Record 760 Officers to Patrol Iowa Highways for July 4 Holiday
Iowa will mobilize 760 law officers to patrol highways from Friday to Monday under a state of emergency declaration. The effort combines 350 highway patrolmen with 410 auxiliary officials from national guard, air police, military police, weight officers, commerce and conservation groups to enforce motor vehicle laws and city ordinances. The seven-day breakdown aims to curb a history of high holiday deaths as traffic courts threaten stiff penalties for violations.
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Iowa
Sueppel
National Guard
Air Police
Highway Commission
Commerce
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Conservation Commission
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Highway Patrol
Will Revoke Licenses of Drag Racers
DES MOINES AP Start ing July 4, persons convicted of drag racing on Iowa roads will have their licenses revoked for one year. The law treats racing on public streets as a misdemeanor and makes license revocation mandatory. Other new rules affect headlights signaling stopping on interstates and minor possession of beer.
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Des Moines
Iowa
William Sueppel
Sueppel
Iowa Rainfall Surpasses Normal with Heavy Showers
Heavy rain drenched Iowa with over 3 inches in western counties and 13.34 inches reported in Hawarden. Cedar Rapids logged 1.12 inches while Des Moines measured 1.87 and Cedar Rapids midday temperature reached 75 degrees after an overnight low.
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Grinnell
Newton
Sigourney
Haverhill
Brooklyn
Cedar Rapids
Death of Swiss Communist Leader Leon Nicole Reported
Geneva reports the death of Leon Nicole a founder of a small Swiss communist party announced Tuesday by AP sources.
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Geneva
Leon Nicole
Communist Party
Man injured at border fleeing wife on Iron Curtain
A 23 year old West German tried to cross into East Germany to flee his wife. A land mine shattered his right leg to the knee but he pulled back into West German territory. Customs officials said the man had a fight with his wife.
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Brunswick
Pan American 707 Lands Safely After Wing Loss Near San Francisco
A Pan American 707 with 143 passengers and a crew of 10 diverted to Travis Air Force Base after losing 20 feet of wing and engine number 4 in a ball of fire over South San Francisco. Captain Charles Kimes steadied the aircraft, manually lowered the hydraulic gear, and guided a safe landing despite damage and debris.
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James Nuley
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Travis Air Base
San Francisco
Charles Kimes
Danville
Calif
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Kimes
Travis
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Calistoga
Girl Survives Ordeal After Family Feared Dead
Denise Winter, 14, said her 45 foot cabin cruiser sank off La Punta San Fernando on Baja California. She swam about 1.5 miles to shore and wandered two days in cold and hunger before rescue. Family of four still unaccounted for as search continued. The vessel was operated by stepfather Warren Winter, 40, with mother Mary Beth 36 and siblings Sheree 12 Lance 13 aboard.
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California
Denise Winter
Murieta
Calif
la Punta San
Sister
Denise
Winter
Twins Die Celebrating Birthday On River Outing
In Whitesburg Kentucky Leslie and Lester Collins sixteen year old twins drowned after a birthday river outing. One fell from a boat and the other attempted a rescue. Authorities investigated the fatal incident.
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Whitesburg
Leslie
Lester Collins
Heat Wave in Italy Kills Twelve Across Six Days
The six day Italian heat wave raises the death toll to 12 in Rome and across Lazio. Ten deaths cited as heat exhaustion, one from a forest fire sparked by suspected spontaneous combustion, and one from a lightning strike during a summer storm as temperatures reached the 90s in Rome.
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Rome
Central City Girl Dies in Farm Mishap
Luann Timmerman six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Marvin Timmerman of three miles west of Central City was killed when a tractor and hay conditioner ran over her after she hid in a row of downed hay while playing with siblings Monday night. The device crushes hay to dry it faster and the body lay at the funeral home.
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Gazette Central City
Luann Timmerman
Marvin Timmerman
Central City
Luann
Timmerman
Yo Yo Act By Stocks Big Volume
Stocks Somersaulted on Tuesday with heavy trading and big volume. Morning advance gave way to a drop then another rise as the Dow fluctuated around 848.53 at 11:30 and 835.54 at 2 p.m. It followed four straight loss days including the year’s worst one day loss.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
UC Sit-in defendants face prison and fines on 700-strong protest
Berkeley AP reports 293 of 700 plus demonstrators were found guilty of resisting arrest and trespassing after the December 23 Sproul Hall sit in. Sentencing begins July 19 with maximums of 18 months and 1500 dollars. Mario Savio and Suzanne Goldberg absent with pre sentence reports planned for 38 defendants.
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Crittenden
County Probation Department
Free Speech Movement
Mario Savio
Suzanne Goldberg
FSM
Edmund G. Brown
Air War Near China Pushes 65 Miles From Red China
US and allied forces pressed operations across Vietnam with deep air strikes and a major joint ground offensive. Four Marines died and four were wounded in a 600-man search and destroy south of the Da Nang area as 2,000 Americans and 1,000 Vietnamese engaged Viet Cong. An Australian battalion joined the sweep near Saigon, while Hanoi region raids intensified with planes striking 60 miles south of the North Vietnamese capital.
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UPI
Red China
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Ch Lai
da Nang
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South Vietnam
Monson
Reds
Hanoi
Thuan Chan
Son la
Thuan Chanh
China
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173Rd Airborne Brigade
Zone D
Negro chosen head of Baptist World Alliance
Dr. William Tolbert Liberia’s vice president was elected the first Black president of the Baptist World Alliance, a 25 million member organization, at its meeting in Miami Beach.
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Miami Beach
William Tolbert
Liberia
Tuesday
Baptist World Alliance
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