Split on Property Tax Aid
In Des Moines the fight over property tax relief intensifies as Republicans push a Petersen plan funded by budget cuts and new taxes. Democrats attack the plan as excessive, arguing it raises costs, while party leaders clash over how to finance relief and payroll changes surface in the background.
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Frank Nye
Egilor Des Moines
Petersen
Floyd Milles
Farmington
House
G.O.P
Senate
Sen
Sealy Lodwick
R-Wever
Lodwick
Severe rains batter northern Iowa threaten floods and damage
Heavy rainfall across northern Iowa triggered road damage including Highway 218 collapse near Osage and three inch totals in Mason City area. Flood warnings urged creek rises while tornado threats were sighted but did not touch down. Lightning struck Monticello area causing two fires and property loss.
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Iowa
Mason City
Osage
New Hampton
Waucoma
Tripoli
Decorah and
Fayette
New Albin
Oelwein
Elkader
Cresco
Waukon
Manchester
Marengo
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
Harlan Helgins
Scotch Grove
Anamosa
Jim Billmeyer
Holywood
Weather Bureau
Correctionville
Sioux City
Carroll
Ogden
Cushman Seen Replacing Walt in Vietnam Command
Newsday reports Major General Robert Cushman likely to succeed Lieutenant General Lewis Walt as commander of U S Marines in Vietnam. Eisenhower doctors report continued recovery from gastrointestinal ailment as of Thursday.
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Garden City
N.Y
Newsday
Saigon
Robert Cushman
Lewis Walt
U.S
Vietnam
Washington
Eisenhower
Pacification in Vietnam Shift to Military Oversight
The United States moves pacification control from civilian to military, with Gen. Westmoreland directing the effort while Robert Komer serves as civilian deputy. About 15,000 U.S. troops and 20,000 pacification workers face ongoing guerrilla risk as attacks kill and wound hundreds.
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Robert Komer
Johnson
Bunker
U.S. Army
Astronauts urge focus as Apollo work proceeds
In Downey California, astronauts led by Navy Captain Walter Schirra urged moving forward with the Apollo program after a deadly launch pad fire. The North American Aviation plant showed ongoing assembly of moonship hulls while workers faced job security fears and safety changes to prevent another cabin blaze.
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UPI
Schirra
Walter Schirre
U.S
Ralph Dighton Downey
Calif
America
North American Aviation
Space Systems Division
Navy
Walter Schirra
House Science and Astronautics Committee
Washington
Miller
D - Calif
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Committee
NASA
Air Force
Donn Eisele
Walter Cunningham
Space Agency
Barbara McIisaac
Mother's TV sighting of wounded GI son in Vietnam
Mrs. A. L. Morrow watched her son Sp4 Albert Morrow, 20, wounded in Vietnam appear on a late news report. She described him bleeding from a Viet Cong booby trap and said he would be transferred to a hospital in Japan with six months to a year of recovery.
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Lagrange
UPI
Vietnam
A. L. Morrow
Albert Morrow
Landon
Morrow
Japan
Cargill to Lease Cedar Rapids Milling Plant
Cargill Inc will lease the Cedar Rapids Corn Starch and Syrup Co plant and Iowa Milling Co interests to begin operations on September 1. The facility on 1710 Sixteenth Street SE processes 14 000 bushels of corn daily into starch and gluten feed, employs 70, and will add no immediate personnel changes.
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Corn Starch and Syrup Co
Joseph Sinaiko
Cedar Rapids
Cargill, Inc
Sinaiko
Corn Starch
M. D. McVay
Cargill
Minneapolis
McVay
Iowa
Sixteenth Street
Nutrena
Iowa Milling Co
Sixth Street
Sinaiko. T
Montana Gets 9 Inches Snow
A late spring storm blankets eastern Montana with heavy snowfall. By Wednesday Great Falls had nine inches, Miles City seven, Helena eight, Cut Bank four, and snow was forecast to continue, raising flood and cattle feed concerns.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Continental Divide
Great Falls
Miles City
Lewis Town
Chuckle Love Ends With Arms in the Sink
A playful quip about romantic mishaps goes from a kiss to clumsy domestic irony with a dishwashing twist. The line plays on affectionate arms turning into a kitchen sink mishap.
U S Charges Soviet Warship Harassment in Sea of Japan
The United States accuses a Soviet warship of ramming a U S destroyer in the Sea of Japan marking a second incident in two days. The Pentagon says another Soviet destroyer maneuvered toward the Walker after warning blasts. A severe protest was filed demanding an end to the dangerous situation.
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Washington
U.S
Russia
Pentagon
Sea of Japan
State Department
Weekly U.S. and enemy deaths rise in Vietnam fights
U S command reports 274 Americans killed in action and 1 903 enemy killed in the week ending March 25 as battles flare below the demilitarized zone. American wounded total 1 748 with 18 missing or captured amid heavy fighting near Da Nang and in northern provinces.
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Saigon
U.S
Ofjand
North Vietnam
John Leddy
Yuris
Robert McCloskey
Llewllyn Thompson
Moscow
Leathernecks
G.O.P
Niagara Falls Rock Collapse at Prospect Point
About 100 tons of rock broke away from Prospect Point near the American Falls and plunged into the Niagara River gorge. No injuries reported though two women in a souvenir stand nearby were shaken. a witness described a loud cracking and rumbling like thunder.
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Niagara Falls
Prospect Point
American Falls
Niagara River
Tot Clings to Car 9 Hours in Icy Stream
In San Bernardino California a two year old boy clung to a partly submerged car in an icy mountain stream for nine hours. His father James Lawson found him after searching from his job. Inside the car lay the bodies of Mrs Lawson 36 and Susan 5. Gerald was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. Investigators say the car skid on a curve and plunged down a 300 foot slope into the swollen stream. The search began after a Riverside school principal reported Mrs Lawson a teacher missing.
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San Bernardino
Calif
James Lawson
San Bernardino Mountains
Lawson
Riverside
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