Floods Kill Seventeen. Colorado Hit Hardest by Rain
Muddy rivers and flash floods sweep across Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions. Seventeen dead with 11 missing in Colorado. Five Guajardo family members swept away near Lamar. Arkansas River towns evacuated. 1,500 in La Junta evacuations. Governor Love seeks federal disaster declaration for 27 counties and $31 million in aid. Power outages disrupt Sterling. Governor asks Johnson for aid.
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Denver
Colorado
Rocky Mountain States
Southwest
Manual Guajardo
Las Animas
Arkansas
Purgatoire
Pueblo
Lamar
Holly
John A. Love
Arkansas Valley
South Platte
Sterling
Sidney
Nebraska State Patrol
Kansas
Garden City
Main Street
Dis
Love
Johnson
We want that little girl AP photo sparks nationwide offers
An AP photograph by Horst Faas shows a wounded girl after a battle at Dong Xoai on June 10. Readers in Ontario California offered to adopt her and provide for their four children, while the AP seeks to locate the girl amid dim prospects.
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Associated Press
Horst Faas
Dong, Xoai
Ontario
Calif
Dong Xuai
Faas
Local Laws Pass 1965 Legislation Including School Transport Study
The 1965 Minnesota legislature enacted 269 local or special laws all needing local approval. About 188 have secured assent, 17 approved by units, and 134 lack local action. One measure funds two Stearns County school districts to transport parish/private pupils, potentially triggering a court test on using public money for private education. The Moorhead business development department bill, signed Feb 10, was among the first to become effective.
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Adolph Johnson
Stearns County
Moorhead
Karl Rolvaag
Surprise court hearings open in two way battle over American Allied
Insurance Commissioner Cyrus Magnusson testified as a witness as American Allied Insurance Co. sought an injunction to halt further investigation by the Magnusson office. The judge allowed the company to call witnesses while Magnusson prepared a potential suit to declare the firm insolvent. The proceedings touched on a March meeting in Gov. Rolvaag's office with Lord and others.
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Cyrus Magnusson
American Allied Insurance Co
St. Paul
Albin Pearson
Magnusson
David K. Wendel
Wendel
Lord
Karl Rolvaag
Robert Mattson
John Chisholm
Shawn Magnusson
American Allied
Philip Kitzer
Philip Jr
Chicago
Algerian President Ben Bella Ousted in Coup by Boumedienne
Algiers awoke to a pre dawn coup as Col Houari Boumedienne and a revolutionary council seized power. Ben Bella is denounced as a dictator and is believed absent while troops guard key points. France promises cooperation and security for citizens.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Col Bou
Algiers
Ben Bella
Boumedienne
Revolutionary Council
Louis Dauge
Abdel Aziz Bouteflika
Radio
Algeria
Kabylie Mountains
Ben. Bella
Houari Boumedienne
Peking
Revolutionary Party
FLN
Front of National Liberation
Virginia Soldier Earns Pfc Rank In Hidden Footnote
At Fort Slocum New York Private Christopher P. Hargrove 20 son of Marion L Hargrove author of See Here Private Hargrove receives a private first class stripe after less than a year in the U S Army The new Pfc shows drill and communications aptitude echoing his father 1940s fame.
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Fort Slocum
N.Y
U.S. Army
Hargrove
Christopher P. Hargrove
Marion L. Hargrove
Pictures Touch Hearts Bring Adoption Offers
War orphans in Vietnam, a wounded girl and a defiant boy about five, touch Americans after AP photographer Horst Faas captured their plight. The girl, bandaged and barefoot, survives a town battle. would-be adoptive families in Ontario California, Proctor Vermont, and Issaquah Washington seek help. The boy, found by Vietnamese rangers in a ruined plantation town, prompts requests from a Newark Ohio farmer. Identification is uncertain, but AP and Faas vow to pursue.
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New York
Ontario
Calif
Proctor
Horst Fans
Associated Press
Faas
Issaquah
Wash
Seattle Times
Thuan Loi
Newark
Ohio
Burglars Take $1000 Cash From Des Moines Cleaner
Theft of about $1000 from a safe at French Way Cleaners and Furriers was reported to police. The burglars left behind $5000 in payroll checks. Employee Lavon De Jarnette said she frightened the intruders when she arrived about 430 a.m. and heard someone leave through the rear door.
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Des Moines
French Way Cleaners
Lavon de
OAS Plans Temporary Economic Takeover in Dominican Crisis
The Organization of American States drafts a plan to assume temporary control of Dominican finances, aiming for end of month implementation. It would centralize revenue, route budget spending via the OAS, and inject US support of about $10 million monthly to revive the economy amid ongoing civil war negotiations.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
OAS
United States
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Imbert
Francisco Caamano Deno
Bombs Effectiveness Questioned in Vietnam Raid
The Pentagon seeks signs of the B52 strike impact in Vietnam as jungle camouflage may conceal results for days. In Texas a 50 foot hot air balloon flight near Palestine marks a first manned run from a nearby research station. In Iowa, Larry Dailey, 23, of near Chilicothe, dies when his car crashes into a bridge on Highway 15, with high speed suspected.
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Washington
Pentagon
South Viet Nam
Palestine
Ottumwa
Iowa
Larry Dailey
Chillicothe
Here
Driver 20 Killed In Iowa Crash Near Pleasant
Terry W. McLaughlin 20 a Parsons College student from Omaha died Friday night when his car left a gravel road two miles southwest of Pleasant Two companions including Thomas Gillingham 19 of Coral Gables Fla also a Parsons student remained in Fairfield Hospital in good condition Saturday in the Dominican hearings may be delayed as Senate Foreign Relations Committee members discuss reform and set a possible closed meeting after the July fourth recess
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Pleasant
Plain
Iowa
Terry W. McLaughlin
Parsons College
Omaha
Here
Thomas
Gillingham
Coral Gables
Fla
Parsons
Fairfield Hospital
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Policemen Are Named Crooks in Jacksonville
Police Chief Myron Traylor faces a case where two of his five patrolmen are identified as Crook named Charlie Crook and Eddie Crook. The report notes the unusual surname linkage as investigators review their conduct.
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Jacksonville, Ark
Myron Traylor
Crooks
Charlie Crook
Eddie Crook
Bills owner Ralph Wilson hosts Detroit party for daughter
Ralph C. Wilson, senior executive of a Detroit insurance firm and owner of the Buffalo Bills, dances with his daughter Christine, 18, at a lavish Detroit party given in her honor on a Friday night, with AP Wirephoto noted.
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Ralph C. Wilson
Detroit Insurance Company
Buffalo Bills
Chris
Tine
Detroit
Excise Tax Cut Pressures Retailers with Repricing Task
Retailers face a complex repricing challenge as the excise tax cut ends nuisance levies. Tiffany and many shops must adjust hundreds to thousands of price tags due to varying retroactive and future effective dates.
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New York
New York’s
Tiffany & Co
Johnson
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U.S
Rocky Marciano
Oriental
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Soviet Union
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Ait Ahmed
Aii Ahmed
Tizi Ouzou
Kabylies
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Virginia
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