Medicare II highlights shortages in care facilities ahead of 1967 start
An editor's note previews Medicare's impact on nursing homes and hospitals as a January 1 1967 deadline approaches. A three day hospital stay before nursing home care and a national shortage of beds and qualified staff threaten capacity, with some officials fearing backed up patients in general hospitals.
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Medicare
Associated Press
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Johnson
Clarence W. Bushnell
Bridgeport
Conn
Michigan
California
New York
John Brewer
Hospital Council of
Southern California
Austin Man Among Latest Road Victims Toll at 306
Six people died in state accidents on Tuesday raising the 1966 toll to 306. Austin’s Chester R. Adams 44 died when his wife’s car hit a truck on Interstate 35 W near Savage. Mrs Adams 32 was hospitalized in critical condition. Truck driver Melvin Bergen 28 was unhurt.
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Austin
Chester R. Adams
Dorothy
Savage
Highway Patrol
Adams
Southdale Fairview Hospital
Edina
Melvin N. Bergen
Lakeville
Sharon Koch
George F. Koch
Brooklyn Center
Minneapolis
Minn
Chearlyn Jane Kapel
Robert Starry
Sandstone
Highway 61
Rutledge
Duluth
Kresky
Michael Kjerstad
Wayne G. Streier
Hibbing
Henry Solsan
Jasper
Odean Rislou
Flandraeu
Rislou
Sioux Falls
Lena Merill
Goodridge
Orville D. Kjelgren
Thief River Falls
Kjelgren
Merrill
Richard
Ely Sees New Copper Nickel Mine After Downturn
Ely Minn residents cheer after International Nickel Co signed federal land leases for a $40 million copper nickel mine near Ely expected to employ about 450 workers. The project revives a town hit by mine closures and Boundary Waters tourism shifts, with local investors already profiting from mineral rights sales.
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Ely
U.S. Steel Pioneer
Washington
New York
International Nickel Co
Fred Childers Jr
Childers
INCO
Fred Jr
St Paul man freed on suspended sentence after 32 years
William P. Perry, 42, of St Paul, released on a one year suspended sentence after serving 32 years for a 1962 third degree murder conviction. Perry pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact in the 1960 hold up that ended in the death of Arthur R. Walters.
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ST. Paul
William P. Perry
Stillwater
Robert V. Rensch
Perry
Arthur R. Walters
Rensch
U.S. Supreme Court
Gregory G. Goben
Ramsey County
William B. Randall
Goben
Walters
Minnesota Supreme Court
Variable clouds and scattered storms forecast
Weather outlook shows variable cloudiness through Thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Tonight's low near 50 and Thursday's high in the 70s with mostly sunny to partly cloudy intervals.
Contested Kontum Front Seen As Monsoon Offensive Start
Premier Ky toured Kontum front lines and praised U s paratroopers for defeating the 24th Regiment while warning fresh North Vietnamese units in Laos and Cambodia mass for a monsoon drive that could impede U s air power in the central highlands.
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Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
Kontum Battlefront
Hanoi
U.S
Dak To
South Viet Nam
Laos
Cambodia
Homes Sink Into Abandoned Limestone Mine Near Kansas City
In Kansas City Kansas area, homes and a garage have dropped into a deserted limestone mine beneath Gibbs Road. Six structures have suffered sinkage since Jan last year, with buyers warned that contracts cited pillar support though lawsuits pile up against the city and a construction firm.
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Kansas City
Kan
Bennie C. Stewart
Mrs. Stewart
Monty Flack
Traffic Deaths State Today 306 Year Ago 27
Iowa traffic fatalities compare today with figures from 306 years ago, noting a century-spanning rise in reported deaths and highlighting ongoing road safety concerns across the state.
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Iowa
Contract Talks Hit Stalemate in Duluth Summer School
In Duluth Minnesota teachers boycott begins the summer session for grades seven through twelve with only one substitute teacher reporting. The Duluth Teachers Association says the boycott is unofficial as contract talks for the fall year remain unresolved. Summer classes start next Monday but the board says no further talks are planned.
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Duluth, Minn
Duluth
Menominee, Mich
Duluth Central High School
Duluth Teachers Association
Donald B. Crassweller
Teachers Association
Chicago Police Clear Streets With a Smile
Five hundred policemen removed over 2,000 people from rioting Puerto Rican–area streets in Chicago. Twenty-three arrests raised total detentions since Sunday to 112 as police used a firm but cordial crackdown to end two nights of violence.
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Chicago
West Division
Nelson Algren
Puerto Rico
James Holzman
Holzman
O. W. Wilson
Ecorse School Board Fires 194 Teachers in Strike
The Ecorse School Board terminated the employment of all teachers after a walkout. Supt. Ralph E. Brandt announced the firing as the district, serving about 4,000 pupils, remained closed due to the strike by the AFL-CIO Ecorse Federation of Teachers.
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Detroit
Ecorse
Ralph E. Brandt
Afl-Cio Ecorse Federation of Teachers
Parachute Tests Planned for Mars Landing Craft
Jet Propulsion Laboratory will run five tests at Walker Air Force Base Roswell New Mexico under a seven million dollar program to assess giant parachute feasibility for unmanned Mars landers. Tests begin late this month and run through next spring as part of the Voyager program.
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Pasadena
Calif
New Mexico
Jet Propulsion Laborator
JPL
Walker Air Force Base
Roswell
N.M
National Space Agency
Rolvaag Plans Bipartisan Panel for State Government Reform
Minnesota Governor Karl Rolvaag announced plans to appoint a bipartisan commission to study reorganizing state government. He noted the current structure dates from Minnesota’s early 1900s statehood and urged modernization.
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St, Paul
Karl Rolvaag
Minnesota
Rolvaag
Ore and Taconite Firms Pay $17.3 Million in Taxes
State Treasurer Val Bjornson said ore and taconite firms paid 17.3 million dollars in occupation taxes this year. Iron mining contributed 15.6 million and taconite production 1.7 million, a 3.2 million increase from last year.
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ST. Paul
Val Bjornson
More Men Head for War Action
The report says thousands more Army infantrymen are expected to reach South Vietnam this summer to intensify search-and-destroy operations. Possible inclusion of an additional division is noted in the 18,000-man reinforcement McNamara approved. The U S Army then fields three full divisions and two brigades. Marines have two divisions in action.
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Washington
South Viet Nam
U.S
Robert S. McNamara
Viet Nam
Rioters Clash With Police After Bricklayer Death
In Amsterdam, burning trucks and debris litter the city after a one day strike by construction workers protesting the death of a bricklayer in a clash with police Tuesday night. The mob marched on De Telegraaf’s downtown building in anger at coverage of the incident.
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Holland
Amsterdam
de Telegraaf
Tues
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