Eight Die as Snow Crash Kills Ottumwa Family
In Iowa near Ottumwa eight people die when a car driven by Rich ard Baber hits a snow drift and is struck broadside by Terry Lee Chidester. The Baber family of Ottumwa includes Janet 30 and children Debbie 12 Richard 9 Michael 8 Lauri 1 Nicki 5 months. Chidester 23 from Blakesburg also dies.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Richard E. Baker
Terry Lee Chidester
Blakesburg
Highway Patrol
Baber
Chidester
Janet
Debbie
Richard Jr
Michael
Lauri
Nicki
Illinois State Senator Plans Governor Race
Illinois state Senator Arthur R. Gottschalk announces his GOP gubernatorial bid. The Flossmoor Republican plans a three plane 700 mile flyover to Chicago Rockford Moline Peoria Springfield Alton and Champaign with news conferences in each city. He is a former Reuben H. Donnelley Corp executive and notes the party values the individual voter.
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Chicago
Arthur R. Gottschalk
R-Flossmoor
Illinois
Gottschalk
Rockford
Moline
Peoria
Springfield
Alton
Champaign
Reuben H. Donnelley Corp
Republican Party
GOP
Miss Trowbridge Dies A Longtime LCU History Teacher
Myrtle Trowbridge former La Crosse State University history professor died Saturday at 83 in a local rest home. She taught at LCU for 36 years using world travel to enrich classes and funded scholarships with travel proceeds. A memorial gift of 8000 dollars supported a rural-background senior scholarship as she organized faculty groups and lectured abroad.
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Myrtle Trowbridge
la Crosse State University
LCU
Miss Trowbridge
S. 19Th St
Sletten-McKee
South America
Scandinavia
Russia
Greece
Turkey
Africa
India
British Isles
Alice Drake
Maurice Graff
Trowbridge
Rexford Mitchell
Europe battered by snowstorms and hurricane winds
Snow storms and hurricane force winds raged across Europe from England to Iran. At least 16 killed in Britain and Scotland, with hundreds injured as houses collapsed. Avalanches trapped Swiss Alps travelers while eastern Med storms hit Syria Jordan Israel and Iran. In Jordan Amman faced record snowfall and Jerusalem saw heavy snow paralyzing the city. Blast winds toppled trees and damaged shipyards in the Clyde area.
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London
Europe
Iran
England
Scotland
Swiss Alps
Mediterranean
Syria
Jordan
Israel
Lebanon
Caspian
Damascus
Latakia
Amman
Jordan River
Jerusalem
Holy City
Hebrides Islands
Scottish
Northern
Ireland
Glasgow
Clyde
Wales
Norwich
Western Tip of Island Devastated By Tremors
Palermo reports a massive Sicily earthquake sequence with over 250 deaths. Gibellina Montevago Salaparata Santa Margherita de Belice and Santa Ninfa were wrecked as quakes reached Palermo Trapani and Marsala amid freezing cold and panicked residents. Italy mounted a large relief effort with planes ships and trucks delivering medicine blankets food and tents to the disaster zone.
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Palermo
Sicily
Mediterranean Sea
Messina
Trapani
Marsala
Salaparata
Poggioreale
Partanna
Salemi
Santa Margherita di Beice
Menfi
Santa Ninfa
Santa Margherita de Belice
Italy
Montevago
Grim Problems Face Second Session of 90th Congress
The second session of the 90th Congress opened amid Vietnam war fallout and rising crime prices and racial unrest. Senate leaders urged halting North Vietnam bombing to prompt peace talks while Johnson sought tax and monetary measures to bolster the dollar.
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Washington
Senate
House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
John Sherman Cooper
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Congress
Four Children Die in Wrenshall Home Fire
Four children perished in a Wrenshall Minnesota house fire early Monday. Parents were hospitalized in Cloquet with shock. Firefighters failed to revive the youngsters and authorities believe asphyxiation caused the deaths.
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Wrenshall, Minn
Wrenshall
Minnesota
Cloquet
Rankin Leads Peace March Against Vietnam War
Jeanette Rankin, the only congresswoman to vote against entering world wars, urged women to vote against every war supporter as she led a 1968 peace march near the Capitol. Senate leaders weighed bombing pauses and Geneva talks amid mixed signals from Hanoi and U S officials.
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Washington
Jeannette Rankin
Congress
Vietnam
Miss Rankin
Capitol Hill
Senate
Mike Mansfield
North Vietnam
Mansfield
Tion
Nguyen Duy Trinh
Hanoi
Montana
U.S
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UPI Telephoto
Miss Drake
Demilitarized Zone
Miles
Con Thien
Cam Lo
South Vietnam
Gio Linh
Dong Ha
Quang Tri
New
Spain
Naples
Gibellina
UPI
John Chadwick
Johnson
John Democratic
Ion
Sage
Sena
Capitol
Soviet Union
Everett M. Dirksen
China
Dirksen
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Hartford Courant
United States
Geneva
Ribicoff
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