Two Airmen Found After Maine Hunting Trip Still Missing Others
Two airmen Charles Balonis and Larry Baker, lost on a Maine hunting trip near Van Buren, were found in good condition. Four others remain missing in Katahdin wildlands amid heavy snow and winds from back to back storms. Margaret Ivusic and Helen Mower were last seen on Mt Katahdin. Ivusic is missing, Mower is safe.
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Millinocket
Maine
Charles Balonis
Weymouth
Mass
Larry Baker
Charles City
van Buren
Loring Air Base
Mt. Katahdin
Margaret Ivusic
Boston
Helen Mower
Concord
Backers defend Shaff reapportionment plan in Cedar Rapids
Supporters of the Shaff plan defend its fairness and campaign in Linn County to back the measure. A 12-member executive committee was named to lead the new Citizens for Reapportionment group as funds are raised to about $3,000.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Robert K. Beck
Centerville
Citizens For
Sheraton-Montrose
Linn County
Gale Allen
Allen
L. P. Boudreaux
Cliff Jordan
T. M. Ingersoll
Paul Wulfsberg
Fred Kluss
Roy Potthoff
Eldon McMillen
Paul Rose
Marion
R. P. Wolfe
Vernon
Dudley Henderson
Central City
Dale Flitsch
Alburnett
Beck
Last Half Income Taxes Due Tonight
Des Moines reports Iowa residents who owe more than 50 dollars in 1962 state income tax must pay the remaining half by midnight Thursday. The two part payment allows half by April 30 and the balance by October 31, must be postmarked to count.
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Des Moines
UPI
Chuckle Kids Watch TV Night and Day in History
A playful note credits Chuckle Kids for shaping history as they watch television constantly. It hints at influence on arithmetic geography and grammar through constant media exposure.
Czech Refugee Survives Four Days Under Train Car
A 59 year old Czech refugee clung under a train car for four days to flee his communist homeland. He was found under a passenger car at a Danish station wearing rags and frostbitten, unable to be questioned due to weakness. He had eaten nothing since his climb in a Czech freight yard.
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Copenhagen
UPI
Denmark
Ostend
Belgium
Turkish court upholds death sentences for four ex-officers
A military court of appeals in Ankara on Thursday affirmed the death sentences of four former army officers convicted of leading an attempted coup. The ruling maintains the adults charged with ties to the failed coup plot.
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Ankara
Turkey
UGN Campaign Reaches 75 Percent of Goal in Cedar Rapids
The United Good Neighbors campaign reports $584,956 raised toward a $774,404 goal, 75 percent, as of Thursday morning. Major divisions show varied progress with Northwest Geographic at 111.7 percent and others near half to eighty percent. next report focuses on division chairs.
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UGN
United Good Neighbors
Sunshine Mission
Northwest Geographic
Marvin Gard
Quorum Club Hosts Open House For Newsmen
Washington reporters recently toured the Quorum club a Capitol Hill venue once tied to a Nixon for President office. Owners Bill and Thomas Pickford said membership grew slightly amid Baker case publicity and revealed the club remains largely nonsecret with 180 members including four senators and two congressmen.
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Washington
UPI
Capitol Hill
Senate
Robert Baker
Thomas
William Pickford
Carroll Arms
Tom
Ellen Rometsch
Baker
Baker Case
Bill Pickford
Lyle Snader
American Railroads
Pickfords
Pickford
Traffic study proclaims the problem too big for computer
John Mladinov reports on a traffic study he leads in Olympia. He fed the problem to an electronic computer, which answered that the problem is too big for this machine.
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Olympia
Wash
John Mladinov
Reward Offered For Yank Captives In Vietnam War
Brig. Gen. Huynh Van Cao offered a $3,000 reward for any unit in the Fourth Army Corps rescuing three U.S. men believed captured by guerrillas after a battle 140 miles southwest of Saigon. The Americans Capt. Humbert Versace Lt. James Rowe and Sgt. Daniel Pitzer were advisers to Vietnamese forces. 16 government troops were dead and 32 wounded with 34 missing. Air and ground searches failed to locate captives.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Fourth Army Corps
Huynh van Cao
Red
Horst Faas
Humbert Versace
Baltimore
James Rowe
McAllen
Texas
Daniel Pitzer
Spring Lake
Hoffa faces $20,295 tax claim for 1959
The IRS charges Teamster President James R. Hoffa and his wife owe $20,295 in income tax for 1959 and seeks tax court review in Detroit. The agency says union-paid insurance, legal fees, hotel expenses and transportation are taxable as personal income, while Hoffa argues these were ordinary and necessary business expenses. The dispute centers on reported taxable income of $71,407.25 versus $100,519.77 and a civil, not criminal, proceeding.
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Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
Teamster
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Detroit
IRS
Rioting and Fire Erupt at Anamosa Reformatory
A riot at the Anamosa men's reformatory triggered a fire in the tailors and print shops shortly after noon. About 90 percent of the facility’s 970 inmates were involved. Eastern Iowa highway patrol secured the perimeter as fire crews battled flames still smoldering at 3 p.m. Warden Hoyle cited an accumulated disturbance but declined to detail causes.
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Anamosa
Men’s’ Reformatory
Iowa
Man Finds moldy Gettysburg cash worth 54200 dollars
Gettysburg Battlefield relic hunter George Rapport found a moldy bundle of currency on the Eternal Light memorial grounds last June. The Treasury valued the stolen notes at 54200 dollars and the IRS will determine tax claims before delivery to Rapport. He plans to use the money for his children’s education.
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Washington
Gettysburg
George Rapport
Secret Service
New York
Treasury
Ward
Rapports
Eileen
Jack
Rapport
Eternal Light Peace Memorial
IRS
Howell
Driver's License Revocation Date Ruled Wrong
Independence district judge voided Henry D. Aldrich's license revocation, citing the law requires the effective date to be 20 days after notice mailing. The Sept. 28 revocation date given by the Iowa Public Safety Commissioner was invalid, pending continuation on Page 3.
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Henry D. Aldrich
Buchanan
Iowa
George Heath
Heath
Commissioner of Public Safety
William Sueppel
Aldrich
60Th General Assembly
Swisher Pleads Guilty to Four Tax Counts
State Rep. Scott Swisher of Iowa City pleaded guilty in U S district court to four counts of failing to file federal income tax returns covering 1957 to 1966. Judge Roy Stephenson released him on 500 dollar bond as the case awaits presentence investigation. Swisher, 44, said he neglected to file for 1957 61 but was working to catch up and had paid part of past due federal taxes while state taxes were paid.
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Davenport
Scott Swisher
Lowa City
U.S. District Court
Roy Stephenson
Swisher
U.S. Dist. Atty
Donald Wine
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Lowan
West
Arkansas
Iatee
By Bruce Fishwild
Edinburg
Bangor
Charles Jellison
Wyoming
Colorado
Leadville
Colo
Lander
Casper
Wye
Midwest
Rocky
Chicago
Cedar Rapids News
James Colbert
Quorum Club
By William Theis
Edwin White
Pacific
Stars and Stripes
Tokyo
Paul Harkins
U.S
Vietnam
White House
Defense
McNamara
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Diem
Lloyd Hoyle
Hoyle
Ray Purcell
Benjamin Baer
State Director of Corrections
Board of Control
National Park Service
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