Lefty Named Suspect In Marilyn Sheppard Case
Cleveland testimony identifies a left handed killer as Marilyn Sheppard’s slayer in 1954. Witnesses describe a large blood spatter not belonging to Marilyn and a man visiting the home in December 1953. Defense argues a trusted acquaintance could have had access to the house and a key.
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Cleveland
Paul Leland Kirk
Samuel Sheppard
Marilyn
Sheppard
Kirk
Marilyn Sheppard
Sam
F. Lee Bailey
Jack Kraken
Dr. Sheppard
Marion Man Killed By Passenger Train At Lindale Crossing
Walter B. Hopson, 44, of 675 West Ninth Avenue, was killed Thursday night when his car was struck by the City of Los Angeles bound passenger train near Lindale drive crossing in Marion. The driver, a Linnwood Knolls salesman, was thrown from the vehicle as it remained attached to the engine for about a mile. The death marks Marion’s first car train fatality since 1953. investigation ongoing by Marion police and Milwaukee railroad officials.
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Marion
Asie
Pacific
Lindale Drive Crossing
Walter B. Hopson
West
Ninth Avenue
Milwaukee Railroad
Los Angeles
R. J. Hayes
iPerry
Hopson
Indian Creek
Second Street
Lindale Drive
Nineteenth Street
Linnwood Knolls Co
Murdoch
Chuckle Reflections on Travel Time and Almanac
A light note jokes that flying across the ocean grows quicker each year while a commute to work takes longer. The quip highlights contrasting travel speeds in a witty, observational style.
Eighteen Rescued From Burning Vessel Off Halifax
Eighteen people were taken from a burning ship in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Thursday, with coast guard and rescue teams aiding in the operation.
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Halifax
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Callaway Seeks People’s Vote in Georgia Governor Fight
Republican Howard Callaway, in a tight race with Lester Maddox and Ellis Arnall, favors another popular vote to decide the Georgia governor race. Maddox welcomes the issue being in the Democratic controlled legislature and federal court moves. With most votes counted, Maddox leads Callaway by about 2,700. Arnall has 55,597.
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Atlanta
Howard
Callaway
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Ellis Arnall
Carl Sanders
Arnall
Views
General Assembly
Iowa Corn Crop Estimate Raised to 888.8 Million Bushels
Washington UPI reports the agriculture department raised Iowa corn crop projections to 888.8 million bushels, about 88 bushels per acre, up from 878.7 million a month earlier. The 1965 crop was 811.964 million bushels.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Iowa
Tornadoes Strike Northern Alabama and Gale Hits Memphis
Severe weather swept the Deep South with tornadoes in northern Alabama and a gale slammed Memphis. No injuries were reported though homes roofs and trees were damaged and power lines fell. Alerts covered northern Alabama Georgia parts of the Carolinas and Tennessee.
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Atlanta
UPI
Alabama
Memphis
Deep South
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Tennessee
Deaths in Vietnam rise as Tay Ninh battles continue
U S forces report 127 American deaths last week, 605 wounded and eight missing or captured amid Tay Ninh fighting. In Cam Ranh Bay a French wharf collapse killed up to 20 Vietnamese and injured about 100, as U S Marines push Operation Pawnee north of Da Nang. A helicopter carries Brig Gen James Hollingsworth after being shot down without injuries.
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Saigon
Tay Ninh
U. S. Command
Cam Ranh Bay
Johnson
U. S
da Nang
North Vietnam
Red River
Panhandle
Tay Minh
James Hollingsworth
Sanger
Texas
Non-Lethal Gas Used by Reds on Gas
An ambush patrol of the U S First Infantry division was attacked by Viet Cong using a non poisonous tear gas the first known firing of gas by the communists in Vietnam. About 1 200 gas grenades were found among 19 000 grenades in a supply complex sweep. Defense Secretary McNamara said the agents are riot control agents used by police to quell disturbances.
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Saigon
U.S. First Infantry Division
Vietnam
Tay Ninh
U.S
South Vietnam
McNamara
Girl 12 Sacrifices Self to Save Six in Farmington Blaze
In Farmington township near Detroit, Carol Palmateer, 12, died trying to rescue six siblings from a fire that claimed seven children and left mother Rose and Cynthia, 9, hospitalized. Coroner reports asphyxiation and third degree burns. Father Harold worked as a welder nearby.
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Girl
Blaze
Detroit
UPI
Carol Polmateer
Polimateer
Farmington Township
Rose
Cynthia
Carol
Liza
Suzanne
David
Rudolph
Denise
Dennis
Leroy Newman
Harold
Veterans Day Program Friday in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids veterans groups observe Veterans Day Friday with a 10 30 a m program in Greene Square. Speaker Major Jack J Jeangerard holds aero space professorship at Coe College and led ROTC. Kore an War veteran. VFW band and firing squads participate. John E Watson chairs.
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Cedar Rapids
Greene Square
Jack J. Jeangerard
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Coe College
Command School
VFW
American Legion
Veterans Council
John E. Watson
Vote Result Poses Sixty-Eight Threat to Johnson
AP dispatch outlines a Republican surge in Tuesday’s elections giving the GOP control of at least half the nation’s governor seats in 25 states and 290 electoral votes in 1968. Johnson’s party lost ground in Congress with 47House gains for Republicans and 248 Democrats in membership, suggesting a tougher path for his re election bid.
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Washington
Johnson
G.O.P
Herbert Hoover
House
Senate
Kiesinger Tapped for Chancellor
Bonn announces Kurt-Georg Kiesinger 62 chosen by the CDU CSU to become West German chancellor if he forms a majority coalition in the Bundestag. Opposition cites Nazi past. Kiesinger publishes a denial and seeks to secure Free Democrat and SPD support to avert new elections.
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Bonn
UPI
Kiesinger
Walter Hallstein
European Common Market
de Gaulle
Adolf Hitler
Christian Democratic Union
Christian Social Union
Free Democrats
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Social Democrats
Christian Democrats
Bundestag
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Spang Bakery
Krakan
New Georgia
Democratic Party
James Gray
Gale
Peter Arnett
Veterans Day Program
Cedar Rapids News
By Jack Bell
Barry Goldwater
Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Wellington Long
Rale
Erhard
Hailstein
Konrad Adenauer
Rainer Barzel
Gerhard Schroeder
Washington Post
Nazi Party
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