Nixon to nominate Donald Johnson as VA head
President Nixon plans to name Donald Johnson of West Branch Iowa a former American Legion national commander to lead the Veterans Administration. Johnson would replace William J Driver who resigned. Nixon will work two sessions daily from the Newporter Inn in Newport Beach using a transformed suite as an office.
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Nixon
Lowan
San Clemente, Calif
California
Newport Beach
Newporter Inn
Donald Johnson
American Legion
Veterans Administration
Johnson
West Branch
Iowa
William J. Driver
Newporter
Ziegler
Price of victory ends with coach knocked down
In Brownton Minnesota AP report, players celebrate a 2-1 12 inning win by Norwood Young America over New Ulm. Coach Edgar Braun joined the pile on the mound and was knocked unconscious briefly but revived a minute later with no lasting harm.
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Brownton
Minn
Edgar Braun
Norwood Young America
New Ulm
Kraun
Violence Flares in Jerusalem and Gaza Strip
AP reports intense clashes as hand grenades explode in Jerusalem and Gaza on the six day war anniversary. Four Israeli soldiers and four Arab civilians are wounded. a bazooka shell kills an army driver, crashes the car, injures two more soldiers, and wounds two. A grenade hits near a police station in El Ma'azi camp injuring three Israelis. Tension rises with shop closures in Gaza.
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Jerusalem
Gaza Strip
el Ma’azi
Gaza City
Gaza
Weather forecast shows clouds and showers this week
Occasional cloudiness through Friday with a chance of a brief shower tonight. Highs Friday range 72 to 78 with cooler Saturday and a chance of scattered showers.
Teacher ousted after Vietnam draft card remark
Sheila McNabb a seventh grade student in Somerville wrote in a Vietnam war composition that her brother was killed and papers mention draft cards. Her teacher Mrs Sobel responded asking if the war was worth the brother’s life and if he should have burned his draft card. The McNabb family protested and the school board suspended Sobel with pay pending a hearing, while Mayor Brennan demanded her firing.
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Somerville
Mass
Sheila McNabb
Eleanor Sobel
Sheila
Henry McNabb
Sobel
James F., Brennan
Brennan
Supt. of Schools
Leo C. Donahue
Memorial Mass for RFK Slated
The widow of Sen Robert F Kennedy and his surviving brother announced a memorial Mass at Kennedy's graveside in Arlington National Cemetery Friday night, marking the day after the first anniversary of his death.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
Dragon Fly spacecraft launches twin missions from Vandenberg
AP reports a 1393 pound OGO 6 satellite blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on dual missions. One aims to study cosmic rays, the other to pursue practical aims of increasing global food production and distribution.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Proxmire accuses Nixon of pressuring Congress
Senator William Proxmire charges President Nixon with trying to intimidate lawmakers probing the military budget. In Paris, Saigon says talks must include South Vietnam, and in New York Jeff Burroughs from Woodrow Wilson High School is chosen No. 1 in baseball’s summer draft by the Washington Senators.
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Washington
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Nixon
Paris
Saigon
South Vietnam
New York
Jeff Burroughs
Woodrow Wilson High School
Long Beach
Calif
Washington Senators
79 Die As Mexican Plane Crashes Near Monterrey
A Mexicana de Aviacion Boeing 727 crashed eight miles west of Monterrey amid poor weather. Ninety nine aboard? wait, 79 passengers died including tennis star Rafael Osuna and politician Carlos Madrazo. Rescue efforts were delayed by rugged terrain and weather. 400 soldiers and volunteers planned to climb Friars Mountain to recover bodies.
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Monterrey
Mexico
Mexican Airlines
Mexicana de Avicion
Mexico City
Rafael Osuna
Australia
Carlos Madrazo
Mexicana de Aviacion
Fernando Garcia
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Hormel awards Algona plant contracts for new facility
Hormel Co moves a step closer to building its 8000 square foot dry sausage plant north of Algona on Highway 18. Leader Construction Co of Omaha wins general contract while J W R Plumbing & Heating and Woodman Electric of Fort Dodge win mechanical and electrical work. Excavation by Faber Construction Co. The plant aims for completion late next spring with about 60 employees. Facilities include dry sausage production, processing, warehousing, and offices on a 55 acre site designed for sanitary operation and future Hormel items.
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Algona
Iowa
Hormel Co
Lee D. Housewright, Jr
Meat Products Division
Said Leader Construction Co
Omaha
Neb
J. W. R. Plumbing & Heating
Austin
Woodman Electric
Fort Dodge
Faber Construction Co
Hwy. 18
Hor
Texas girl wins national spelling bee at 14
Susan Yoachum, 14, from Dallas, wins the National Spelling Bee title in a final two person battle with Margaret Matthee of Huntsville Alabama. The winner came after David Greisser was eliminated in round 20 for misspelling quoits as quotes. Susan correctly spelled interlocutory to secure victory.
