Johnson Thieu to Meet in Honolulu Over Vietnam Talks
President Johnson will meet South Vietnamese President Thieu in Honolulu around July 20 for a two day discussion on the Vietnam war and Paris negotiations with North Vietnam. Thieu postponed a long U S visit citing threat of a major enemy offensive and possible Ky coup concerns.
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Johnson
Thieu
South Vietnam
Honolulu
Paris
U.S
North Vietnam
Texas White House
Vietnam
Pacific
Holt
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Eight Day Holdout Ends as Mellish Dies Not Able Vietnam Service
Gunman Wally Mellish ended an eight day siege by freeing his hostage bride and her baby after police promised him a chance to volunteer for Vietnam. The army rejected him and he was committed to a mental institution. His bride Beryl Muddle, 19, said they were finished and she would return home to her mother.
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Sydney
Australia
UPI
Wally Mellish
Vietnam
Mellish
Beryl Muddle
Army
Ingleburn Barracks
Morisset Psychiatric Center
Tom Lonie
Wally
Miss Muddle
Norman Allan
Don Fergusson
Revaluation Of Property Is Approved In Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids conference board voted unanimously to begin a citywide property revaluation starting in 1969. The project will focus first on all commercial properties and multi dwelling units over ten, then extend to all other property, with an estimated cost around $250,000 and a duration spanning several years. The last complete revaluation occurred 1959–1962 by Cleminshaw Co. of Cleveland, prompted by appeals from the Greater Downtown Cedar Rapids Association.
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Cedar Rapids Conference Board
Cedar Rapids
Board of Review
Cleminshaw Co
Cleveland
Loop
Five Carbines Seized in Iowa
Des Moines AP safety commissioner Jack Fulton said five .45 caliber Spitfire carbines made in Phoenix were seized. He noted they could be converted to full automatic. The weapons were owned by Iowans after a federal seizure at the Spitfire plant. A separate item notes the 1969 city assessor budget of 218540 with 100000 for revaluation.
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Des Moines
Ional
Jack Fulton
Arizona
Fulton
Spitfire Mfg. Co
Phoenix
Conference Board
Federal law requires carbines be registered with IRS
Inland and federal statutes are cited as requiring registration of carbine firearms with the Internal Revenue Service. The Iowa law continues on the next page and column.
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Internal Revenue Service
Iowa
Law Professors Support LBJ Court Nominees
Iowa City AP The dean of the University of Iowa College of Law sent a telegram to the Senate Judiciary Committee chair on behalf of 300 law deans and professors urging support for President Johnson’s Supreme Court nominees. The message, endorsed by 60 law schools, argued constitutional law grants the President and Senate full concurrent authority and that rejecting nominees due to Johnson’s term status would undermine constitutional power.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa College of Law
Senate Judiciary Committees
Johnson
Supreme Court
David H. Vernon
Iowa
Senate
Cedar Rapids Board Proposes $7.2 Million School Plan
The Cedar Rapids board of education proposes a $7.2 million school construction program with 20 projects. It targets a Oct 14 bond election for $5.9 million to finance the plan, with $1.3 million from the school levy and sale of Van Buren to the Iowa highway commission.
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Cedar Rapids
Girl Vanishing From Home Found Alive Near Corry
A 15 year old girl, Karen Sue Cooney, missing since Monday, was located Tuesday by a Blairsville pilot in a wooded area three miles from her Corry home. She appeared dazed and was rushed to a hospital in good condition after being spotted waving from the trees. Police could not immediately question her.
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Corry
James Shearer
Blairsville
Karen Sue Cooney
Shearer
James Cooney
Self-Release Cleared in Brooklyn Pool Hall Case
Adrian Cancil, 39, freed of a gun possession conviction after a taped recording made with a concealed mic in a Brooklyn pool hall undermined key testimony. District Attorney Aaron Koota moved to set aside the conviction, asserting no proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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New York
Brooklyn
Adrian Cancil
Aaron Koota
Cancil
State Supreme Court
Miles F. McDonald
Koota
Change of Venue In Meyers Case Denied by Judge
Cedar Rapids News reports that Linn district Judge J Paul Naughton refused Merle J Meyers request to move his abortion case to another county despite pretrial publicity. Meyers of 1815 Eighth avenue SE faces two additional abortion charges from an Ottumwa divorcee incident last fall.
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Meyers
Linn
Merle J. Meyers
Eighth Judicial District
J. Paul Naughton
Naughton
Ralph Koons
R. Fred Dumbaugh
Linn County
Dumbaugh
Koons
Marines hold Hill 689 in pace with DMZ fighting near Khe Sanh
UPI reports Marine defenders atop Hill 689 near Khe Sanh say they have killed about 300 attackers, boosting the week’s communist toll near the DMZ to around 530. The Hill rises over 2,000 feet as Marines vow to stay until the foe is defeated, amid air strikes and Viet Cong actions in Saigon and the Mekong Delta.
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Saigon
Paris
Mekong Delta
U.S
North Vietnam
Raymond Davis
Third Marine Division
First Eastern Europe Heart Transplant Performed
In Bratislava a Czech team performed Eastern Europe s first heart transplant on a newborn woman whose new heart began beating on its own. The donor was a 40 year old man fatally injured in a fall. The operation lasted over six hours.
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Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
UPI
Europe
Pueblo Sailor Mother Demands Use of Force to Free Crew
Mrs. Warren Hayes of Columbus Ohio, mother of radioman third class Lee Hayes, joined the Remember the Pueblo Committee urging stronger action to recover the Pueblo and its 82 survivors. She said she would rather see her son die in a rescue attempt than perish in a North Korean prison. The group criticized Secretary Rusk and the administration as vacillating and incompetent at a news conference.
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Washington
UPI
Warren Hayes
Columbus
Ohio
State Department
Hayes
Paul Lindstrom
Chicago Area
Rusk
Lee Hayes
Scott
Wanted Clerk to Work Eight Hours a Day
A shop window notice proclaims a humorous job ad seeking a clerk to fill an eight hour shift to replace a worker who did not show up. The quip reflects local humor about employment turnover and workplace expectations. The source attributes the line to a storefront display and notes copyright.
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