Klan Pair Sentenced Ten Years In Athens Trials
U. S. District Judge William Bootle sentenced two Ku Klux Klansmen, Joseph Sims and Cecil Myers, to 10 years in prison for conspiring to violate Negro rights in a case tied to the 1964 slaying of Washington educator Lemuel Penn. Four co defendants were acquitted. Herbert Guest got two years on separate drug counts.
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Athens, Ga
U. S
William Bootle
Joseph Sims
Cecil Myers
James S Judson
Athens
Bootle
Washington
Lemuel Penn
Herbert Guest
Sims
Myers
Carpenter
FBI
James Luckey
Penn
Guest
Lackey
Denver Phillips
U.S
Floyd Buford
Buford
Elm Disease Expands in Cedar Rapids Trees
Cedar Rapids reports 411 confirmed elm disease cases as of Friday, including 179 on city property and 232 in private trees. Health labs processed 331 specimens total, with city tests confirming city trees without extra testing. City crews removed 35 diseased trees from public property. private removals not recorded.
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Cedar Rapids
City Forestry Department
City Health and Water Department
Forestry Department
Thunderstorms Drift Across North Iowa Weather News
Weather across Iowa showed heavy storms in the north central and northeastern counties with over half an inch of rain in Mason City Shell Rock Charles City and Waterloo. The rest of the state enjoyed fair skies as a cold front is expected to lower northwestern temperatures into the 60s Saturday night with 70s elsewhere, followed by warmer, humid air Monday.
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Iowa
Mason City
Shell Rock
Charles City
Waterloo
Weather Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Just Bill Mr L B Johnson
A Charleston West Virginia AP report describes an elderly medicare patient saying the White House will pay. At a hospital an emergency patient named Dr X and Mr Johnson are asked to be notified. The attendant asks who Mr Johnson is and the patient says he is L B Johnson the man who takes care of the medicare till.
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Charleston
W. Va
White House
Dr. X
Mr. Johnson
L. B. Johnson
U S Forces Use Reverse Ambush Tactics in Vietnam
United States troops lured a Viet Cong force of about 2000 into prepared fire from artillery and air power near Saigon. The operation used helicopters to insert reinforcements and halt the enemy’s escape toward the Cambodian frontier.
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Saigon
U.S
Navy
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Air Force
Chuckle Man Struggles With Eye Contact In Beachwear
The Chuckle Man remains awkward around women as he models new bathing suits, a situation noted for its comic discomfort and social missteps.
Switch Engine Tragedy Kills 4-Year-Old Dixie Truesdell
Cedar Rapids reports state Dixie Truesdell four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Glenn Truesdell was killed Friday night after being knocked beneath a Milwaukee switch engine at the Tenth street SW and Twelfth avenue crossing. Her half sister Teresa Gould, ten, escaped injury when the bicycle cars moved, with Teresa treated for minor leg injuries at Mercy hospital and released. Police investigate the accident as the train backed up after stopping across the crossing.
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Cedar Rapids
Dixie Jo Truesdell
Glenn Truesdell
Tenth Street
Milwaukee Railroad
Milwaukee Crossing
Teresa Gould
Mercy Hospital
Dixie Truesdell
Steve
Board Acts To Ease Air Travel Congestion
The Civil Aeronautics Board relaxed rules to alleviate airline travel delays caused by an IAM strike affecting Eastern National Trans World United and Northwest Airlines. Measures authorize extra service by certs and supplementals, allow chartering of planes, and permit cargo and ticketed passenger movements to relieve capacity bottlenecks amid Southeast Asia military redeployments. The move aims to cut disruption in 231 cities while negotiations resume.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Eastern
National
Trans World
United
Northwest Airlines
Defense Department
Southeast Asia
Ricky Still Silent But He Smiles
Ricky Thorne, 13, abandoned at Miami airport last September, remains nonverbal but shows smiles. His mother, Mrs. Victor Thorne, sought psychiatric help in Michigan after contact with Ricky and a Florida clinic. Doctors at the clinic are optimistic he may speak with ongoing speech therapy.
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Ricky
Troy, Mich
Victor Thorne
Miami International Airport
Ted
Chicago
Thorne
Miami
Mrs. Thorne
Michigan
Florida
Ozark Air Lines Sees Boost During Major Airline Strike
Ozark Air Lines operates amid a five-line strike, offering two extra east and west flights to Chicago and adding cargo service. United and others halted major operations, while Ozark keeps booming with servicemen aided by extended leave and standby travel. Talks resume in Washington per Johnson's directive.
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United
TWA
Eastern
Northwest
National
Ozark
Dick Parks
Park
Cedar Rapids schools seek 3.976 mill tax hike for 1967
The Cedar Rapids board of education files a $20,070,007 budget proposing a 3.976 mill increase to 66.486 per thousand, with $13,165,056 in tax requests. The rise funds John F. Kennedy High School startup costs and higher instructional salaries, amid enrollment growth and bond revenues. The plan allocates $9.395 million for instruction and details account totals, with dates indicating fall 1967 opening.
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Cedar Rapids Public Schools
Board of Education
Cedar Rapids
Schoolhouse Fund
Mayor appoints task force to protect city papers
In New York, Mayor Lindsay announced a high level task force to create systems for storing and safeguarding valuable documents in the city archives. The panel will explore secure storage, handling, and preservation methods to protect historical records.
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Paper Protection New York
Lindsay Friday
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Klan
George Turner
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Soviet Union
Haiphong
Thanh Hoa
Nguyen Chanh Thi
First Corps
Defense McNamara
McNamara
U.S. Pacific Command
Honolulu
Joseph Ramsey
Washington Post
Ramsey
P. L. Siemiller
IAM
Morton Mintz
Mintz
By Bill Halls
Cedar Rapids News
Ozark Air Line
Ozark Air Lines
Focal
Johnson
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