Crash Recorder Damaged in Braniff Flight Investigation
FALLS CITY Neb AP Investigators learned one of two recording devices may hold a clue to the Braniff crash that killed 42. The device was burned beyond use while the other may still be useful. Ed Slattery, CAB spokesman, said crews recovered the second recorder in the investigation.
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Falls City
Neb
Braniff International Airways
Here
Ed Slattery
Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
CAB
Slattery
Antone Schawang
Shaw
James A. Hilliker
Ginger Elaine Brisbane
Minneapolis
Bites
Sharon Eileen Hendricks
Sawyer
Nld
Braniff Flight 250
Omaha
New Orleans
Shreveport
Fort Smith
Ark
Tulsa
Okla
Kansas City
Clinton bids for Morgan town showboat amid bid process
Clinton Park Board votes to bid for an original 270 foot three decker showboat now at Morgantown West Virginia. If successful the city will use it as a tourist site meeting place and recreation venue. Estimated total cost 65000 to 75000 including towing via Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
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Clinton
Clinton’s Park Board
West Virginia
Morgantown
W. Va
Ohio
Mississippi
Weather forecast hints cooler tonight with clearing skies
The forecast calls for decreasing cloudiness and cooler temperatures tonight with lows in the upper 50s. Tuesday should be mostly fair and cooler with highs in the middle to upper 70s and a 5 percent rain chance. High Sunday around 83 with a dry night. river stage at 5.2 feet.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Newton
Emmetsburg
Weather Bureau
Davenport
Spencer
Sioux City
Sniper's 17th Victim Dies in Austin Terror
AP reports Charles J. Whitman claimed his 17th victim as 17 year old Karen Griffith died in Brackenridge Hospital one week after a gunman on the University of Texas tower blasted the campus.
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Austin
Texa AP
Charles J. Whitman
University of Texas
Karen Griffith
Brackenridge Hospital
Whitman
Texas
Civil rights march through white Chicago suburb amid jeers
About 1,500 civil rights demonstrators faced a hostile 2,000 strong white crowd in Chicago's northwest side as police protected the march for open housing. Rocks and bottles were thrown, several protesters were injured or arrested, and signs urged white power while some counterdemonstrators carried the National States Rights Party banner. Leaders included Al Raby James Bevel and Jesse Jackson. King did not march.
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Chicago
al Raby
Coordinating Council of Community Organiations
James Bevel
Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr. King
Two Teens Slain in Fort Worth Car Trunk Case
Fort Worth Texas AP Two teenage cousins were found shot to death and stuffed in a car trunk near Fort Worth. A 16 year old girl friend of one of the boys is missing and police seek her. Investigators said rape charges may be filed as two men from Marlin were arrested on sexually motivated slayings. The case follows another Texas killing spree at the University of Texas in Austin.
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DES Moines
Highland Park
Galveston
Tex
Kimberly Lind
Don L. Lind
John Sealy Hospital
Kimberly
West Beach
Fort Worth
Asst
Grady Hight
Central Texas
Hight
Iowa Toll Advances Weekend Traffic Accidents Kill 12
Weekend crashes across Iowa left twelve dead and several injured. Western Iowa families suffered multiple fatalities in single car and collision incidents near Turin and Salix, while others died in Cedar Rapids, Lake Park, Fenton, and Waterloo areas. Notable victims include Gail and Carol Allen, and Daniel Lundgren.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Towa 175
Turin
Willam Allen
Onawa
Gail
Carol
Allen
U. S. 75
Salix
Woodbury
Raymond al Pendleton
Ida Grove
Fred Duane Dunbar
Clyde Rutledge
Cedar Rapids
Towa City
Towa
Hannah Weickman
Lake Park
Spirit Lake
Otto Wichtendahl
Fenton
Kossuth
Robert Hall
Evansdale
Waterloo
Jimmy C. Byron
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Artillery Shelling Puts Hanoi Forces to Flight
In the Ia Drang Valley, a U S 1st Cavalry Division unit of about 150 men engaged roughly 500 North Vietnamese troops. Artillery and napalm drove the enemy from the area as U S forces pursued. Nine enemy killed, five captured. casualties in the U S unit described as moderate. About 15 000 allied troops were involved in Operation Paul Revere.
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Hanoi
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Central Highlands
U.S
1St Cavalry
Ia, Drang Valley
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Phuoc Vinh
Negotiators Resume Talks on Air Strike
The Labor Department called union and management representatives to resume negotiations in the month-old airline strike as Congress weighs anti-strike legislation. It marks the first meeting since 35,000 strikers rejected a White House settlement. Secretary Wirtz summoned both sides, with AFL-CIO machinists and five major airlines United Eastern National Northwest and Trans World to meet with James Reynolds.
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Washington
Labor Department
Congress
House
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
United
Eastern
National
Northwest
Trans-World
Asst
James J. Reynolds
Fair at Junction Opens with Entries and Events
The Louisa County Fair in Columbus Junction opens with entries across divisions and a Queen selection tonight. Judging runs Tue to Thu including 4H FFA swine and Floral Hall, followed by harness races, stock shows, and tractor pulling contests. Davidson Shows and Rides headline the midway.
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Columbus Junction
Louisa County
Floral Hall
Pinch birthday commemoration for Hoover at West Branch
Dr. Franz G Lassner director of the Hoover Presidential Library delivered the address at the Pinch birthday commemoration for Herbert Hoover Sunday afternoon in West Branch. Maj Gen dunier Miller adjutant general of the Iowa National Guard and Johnsons personal representative stood to the left, with Donald Johnson president of the West Branch Heritage Foundation to the right, the sponsor of the event.
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Franz G. Lassner
West Branch
Pinch
Herbert Hoover
Dunier Miller
Iowa
National Guard
Johnson
Donald Johnson
West Branch Heritage Foundation
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