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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1966
Page
14
Akron coverage reports Cedar Rapids champion Richard V. Brown, 16, will compete in the All-American Soap Box Derby despite a fractured shoulder suffered at Camp Yoah. Okinawa rival absent due to airline strike. Brown’s parents and physician approved his participation.
Washington AP reports United steel firms raise steel sheet and strip prices by 2 to 3 dollars per ton, expanding to about 30 percent of output. Johnson administration denounces moves as inflationary while Post notes potential policy inaction. Moyers says public interest violated. no immediate forceful action indicated. Kennedy era reference recalls 1962 rollback under pressure and order shifts.
In Washington AP reports an opening housing provision within the 1966 Civil Rights bill survived a key House test 198 to 179. The clause would bar racial discrimination by large housing interests though sales and rentals of some individually owned homes are exempted. A final roll call is expected next week as supporters remain hopeful. Lt Frederick Litvin of Rock Island Illinois was rescued after a Crusader jet crash 5 miles southeast of Johnston Island. He was saved by helicopters from the carrier Coral Sea. Weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with little temperature change through Saturday highs in the middle 80s.
Chicago violence left two dead and 15 injured as gangs clashed on the West and South Sides amid a broader national debate over an airline strike. In Congress, Secretary Wirtz testified the administration has no position yet on ending the strike, while the Senate approved a 30 day end date and debate continued in the House Commerce Committee.
A cornea from a dead woman was transplanted into Tawfik Dimachki, a Lebanese policeman who came to Kansas City from Beirut for surgery. He is hospitalized at the University of Kansas Medical Center and was visited by Youssef Fayad and his son Daid, 14, from Mexico Missouri.
U S bombers struck the demilitarized zone for the fourth time this week and hit two North Vietnamese positions near the Cambodian border. In two other raids B 52s targeted Cha Pong Mountain and key infiltration routes as U S forces pressed operations in central Pleiku area. Air missions totaled 83 weather hampered flights with strikes on Haiphong region and a carrier Constellation raid on its military headquarters.
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