Parachutist Nick Piantanida Critically Hurt In 57,000-Foot Vent
AP reports Nick Piantanida was flown to Minneapolis in critical condition after a sudden equipment failure forced him to parachute from a high altitude balloon at 57,000 feet. He radioed emergency and was later moved to Hennepin General for treatment in a hyperbaric chamber.
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Minneapolis
Nick Piantanida
Leonard Thompson
Piantanida
Ed Yost
Raven Industries
Yost
Sioux Falls
May Day Demonstrations Across World Softened by Peace Calls
Associated Press reports May Day actions worldwide followed a familiar pattern with peace messages on Vietnam. In Moscow Soviet leaders denounced the United States while Mao’s absence was noted in Peking. In Saigon 7000 demonstrators urged peace outside the U.S. embassy without violence. North Vietnam urged discipline in a letter to armed forces.
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Moscow
Mao Tze-tung
Peking
U.S
Saigon
Red Square
Malinovsky
Lenin
Radio Peking
Chou En-lai
Hel
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnam
Vietnam Ground War Lull Extends Into Third Week
U S navy fighter bombers destroyed a antiaircraft missile site near Vinh while the ground war lull continued in the South for a third week. American aircraft flew over 300 sorties targeting suspected Viet Cong areas near the Cambodian border. The Hancock carrier’s A-4 Skyhawks and F-8 Crusaders saturated the site northeast of Vinh with Bullpup missiles and bombs, destroying two Soviet built launchers in a 400 foot square. Two U S planes were lost but the pilots were rescued.
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U.S. Navy
Vinh
U.S. Command
South Vietnam
Ist
Hancock
U.S
North Vietnam
Littell Named President of Iowa Wesleyan College
Dr. Franklin H. Littell a Chicago Theological Seminary professor of church history is named president of Iowa Wesleyan College Mt Pleasant. He will assume duties in July succeeding acting president Dr. Howard Johnston who led since 1965 after Dr. John Henderson resigned. Littell has taught at Southern Methodist and Emory universities and was born in Syracuse raised in Iowa.
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IE. A. Hayes
Pleasant
Southern Methodist
Emory
Syracuse
N. Y
Iowa
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Chamber warned against negativism by industry leader
Ben Heineman of the Chicago and North Western Railway urged Chamber of Commerce delegates to abandon indiscriminate opposition to federal government programs. He said valid criticisms lose sting when directed at all programs. Commerce Secretary Connor, at the same meeting, signaled no tax increase needed to curb price pressures.
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Washington
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Ben Heineman
Chicago and North Western Railway Co
Chamber
Commerce
Connor
Pastor Refuses Iowa Income Tax Over Illegal Claim
Fairfield Iowa Reverend Charles Sloca of New Sweden Methodist says Iowa income taxes are illegal and will not pay this year. Tax officials warn penalties and interest apply. Sloca argues withholding covers taxes and cites church responsibility. The tax commission says action depends on statute and enforcement. Detective Chief Dies in London clocks in next.
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Iowa
Tax Commission
Charles Sloca
New Sweden Methodist Church
Sioca
65 Caucuses Ignite in Linn County Tonight
Republican caucuses will be conducted in all 65 Linn county precincts at 8 p.m. Voters will select a committeeman and committeewoman for the county central committee for two years and name delegates to the Linn county Republican convention on May 20. Linn county Democrats held their caucuses March 28.
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Linn County
Construction Work May Halt Tuesday in Cedar Rapids Area
Sheet Metal Workers Local 263 plans a one day stoppage Tuesday affecting six Cedar Rapids area counties. About 150 sheet metal workers will picket Cedar Rapids shops after unions reached new contracts for carpenters and laborers, with other trades still negotiating.
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Cedar Rapids
Sheet Metal ‘Workers Local 263
Jerry Kriz
Carpenters and Laborers
Othe Building Trades
Linn
Johnson, Jones
Delaware
Benton
Town
Kriz
Federal observers to monitor six Alabama counties
The U S Justice Department will assign Civil Service Commission watchers to Hale Perry Wilcox Greene Marengo and Dallas counties for the Tuesday election. About 30 communities will host observers in a bid to enforce the 1965 voting rights act with 300 trainers on site in Atlanta. A federal mediator seeks to bridge union wage talks as metal workers eye rising pay.
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Katzenbach
Alabama
Hale
Perry
Wilcox
Greene
Marengo
Dallas
Civil Service Commission
Justice Department
Howard Smith
Adolph of Katzenbach
iHelm
Sheet
Kriz
waonuvuLun
George Wallace
Six States to Stage Primaries
Six states Florida Indiana New Mexico Ohio and Alabama plan primaries while governors races unfold in Alabama and Oklahoma. The article notes wage increases and labor talks at Cedar Rapids area plants with unions showing no immediate strike action.
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Alabama
Florida
Indiana
New Mexico
Ohio
Abrahama
Sussuc
Kriz
University of the States
Towa
Oakdale
Cornell
May Day Protest At U S Embassy In Warsaw
Homebound marchers staged a brief demonstration at the American embassy in Warsaw on Sunday night opposing U S policy in Vietnam.
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Warsaw
Poland
U.S
Castro decries U.S. actions as Cuban May Day rally praises reforms
In Havana, Fidel Castro addressed thousands on May Day, claiming communism shut down brothels and urging beer drinkers to drink less and read more. He vows a new pricing formula where beer costs more than books and attacked President Johnson and McCloskey as pirates and an idiot, respectively. The parade featured workers, Vietnamese and Koreans, and a Che Guevara portrait.
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Havana
Castro
Revolutionary Square
Johnson
Vietnam
Dominican Republic
Reform Guevara's disappearance sparks Cuba Russia tensions
The article notes a year without explanation for Reform Guevara's disappearance in Cuba. Portraits of Castro and Lenin accompany remarks by Castro seen as critiquing the Soviet Union. Castro warned against reliance on others for defense and cited Vietnam, widely viewed as a rebuke to Russia's Vietnam stance.
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Guevera
Cuba
Castro
Vladimir Lenin
Russia
Vietnam
U.S
Today's Chuckle Funny Saying About Growing Up
An adult is defined as someone who has finished growing at each end and started in the middle. Classic joke tone with a playful twist on age and maturity.
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