All-Iowa Fair Opens Strong With Teen Night and Stock Car Races
The first day of the All-Iowa fair drew 17 061 attendees, a boost from last year, as teens enjoyed live music by Bobby Vee and the Outsiders and grand champion and reserve Angus cattle were named. Midget racers and late model stock cars filled the weekend schedule, with time trials and demolition derby planned, while Howdy Roberts and The Temptations topped the teen center lineup. Officials expect a big turnout and continued Midwest driver participation throughout the weekend.
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Howdy Roberts
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Police raid SNCC meeting, dynamite found in hotel raid
Police arrested many after SNCC meeting at a hotel yielded two and a half sticks of dynamite and loot including an $875 diamond ring. Off duty officer Ortquist said trouble began with reports of an assault on two white men by several Negroes. A 29 year old Negro named William Allen suffered a concussion and scalp wound. Police faced a thick crowd causing traffic to halt while officers imposed order and reinforced the raid.
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Rudy Ortquist
Lee Medema
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William Allen
Vieuain
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Ayear
China
Five Injured, 27 Arrested In Muskegon
In Muskegon Michigan police and deputies swarmed a downtown melee after about 1500 people, mostly Negroes, surrounded a hotel responding to a trouble call. Riot officers dispersed the crowd near Occidental Hotel, split it into three sections, and moved them down separate streets. A predominantly Negro dance occurred at the hotel and after the dispersal a jewelry store was looted. seven men were arrested.
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Occidental
Musskegon
Imob
All Around Leap Eyed By Chinese
Communist China announced the start of its third five year plan and said the economy is set for a new all round leap forward. The party central committee met in secret in Peking August 1 to 12 under Mao’s chairmanship, praising the cultural revolution and purges of those opposing his policies.
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China
Party Central Committee
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Convicts Riot in Drug Quest at Walpole Prison
Nine guards injured in a riot by inmates outside a Walpole Massachusetts medical dispensary. Two guards stabbed, five beaten as inmates overwhelmed a pill room and swallowed drugs while a 22-member riot squad restored order. Prison officials described medications dispensed daily in packets through a window.
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Dunne
Tiff Over Socks Sparks Shooting
An argument over which roommate would wear the only clean pair of socks led to a shooting in Austin Texas. A 21 year old man was treated for shotgun pellet wounds and released. A 37 year old man was picked up for questioning by police.
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Flood Surge Hits Fullerton Nebraska as Rivers Crest
Nebraska flood warnings rise after 12 inch rainfall. Cedar and Loup rivers swell near Fullerton, washing the railroad station, tilting boxcars, flooding the sewage plant and cutting power. Six to eight feet of water inundates the north district while a dam on the Cedar river upstream bursts and emergency crews evacuate residents.
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Plane Toll Rises to 13 For Week
SAIGON AP Two U.S. planes were shot down by ground fire over North Vietnam Friday, raising this week toll to 13, the highest of the year. A Thunderchief and a Voodoo reconnaissance aircraft were lost with crews listed as missing, as U.S. aircraft total over North Vietnam nears 434 since the air war began two years ago. In Moscow, Kohler told Kuznetsov a Soviet ship reportedly damaged at Haiphong may not have been hit by U.S. planes, suggesting North Vietnamese anti-aircraft fire as the probable cause.
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Kuznetsov
Hanoi
Third Arrested In Bank Holdup
The FBI announced the arrest of Cleo Summers, 25, of North Little Rock in connection with a $9,800 bank robbery at Big Lake Minnesota on Thursday. Summers is the third man nabbed in the case.
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FBI
Cleo Summers
North Little Rock
Big Lake
Minn
Herbert Hoxie
Summers
Rob Ibery
Berlin Wall Commemoration Marks Fifth Anniversary
East Berlin celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Berlin Wall with a parade led by Walter Ulbricht as West Berlin officials and German leaders denounced the celebration. Willy Brandt called it perverse, while Ludwig Erhard predicted the Wall would fall and reunify Germany. West observers laid wreaths along the Wall to honor 58 people killed fleeing to the West.
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Ludwig Erhard
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Restor
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Holden Charged with Manslaughter After Italian Collision
Actor William Holden is charged with manslaughter over a July 26 crash near Pisa in which an Italian driver died. The 48 year old was driving a sports car toward the Ligurian Sea when his car collided with a small Italian vehicle. Conviction could bring one to five years, often suspended. Holden remains free to travel and would be allowed to leave Italy if trial proceeds.
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Italy
William Holden
Ligurian Sea
Pisa
Holden
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. After marriage the y is silent.
A concise pondering line noting a riddle about marriage and affection with a playful word twist. Represents a tongue in cheek epigram rather than a news item.
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