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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1966
Page
6
A massive blizzard left towns isolated and travelers trapped across the Northern Plains and upper Midwest. Reports say missing people, power failures, and dozens of vehicles stranded as high winds and 60 mph gusts battered the region.
In the fiercest air campaign yet, U S air force navy and marine jets fly 55 missions deep into North Vietnam near Hanoi and along the Red River line. Ground fighting continues eight miles northwest of Quang Ngai as two U S marine battalions confront Viet Cong forces.
FBI agents arrested Oswald Pick, 27, on a Washington bound train after an anonymous caller in New York challenged the bureau to find him before he could assassinate President Johnson. Hoover said agents across New York Newark Philadelphia and Washington were mobilized to identify and detain Pick in Philadelphia.
AP reports 2,335 U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam since 1961, with 130 in the week to Monday, plus 11,574 wounded, 151 missing, and 31 captured. Air sorties reached 500 as forces strike targets in the south. One Marine was shot down near Chu Lai but crew survived.
Burglars smashed a brick wall to remove a wall safe from the Delos McDonald mansion on Fountain Hill, taking loot over 10000 dollars including about 6000 in cash and 3000 in jewelry. The burglary was discovered by two cleaning women Friday morning. McDonald, a Texas-based executive, is believed to be in Texas.
The White House announced a major overhaul of foreign policy machinery giving Dean Rusk expanded powers. The president delegated full authority for overall direction and coordination of overseas interdepartmental activities, excluding strictly military matters, to the secretary of state.
Rescue teams scoured rural areas east of Jackson as the Friday tally reached 60 dead and 497 injured. One victim was Joe Bullock, a former Mississippi agriculture official and congressional candidate. Destruction centered on Candlestick Park in Jackson with extensive damage to a shopping center and nearby plants in Rankin County.
A Canadian Pacific Air jet crashed into a retaining wall at Tokyo International in dense fog killing 58 of 71 aboard. Four missing, nine survivors. Among the dead and injured are ABC producer Jesse Zousmer and his wife. The flight was from Hong Kong to Vancouver via Tokyo.
Survivors described the Mississippi capital Jackson tornado as sounding like a thousand jets and fifty freight trains. Dawn searches at Candlestick Park grocery center found a dead child, a dead woman in a car, and debris everywhere as rescue teams guarded the scene and controlled looting.
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