Funds for New Penal Unit Are Cut
Anamosa Iowa. The proposed rehabilitation center for prisoners will use the $3.5 million already appropriated with no expectance of additional funds. The advisory committee met in Des Moines and heard that the $7 million project is not fully funded. The legislature intends a total cost under $2.5 million for a new unit near the present reformatory, with major admin functions staying at the current office.
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Anamosa
Iowa
Des Moines
Reformatory
Charles Haugh
Glen J. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Corrections Division
Farm No. 6
Board of Control
Frank Booker
Men’s Reformatory
Two Car Crash Injures Three In Cedar Rapids
Thomas P. Meis, 42, of 431 Twenty-sixth Street SE, and Morris Brashear, 23, of Route 1 Marion, plus Brashear’s 5-year-old son Robin were hurt in a collision in the 4400 block of Center Point Road NE. Meis suffered life threatening head and chest injuries and was moved to University Hospitals Iowa City after initial treatment at St. Luke's.
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Cedar
Center Point Road
Thomas P. Meis
Twenty-sixth Street
Meis
St. Luke’s Hospital
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Morris Brashear
Marion
Robin
Brashear
Mercy Hospital
Thieu Returns To Saigon After Weekend
Saigon reports that President Nguyen Van Thieu returned Sunday morning after a weekend abroad. The stopover raised expectations for policy direction and domestic stability amid ongoing political tensions.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Chuckle Quote: Family Album Laugh, Mirror Smirk
A humorous proverb notes a person who laughs at kin photos yet cannot smile at himself in the mirror. The observation plays on vanity and family memory with a light cultural touch.
Christmas Comes Early For Baltimore Boy
Baltimore AP report 12 year old Henry Haslup, son of patrolman Charles Haslup, had his stolen bicycle replaced before Christmas when bank workers at the American National Bank in Westview rallied to buy him a new bicycle for the holidays.
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Baltimore
Henry Haslup
Charles Haslup
The
American National Bank
Westview
Soviet Abolishes Unit For Cultural Relations
Moscow reports say the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries has been abolished by Kosygin’s cabinet. The move aims to eliminate duplication and shift coordination to the foreign ministry. Possible replacements and staff outcomes remain unclear.
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Moscow
Committee For
Alexei Kosygin
Foreign Ministry
Manhattan Mill In Demonstration Disrupts Holiday Shopping
Several hundred anti-war protesters held a mill in midtown Manhattan and ended with a Grand Central sit-in as police moved to separate clashes with counter demonstrators. Police arrested about twenty and cleared a Fifth Avenue store charge while Salvation Army bands and chants filled the holiday scene.
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New York
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Station
Fifth Avenue
Pope Paul and Johnson Press for Peace in Vietnam Talks
Vatican text shows Pope Paul VI urging true interior peace and peace with nations, while President Johnson and the Pope shared hopes for Vietnam peace during a Christmas audience. Johnson offered willingness for peace talks and a halt to bombing if North Vietnam shows restraint.
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Up! Phota
Lyndon Johnson
Australia
Vietnam
Pope Paul VI
Vatican City
Pope Paul
Vatican
Paul
Jesus Christ
Johnson
Paul VI
Washington
Harold Holt
U.S
Thailand
Pakistan
Ayub Khan
Karachi
Rome
Pope
Vietnam Map in Ga zette highlights U.S. unit locations
The Ga zette releases a full page color map of Vietnam on page 16B showing both North and South Vietnam with a key marking major U.S. military units and their assignments.
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The
Gazette
Vietnam
North
South
U.S
Bob Hope describes carrier landings and heroics with Duke Hernandez
In a vivid account from the USS Ranger, Bob Hope recalls jet catapult takeoffs and wire landings at high speed near Cape Kennedy. He highlights Lt. Cmdr. Diego Hernandez and Lt. (jg) Steve Van Horn after a Haiphong mission where stabilizer trouble forced a risky response to avoid ejecting.
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Gulf OF Tonkin
Cape Kennedy
Coral Sea
Diego “Duke” Hernandez
Hernandez
Steve van Horn
Alex Grosvesnor
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Sharaf Rashidov
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Uzbek
National Party
K. Romanovsky
Romanovsky
Alexander Shelepin
Soviet Communist Party
Manovsky
Shelepin
Demichev
Rashidov
Yekaterina Furtseva
Manhattan Stage
Russia
Salvation Army
America
LBJ
Christ
Special Thought
Bulletin
Terceira
Azores Islands
U.N
Lajes
Gerald Miller
U.S. Willing
Shannon Airport
Ireland
Bob
By Bob Hope
Hollywood
North Vietnam
John Weiner
Duke
Steve
Haiphong
Hanoi Hilton
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