Execution Of 3 VCs Called Off
The U S state department said South Vietnam informed that three Viet Cong terrorists, Bui Van Chieu Le Minh Chau and Truong Thanh Danh, would not be executed as planned at Chi Hoa prison Saigon. Loc orders cited goodwill to communists and to avoid harming American prisoners.
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Washington
State Department
South Vietnam
Saigon
Chi Hoa
Loc
Bui van Chieu
le Minh Chau
Truong Thanh Danh
Viet Cong
Harold Bennett
Perryville
Ark
Humbert Versace
Baltimore
Kenneth Rornbeck
Fayetteville
N. C
da Nang
Chieu
Chau
Danh
Septemer
Johnson to hold White House news conference Friday
President Johnson will hold a news conference Friday at 10 am Iowa time in the East Room of the White House. Press Secretary George Christian said the conference would be available for live television and radio broadcast.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Iowa
White House
George Christian
Haiphong Shipyard Bombed As Dak To Fights Continue
U S Skyhawks hit a shipyard near Haiphong while air force planes knocked out a North Vietnamese mortar position at Dak To. Mortar fire at Dak To inflicted some American losses but the bases remained, as U.S. troops widened security on Hill 1338. Overall U.S. strength in Vietnam neared the Korean War peak with 470 000 troops deployed.
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Saigon
UPS
Haiphong
South Vietnam
Dak To
Central Highlands
U.S
Kep
Hoa Lac
North Vietnam
Mony
Dak
Laos
William Peers
Fourth Infantry Division
Bas
Vietnam
Korea
U.S. Casualties in Vietnam Last Week Reported
U S casualties in Vietnam last week stood at 177 killed, 761 wounded and 2 missing captured or detained. Of the wounded 386 did not require hospitalization.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Snowstorm Traps Boston Drivers In Monsoon Like Jam
A sudden late storm snarled Boston traffic with four inches of snow, leaving drivers stranded on highways. Six deaths were reported across New England as cars abandoned themselves to the rush hour gridlock. MIT Harvard and others aided stricken motorists while MBTA workers and students helped push, feed, and guide stranded travelers.
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Boston
Sunny Bet
New England
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Greater Boston
Weather Bureau
Robert Jones
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Harvard
Radcliffe
MIT
Boston University
Christian Scientist Mother Placed on Probation in Manslaughter Case
Dorothy Sheridan, 30, a Christian Scientist mother, was placed on five years probation after being convicted of manslaughter in her five-year-old daughter's death. Authorities said the child could have survived a lung ailment with proper medical care, but the mother refused treatment citing Christian Science healing methods.
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Barnstable
Mass
UPI
Dorothy Sheridan
Christian Science
Miscalculation On Bomb Wounds Seven in Hong Kong
Communist terrorists miscalculated the blast radius of a bomb trap intended to kill police, wounding two Chinese children and five adults in a crowd in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong
Freeway Plans Delayed From 1969 To 1970
The Iowa City to Cedar Rapids freeway opening is postponed to 1970 as the highway commission adopts new Public Roads Bureau standards. Howard Gunnerson said redesign requires, delaying letting of paving until late 1969 and shifting paving start to 1970 with earlier steps to acquire right of way.
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Interstate 90
Cedar Rapids
Highway Commission
Bureau of Public Roads
Commission
Howard Gunnerson
the Gazette
Johnson County
Gannerson
Williams Attacks Social Security Bill as Political
Senate Republican Sen. John Williams of Delaware argues the social security bill is driven by politics rather than sound financing. He cites planned $3.5 billion and $5.8 billion benefit hikes funded by payroll tax increases, questioning sufficiency to cover the gains while Democrats defend the plan as fiscally conservative and surplus creating.
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Senate Republican
John Williams
Delaware
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Williams
G.O.P
Winston Prouty
Everett Dirksen
Finance Committee
New Birmingham Mayor Reported For Duty
George Seibels arrived at his old city council office but corrected course to the mayoral office after reporters reminded him of his promotion. The incident occurred as he began his term in Birmingham Alabama.
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Birmingham
Ala
George Seibels
Area Schools Reach Late Night Bargain on $9.5 Million Build Plan
After more than six hours of talks the Iowa state boards approved a $9.5 million vocational technical building package for 16 area schools. Joint negotiations weighed population enrollments and federal funds, with Area 11 Des Moines receiving $1.8 million and Area 2 Mason City $1 million among allocations. A $350,000 slush fund was created for late additions or fewest-progress districts.
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DES Moines
Iowa
State Board of Public Instruction
Area Schools Advisory Committee
Harold Hughes
Calmar
Mason City
Estherville
Port Dodge
Marshalltown
Waterloo
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Ottumwa
Burlington
Nashville Draft Case Sees Negro Leader Refuse Oath
Fred Brooks 20, head of Nashville's SNCC chapter, refused to take the Army oath delaying induction. Officials will pursue draft delinquency charges after a court bid to delay the order failed. Brooks had led the Summer Liberation School and was to testify before a Senate subcommittee on rioting at local Negro colleges.
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Nashville
Fred Brooks
U.S. District Attorney’s Office
Brooks
State Selective Service
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Draft Board
Army
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Fred Lefevre
Armed Forces
U.S
Thestate
Selective ‘Service
Selective Service Board
Ior
Tom Ketterson
Gilbert Merritt
Ketterson
Lands Tax Bill Hits Opponents
Gov. Harold Hughes told the Iowa Association of School Boards that the 3 percent sales tax on services, though flawed, will yield long term benefits and property tax relief. He warned against dismantling the reform under pressure from special interests and said a special session is unlikely but possible if necessary.
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Des Moines
UPI
Harold Hughes
Hughes
Iowa Assn. of
Towa
Saar
Iowa
Three Die as Chicago Hotel Blaze Burns Top Floor
A predawn fire on the fifth floor of the Clarendon hotel in Chicago killed three men and injured six including a fireman. Firefighters estimated $5,000 in damage and the cause remained undetermined.
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Chicago
UPI
Clarendon Hotel
Two Sisters Die In Closed Trunk
In Huntsville Alabama two young sisters Loria six and Julie four daughters of Betty Barner suffocated after being trapped inside a toy trunk with an automatic lid that could not be opened from the inside. Police said they died Wednesday.
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Huntsville
Ala
Loria
Julie
Betty Barner
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