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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1965
Page
15
Three children died after a 4,000 volt power line fell across a wire fence during a heavy rain in Savannah Georgia. Police said Teddy Sapp 12 grabbed a gate and his playmates Renee North 6 and Wanda North 12 did not realize the fence was electrified and could not escape.
In Bogalusa Louisiana a white man was shot during a civil rights march as two Negroes were arrested for aggravated battery. Police, FBI agents and 200 state troopers joined the 36 member city force amid heavy crowds and renewed racial tensions.
NBC TV programming chief Grant Tinker warns the fall schedule will thin as four week beaming of new films reduces availability. He notes saturation despite ABC and CBS adding Thursday and Sunday night movies and suggests studios may produce TV specific films to bridge the gap.
A dense, partial TV schedule listing many stations and time slots across Iowa and nearby areas. It includes network names, show titles such as The Addams Family Gilligan's Island Love That Bob and Zany local segments, with channel numbers and miscellaneous labels.
In Columbus Ohio two state senators urged lawmakers to go home as a litter ban bill with no penalty for violators prolongs the session to its seventh month. Senator William Deddens said the bill would clutter law books while Senator Ross Pepple called it proof the legislature should adjourn.
Des Moines Iowa Gov Harold Hughes faced a snag in filling the nine member state board of regents after a Republican candidate who met his criteria changed registration to Democrat. The remaining appointment is to a Republican and Hughes must pivot after the disclosure. The board oversees six state institutions including the college and two universities with modest meet pay.
Diplomat David Bane, previously at the University of Iowa, is nominated as ambassador to Gabon and will be reassigned from the Mace wing to Pershing missile program duties at the Pentagon. The shift aims to improve survivability and reduce vulnerability of U S forces.
A description notes the Mace as an air-breathing weapon resembling a pilotless aircraft with potential to better penetrate enemy defenses.
Ninety two Cuban defectors fled from Cuba to Florida aboard two boats after tensions rose with militiamen who tried to stop them. A German vessel rescued the group forty five miles off the Florida coast, and two militiamen joined the exodus.
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