Television Today profiles Frank McGee amid spaceflight coverage
New York NBC veteran Frank McGee discusses handling Apollo era news and danger on television. He recalls live coverage decisions from the Glenn parade to Carpenters reentry and stresses objective reporting, transparency, and the human element behind the camera.
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Frank McGee
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John Glenn
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Bill Ryan
VA closes veteran contact offices in three Iowa cities
VA Iowa director confirms closure of contact offices in Sioux City Waterloo and Cedar Rapids. Veterans urged to email the Des Moines VA Center for problems while officials cited a long term decline in demand and a shift to mail service. Local officials and veterans groups had pressed for reversals without success.
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Veterans Administration For
Iowa
Sioux City
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Edward Christiansen
Christiansen
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Sioux City Journal
Innocent pleas filed in East Iowans cases in Waterloo
U S district court heard innocent pleas from Jack A. Snodgrass once a pilot for Gov. Loveless who faced tax evasion charges. Other defendants from Oelwein entered guilty pleas related to false CCC loan statements and mail fraud, while Roland Bor man of Guttenberg faced obscenity mail charges. No trial dates set.
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Gazette Want Ads EM 2 1121
The short classified notice offers help and a contact number for job and ad placements at the Gazette. It emphasizes readiness to work and provides the listing line EM 2-1121 for inquiries.
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Young Japanese Leftists Not So Tough Any More
Kenneth Ishii profiles Zengakuren and its internal rifts, detailing its decline from 1960s riot prominence. It notes factional divides from radical to moderate socialist camps, auto membership rules, and the rise of Minseido as youth supporter. Shigenobu Imai, leader of Shagakudo, embodies contradictions of student radicals.
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Marines Enlist Three Local Men for Marine Corps
Three locals enlist in the Marine Corps with San Diego depot dispatches for Roger E. Allen 17 and Stephen L. Obrecht 18 from Toledo and Neal D. Janko 17 of 1527 Elmhurst Drive NE, who will report for active duty August 31. Cpl G E Nelson of Springville on 10 day leave from Camp Pendleton serves as supply admin clerk. Airman LeRoy E Scherer, foster son of James E Anderson and husband of Ruth Harman Scherer, departs for 30 days from Keesler AFB to instructor school after a recent Spain tour.
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W. R. Stephenson
Springville
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Calif
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James E. Anderson
Ruth Harman Scherer
Franklin Avenue
Keesler Air Force Base
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Spain
Terrorist secret army in Oran shows signs of fading
In Oran, western Algeria, leaders of the terrorist secret army appeared to pause violence. A broadcast ordering a halt to sabotage and rumors of ex-leaders fleeing suggested a possible move toward peace as communications return and oil-tank fires block port, with mediation progress noted by Rene Soyer.
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Jean Defour
Algeria
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Gardy
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de Laffont
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Laffont
Rene Soyer
Children Participate In Radioactive Check
Twenty children and adults from Kansas City and St Louis take part in a Public Health Service study measuring radioactive iodine 131 activity in the thyroid gland.
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Kansas City
St. Louis
Airliner Lands on One Engine at Cedar Rapids Airport
An Ozark DC-3 bound from Mason City to Chicago diverted to Cedar Rapids after oil pressure dropped on the right engine. Capt. William Moorman and crew guided 12 passengers and three crew to a calm landing as fire and police enact emergency protocol. A replacement plane and a new foam truck are planned to improve response times.
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Cedar Rapids’ Airport
Mason City
Chicago
William Moorman
Waterloo
Dubuque
Moorman
Independence
Cedar Rapids
Robert Morrow
Phyllis Korteum
Harry Moore
St. Louis
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Hunter
Stump Granted Month Extension In Appeal Record
Ronald Stump's attorney in Keokuk received a one month extension to file the printed record for his appeal. Iowa Supreme Court limited the extension to August 1 after a brief hearing. Stump, sentenced to 75 years for the Des Moines murder of his former sweetheart's boyfriend last year, previously got a 90 day extension to July 1.
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UPI
Ronald Stump
Keokuk
J. Riley McManus
Iowa Supreme Court
Stump
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