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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1965
Page
2
U S officials say about 25 B 52s from Guam joined a Monday strike on Viet Cong positions 35 miles northeast of Saigon. The attack used staggered waves over a jungle zone known as D Zone with no ground operation.
Scotland Yard guards U S government and business sites after a Sunday night explosion at the American Express office in London's West End. No injuries. A small box reading Dominica danger was found. A British chauffeur saw the blast possibly tossed from a car by a teenager amid Trafalgar Square protests against U S action in Vietnam.
Gasoline prices fell sharply over a holiday weekend, with regular grade dropping from 33.9 cents to 25.9 cents at Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Hiawatha stations. Budget cuts extended to cut rates as low as 23.9 cents at two price-cut stations, amid a hastily spreading price war after Iowa’s tax increase.
Five young scientists suffered serious burns when an explosion hit the Harvard MIT electron accelerator building on Oxford Street Cambridge Mass The blast caused a two alarm fire and heavy damage with the roof blown off and windows shattered One survivor Arthur Reid 19 Avon remained on the danger list at Massachusetts General Hospital Local officials said the hydrogen purifier in the machine caused the blast and that radioactivity was not released The accelerator is noted as the second largest of its kind in the world.
Disaster squads cleared wreckage across a storm belt just south of Milan after a day of tornado and tempest. At least 13 died and hundreds were injured as cars were hurled from roads and farms were destroyed. Some people remained missing as authorities counted whirlwinds hail and cloudbursts.
ARNOLDS PARK IOWA AP Young people rioted again early Monday prompting about 50 arrests and injuries. A man suffered possible broken ribs while police cleared the Roof Garden ballroom after midnight. Beer and liquor sales were banned following Sunday’s riot involving about 500 youths.
Paris police say Porfirio Rubirosa 56 died from injuries after his Ferrari left the Bois de Boulogne road and hit a tree while en route to hospital. He was a noted polo player and society figure linked with stars like Ava Gardner.
Linda Lee Foster, 16, died in a motorcycle crash on high tow 150 at Independence. She was riding with Gary Hilmer, 17, of Brandon when the bike left a ditch and Foster was killed instantly as she was struck by a Cedar Rapids truck. Foster had been living with Mr and Mrs James Kearns of La Porte City for three days.
Grandfather recalls July 4 highway disaster near Loveland that killed five in a northbound wreck on U S 87. Ronald Nelson and family perished alongside two Colorado Springs passengers. only 14 month old Rona Lee survived with grandparents. The clan planned Eldorado Springs picnic before the fatal ride.
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