Pilot Walter Hickman Rescues Four in Vietnam Mission
Cedar Rapids native Capt. Walter C. Hickman of the 37th aerospace rescue and recovery squadron flew an HU-16B over the Gulf of Tonkin to rescue a downed fighter pilot amid heavy Viet Cong fire. The rescue, one of four between July 1 and Sept. 3, 196? highlighted his heroism and multiple decorations, including two Distinguished Flying Crosses and an Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters pending.
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Walter C. Hickman
Gulf of Tonkin
Cape Mui Ron
Hickman
Cedar Rapids
37Th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron
ARRS
da Nang
Walter K. Hickman
Bowling Street
Capt
37Th Arrs
Hickman’s
U.S
North Vietnam
Air Force
Tonkin
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
da Nang Air Base
Navy
Vietnam
Roosevelt High School
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Bennie A. Bray
Grumann
Gottlieb to Address Cedar Rapids AIIE Thursday
Bertram Gottlieb visiting professor at Iowa center speaks to Cedar Rapids area AIIE at the Ox Yoke Inn Amana on Labor-Management relations. Social hour at 6 dinner at 7. He serves as AFL-CIO industrial engineer advisor and has taught at Illinois Wisconsin and Connecticut.
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Bertram Gottlieb
Center For Labor and Management
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
American Institute of Industrial Engineers
Ox Yoke Inn
Amana
Gottlieb
Afl-Cio
Washington
Ond
University of Illinois
University of Wisconsin
Illinois
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Teacher Gets 600 Apples
Miss Ruth Thorning, retiring after 46 years as a teacher, was honored by students at Jones Commercial High School as the most dedicated teacher. The tribute included one shiny apple from each of about 600 students.
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Chicago
UPI
Ruth Thorning
Jones Commercial High School
Kennedy Family Book and Humorous Banquet Highlight DC Scene
A 1936 Joseph Kennedy book about Roosevelt surfaces in Democratic circles as a curiosity in Washington politics. The piece notes Sen Robert Kennedy may cite it if Vietnam policy fuels critique, while VP Hubert Humphrey entertains after dark crowds with sharp humor at a Radio and Television Correspondents Association banquet.
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Washington
UPI
the White House
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Kennedy
William Manchester
Johnson
Vietnam
Hubert H. Humphrey
Bob Hope
Jack Benny
Humphrey
Assa
FBI Adds Clyde Laws To Ten Most Wanted List
Clyde Edward Laws, added to the Ten Most Wanted fugitives list, is charged with shooting a Maryland police officer during a gun battle that followed an armed robbery. He is 5 feet 8 inches, 160 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion with small eyebrow scars and a facial scar. Tattoos read "Mother" and a cross with flowers on his right forearm.
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FBI
Clyde Edward Laws
Maryland
Laws
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Dale Rueter
Gazette
V.C
Johnny
AIIE
Smulekoff
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Martinique
Bradocli
Sonata
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White House
Merriman Smith
Roosevelt
Joseph P. Kennedy
New York
Reynal and Hitchcock
Franklin D. Roosevelt
London
Joe Kennedy
Fdr
Bobby Kennedy
Monmouth
Normandy
Jamestown
Hollywood Beds
Smulexoff
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