Waterloo youth admits killing parents on farm in Iowa
Gerald W. Krueger, 16, a Waterloo high school junior, confessed to authorities that he shot his father Ros 47 and mother Lillian 45 with a .22 rifle after they punished him for drinking beer. Deputies found the bodies on the family farm south of Waterloo. he planned the act for two years stating they treated him like a baby. The case seeks to transfer to adult court, with a judge to decide Thursday. Principal David Ludvigson called him a pleasant, popular, well dressed boy who was normally courteous.
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Jefferson
Waterloo High School
Gerald W. Krueger
Roger Reinel
Ros
Lillian
Jefferson County
Waterloo
Robert Schier
Charles Leading
Gerald
Reiner
David Ludvigson
Fire Sweeps Norwegian Freighter Sandanger Off Baja
First mate Kruger of the Sandanger described a dramatic but doomed effort to fight a blaze that forced most of the crew to abandon ship 450 miles southeast of Long Beach. Fifty crew members were rescued by ships Bodenstein and Boston Maru reported a missing skipper and nine others, with a Japanese vessel recovering an unidentified woman’s body. The Sandanger, 450 feet, was bound from Long Beach to Le Havre via the Panama Canal when the fire broke out off Baja California.
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Long Beach
Calif
Baja California
Los Angeles Herald- Examiner
Kruger
Sea Eagle
Here
le Havre
France
Panama Canal
Baja
Castro's Troops Awaiting Attacks in Cuba War Urgency
Refugees from Cuba report a wartime emergency in effect as exile forces plan to strike on Cuban soil by Wednesday. They describe Cuban highways filled with troop transports, tanks, and artillery moving to cover mountain and coastlines after last week's raid that burned a sugar mill in Pilon.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
Pilon
Beloit Allows Sunday Alcohol Sales For Restaurants And Alleys
Beloit city council approved Sunday beer and liquor sales for restaurants and bowling alleys 7-0, with rules that at least half of receipts come from regular business. Restaurants may sell noon to midnight, bowling alleys 1 p.m. to midnight, while taverns and package stores remain closed. Clergy had opposed the change. past referendums failed.
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Beloit
Beloit W
Stocks Mixed Airlines Gain Delights in late trading
The market ended irregularly with airlines advancing and motors lagging. Volume was around 44 million shares, while GM fell a couple of points and Ford stayed down. Northwest led gains with a large profit jump, followed by Western, National, and Pan American climbs. United rose, and Texas Gulf Sulphur remained highly active and up nearly a point.
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New York
Motors
General Motors
Ford
Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Northwest
Western Airlines
National
Pan American
United
Texas Gulf
Early Maryland Balloting Light in Democratic Primary
Maryland voters opened primary day with light turnout amid Wallace civil rights clash and Brewster effort to align with Johnson. Officials predicted about half of 933000 Democrats would vote, while Republicans urged uninstructed delegates to block Goldwater backing.
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Baltimore
Maryland
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Daniel B. Brewster
Brewster
Johnson
Harry Gross
John W. Reynolds
Wisconsin
Indiana
Matthew E. Welsh
Reynolds
Welsh
U.S. Senate
Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
John W. Steffey
Barry Goldwater
Former Grid Coach Dies in Auto Crash
John K. Schram, 37, a former Milwaukee South Division high school football coach and South wrestling mentor, died from injuries after his car hit a tree in New Berlin on May 7. His death raised Wisconsin 1964 highway toll to 345, up from 260 a year earlier.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
John K. Schram
Wauskesha
New Berlin
Schram
Wisconsin cheddar market holds steady as demand slows
Madison notes cheese demand moving slowly to fair with ample supplies across styles. Prices show cheddars at 34 to 38 percent, 40 pound blocks 35 to 38 percent, single daisies 37 to 39 percent, longhorns 36 to 37 percent, and midgets 37 to 40 percent.
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MADISON —_ Wisconsin
Torch Is Passed Leads Book Sales in Kennedy Volume
Monroe Evening Times reports 1 117 copies ordered via coupon for The Torch Is Passed, AP’s Kennedy assassination volume, with presses at Western Printing Co Racine and Poughkeepsie still filling orders at 35 000 weekly. Over 200 copies sold at the paper and more orders possible. AP tally shows 3 612 000 US copies sold as of early month, marking a publishing milestone.
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Monroe
Evening Times
Associated Press
John F Kennedy
Aldermen To Act Tonight On City Hall Project Rendering
A color rendering shows the Connors Chandler municipal building under construction. The City hall faces 18th avenue across from the Post office with a police station in the middle and a fire station to the right. Trucks will exit onto 12th street and municipal parking lies east behind the building. The scene is by Ames Torkelson Nugent Madison in cooperation with Stanley W. Howe. Photo by Harold H. Snively.
