Flood Waters Swirl Into Sioux Falls
Flood fighters surrendered an 18 block area in Sioux Falls South Dakota to the Big Sioux river after a night long effort to plug a 100 foot break in a Riverside district dike. The area including a meat packing plant stockyards and about three homes was evacuated.
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Associated Press
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Big Sioux
Riverside
Joe Vanderloo
Minnehaha
Civil Defense
Sioux Fall
Vanderloo
Missouri
Sioux City
Iowa
Cherokee
Akron
Albert Strecer
S.D
Red Cross
Minnesota
Ferdig
South Dakota
Flood Refugees Describe Worst Disaster Yet in Sioux City Area
In Sioux City Iowa disaster refugees from North Sioux City recount the Big Sioux flood as the worst in 40 years. About 100 people occupy emergency quarters in the Jackson motel while Red Cross workers run the relief center and feed displaced families.
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Red Cross
Jackson
W. H. Harms
Sioux City
Hamilton Man Charged in Dentist and Wife Murders
Samuel Lee Latham 32 of New Miami was arrested at 5 a.m. on two counts of first degree murder for the slayings of Dr Bertram H Roden 63 and his wife Leona 58 in their Hamilton home last Thursday. Latham, a computer operator for Black Clawson Co in Middletown, appeared in Butler County court records as married with four children. The crime followed a week of intensive homicide investigation. authorities did not disclose a weapon or motive. Latham is jailed awaiting a Hamilton Municipal Court appearance Tuesday morning.
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Bud Ferdig
Hamilton
New Miami
Samuel Lee Latham
Pueblo Drive
Cherokee Park
Charles Reid
Latham
The
Black Clawson Co
Middletown
Clark Street
Butler County Court of Domestic Relations
Bertram H. Roden
Leona
Picadilly
Garret J. Boone
Butler County
Dr. Roden
Rodens
Guatemala
Cincinnati
Community Rally Builds New Home For Fire Victim Family
Clarksbury Massachusetts news recounts Charles Mattimore returning from work to find his wife and five children killed in a house fire. Neighbors organize a volunteer effort, forming a steering committee of tradespeople to build a new home on the old lot, with material costs borrowed and labor donated by about 80 people. Community support spreads to surrounding towns as construction should start in a month.
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Frankie
Massachusetts
Mattimore
Arthur W. Brule
Brule
Malaria Hit Viet Cong as Casualties Fall Across Offense
U S and South Vietnamese reports show 222 American, 246 South Vietnamese, and 3 220 enemy fatalities as malaria weakens North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units. Army doctors note falciparum malaria erodes combat effectiveness and time lost from duty.
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U.S
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Clashes at Harvard as Police Move to End ROTC Protest
In Cambridge hundreds of police battled student protesters who seized University Hall, with clashes involving helmeted officers, flying bottles, and injuries including Colin Leinster. SDS members demanded abolition of ROTC as they faced arrests and evacuations amid chaotic scenes on Harvard Yard.
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Harvard
University Hall
Reserve Officer Training Corp
Life Magazine
Colin Leinster
Harvard Yard
Leinster
David Geddes
Students For A Democratic Society
Franklin L. Ford
Memorial Church
Seig Heil
Nathan Pusey
Middletown Weather Prospects Clear and Mild Weekend Ahead
The Middletown forecast calls for partial clearing and cooler conditions tonight with near 40s. Friday brings fair skies and mild temperatures in the upper 50s to lower 60s, followed by a fair and warmer Saturday. Sunday shows no rain. Yesterday’s high reached 71 with a low of 58 this morning and rainfall was only .12 inch last night.
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Middletown
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Whitfock
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John Holcomb
Paul Timmer
Common Pleas
Fred B. Cramer
Clarksburg, Mass
Charles Mattimore
Sprague Electric Co
SDS
Cambridge
Ann Landers Bridgell
Archie Epps
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