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Washington
Susan Yoachum
Dallas
Tex
Susan
Margaret Matthee
Huntsville
Ala
Margaret
David Greisser
Brooklyn
N.Y
MAC Hopes to Win Back 8 Million NWL Project
The Metropolitan Airports Commission moved at a special meeting to revise its position with Northwest Airlines to avoid conflicts and win back the $8 million construction contract for Twin Cities maintenance and hangar facilities. Northwest plans an $8 million Seattle plant for its new Boeing 747s, and may relocate headquarters if the Twin Cities site delays persist.
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ST. Paul - Minneapolis
Metropolitan Airports Commission
Twin Cities
Northwest Airlines, Inc
MAC
Benjamin W. Griggs Jr
Northwest
Seattle
Wash
Griggs
Air
Rochester Bricklayers Strike Over Wage Offer
About 100 bricklayers and stonemasons in Rochester walked out on Wednesday after rejecting a 3 year contract offer of 2.65 dollars more per hour. Local 8 members sought 4.50 dollars more per hour with current pay around 5.67 dollars. A contractors spokesman called the stalemate a community problem due to rising construction costs.
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Rochester
Minn
Stonemasons Local 8
We're a bloody minded people says violence report
A National Commission on Violence task force calls Americans a bloody minded people likely to see violence as a social solution. The two scholar authors discuss historical amnesia, the 1960s violence era, civil unrest, and comparisons with other Western democracies while noting unresolved grievances and group conflict in the United States.
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Washington
National Commission On Violence
Robert F. Kennedy
National Commission On the
Commission
United States
Hugh Davis Graham
Johns Hopkins University
Ted Robert Gurr
Princeton
Jerusalem
Graham
Gurr
Belgium
France
Italy
U.S
Ardell Nemitz dies longtime Austin union leader
Ardell Nemitz 60 a Austin labor official and former Mower County DFL chairman died Wednesday at St. Olaf Hospital after a career with Geo. A. Hormel & Co since 1923. He served Local 1-UPWA on the executive board and was active in union affairs. Survived by wife Mabel a son Floyd six grandchildren mother and four sisters brothers and other relatives. Funeral p.m. Saturday at Worlein Funeral Home with Rev. G C Knutson officiating. Oakwood Cemetery burial. Friends may call Friday after 10 a.m.
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Austin
Mower County
DFL
St. Olaf Hospital
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
UPWA
Austin School Board
Austin Housing and Redevelopment Authority
Mayor's Industrial Development Committee
United Fund Board
Austin Hotel - Motel Assa
Olaf B. Damm
VFW
Oakland Ave. W
Mabel
Floyd Nemitz
Owatonna
Luella Nemitz
Elmer Heckman
Norfolk
Neb
Lola Bulow
Keith Braybrook
Cassnovia
Mich
Harold Tabor
Albert Lea
Orville Nemitz
San Diego
Calif
Leland Ne
Burden to avoid collision rests on destroyers says Navy
U S naval officers say destroyers, not aircraft carriers, shoulder the duty to avoid collisions when escorting carriers. They comment on the Melbourne Evans disaster, noting the Evans was cut in two and 74 sailors died as the Evans reportedly crossed the bow against orders. Survivors describe shock, fires, and water rushing in as the Evans split and sank.
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Evans
Melbourne
Australian Navy Department
U.S. Navy
U.S
Navy Department
Cmdr
A.S. McLemore
Naval
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Gasoline Barge Leak Threatens Winona Fire Safety
Gasoline leaking from a cargo barge in Winona prompted fire officials to warn of a potential fire hazard. A hole in an 67,000 gallon tank released about 2,000 gallons into the Mississippi River before the tank was pumped out and the barge towed away. Heavy downstream currents aided dispersion as repair crews plugged the gap and the fuel was secured in local tanks.
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Winona
Minn
Mississippi
Bruce Johnstone
la Crosse
Wis
Robert Norfleet
Engi
Neer
Dot Towing Co
Norfleet
Western Oil Company
Cuban youth risks death to flee curfew aboard plane
In Madrid a 22 year old Cuban, Armando Socarras Ramirez, survived seven hours in freezing air after stowing away in a jet wheel well from Havana to Madrid. He said youths must be home by midnight and that escaping curfews and military service justified the risk. He collapsed on the Barajas ramp as Iberia Flight 942 parked, after enduring extreme cold and low oxygen.
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Madrid
Havana
ABC
Armando Socarras Ramirez
Spain
Socarras
Barajas
Mutiny Trial for 14 Army Privates Heads to Board
After 35 days of testimony and 37 witnesses, the court martial of 14 Army privates moves to a five man board. The men, part of 27 prisoners at San Francisco Presidio stockade, protested conditions by singing as officers read the mutiny charge. A fellow prisoner, Pvt Richard Bunch, 19, of Dayton, Ohio, was shot dead by a guard three days earlier amid an escape attempt.
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FT. Ord
Calif
San Francisco
Presidio
America the Beautiful
Stockade
Pvt
Richard Bunch
Dayton
Ohio
Church donation boosts Mill City treasury in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis city hall a $200 contribution from Elim Baptist Church in northeast Minneapolis was praised as a small miracle amid financial troubles. City Treasurer Reynold Mist thanked the church for its faith and hope, calling it a useful charity in a time of need.
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Minneapolis
City Hall
Basilica of
Elim Baptist Church
4Th Street
Reynold
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