Truck Hits House. Infant Survives Unharmed
A Sanitary Farm Dairies truck backed into a Cedar Rapids home injuring the rear wall and floor but 11 month old Sheila Hofland escaped harm while playing in a rear bedroom. Five other children were present. no investigation was opened since the incident occurred on private property. The accident caused about 1500 in home damage and 1000 to the truck. Driver Louis Welton was not present. Police arrived after 7 am Thursday.
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Sheila Hofland
James Hoflands
Avenue NE
Oakland Road
Thirty-second Street
Sheila
First Street
Sanitary Farm Dairies
George Cadwallader
Center Street
Smoking crackdown and youth laws cited in Iowa case
The article notes renewed efforts against minor smoking in Manchester Delaware County with Atty E Michael Carr reporting fewer minors smoking in public. It cites tobacco law enforcement notices to officers and penalties for furnishing cigarettes to minors, including fines up to 100 dollars or 30 days jail. It also references juvenile treatment programs and a superintendent’s statements on security and dignity at a juvenile home.
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Juhi
Juhl
University of Town
Hennepin County
Minneapolis
Minn
Iowa
Minnesota Training School For
Red Wing
Manchester
Delaware County
Atty. E. Michael Carr
Carr
Siberia Suffers Glove Shortage Amid Cold Snap
Moscow reports Pravda cites a glove shortage in Siberia as temperatures reach 60 below. A man files a complaint with the area clothing department after a ministry of trade note shows 120 million pairs ordered but only 48 million delivered.
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Moscow
Siberia
Pravda
Area Clothing Department
Ministry of Trade
Atlanta Negro mayor bid looms amid city county merger talk
In Atlanta, talk of a Black mayor emerges as the 1969 election nears. Mayor Ivan Allen may run again, while a strong Negro candidate could emerge if North Side whites, Negro voters split. City-county merger and rising Negro registration shape the race and 1968 presidential impact.
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Atlanta
NEA
Ivan Allen
Allen
Fulton County
North Side
Georgia
South
Johnson
South Carolina
Louisiana
George Wallace
Executives Association Installs Cedar Rapids Officers
John Barlow of Barlow Moon Inc was installed as new president of Cedar Rapids Executives Association Inc Others took six month terms as first vice president Wayne Dunlavey and second vice president Walter M Brown with Wilmer J Ross as treasurer and Ed C Rudin as secretary A E Morehouse begins a three year board term after re election Members meet for breakfast each Thursday at the Roosevelt hotel.
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John §. Barlow
Barlow Moon, Inc
Cedar Rapids Executives Assn., Inc
Wayne Dunlavey
Walter M. Brown
Wilmer J. Ross
Ed C. Rudin
A. E. Morehouse
Roosevelt Hotel
Helicopter Crashes on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles
A police helicopter observing traffic over a busy freeway exchange crashed onto Sunset Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles. Pilot Ed Coulter, 43, escaped with a scratched hand while Sgt. Ken Carlsted, 40, suffered a minor back injury. A tail rotor detached and struck the center divider as cars passed.
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Los Angeles
Sunset Boulevard
Ed Coulter
Ken Carlsted
Hollywood Freeway
Christy Painting Repaired After Capitol Vandalism
The Capitol’s 20 by 30 foot painting The Signing of the Constitution by Howard Chandler Christy was moved to the National Gallery of Art for repair after a vandal damaged four canvases. The Christy work was removed from its frame and rolled onto a scaffold for transfer following weeks of careful planning by engineers and carpenters.
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Washington
Capitol
Howard Chandler
Christy
National Gallery of Art
CMU Engineer Cites Overload in Silver Bridge Collapse
Carnegie Mellon University civil engineering head says the Silver Bridge disaster near Point Pleasant West Virginia was caused by an overload rather than a structural defect. Searchers have recovered 36 bodies from the Dec 15 collapse and 10 people remain missing.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Mellon University
Silver Bridge
Point Pleasant
W.v.a
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John Melver
Cedar Rapids
Jules
International
Teat
Gary Novak
Bruce Bioss
Bigesat
John Barlow
Morris Plan
Peter F. Bezanson
The
Morris Plan Company of
First Avenue
N. E
Morris
Reader's Digest
Dias
Marty Smith
Applicace
Gear Rapids
Zenith
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