Snow and Rain Hit East Iowa On Final Winter Day
A soggy mix of snow rain and fog blanketed Iowa as winter ended and spring neared Friday into Monday. Elkader logged 7 inches, Dubuque and Clinton 6, with other towns from Waukon to Independence reporting 2 to 5 inches. Many roads were slushy to snow packed and accidents occurred including a truck crash on Interstate 80 near the Amana exit involving James Dunn and Paul Hillaman.
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Elkader
Dubuque
Clinton
Waukon
Manchester
Cresco
Oelwein
New Albin
Decorah
Independence
Iowa Highway Patrol
Des Moines
Nown
St. Joseph's
Bellevue
Cedar Rapids
Marengo
James Dunn
Fort Wayne
Ind
Marengo Hospital
Interstate 80
Amana
Jim Driscoll
Paul Hillaman
State Center
Dunn
Hillaman
Johnson Eyes Peace Focus as Ky Demands War Escalation
On Guam Johnson aims to steer talks toward peace but Premier Ky calls for a sharp escalation of the Vietnam war. Johnson’s aides report growing Communist escalation as Ky speaks from a hilltop at the conference opening on the damp island.
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Nguyen Cao Ky
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William Westmoreland
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Highway 30 Crash Kills Teacher at local school
A teacher Miss Connie Anderson 25 of Ottumwa died in a broadside crash on slushy Highway 30 one mile east of Norway corner at 4 40 p m Sunday. Her fiancé Nor way High principal Lyle Hedges 29 survived along with Marvin Penne 62 of Waterloo and his wife who were treated for injuries. Anderson a 1963 State College of Iowa graduate was engaged to be married in August.
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Larry Baker
B. J. Trickey
Cedar Rapids Jefferson
Jeff
Ames
J-Hawks
Cedar Rapids
Jeff Gym
Hiawatha Elementary
Connie Anderson
Park, Townecourt
Iowa
Highway Patrol
Anderson
Norway Corner
Hedges
Marvin Penne
Waterloo
Mercy
Penne
Miss Anderson
Elmer Anderson
Ottumwa
State College of
Chuckle Cartoon Joke About Inferiority Complex
A brief joke stating that a wife with an inferiority complex can cure it by being sick in bed for a day while her husband handles the household and children. The line suggests a humorous reversal of domestic duties for comic effect.
Car Safety Unit Denies Industry Pressure on Standards
Washington AP The governments top automobile safety officials testified that the industry did not improperly pressure to weaken the new car safety standards. William Haddon Jr and Lowell Bridwell said no such pressure occurred while reviewing the agencies activities, including 20 standards issued Jan 31.
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Senate Commerce Committee
William Haddon, Jr
National Traffic Safety Agency
Lowell Bridwell
Commerce
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
Bridwell
Gost of Living Up Grocery Prices Down
Costs rose one tenth of one percent in February as groceries fell sharply while housing clothing transportation and medical care climbed. Government report released Monday notes the mixed change across major expense categories.
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Lodge Named Ambassador at Large to Aid Vietnam and Asia
Henry Cabot Lodge to be reassigned from Saigon to a fulltime ambassador-at-large post focused on Vietnamese and Southeast Asian affairs. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker in a swap and may assist globally on trouble shooting tasks.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Dean Rusk
Newsmen
Johnson
South Vietnam
Lodge
Ellsworth Bunker
Saigon
Rusk
Kennedy
U. S
Barry Goldwater
South Viet
Wealthy Negroes Plan Aid To Civil Rights Cases
Forty seven of the nation s wealthiest Negroes form the National Negro Business and Professional Committee for the Legal Defense Fund to raise about one million dollars yearly for civil rights legal aid. Asa Spaulding of Durham heads the new group which aims to recruit one thousand donors at a thousand dollars each annually. The fund, separate from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, runs on about two million dollars annually with contributions from about seventy five thousand people.
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New York
Harvard Club
Jack Greenberg
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
National Negro Business and Professional Committee
Legal Defense Fund
Greenberg
Asa Spaulding
Durham
N.C
National Assn. For the Advancement of
Ray Anderson Farm Editor Dies at 78 in Florida
Raymond Flint Anderson longtime The Gazette farm editor 1927 to 1944 and prominent farm journalist died in St. Cloud Florida Sunday at age 78 after a second stroke. He had retired from Farm Journal three years earlier but remained listed as associate editor on the masthead. He began at The Gazette then joined Farm Journal in 1944 and directed Midwestern and Rocky Mountain coverage before moving to Denver and later St. Cloud with his wife.
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Raymond Flint Anderson
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Farm Journal
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Denver
Rocky Mountain
Andersons
Communists Repelled with Heavy Losses in Vietnam Actions
U S forces fought fierce battles as Viet Cong attacked two positions of the 9th division north of Saigon and an outpost ten miles southwest. Reports said 279 Communist dead and 29 Americans killed with 131 wounded in the last 24 hours amid air and artillery responses.
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U.S
Vietnam
9Th c
South Vietnam
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U.S. Air Force
Navy
San Francisco Hippies Chalk Slogans on Walks
Hippies from Haight-Ashbury gathered for a chalk-in in San Francisco with the city inviting residents to cover the panhandle to Golden Gate Park in color. The recreation department provided four by four foot spaces and chalk as hundreds created slogans and images including a flower power mural and a one eyed bird with the caption Understanding stops action.
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San Francisco
Haight - Ashbury
Recreation and Park Department
Panhandle
Golden Gate Park
Informant's Identity Can Be Withheld Declares Court
The Supreme Court 5-4 upholds arrest based on informer tips without a search warrant. Justices Stewart Black, Clark, Harlan and White support keeping informant identity private. dissenters Warren Douglas Brennan and Fortas argue this rewrites the Fourth Amendment. Case involves George McCray arrested in Chicago January 16 1964 on narcotics tip.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Stewart
Hugo Black
Tom Clark
John Harlan
Byron White
Earl Warren
William Douglas
William Brennan, Jr
Abe Fortas
Douglas
High Court
iGeorge McCray
Chicago
George
McCray
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