Glass Fiber Price Fixing Charges Target 11 Firms
The government accuses eleven companies and five officers of secretly meeting in hotels and other venues since 1956 to fix prices in the glass fiber industry. Civil and criminal suits name Burlington Industries and others. industry sales exceed $200 million since 1956.
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New York
UPI
U.S
Burlington Industries Inc
Harry Goldsmith
Hess, Goldsmith & Co
Burlington
Clark Schwebel
Fiber Glass ‘Corp
Raymond Clark
Jack Schwebel
J. P. Stevens & Co. Inc
Irwin Gusman
Stevens
United Merchants and Manufacturing Inc
Exeter Manufacturing & Supply Co
Flightex Fabrics, Inc
Joseph Pott Manufacturing Co., Inc
Ferro Corp
Fiberglass Industries Inc
Bean Fiberglass Inc
New York City
Justice Department
Man Killed in Highway 30 Head-On Crash
James R. Osborn, 27, of Cedar Rapids, was killed instantly when his car collided head on with a grain truck two miles west of Stanwood on Highway 30 at 9 a.m. The Cedar County crash report notes Osborn may have fallen asleep before crossing the hill. Driver Orville Meyer, 46, Clarence, escaped with injuries as his truck burst into flames.
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Stanwood
James R. Osborn
Blakely Boulevard
Cedar Rapids
Osborn
Cedar County
Orville Meyer
Clarence
Meyer
De Gaulle Ends Uruguay Visit on Colbert for Brazil Tour
President de Gaulle winds up his Uruguay stop and departs by the Colbert for a weekend cruise to Brazil. He and Uruguay’s Luis Giannattasio signed a cultural and commercial pact and pledged expanded French language teaching. The sendoff included a 21 gun salute amid a driving rain.
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de Gaulle
Uruguay
Colbert
Brazil
South America
Atlantic
Luis Giannattasio
River Plate
Giannattasio
Brothers Found Slain Near Hamel Illinois
Two Litton brothers Frank 26 and Denver 22 in the logging business were found strangled and tied to elm trees with bedsheets in a woods southeast of Hamel. Investigators linked to a $6112 bank robbery at Hamel State Bank, with no motive yet established. FBI and state police aided Madison County sheriff’s deputies in the probe.
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Hamel, Ill
Hamel
FBI
Sheriff’s of
Elkader Records 13 Degrees as State Cold Spot
Elkader logged 13 degrees becoming the coldest spot in Iowa this morning. New Albin 16, Fayette 17, Decorah 18, Waterloo 18, Oelwein 20, Cedar Rapids 25. Des Moines reached 26, a date low, with record lows noted for the date.
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Iowa News
Elkader
Mercury
New Albin
Fayette
Decorah
Waterloo
Oelwein
Cedar Rapids
Council Bluffs
Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Hultman Plan Dismissed as Pie in the Sky by Hughes
Gov. Harold Hughes denounced Atty. Gen. Evan Hultman’s school aid plan as unrealistic promising no tax raise and relying on growth. Hultman proposed 17 million extra for direct aid and vocational education totaling about 45 million annually. Hughes argued the approach would underfund needed local school costs and strain state finances.
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Waterloo
Harold Hughes
Evan Hultman
Hughes
Iowa
Hultman
Mantle’s First Pitch Ninth Inning homer fuels Yankees win
In New York, Mickey Mantle hits a record breaking first pitch in the ninth for a 2-1 World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The shot, off Barney Schultz, lands in the right field upper deck and ties Babe Ruth for post season homers with 16.
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NEW York
Mickey Mantle
New York Yankees
St. Louis Cardinals
Mantle
Babe Ruth
Yankee Stadium
Barney Schultz
Curt Simmons
Venezuelan Reds Seek Life Swap
Anonymous callers threatened Lt. Col. Michael Smolen deputy chief of the U S mission in Caracas with death unless Nguyen Van Troi, a Viet Cong member condemned for a failed bridge plot, is spared. Smolen was abducted by five men as Col Henry Lee Choate escaped, prompting a mass police search and U S warnings.
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Caracas
Venezuela
South Vietnam
Michael Smolen
U. S
Smolen
Nguyen van Troi
Armed Forces of National Liberation
FALN
Troi
Ted
McNamara
Col
Henry Lee Choate
Choate
East German Scientist Defects to West
The interior ministry reported that Prof. Horst Andreae, director of the Hydrologic Institute at Humboldt University in East Berlin, sought refuge in West Germany after attending a scientific congress in Austria. The defecting scientist joins a prior defection from the East.
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BOM
Interior Ministry
Horst Andreae
Humboldt University
East Berlin
West Germany
Austria
Moonlighting Cops Appeal Case in Verse in New Jersey
In Trenton New Jersey attorney Harvey Smith used a poem to appeal the suspension of 22 state troopers for moonlighting The bardic brief followed a seven to nine day suspension for outside work without permission The appeal hinges on legal standards from Isola V Belmar and will be heard by Judge Sidney Goldman and two others, who will rule on legal merits not verse.
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United Nations
U.N
U Thant
General Assembly
Thant
Khrushchev
Moscow
Trenton
N.J
Harvey Smith
Smith
New Jersey
Isola V. Belmar
Bar Association
Isola
Belmar
Goldman
Sidney Goldman
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William N. Oatis
Security Council
Congo
Middle East
Soviet Union
Nickolai Fedorenko
Middle-East
Council
Malawi
Nyasaland
C. R. Man
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Gazette
L. W. Ward
Prairie High School
Joanne Cerveny
Prairie
Linn-Mar High School
Linda Koepsell
R. R. Koepsells
Joyce Schropp
Walter Schropps
Joseph Cervenys
Montevideo
St. Louis
Ficers
Litton
Marine, Ill
Cardinals
Flood
Brock
C. Boyer
Tresh
Yankees
K. Boyer
Linz
Maxvill
Richardson
Maris
Pepitone
Groat
McCarver
Shannon
Howard
Bouton
Simmons
White
Mickey
Vietnam
By Paul Finch
Washington
U. S. State Department
State Department
Saigon
Col. Smolen
George Smolen
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