Peru plane crash kills 67 including four Americans
A Faucett Airlines DC 9 crashed into a mountain near Huanuco Peru killing all aboard. Sixty seven people were on the flight from Lima via Huanuco to Tingo Maria including four Americans Joseph Newman 69 Las Vegas Nev Robert Houck 54 Barberton Ohio Corrine Houck 54 Barberton Ohio and Evelyn Craig 47 whose home address was not listed Others included a British diplomat John White 40 and his wife as well as four French two Belgians and five Italians. Identification was difficult and no cause has been released.
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Huanuco
Peru
Andes
Faucett Airlines DC
Tingo Maria
Lima
Carlos Farre Allende
Faucett
Joseph Newman
Las Vegas
Nev
Robert
Corrine Houck
Barberton
Ohio
Canal Yields Bodies of 2 Slain Women
In Hollywood Florida two young women were found in a canal with concrete blocks tied to their necks. Police believe they were killed on a boat and dumped overboard. Investigators described blunt head injuries and multiple stab wounds. Bodies retrieved by boat access near Intracoastal Waterway.
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Hollywood
Fla
Fred Rohloff
Campus bans military recruiters amid draft protest furor
Washington DC George Washington University barred military recruiters from its campus on Friday until the Draft Director Lewis Hershey's induction directive for anti draft demonstrators is reviewed.
Airliner Crash Kills 8 in Laos
A Cathay Airlines plane crashed near Vientiane on Thursday, killing eight people. Officials announced the toll on Saturday. The accident prompted immediate investigations and safety inquiries by Lao authorities and aviation officials.
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Laos
Vientiane, Laos
Cathay Airlines
Iowa Hit by Snow and Rain Across State Highways Wet
Snow and rain battered Iowa with highways ranging from wet to snow covered in Algona and Mason City areas. Hazardous driving warnings issued for western Iowa as light snow spreads southward per weather bureau.
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Iowa
Iowa Highway Patrol
Algona
Mason City
Weather Bureau
Iowa Road Reports Offer Weather and Road Conditions
Cedar Rapids highway patrol reports weather and road conditions in Iowa. The updates are compiled from patrolmen several times in a 24 hour period and available by calling 496-1884.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Weather report details for state with snow and rain
At noon a mix of light rain or drizzle affected the southern half while the northern half saw intermittent precipitation. Snow ranged from 2 to 4 inches in the northwest with conditions continuing as noted on Page 2.
White House humming as Lynda Johnson wedding nears
In Washington the White House bustled with final preparations for the 4 pm wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson to Marine Capt. Charles Robb. Cooks and helpers prepared a buffet for 500 guests while hairdressers styled the bride and seven attendants. The bridal party used the Lincoln Bedroom to dress, and morning sunshine warmed the scene with temperatures in the 50s.
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White House
Lynda
Lincoln
Executive Mansion
First Negro Astronaut Dies In Jet Crash At Edwards Air Force Base
Major Robert Lawrence America's first Negro astronaut was killed when his Starfighter jet crashed on landing after a routine training flight. He 31 Chicago born, was slated for a 1970 defense project to orbit two men in a space laboratory. Major Harvey Royer was hospitalized with undisclosed injuries. An investigation board was formed.
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Lawrence
Defense Department
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Air Force
Harvey Royer
Aerospace Research Pilot School
Jerome J. Smith
Riceville
Pfc
Larry Driskell
Riverton
Ricky G. Hull
Ottumwa
Vietnam
Groveton Town Discovers Its Only Doctor Was Fake
Groveton Texas residents learned the town's sole doctor was not a physician at all. Freddie Brant posing as Dr Reed Brown from Chattanooga had worked as a lab tech for Brown and used his license to practice. He was charged with forgery and perjury with bond set at 25000 but remained jailed. Neighbors recalled his convincing bedside manner and knowledge of medicines.
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Groveton
Texas
Louisiana
Harold Hollingsworth
Freddie Brant
Chattanooga
Reed Brown
Hollingsworth
Brant
Brown
William Bock
Chuckle Taxes Always Rise, Never Drop
A quirky editorial note jokes that today’s tax warnings imply increasing costs. The brief quip highlights the irony of ever-rising taxes and their impact on readers.
Vietnam Toll in Iowa Reaches 225 in War Effort
A veteran countdown chronicles Iowa deaths in Vietnam from the 1962 Da Nang crash to 225 total by 1967. The piece names towns like Moulton Dubuque Des Moines and Cedar Falls and profiles families and honorees including Hibbs and Youngblood with brief biographical details.
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da Nang
Owen Norton
Moulton
Gerald Griffen
Dubuque
Wartorn
Defense Department
Associated Press
Iowa
Vietnam
Des Moines
Davenport
Waterloo
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
Shaeffer 58 Appointed to Cedar Rapids Bench
Clinton E. Shaeffer of 663 Memorial Drive SE was named by Gov. Harold E. Hughes to the Cedar Rapids municipal court bench to fill the vacancy caused by Judge Howard McLaughlin s death. Shaeffer, a Des Moines and Marshalltown lawyer, will serve until the 1969 municipal election.
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Clinton E. Shaeffer
Memorial Drive
Harold E. Hughes
Cedar Rapids
Shaeffer
Linn County Bar Assn
Howard McLaughlin
Suamerem
August F. Hansell, Jr
Hughes
Fraser
Boone
Des Moines University
Drake University Law School
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Shaeffer, Ackley
South Vietnamese win big in Mekong delta clash
In heavy swamp fighting the South Vietnamese killed 365 Viet Cong in the Mekong delta. UPI reports a separate clash near Hoi An left 21 enemy dead and four Americans wounded. Officials praise the delta victory as a major success amid ongoing warfare.
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Saigon
UPI
Mekong
Hoi An
First Air Cavalry Division
Junction City
Tay Ninh
U.S
Rice Bowl Delta
Robert Kaylor
Teenage bride flees by jumping from Annecy town hall
In Annecy France a teenage bride to be Aicha 7 fled the ceremony by jumping from a town hall window saying she was forced into marriage to Ali 30 an Algerian suitor. The judge heard her protest as the ceremony began and she escaped.
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Annecy
France
Aicha
Ali
Inland Sea Tragedy Claims Four Children in 10 Hour Sinking
American missionary couple Bowman and their four children faced a 10 hour ordeal after their 22 foot boat sank in Japan's Inland Sea. Six month old Danny and Joe, nine year old Theresa and seven year old Gary died from exposure. The Bowmans survived with U S marine corporal Herb Christiansen. The Japanese maid Kyoko Hayashi and a Japanese man perished. A Japanese boatman vanished. The group had embarked on a voyage to Atada island when flooding forced them to abandon ship. A farmer aided, and rescue efforts continued as the couple and survivor were treated.
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Iwakuni
Japan
UPI
Donald Bowman
Danny
Joe
Theresa
Gary
Bowmans
Herb Christiansen
Northfield
Mann
Bowman
Kyoko Hayashi
Christiansen
Atada Island
Leatherneck
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Santa Claus
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W. F. Norton
Norton
Cpl
Merle Fagerlind, Jr
Thua Thiem
Robert J. Hibbs
Cedar Falls
Richard Youngblood
Tama
Paul F. Widtfeldt, Jr
C.R. Bench
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