Three Benson children suffocated in shed refrigerator tragedy
Sioux City AP report details the deaths of Cindy Elaine five Dwight Evan four and Jerald two in an old locked refrigerator found in a farm shed. The trio played with rubber dolls and purses as other siblings occupied the fields and the mother worked in a factory. authorities say the latch lock kept them inside for about two hours before discovery.
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Sioux City
Dewayne Benson
Cindy Elaine
Dwight Evan
Jerald
Woodbury
Connie Marie
Benson
Dennis
Darrell
Randy
Chris
Thomas L. Corden
Alts Manufacturing Co
Ponca
Neb
Cindy Marie
Stores Almost All Businesses To Close Monday
Cedar Rapids observes Memorial Day with most stores and offices closed Monday. Downtown shops will shift hours Tuesday night to 9 p.m. and city buses run on a Sunday schedule. Social Security offices offer regular hours for those 65 and older not yet signed for Medicare. Post office service is limited with no window service and no mail delivery except special packages. No garbage pickup on Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
Benson
Social Securit
SGA
Social Security Office
South Sioux
City
Neb
de Ponca
Hotel Executive Insists He Misquoted In Vietnam Veterans Row
Chicago Hilton manager Porter Parris denied apologizing for refusing reservations to wounded Vietnam veterans attending a hotel show. Veterans groups threatened a boycott as Parris said the remark was misquoted while asserting he aimed to help veterans and noting his own service.
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Chicago
UPI
Conrad Hilton
Porter Parris
Chicago Hilton
Hilton
Parris
Boulevard Room
Vietnam
Great Lakes Naval Hospital
American Legion
L. Eldon James
Europe
America
Shields
Foss
Hilton Hotels
Newsmen
Jburn
News
Boulevard
Great Lakes Hospital
Infantry
Depart‘ment of Defense
Castro declares Cuba in state of alert amid US aggression fears
Fidel Castro announced a state of alert for Cuba's 100000 armed forces after accusing the United States of planning armed aggression. He blasted Secretary of State Rusk and disputed Pentagon accounts of a Cuban shooting incident at Guantanamo, calling for immediate mobilization while seeking support from allied nations.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Rusk
U.S
U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo
Osvaldo Carticos
Defense Department
Explosives Bus Fire Kills Fifteen East of Bombay
Fifteen people died when a bus carrying explosives for a mining project caught fire about 500 miles east of Bombay. Police and authorities are investigating the incident and its cause.
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Bombay
Child’s Howls Fail Plan To Reunite Her with Kin
In Formosa a four year old girl destined for the United States to join her emigrant parents began crying uncontrollably on a flight. The stewardess halted the takeoff and the plane returned to the home where she had lived since infancy. Yuan Yu-chih, youngest of seven, had been left behind when her family fled. After hours of emotional distress the child was reunited with Auntie Shih Ching, director of the children's home.
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Taipei
Formosa
U.S
Yuan Yu-chih
Yuan Hai-chih
Yu Chih
America
Miss Shih Ching
Pentagon Snub Sparks Troop Density Claim Controversy
On a Pentagon briefing day, Army Major General Stanley Larsen said up to six North Vietnamese regiments were massed in Cambodia, while the Defense Department rebutted and noted no conclusive evidence. Officers privately grumbled at the reversal as Saigon reports hinted larger forces, potentially 12,000 troops, in Cambodian mountains with plans to move into South Vietnam, while officials urged restraint pending fuller intelligence.
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Chicago
Great Lakes Naval Hospital
Army
Alan Bonner
South Lyon
Mich
Saigon
Washington
Satur Jday
Pentagon
Stanley Larsen
Cambodia
Larsen
Vietnam
Defense Department
South Vietnam
O An
I Defense Department
Culver Demands Investigation into Local Post Office Delay
Cedar Rapids congressman John Culver announced he demanded a formal investigation into delays delaying Cedar Rapids new post office at Sixth avenue and Sixth street SE. He said the Postmaster General assured a detailed report will be provided early next week after a Gazette report cited a three month postponement. The building, originally due September 1965, has now faced three postponements shifting completion to early September. Culver warned further delays would harm residents’ postal service.
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Cedar Rapids
John Culver
Culver
Post Office Department
Sixth Avenue
Sixth Street SE
Rep
Lawrence O O’brien
Draft Call for Doctors Trimmed as Casualty Projections Fall
The Pentagon said the draft call for 2,496 physicians beginning in July has been reduced to 1,713 due to lower casualty rate estimates for Southeast Asia. A spokesman noted more doctors are volunteering for active duty than expected.
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Washington
Pentagon
la .Ws
Southeast Asia
Tama Pack Grants Loan Powers for Plant Completion
Tama Pack ing Co. directors gave the executive committee authority to make necessary loans to finish the Tama packing plant. General Manager Howard Randolph said work will resume only after contracts are secured, estimating about 1 million more financing and total plant costs of 1.5 million, with 641,470 in liquid assets as of May 11 and about 200,000 paid to contractors since then. Two new directors Ari Mason and Jane Wes Mansfield were appointed, bringing board membership to 13. The company planned to move offices to a farmhouse near Tama as soon as possible.
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Rapids News
Tama Packing Co
Tama
Howard Randolph
Randolph
The
Gazette
Ari Mason
Jane Wes Mansfield
Belle Plaine Bank
Tama County District
Richard Loftus
Tama Pack
Three Pronged Attack by Gs Viets y Robert Tuckman
SAIGON AP A combined force of 1500 U S marines and Vietnamese troops launched an amphibious and helicopter assault against the Viet Cong near Quang Ngai. The operation named Mobile deployed one battalion by amphibious tractors, another inland by helicopter, and a third on a coastal highway. Casualties were light, with 15 Viet Cong killed and 20 suspects captured in four days. Monsoon storms reduced U S air raids to a low in North Vietnam. In Hue the consulate closed amid Buddhist protests and most staff evacuated. Athens Greek state railway workers extended a four day strike crippling rail transport.
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Saigon
U.S
Quang Ngai
U. S
North Vietnam
Air Force
Dong Hoi
Hancock
U.S. Seventh Fleet
Davis
Carronade
Cholon
Hue
Thomas Corcoran
Military Assistance Command
Arizona Supreme Court Keeps Loyalty Oath In Effect
The Arizona Supreme Court, in a three paragraph order signed by Chief Justice Struckmeyer, rules the loyalty oath remains in effect despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling it unconstitutional. The decision cites the 1961 law’s penalty clause as unconstitutional, though the oath itself remains, with back pay for Barbara Elfbrandt potentially affected.
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Phoenix
Arizona Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Fred Struckmeyer
William Douglas
Struckmeyer
U.S. Court
Chuckle Says Blame Game In Jocular Quote
The piece notes a man smiles when things go wrong and hints at blame. It mentions school districts and state agencies dismissing an employee who refuses an oath. Mrs Elfbrandt was unavailable for comment but the husband expects back pay collection despite a state court ruling and opposition to the penalty portion of the law.
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Richard Foss
Andy Borg
Superior
Wis
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Fidel
By Isaac Flores
U.S. Defense Department
Kin
Marion
Pentagon Irks Brass
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Post Office
Gs Viets
Robert Tuckman
Athens
Barbara Elfbrandt
Tucson
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William Eubank
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