Salute as NBC plans live primetime tribute series
NBC previews the 1967 68 season with Salute a live weekly hour honoring entertainment figures. Producer Bob Finkel envisions five stars per episode in a This Is Your Life style format with a host and a final salute to a guest of honor. The project aims for Hollywood origins and includes Perry Cross and Sheldon Keller as creators alongside Mort Werner. Also noted is Eisenhower agreeing to a Gettysburg interview for a future series on world peace.
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Iowa board seeks 111000 for prison guard raises
Iowa Board of Control chairman asked the state executive council for 111394 to raise prison guard pay at Anamosa and Fort Madison. Fort Madison would get 47500 and Anamosa 63894 to attract and keep staff amid competition from local industries. If approved, starting salaries would rise from 340 to 380 a month with proportional increases for higher grades.
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AMA Leader Warns Medicare Could Be Universal Plan
Dr. Charles Hudson of Cleveland, new AMA president, warned at the Chicago convention of a real threat that Medicare could be extended to all ages and income brackets. He cautioned against government domination of medical care and urged doctors to resist expanding a national health service financed by the federal treasury.
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American Medical Assn
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Charles Hudson
Cleveland
Poll on President Taken by Publishers
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS West Virginia AP publishers at the Magazine Publishers Association conference report President Johnson earns a fair rating in Vietnam from 43 percent of 277 respondents. Thirty-two percent call his overall performance good, 25 percent poor. Romney leads GOP with 61 percent, Nixon at 35 percent.
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Pakistan Welcomes Chou En-Lai Amid West Shift Signals
RAWALPINDI AP Pakistan's government gives a restrained welcome to Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai during a three day stay for talks with President Ayub Khan on his way home from Romania and Albania. Indications emerge that Ayub may rethink his tilt toward Beijing.
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Sharpest Quake In I Years Hits Central California
The 11 year strongest quake rattled a wide area from Paso Robles to Ventura with minor injuries and little damage. A chimney fell on a Parkfield house and a police station plaster cracked in San Luis Obispo. Seismologists measured 5.0 for the first quake and 5.3 for the second at 9 09 pm and 9 26 pm.
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California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
House Unit Rejects Senate Auto Safety
The House Commerce Committee rejected a move to substitute the Senate-passed auto safety bill for its own version. Chairman Staggers said their bill is stronger and fairer, while the Senate bill would set interim federal standards next year for 1968 models.
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D-W. Va
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Commerce Committee
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Services Thursday for Mrs. Joseph Crofta 96
Solon obituary for Josephine Crofta born 1870 near Solon who died after a long illness. Surviving are three daughters a son ten grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Funeral 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Brosh funeral home Solon then 9 a.m. at St Marys church. Burial in St Johns Lisbon. Rosary at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
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R. J. Murphy
St. John’s Cemetery
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Doctors Offer Tips on Living Through Holiday
Chicago AP report on July 4 weekend safety from physicians urging motorists to avoid driving if possible and, if driving, to use strict precautions. They advise higher tire pressure, front shoulder harness and rear seat belts, no loose objects, sober driving, and avoiding peak traffic hours.
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Charles
John
Rochester
N.Y
Ortho
American Assn
Bull Flees From Cows To Island Hermitage
In Claremont South Carolina a 2 year old Angus bull ran from his herd last week breaking a four strand barbed wire fence. He swam a mile and a half to a 10 acre island in a slough and has lived there since. New owners Philip Bacon and Philip Davidson noted the bull grew nervous during transport and fled at arrival to his five new cows.
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Reported Dead in jinxed Tanker Fire
The British tanker Alva Cape exploded and caught fire anew in Gravesend Bay Brooklyn twelve days after a collision killed 33. Four men dead, nine injured, ten rescued as fire and cargo removal continued. Coast guard said naptha still being stripped from the vessel.
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Radio systems approved for two Iowa counties
Congress man John Schmidhauser announced that the FCC approved two way radio systems for Louisa and Iowa counties. Iowa county will have four stations including a mobile base relay and two control relays at Marengo and Millersburg. Louisa county will have three stations with a mobile base relay and a control relay.
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John Schmidhauser
Federal Communications Commission
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Iowa County
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Millersburg
Louisa County
Train Hits Truck Killing One Injuring One on Board
The Illinois Central Land o'Corn passenger train collided with a cement truck at a crossing five miles north of Wheaton. Truck driver Thomas Ryan of Downers Grove died. one train passenger was injured. All diesel units and five cars derailed as the Waterloo to Chicago service was interrupted.
University of Iowa land purchase approved for expansion
The Iowa state executive council approved buying five lots in Iowa City for University of Iowa campus expansion. Land on Madison Street between Des Moines and Prentiss streets will cost 141,225 dollars, with 21,225 due at signing and the rest in five annual installments of 24,000 dollars to Coralville sellers Lucille Fieseler and Esther and Grant Keppler.
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David Bell Quits Post As Aid Chief
President Johnson accepts with deep regret the resignation of foreign aid administrator David Bell effective July 31. Bell will become vice president of the Ford Foundation overseeing international activities. White House says Johnson will nominate William Gaud, deputy administrator for international development since February 1964, as successor.
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Johnson
David Bell
Bell
Ford Foundation
White House
William Gaud
Agency For International Development
Smith Seeks Fifth Term in Iowa Fifth District
Rep Neal Smith of Altoona files nomination papers in Des Moines for a fifth House term as a farmer and member of the appropriations and small business committees. Kenneth Owen, Centerville Democrat and state secretary of agriculture, also files for a second term.
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Neal Smith
Iowa
Kenneth Owen
Centerville
Smith
Altoona
House
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