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Connors-Chandler
City Hall
18Th Avenue
Postoffice
12Th Street
Chandler
Ames, Torkelson and Nugent
Madison
Stanley W. Howe
Monroe Architect
Harold H. Snively
Senate Ethics Report Urges Broad Reform After Baker Case
Senate rules committee secret report faults the Senate for placing Baker and others in risky roles and calls for strict ethics rules. It recommends public disclosure of senators and staff financial interests, ban on outside business associations with those doing government work, and mandatory testimony when committees seek knowledge on investigations.
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Washington
Senate
Bobby Baker
Baker
Rules Committee
L. P. McLendon
McLendon
U.S. Weighs Actions to Preserve Laos Neutrality
A State Department spokesman said the United States is not ruling out any measures, including military moves, to preserve Laos neutrality and independence. Reports show Pathet Lao attacks continue in Plaine des Jarres against forces loyal to Prime Minister Souphanouvong, risking the neutralist government and the international neutralization program.
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Washington
United States
Laos
State Department
Thailand
Robert J. McCloskey
Pathet Lao
Plaine Des Jarres
Souvanna Phouma
Kong le
County Plans Brochure and Envelopes to Promote Green County
Newly formed county resource development committee authorized publication of a brochure and county promotion envelopes for firms. Over 100 people met at the Courthouse to discuss plans to publicize Green County as the Land of Beauty, modeled after Grant and Iowa Counties. The effort aims to fund the brochure via about 200 subscriber donations and to form subcommittees for dairy industrial publicity and more.
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County Board
Green County
Land of Beauty
Grant
Iowa
Ray L. Beckman
Monroe
Robert L. Hahn
Beckman
Walter Rowlands
College of Agriculture Extension Service
George Dehnert
College Extension Service
S. Pierce
Reynolds Signs Hike For Tax Handling Fee
Wisconsin lawmakers pass bill allowing two percent retained from gross state sales tax collections, Gov Reynolds signs into law. Officials estimate annual cost to state about $650000. Agriculture Department schedules Cranberry referendum May 24 to 30 on continuing federal marketing program for price and supply stability.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
City Band Pleads for Halt to Shameless Park Vandalism
The Twining Park band shell vandalism provokes an appeal for public and police action. Mrs Naomi Barnard notes broken colored lights and smashed fixtures as she urges parents and teachers to stress the value of the shell financed by community contributions. Park officials plan lighting this summer to aid patrols and deter further damage. Stanley Neuberger chairs the band as complaints are filed with police to spur action.
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Twining Park
Lions Club
Naomi Barnard
School Boycott Totals Disputed in Milwaukee
Civil rights leaders accused the Milwaukee Public Schools of falsifying boycotts figures for Monday. Superintendent Harold S. Vincent defended the 13,700 total absent across 30 inner core schools, while NAACP state president Lloyd A. Barbee claimed closer to 15,000 students were absent across 28 segregated schools, suggesting the boycott was larger than official tallies indicate.
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Sulwaur x
Milwaukee Public School
Harold S. Vincent
Atty
Lloyd A. Barbee
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Vincent
Barbee
City Hall project faces $60,000 overrun in total cost
The Ames city council weighs accepting low base bids for a joint city hall fire and police complex with total costs now estimated at $417,000, about $60,000 above the earlier 355,000 projection. Board chair Oscar N. Johnson notes funds may come from 1965, pending legal review, with completion targeted for March 1965.
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Board of Public Works
Property Committee
Oscar N. Johnson
Johnson
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David Schwartz
Albany
M. Palmer Welsh
Belleville
Robert Riese
Brodhead
Ray Montgomery
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Russell Carter
Juda
Robert M Bussen
Earl Feldt
Wilbur Dehmer
Paul Francois
Pierce
E. H. Ross
Brooklyn
Gerald Swiggum
Duane Helland
Fred Voegeli
Wilbert Stauffer
Monticello
T. J. Burgy Jr
Harold Blumer
John F. Kundert
Joshua 4. Hoesly
New Glarus
Ed Bidlingmaier
Ray Grady
Ben Cleveland
Stanley Knight
Carl Jensen
Gordon Roseleip
G. Fred Galli
C. S. Pierce
Walter Ekum
Herbert Stuessy
Kenneth Meyer
Council
First Ward
Frederic Nugent
Nugent
Kahne Lumber Co
Kahne
Brandenburg
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