Lions Pancake Day supports Eye Bank and Lions projects
Proceeds from the Austin Lions Aunt Jemima Pancake Day go to the Eye Bank at the University of Minnesota and other local Lions community projects. The feed runs from 7 a.m. to evening Thursday at the old Armory.
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Austin Lions
Eye Bank
University of Minnesota
Old Armory
Beach Boy Trio Pleads Guilty to Theft
Three Florida teens known as the Beach Boys pleaded guilty in New York to the October theft of gems from the American Museum of Natural History. They face up to 21 years each as sentencing was postponed for six weeks.
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Florida Beach
American Museum of Natural History
Supreme Court
Mitchell D. Schweitzer
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Jack
Murph the Surf
Soviet Tug Urban Probed by Navy Near San Francisco
The Soviet ocean-going tug Urban steamed 65 miles north of San Francisco Bay and within 16 miles of shore as the Navy kept it under surveillance. The 255-foot vessel has been monitored since being spotted near Vancouver Island last month amid Canadian and American naval scrutiny.
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San Francisco Bay
Navy
Vancouver Island
Canada
Tragedy Over New York Beach as Planes Seek Crash Victims
Crowds gathered along Jones Beach as rescue planes searched the sea after an air disaster. Coast Guard and fishing vessels retrieved wreckage and body bags, turning the summer resort into a moonless, makeshift morgue while onlookers shivered through the night.
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Coast Guard
Johnson program to clean up air and water faces cost questions
Washington AP President Johnson's plan to clean air and waterways, add parks, beautify the Potomac, and curb eyesores met a warm welcome in Congress but raised cost concerns. House Public Works chair Fallon signaled quick action while Rep Cramer pressed for funding details and implications for federal versus state control.
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Johnson
Congress
George H. Fallon
Dmd
House Public Works Committee
John A. Blatnik
D-Minn
Senate
Fallon
William C. Cramer
Florida
Cramer
Potomacc
Legislative sessions set for Lincoln and Washington birthdays
AP reports in St Paul that legislative leaders plan sessions on February 12 and February 22 for Lincoln and Washington birthdays. In a separate dispatch from Santiago, Chile the death toll from Saturday's Andes plane crash rose to 88 with the loss of a one month old child among the victims.
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Lincoln
Washington
Santiago
Chile
Andes
Ice Storm Slows Traffic Across Minnesota and Iowa
A powerful ice storm moved through Minnesota and Iowa, coating highways with up to one eighth of an inch of ice. Freezing rain and drizzle slowed travel on roads and sidewalks as fog increased hazards along the southern eastern border.
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Minnesota
Iowa
Iowa Senate Panel Votes to Abolish Death Penalty
Des Moines Iowa A Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8 to 5 to recommend a bill to strike capital punishment from Iowa statutes. The move advances legislation to abolish the death penalty in the state.
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DES Moines
Senate
Judiciary
Iowa
Inoculations for Hepatitis at Fort Sam Houston
More than 600 soldiers at Fort Sam Houston received infectious hepatitis inoculations over the weekend. A 4th Army spokesman said the mass program followed a Brooke General Hospital admission of a baker who had worked at two mess halls.
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San Antonio
Tex
Ft. Sam Houston
4Th Army
Brooke General Hospital
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