School Bus Crushed by Sand Tragedy Near Windsor
Tons of wet sand spilled from a tractor trailer onto a school bus carrying 30 children near Windsor across the Detroit River. Eight children were killed and 13 injured as rescuers worked for hours to free victims from debris and sand. The truck driver Marcel Le Francois faced charges of dangerous driving.
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Detroit River
Detroit
Genius
James Levy
Marcel Lefrancois
Stoney, Ont
Larry Stockwell
Hughes says Democratic governors united after meeting with Johnson
Des Moines AP Gov Harold Hughes returns from Texas where nine Democratic governors met with President Johnson at the LBJ ranch. Hughes says the gathering was frank and open, not a monologue, and that governors presented clear views while Johnson and they disagreed on programs and patronage. Hughes noted serious problems in Great Society programs but pledged support for Johnson's policies.
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UPI
LBJ
Gov. Hughes
Johnson
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Lbj Ranch
Texas
Des Moines
Hughes
Lbf Ranch
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
United States
Christmas Holiday Slows Work in Cedar Rapids Area
Cedar Rapids and surrounding industries announce three day weekends for most workers over Christmas with some four day breaks through New Year. Stores close early Christmas Eve and reopen limited hours. post office operates on skeleton crews with collections delayed. city and federal offices observe long holiday weekend.
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Cedar Rapids
Federal
Hiawatha
George Bowler
Collins Radio
Quaker Oats Co
Wilson & Co
Square D Co
Allis, Chalmers
Penick & Ford
West Branch vetoes school bond issue in 483 401 vote
Citizens for a Better Plan helped defeat a 400000 bond for an addition to Hoover Elementary and 25 acres for an athletic field. The measure failed 483 to 401, short of the required 60 percent majority.
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Gazette West Branch
Citizens For
West Branch
Hoover
Director of Cedar Rapids Youth Corps Dies at 62
H A Woito longtime Civic leader and head of the Cedar Rapids Neighborhood Youth Corps died suddenly of a heart attack. He was 62 and living at 2311 E avenue NE. He took over the Youth Corps in March and previously worked at Allis Chalmers, where he joined in 1942 and later chaired the Cedar Rapids civil service commission.
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H. A
Bill Woito
Cedar Rapids
Woito
E Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Woite
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Parolees Tied to Five Slayings in Salt Lake City
Police in Salt Lake City say five killings in five days are linked. Myron Lance and Walter Kelbach, both parolees, were charged with first degree murder robbery and grand larceny in the tavern invasion and the shooting of a cab driver and two customers. Evidence including a bloodstained knife and a sock tied the suspects to the service station attendants Steven Shea and Mike Holtz.
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Salt Lake City
Dewey Fillis
Fillis
Myron Lance
Walter Kelbach
Utah State Prison
James Sisemore
Sisemore
Fred Lillie
Grant Strong
Supreme Court
Strong
Kelbach
Lance
Steven Shea
Mike Holtz
Harper & Row Nears Out of Court Settlement Over Kennedy Book
Harper & Row expects an out of court settlement on Mrs. John F. Kennedy objections to The Death of a President. Look magazine cuts 1 600 words and revises passages in its serial on Kennedy and Johnson.
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UPI
Harper & Row
Look Magazine
John F. Kennedy
Look
William Manchester
President Kennedy
Richard Goodwin
Kennedy
Johnson
Chicago
Manchester
Simon Rifkind
U.S. Reports Heavy Losses in Vietnam Week
U S command says 83 Americans killed in combat last week, 433 wounded, two missing or captured. Officials cite measures to strengthen Hanoi defenses evacuate nonessential population disrupt transport and camouflage remaining factories. Pravda notes interview days before December Hanoi bombings. Pentagon denies Hanoi air raids claim.
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Saigon
U.S
Hanoi
Pravda
Soviet Leaders Crack Down on Shoddy Factory Work
Moscow AP report says the Soviet communist party central committee ordered a nationwide crackdown on shoddy factory work. It urged tighter supervision by local officials, factory bosses, unions, courts and production offices to improve output quality and quantity.
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Pravda
Dirksen Reads Excerpts From Gallant Men on Palace
New York AP Senator Dirksen has been signed to read excerpts from his new record album Gallant Men on the Hollywood Palace show over the American Broadcasting Co network January 14.
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New York
Senator Dirksen
Hollywood Palace
American Broadcasting Co
Pope Plea for Miracle of Goodwill to End Vietnam War
Pope Paul VI urged a Christmas miracle of goodwill to move both sides toward ending the Vietnam War. He urged responsible leaders to act sincerely and concretely, and appealed for a global cease fire and negotiations. The World Council of Churches echoed calls for peace and an early peace through cease-fire and talks. The pope warned that uncontrolled events could trigger nuclear war, stressing that the war ends only if both sides will it.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Geneva
World Council of Churches
Eugene Carson Blake
Franklin Clark Fry
Council
Paul
Vietnam
Hanoi Mayor Says One Third of City Evacuated
Hanoi mayor Trang Qui Hung told Pravda's Hanoi correspondent that about one third of the city’s population, including nearly all schoolchildren, has been evacuated. The interview appeared in Thursday’s Pravda.
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Moscow
Hanoi
Trang Qui Hung
Pravda
Dual B 52 Blows Hit Viet Cong and North Vietnam
U S B 52 bombers struck Viet Cong bunkers in War Zone C about 45 miles northwest of Saigon and attacked infiltrating North Vietnamese troops in the DMZ. Two Phantom jets from Kitty Hawk shot down two enemy planes over the Gulf of Tonkin. US troop strength in Vietnam rises to 371 000 on Saturday with Ninth Division elements arriving.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
U.S
Washington
North Vietnam
Vietnam
U.S. Ninth Infantry Division
Living Cost Rise Edges Up in November
Washington AP reports the cost of living rose by one-tenth of a percent in November, the smallest gain in six months. A seven-tenths of 1 percent drop in fond prices nearly offset higher costs in housing apparel and medical care, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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