Reds Open Shelling of Delta Gas
Communists shell U S Ninth Infantry headquarters and four SW Vietnamese camps in the Mekong delta. Sixteen Americans wounded as U S air strikes hit targets in North Vietnam. Air force and navy pilots attack Hoa Lac Mig field Haiphong bridge and Haiphong missile defenses. Red mortar fire drives sporadic night actions with losses heavy on the attacker.
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Saigon
Mekong Delta
U. S. Ninth Infantry Division
North Vietnam
Hoa Lac
Hanoi
Haiphong
My Tho
Can Tho
Air Force
U. S
Dong Tam
South Vietnam
Hai Lang
Demilitarized Zone
Service Tax Approved Amid Debate In Iowa House
A legislative rules committee approved the state's new 3 percent service tax rules with minor dissent. Rep. Elizabeth Shaw criticized the advertising tax as vague and urged the tax commission to clarify the law. Rep. Ray Bailey defended new construction exemptions to avoid stifling industry. Tax collection starts at midnight Sunday.
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Des Moines
Town Tax Commission
Legislative Rules Review Committee
Elizabeth Shaw
R-Davenport
Richard Turner
Ray Bailey
D-Clarion
Bailey
Iowa
Tax Commission
Earl Burrows, Jr
T. M. Ingersoll
Cedar Rapids
Cal
Regency Towers to rise in Iowa City approved permit
An $300,000 permit allows construction of a 1 story apartment building named Regency Towers on East Jefferson street south of Central Junior high. Iowa City Associates of Chicago develop and Kinderknecht Construction Co. Cedar Rapids build. Council approved under the large scale residential ordinance.
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Cer
Iowa
East Jefferson Street
Central Junior High School
Regency Towers
Iowa City Associates
Chicago
Kinderknecht Construction Co
Cedar Rapids
Frank Smiley
Court-Melrose
Mercer Park
Smiley
Fier
Swarey
Johnson Seeks Peace Talks With Ho Chi Minh
President Johnson declared the United States ready to negotiate now with North Vietnam to end the war. He warned Hanoi against misreading domestic dissent and pledged to press forward, citing allied progress and Asian leaders backing U.S. resolve. The remarks, made at a National Legislative Conference, emphasized readiness to talk with Ho Chi Minh and other state chiefs.
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San Antonio
Jobgggpy
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Johnson
Hanoii
Hanoi
Vietnam
U. S
National Legislative Conference
Tans
Secre
Attempt To Buy Hoffa Trial Raised In Louisiana Probe
Three Louisiana grand juries probe Cosa Nostra activity. A East Baton Rouge indictment charges D Alton Smith with attempting to arrange a middleman to secure a new Hoffa trial in a $1 million scheme. Smith faces up to five years and a $1000 fine.
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Baton Rouge
Cosa Nostra
Louisiana
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
East Baton Rouge Parish
D'Alton Smith
John McKeither
Hoffa
Smith
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Orleans Parish
Grand Jury
Carlos Marvella
Marce
Metairie
The
Police Cleared In Riot Deaths In New York
A grand jury found no basis to indict two police officers who fatally shot two people during the Spanish Harlem riots this summer in New York City.
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New York
Giver of Phony Address Sought In Palmer Death
NY state and UPI report a 6ft tall man with a Pittsburgh address rented an olive green sedan 12 hours after Socialite Dorothy Palmer was slain in Morristown. He gave a fake address and claimed a ski lift injury to explain his wounds.
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Palmer
Morristown
UPI
Pittsburgh
Dorothy Palmer
Frank Scerbo
Margaret Greer
Thomas J. Foyke
Talmadge Drive
Wolfson Is Convicted in Stock Sale Case
New York AP report says financier Louis Wolfson and associate Elkin Gerbert were convicted on 19 counts for conspiring to illegally sell about 690000 Continental Enterprises shares from 1960 to 1962. Trial revealed prices fell from 8 to 1.50, with potential penalties up to 95 years and $95,000 fines each.
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New York
Louis Wolfson
Elkin Gerbert
Wolfson
Miami Beach
Gerbert
Jacksonville
Continental Enterprises, Inc
Continental
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp
Edmond Palmieri
Securities and Exchange Commission
Wolfson and
Truck Grane Rips Bus Killing 15 Students
A heavy truck with a crane fixed toppled onto a bus carrying British students returning from India. Fifteen students died and seven were injured, with only five escaping unharmed. The crane crushed the upper side of the bus as it struck.
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Zagreb
Yugoslavia
India
Kirk calls for McNamara resignation over Vietnam plan
Florida Governor Claude Kirk branded Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara an international symbol of half measures. He criticized the Vietnam policy as a McNamaginot line and urged resignation, urging clear hard answers about troop levels and costs to restore public and military confidence.
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Little Rock
Ark
Florida
Claude Kirk
Defense McNamara
Kirk
Ted
South
Vietnam
la Namara
McNamara
Defence
G.O.P
Arkansas
Louisiana
Georgia
Kentucky
McNamaginot
Defense
Johnson signs $70 billion defense bill at ranch
President Johnson signed the record defense appropriation at his Texas ranch, warning that Congress may again be needed for extra Vietnam War funds. He cited a $1.6 billion cut and objections to a British ship ban, stressing support for U S armed forces and continued British-U S defense cooperation. He urged McNamara to find alternatives to sustain the Anglo American defense commitment.
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Johnson City
Texas
UPI
Johnson
Congress
U. S
Robert McNamara
U. S. Navy
J Johnson
America
United Kingdom
Britain
McNamara
Mother of Nixon Dies in California Nursing Home
Hannah Nixon, 82, mother of former Vice President Richard Nixon, died today in a Whittier nursing home where she had resided for two years after long illness. Her husband died in 1956. Nixon was in New York. aides planned flight arrangements to California.
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Whittier
Calif
Hannah. Nixon
Richard Nixon
Wes
New York
California
Today's Chuckle
A light quip notes that patient driving today reduces future medical visits. The pun links patience with health care, suggesting calm behavior lowers tomorrow's need for treatment.
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