Western delegates shine at Las Vegas masonry show
Western Welcome to Delegates Cedar Rapids is well represented at the combined biennial show in Las Vegas. Vegas delegates greet attendees as 15 000 delegates, JoAnn Parnell in western attire, models a Cedar Rapids asphalt paver by Iowa Manufacturing Co. The display features equipment valued at 25 million dollars across the exhibit.
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Cedar Rapids
Las Vegas
Vegas
Vickie
JoAnn Parnell
JoAnn
Iowa Manufacturing Co
Cold snap grips Northeast and Florida with subzero and 20s
A sharp cold spell drove temperatures down across the Northeast and into Florida. Montpelier Vermont and Houston Maine logged 16 below zero before dawn, with upstate New York and northern Florida dipping into the 20s to 30s. Kentucky counties faced closures from deep snows and icy roads as Hopkinsville reports power restoration to 2,000 homes after three days.
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Florida
Montpelier
Houston
Maine
New York
Tam
Tallahassee
Denver
Kentucky
Hopkinsville
Pope names progressive cardinal to head priest education office
Vatican announces Pope Paul VI elevates Gabriel Cardinal Garrone to head the Vatican office overseeing priestly education after accepting the resignation of Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo. Garrone, 66, will succeed him as the education chief.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Vatican
Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo
Gabriel Cardinal Garrone
Priests Seek Role in Naming Spellman Successor
In New York Archdiocese, over 570 priests sign a petition asking Pope Paul VI to consult clergy in selecting Cardinal Spellman’s successor. The drive, led by a five member steering group, seeks involvement in future church restructuring amid potential division of the archdiocese.
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M.Y
New York
Archdiocese of
Vatican
Green Bay
Wis
St. Louis
Des Moines
Ensign Parker Takes a Hit and Regresses in McHale's Navy
Ensign Parker experiences a blow to the head and acts as if ten years old during a Wednesday broadcast of McHale's Navy on Channel 2.
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Ensign Parker
McHale’s Navy
Skiers Buried By Avalanche Near Donny Rubin
Six students from an engineering college in Brno were killed and 47 injured when an avalanche buried a group near a ski lift at Donny Rubin in Northern Slovakia. Rescue teams worked overnight to free the dead and the injured.
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Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
CTK
Donny Rubin
Brno
Antidote Flown To Save Child Life In Loma Linda
Maria Simmons a 15 month old swallowed 37 iron pills used to treat anemia. The only antidote to iron poisoning was 70 miles away. A sheriff deputy picked up 20 ampules of methane sulfonate at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles and flew it to Loma Linda University Hospital in twenty minutes. Later Maria was listed in fair condition. The father Marine Cpl Orville Simmons said the child found the pills in her mother’s purse.
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Loma Linda
Calif
Maria Simmons
Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles
Loma Linda University Hospital
Maria
Marine Cpl
Orville Simmons
Fare increase won by New York cab drivers
After a one day strike NYC union taxi drivers won city approval for a fare rise. The plan boosts the average 2.4 mile fare from 1.05 to 1.30 or 1.35 dollars, adding about 15 dollars weekly to full time drivers’ pay.
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New York
New York City
John Lindsay
City Hall
Air Force Extends UFO Study Nine Months
The Air Force will provide $193,155 to extend a University of Colorado UFO study for nine months, raising total funding to $596,155. Project co-ordinator Robert Low said the extension runs through September 30.
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Boulder
Air Force
University of Colorado
Robert Low
Low
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Downtou NY
By Bob Monroe
Cardinal Spellman
N.Y
iAir
Suedes
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