Iowa senator cools plan after regents label row
In Des Moines Senator Francis Messerly faced calls for quick action against Melvin Wolf after Wolf called him and 31 others fascists over a regents meeting dispute. Senate Republicans discussed SF123, a bill to dismiss university students for campus riots, but delays and due process concerns prompted restraint.
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Des Moines
Waterloo
Friday
State Board of Regents
Francis Messerly
Cedar Falls
Black Hawk Countian
Melvin Wolf
Messerly
Wolf
Iowa City
David Stanley
R Muscatine
Senate
Richard Stephens
Crawfordsville
Feaker Accused in Ely Bank Robbery Case
Beryl Dean Feaker, 40, of Mt. Vernon, is jailed in Linn County on $20,000 bond awaiting federal charges for the Ely First Trust and Savings Bank robbery last Friday. FBI agents and deputies arrested him at Cedar Rapids Federal Building. two others may be involved. The incident involved two men, threats, and a sack of cash, with no vault entry.
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Linn County
Ely
First Trust and Savings Bank
FBI
Beryl Dean Feaker
Mt. Vernon
Feaker
Sheriff's
Federal Building
Cedar Rapids
Louis Buresh
Fairfax
Gladys Holets
Buresh
Miss Holets
Today's Chuckle An Optimist at the Marriage License Bureau
An optimist is a husband who visits the marriage license bureau to check if his license has expired.
Bombed Exchanges Open With Chalk Patched Trading Floor
Montreal and Canadian stock exchanges reopened after a dynamite blast injured 27. President Charles Neapole ordered trading to resume within 20 hours. The blast damaged walls ceilings and windows and debris showered 350 people on the trading floor and gallery. Police had warned of an explosive device minutes before the blast at the 47 story Victoria Square building in Montreal.
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Montreal
UPI
Canadian Stock Exchanges
Charles Neapole
The
Exchange
Victoria Square
Financial District
Epidemic of Respiratory Illness Hits Cedar Rapids Schools
Cedar Rapids district reports 3,182 of 24,557 students absent about 13 percent as Linn County Medical Society labels the event an epidemic infection of the respiratory tract. Officials note sudden fever aches sore throat and cough with three to five day duration. home care advised unless fever persists or complications arise. Absentee rates rose sharply last week across elementary junior high and high schools. Doctors see few adult illnesses and have not identified the exact illness.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County Medical Society
The
Medical Society
Stranger rescues amputee from fire then vanishes
LOS ANGELES AP A stranger dragged a double amputee from a burning apartment and vanished without leaving his name. Curtis Nunley 42 said he could not reach his artificial legs flames apparently consumed them. Nunley was treated for minor burns.
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Los Angeles
Curtis Nunley
Nunley
Sit-in at University of Chicago Ends After 16 Days
Riot and sit-in actions spread across multiple campuses as police and guards face protests. Chicago students evacuated the administration building after a 16 day occupation. Duke and Berkeley saw clashes, tear gas, and arrests as students demanded black studies and education programs.
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University of Chicago
University of Wisconsin
National Guard
Warren Knowles
Chicago
Edward Levi
University
Duke University
Durham
N.C
Southern University
University of California
Berkeley
Roosevelt University
Pennsylvania State University
Yippie
Jerry Rubin
Duke
Gothic
Movie evidence backs assassination gunfire origin
FBI expert testified in the Clay Shaw conspiracy trial that the JFK home movie shows bullets from the rear. Lyndal Shaneyfelt argued the head movement and blood halo suggest the fatal shots came from behind. The state contends multiple gunmen were involved with rapid-fire second and third shots.
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New Orleans
FBI
Clay Shaw
John F. Kennedy
Lyndal Shaneyfelt
Alexandria
Kennedy
Buell Frazier
Irving
Texas
Lee
Genovese of Notoriety in Mafia Dies
Vito Genovese, 71, a pivotal underworld figure of the 1950s, died in Springfield Missouri after congestive heart failure. He served a 15 year narcotics sentence and was linked to la cosa nostra power despite 13 prior indictments.
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Genovese
Mafia
Washington
Vito Genovese
Springfield
Justice Department
la Cosa Nostra
Valachi
Peruvian gunboats fire on two U.S. tuna boats off coast
Rep. Pelly reports two U.S. fishing vessels were fired upon 23 to 40 miles off Peru with one boat captured and taken to a Peruvian port. The second boat, damaged, fled toward Ecuador as U.S. officials seek Navy protection. Senator Murphy and Nixon aides respond.
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Washington
U.S
Thomas Pelly
R-Wash
Ecuador
Pelly
State Department
Navy
California
Mariner
San Juan
George Murphy
Rcalif
Nixon
Murphy
Ronald Ziegler
Sirhan in Trance Defense Claims Mental State During Kennedy Slaying
Defense argues Sirhan Sirhan was intoxicated and in a trance with no voluntary control when he shot Robert Kennedy. Emile Zola Berman traces Sirhan’s violent early life in Jerusalem, asserting lack of capacity to form intent or malice. Continued coverage noted events from 1947 Palestine violence shaping his condition.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sirhan Sirhan
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Emile Zola Berman
Sirhan
Berman
Palestine
B 52s Blitz Gateway to Saigon Sends Bombs Over Area
B 52 bombers roared over a wide arc northwest to northeast of Saigon dropping more than 1,200 tons on base camps and depots in 48 hours. Targeted zones stretched from 28 miles northeast to 75 miles northwest of the capital as Tet plans loom. An American plane was shot down over Cambodia with four crew aboard. pilot Laird Osburn captured.
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Saigon
U.S
Air Defense Force
Laird Osburn
Peruvian authorities capture U.S. fishing boat for alleged poaching
Peru reports a U.S. vessel tentatively identified as the Mariner of San Diego has been captured for poaching in territorial waters and is being taken to Talara for investigation. A second American boat escaped northward. Peru asserts 200 mile territorial waters that the U.S. does not recognize.
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Lima
Peru
UPI
U.S
Mariner of
San Diego
Calif
Talara
Peruvian
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G.O.P
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B. D. Feaker
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Baresh
Tom Tjelmeland
T and K Roofing Co
Hank
Charter Street
Madison
C.R
United Press International
City College of New York
JFK
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Frank Costello
Albert Anastasia
Treasury Department
Bureau of Prisons
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Jerusalem
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