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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1966
Page
7
All-Iowa fair enters its third day with a half mile track debut for late model modified stock and novice stock cars. Tonight features 30 midget racers, a demolition derby, and a Temptations concert at 8 p.m.. schedule includes band performances, animal shows, flower judging, and kid events across the fairgrounds.
Ulbricht taunted West Germany on the Berlin wall anniversary criticizing inaction and praising the wall as saving peace. West Berlin officials and Allied commanders condemned the celebration as a provocation and a Nazi echo, noting the wall’s purpose was to obstruct freedom and divide families.
Delores at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences received her first bath in nine years after a long cleanup. The 7 foot high 34 foot long Belly River dinosaur, unearthed in Alberta and dead about 130 million years, was reconstructed and on display since 1957.
Hanoi broadcasts charged U S planes violated Hanoi air space and bombed a dike on the Red River and a populated area near Phu Xa. The agency claimed civilian casualties, mostly women and children, including nine under 12, amid alleged heavy bombing and shelters hit. The report gave no U S comment.
Torrential rainfall triggers floods across central Nebraska and the Upper Nueces basin in Texas. Governors report millions in property damage with Loup and Platte rivers overflowing. Fullerton submerges under up to 17 feet of water as National Guard rescues workers and civilians.
Labor Secretary Wirtz disclosed that a three year package valued around 84 million dollars was apparently agreed Friday between airlines and the union, but the machinists later rejected it. He cited a tense weekend with meetings and a walkout by IAM president Siemiller.
A jokey line features a weary husband quipping that if he could do it again he would marry a Japanese girl because they are pretty graceful and obedient and his mother in law is in Yokohama. This chuckle piece plays on cultural stereotypes for humor.
One foot rains caused the Firo River to burst its banks in south Texas Saturday stranding at least four people and forcing thousands from Garner State Park. An air force helicopter rescued Harold Krieg his wife and their two children from a cabin roof as the river rose 18 feet in hours. Sheriff Kenneth Keily said others were stranded on high ground but safe, while cars and camping gear were abandoned by visiting tourists. The river was receding gradually.
Civil rights leaders announced simultaneous marches in three all white Chicago areas to protest realtor discrimination in property sales and rentals. Marchers will assemble at a South Side center at 3 p.m. and move to Bogan Gage Park Chicago Lawn and Jefferson Park, with two neighborhoods already visited recently.
In Saigon area, 3090 fresh American soldiers, forming the new 196th light infantry brigade, disembarked at Vung Tau port. The arrival raises total U S troops in Vietnam to 291000, according to U S military authorities.
Sioux Falls veteran Cpl Perron Shinneman 31 lost his left leg April 12 near Da Nang after a booby trap and a grenade injury. He describes Vietnam as hellish but necessary and plans convalescent leave at home with wife Shirley and daughter Sharleen before discharge and potential business school.
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