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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1967
Page
5
Cedar Rapids officers arrested three juvenile boys after a glue sniffing spree at a downtown store. A 14 year old admitted stealing ten tubes of glue from Morris Sanford Co. and all three youths faced juvenile probation referral. Later text notes unrelated war dispatches from Hanoi and Haiphong events.
Burglars pried open a door at Schwitters Implement Co on 1200 Sixteenth Avenue SW and stole about $25 in change and stamps from two soda machines. Office drawers were opened but only 350 nickel stamps were found. loss estimated at $25. A TV listing notes Barbara Stanwyck Carolyn Jones and Fabian appearing on Wagon Train Friday at midnight on KCRG TV 9.
South Vietnamese leaders Thieu and Ky visit the Dak To base to award decorations for earlier heroic actions. Brig. Gen. Leo Schweiter of Wichita Kansas and Col. Richard Johnson of Beaumont Texas are among six officers honored. U S planes bomb Hanoi airfield for the first time in the war as fighting continues.
Officials announced that 27 bodies have been recovered from a bus that plunged into the Sava river near Belgrade after a collision with a truck on a road atop a dam. The disaster occurred Thursday and rescue teams continued search operations.
Area Ten Community College was invited by the North Central Association to become a correspondent institution. The NCA defined correspondent status as evidence of sound planning and resources toward accreditation, not a guarantee. Superintendent Dr Selby Ballantyne said the recognition reflects strong staff and facilities and plans to work with an NCA consultant toward candidacy by December 1969. Area Ten already has state approval and its graduates are accepted as transfer students by the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa.
Robertie Baird, 36, of the Magnus hotel, was charged Friday with operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent. He was arrested at a service station on highway 30 driving a car owned by Florence Van Skike of Amber. Baird appeared in municipal court and was given until 2 p.m. next Monday to move or plea. Bond was set at $1,000 and he faces parole violation status from the men's reformatory at Anamosa.
The UCLA Bruins visit the USC Trojans in a Saturday afternoon college football game slated for 3 PM. Televised in color on KCRG TV Channel 9 with the matchup attracting local interest.
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