Snowmelt Floods Hit Three Midwest States
Rivers swollen by melting snow flood Minnesota Iowa and South Dakota. Drownings reported in Minnesota as Bernard Knudson 60 Kinbrae and Thomas Birangel 18 New Ulm died canoeing and ice poling. Evacuations reach 350 at Cherokee and 200 at Akron with levee work key.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Big Sioux
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Heron Lake
Thomas Bierangel
New Ulm
Time Running Out In Mideast Peace Talks With Hussein
The Suez Canal fighting flared again nine hours after a U N cease fire with Egypt claiming Israeli losses and Israel reporting four wounded. Hussein warned that time is running out as Nixon hosts the Jordan king for talks at the White House with Rogers and Laird.
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Defense
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Far-Out Symphony for Youth Opens in Denver May 1
Harold Farberman presents If Music Be a four movement piece aimed at boosting high school interest in symphonic music. The work blends rock pop and jazz with audience participation and film. The finale uses bits from prior movements as three audience sections conduct sections of the orchestra.
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Denver
Harold Farberman
Denver Symphony
Farberman
Don Lewis
New York
Ed Emshwiller
Weather outlook with showers and mild temperatures
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with thundershowers expected later in the evening and lows in the 50s. Thursday should bring showers with highs in the 60s. Yesterday reached a high of 80 and a morning low of 54.
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Yesteday
Claudia's Brief Life Touched by Soupy Sales
Claudia, the dark-haired girl befriended by comedian Soupy Sales five years earlier, became a UF journalism major but left in February to marry. Five weeks later she died of a lung illness, and her grateful parents of Washington DC thanked Sales in a New York Times open letter.
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Soupy Sales
Soupy
University of Florida
Harry Gilbert
Washington D. C
New York Times
Misreading Shadows Triggered Saigon Area Ambush
A North Vietnamese company moving toward Saigon from the southwest mistook American armored carriers for huts in darkness near rice paddies. Forty seven enemy men died as four APCs opened fire, with two prisoners captured and no U.S. casualties reported. The fight occurred about 18 miles southwest of Saigon as U.S. forces guard the city against coordinated attacks by five battalions totaling around 1000 troops.
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Saigon
U.S
U.S. 9Th Infantry Divi
9Th Division
Strike Halts Illinois Central Freight Passenger Service
Illinois Central Railroad halted most freight and passenger traffic across its 14 states after a sudden UTU strike began at 10 30 p m Tuesday. Two passenger trains remained in service to finish runs before removal. Negotiations with UTU and signalmen were ongoing inWashington and elsewhere to resolve wage and crew size disputes.
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Illinois Central Railroad
United Transportation Union
Illinois Central
Washington
Brotherhood of Railroad
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Oliver
Nixon Brother Declines Alaska Federal Post
Edward C. Nixon, brother of the president, has declined a $30,000 per year federal job in Alaska as chairman of the federal field committee for development planning. He cited personal reasons and said issues at home influenced the decision, despite earlier appointment. The Commerce Department confirmed he informed the secretary of commerce of his choice to decline.
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Seattle
Edward C. Nixon
Alaska
Nixon
Anchorage
Federal
Field Committee For Development Planning
Washington
Commerce Department
Secretary of Commerce
Danny
Everman
Mistaken identity costs man three thousand dollars and 13 days
Danny Brew, a 26 year old machinist, was jailed, tested, and identified as a rape suspect after a mistaken identity. He spent 12 days incarcerated before authorities dropped the charge. His wife and parents shared the toll of the ordeal. The district attorney later dropped the case against Brew.
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Linda
Danny
Hurst
Robert Wayne Black
Black
District Attorney’s Office
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