Train hits Waterloo school bus. four children die
A Union Pacific freight train struck a Waterloo Nebraska school bus starting its route killing four children and injuring nine. The bus carried 13 pupils and the driver Thomas McMahon escaped with shock. The 97car freight traveled 48 mph and the wreck scattered bodies along the right of way.
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Waterloo
Neb
UPI
Union Pacific
Thomas McMahon
Omaha
W. L. Nybbelin
G. D. Petersen
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Car Kills Three Children In Bronx Hit Run
In New York's Bronx, a car struck a mother and her three children at a street intersection killing the three infants and injuring the mother, who was pushing two toddlers in a stroller. Witnesses say the car dragged the stroller before fleeing. Police charged 53 year old Alexander Knox with homicide and related offenses.
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New York
Bronx
Marie Rodriguez
Jose
Elisabeth
Mary
Alexander Knox
War Nazis on trial for 80 000 murders in Ukraine killings
Eleven men of the SS Elite Guard Special Commando 4A go on trial in Darmstadt for wartime mass murders across southern Russia and Ukraine from 1941 to 1942 including the Babi Yar atrocity. Defendants face charges linked to orders to clear opponents, mainly targeting Jews.
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Darmstadt
Germany
Russia
Babi Yar
Sixth Army
Ukraine
Red Army
Chuckle Attorney Quip On Insurance Divorce Line
A lawyer jokes about a wife being a pain and medical insurance not paying for a divorce. The quip hinges on legal and personal life humor. Copyright notice attached.
Kilborn Photo Products Formed by Kilborn and K&E
Cedar Rapids announces Kilborn Photo Products Inc formed by Kilborn Photo Paper Co and Keuffel and Esser Co. of Hoboken. K and E will hold majority ownership and Kilborn Photo Paper Co remains at 2911 First Avenue SE. Alfred E. Busch to lead as president, with Richard T. Jordan as vice president in charge.
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Ormation
Kilborn Photo Products, Inc
Kilborn Photo Paper Co
Cedar Rapids
Keuffel
Esser
Hoboken
N.J
First Avenue SE
Keuffel and Esser Co
K&e
Kilborn
Alfred E. Busch
Richard T. Jordan
First Avenue
William G. Keller
Thomas BR. Nye
J. Russell Juten
S. K. Held
C. H. Jordan
James J. Griffin
Kilborn Photo Paper Company
Frank Kilborn
C. H. Jordan and Associates
Marshall Becomes First Black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court with President Johnson witnessing. The ceremony opened the 1967-68 term as Marshall took the oath, with Justices Warren White Brennan Reed Clark and others present. Johnson departed shortly after the oath.
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Washington
UPI
Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court
Johnson
Marshall
Supreme Court
John W. Davis
T. Perry Lippitt
William Brennan
U.S
Tom Clark
Reed
Warren
Clark
Hugo Black
Davis
Seven Killed In Collision In West Virginia
Two cars carrying children collided head on while en route to church. Netta Holder and her three children died. Clarence Harman and his wife were killed instantly. a Harman son died later in hospital. Five Harman children were injured.
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Princeton
W. Va
Netta Holder
Clarence Harman
Nigerian revolt nears end as Biafra conflict lingers
A mixed set of reports from Lagos and Portland describes the Nigeria uprising in its final stages with Federal troops and renewed efforts surrounding Enugu while a Portland man offers a reward for a missing beagle named Moe.
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Lagos
Nigeria
UPI
Portland
Ore
Enugu
Republic of
Beagle
Moe
Biafra
Peared
B52s Hit North Vietnam as Saigon Reports Heavy Attacks
U S B 52 strategic bombers delivered what officials called the heaviest concentration of bombing in warfare as they targeted Communist artillery positions around the demilitarized zone and near Con Thien. North Vietnamese gunners shelled Con Thien, two Marines were wounded, and leaflets dropped by mortars urged Americans to stop bombing.
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Con Thein
U.S
Con Thien
LBJ
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Pleiku
U.S. Fourth Infantry Division
Plane Lost in March Found Near Redding
A light plane crash last March near 35 miles west of Redding, California, killed three people from Portland and left a diary indicating a victim survived for about two months. The victims were identified as Al F. Oien, his wife Phyllis, and their 16 year old daughter Carla Corbus. The last radio contact was 11:50 am March 11 with Medford, Oregon.
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Redding
Calif
Portland
Ore
California
al F. Oien
Phyllis
Carla Corbus
Medford
Con Thien Marines Face Grim Northern War Outlook
From Con Thien Vietnam, U S Marines report a grim fall and winter as North Vietnamese pressure peaks along the DMZ. Monsoon rains slow helicopter missions while sappers and snipers keep the outpost under constant threat, draining strength from key population areas.
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North Vietnam
Con Thien
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Dmz
Ttwo
Quang Tri
Thua Thien
Britains 34 Year Spy Role Revealed By Kim Philby
London report says Harold Kim Philby spied for the Russians from 1933 for 34 years before being exposed. John Philby disclosed his father’s Moscow journalism and ideological motives while praising his father. Lipton criticizes the foreign office and security services for final disclosure and for clearing Philby earlier.
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London
UPI
Britain
Secret Service
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
John Philby
Harold “Kim” Philby
Beirut
Moscow
Kim
Cambridge University
Philby
Guy Burgess
Donald MacLean
British Foreign Service
MacLean
Burgess
Marcus Lipton
The
Labor
Burgess-MacLean
Foreign Office
Lipton
Macmillan
House of Commons
Johnson Pushes Private Job Initiative Across Nation
President Johnson launches a $40 million federal backed plan to mobilize private industry in creating jobs and training for the long term unemployed in urban slums and rural poverty zones. The program would fund new plants in hard hit areas and provide federal property and equipment to assist. William Zisch, former Aerojet General president, to be special representative to start the effort.
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Johnson
White House
William Zisch
Aerojet General
Pasadena
Calif
Watts
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Will Be Named By Secretary of Commerce
Trowbridge
Hurricane Fern Appears in Gulf Near Texas Coast
Hurricane Fern formed in the Gulf of Mexico near the Texas coast, surfacing at a location similar to where Beulah began its devastating march toward Texas two weeks earlier.
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Brownsville
Texas
South Viet Nam Assembly Validates Thieu Victory
The constituent assembly in Saigon voted 58 to 43 to validate Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu’s Sept. 3 presidential win, despite protests and violence outside the chamber. The final tally reduced Thieu’s margin to about 1.2 million votes amid new election-criteria.
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Viet Assembly
Saigon
Constituent Assembly of
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
Assembly
Student Union
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