News in Brief wrap: many brief regional reports
The itemized notes cover several AP briefs from across the United States and abroad. Highlights include the Nixon endorsement at the Republican convention, a fatal two car crash in Cedar Rapids, Carl Sparks electrocuted in Des Moines, Mansfield leaving Moscow without announced talks, Harlan Miller the Des Moines columnist dies, LSD found on a Sigourney youth, McCarthy canvassing in Iowa, race-related violence in Miami, ship inactivation plans by the Pentagon, a Park Service bill to the Poor People’s Campaign, infiltrators killed in Korea, and Nelson Rockefeller’s reply about his political future in Miami Beach.
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Des Moines
Associated Press
National “Park Service
Resurrection City
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Seoul
Demilitarized Zone
Daddy
Fla
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nelson
Rockefeller
Happy
Waterloo Flood Strikes Town For Fourth Time This Month
Waterloo faced a fourth flash flood in less than a month as a storm system drenched the city. About 200 volunteers battled to shore a dike on Lester Street while 40 blocks filled with water up to waist deep. A teen, Leo Paget, was swept away by the current. In Saigon, U S and South Vietnamese troops invaded the A Shau Valley to disrupt a major Communist supply base. Over four days two U S soldiers were killed and 22 wounded, eight South Vietnamese killed and 18 wounded. Three helicopter gunships were shot down.
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Associated Press
Waterloo
Lester Street
Leo Paget
Ray Paget
Saigon
A Shau
U.S. 61St Air Cavalry Division
South Vietnam
U.S
Weather agency reports tornado sightings near Waterloo Iowa
A midmorning weather system produced a two inch downpour flooding parts of Waterloo with Virden Creek rising rapidly and sandbagging efforts underway. Tornado sightings were reported 20 miles northwest of Newton and around Ames while Des Moines faced a severe thunderstorm with heavy rain and traffic jams. Strong winds up to 50 mph affected the Iowa Great Lakes region near Spencer and Storm Lake.
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East Waterloo
Virden Creek
Central Right
Waterloo
Dry Run Creek
Weather Bureau
Nitumwa
Iowa
Raymond
Ames
Des Moines
Storm Lake
Iowa Great Lakes
Spencer
Ailment of LBJ Is Made Public
SAN ANTONIO AP report Johnson revealed after hospital tests that he has diverticulitis and an intestinal ailment. He will return to Brooke Army Medical Center for further examination and said he feels excellent. Diverticulitis involves pouching in the colon wall and often does not require surgery.
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San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
Brooke Army Medical Center
Louisa Judging Continues at Louisa County Fair Thrill Show Tonight
Judging in livestock and floral hall departments continues at the Louisa county fair in Columbus Junction. Tonight at 7:30 the grandstand will host the Chitwood Thrill Show featuring a car shot from a cannon and other stunts. Friday includes open class sheep and 4-H and FFA events at 8 a.m. plus calf and cattle shows, Browning Family musical entertainment at 8 p.m., dancing afterward. Saturday features a livestock club sale at 9 a.m. and stock car racing in the evening on the Columbus Junction track.
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Columbus’ Junction
Browneing
Columbus Junction
Agnew Nominated as Nixon Running Mate in Surprise Pick
Richard Nixon selected Maryland Governor Spiro T. Agnew as his vice presidential running mate after winning the Republican nomination. Agnew said he was stunned by the decision and described himself as pro civil rights but opposed to civil disobedience.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
Nixon
Agnew
Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Baltimore County
Baltimore
Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
California
Wisconsin
Merrick Says Convention A Flop For Nixon Nomination
Broadway producer David Merrick calls the Republican National Convention dull and overlong, urging lighter daytime demonstrations for TV. Nixon gains the nomination after a tough roll call, with Rockefeller and Reagan as rivals and mixed military opinions on his candidacy.
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David Merrick
Mortician
Merrick
Nine Kentucky miners die in shaft blast rescue begins
Rescue workers slowly extract nine miners believed killed in a fiery Kentucky coal mine explosion near Greenville. Eight bodies found in one area, the ninth nearby, while about 300 relatives and bystanders gather along the road awaiting news. Officials say the blast may have stemmed from an accidental detonation of explosives being moved deep in the mine.
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Greenville
Here
Washington
U.S. Bureau of Mines
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Cedar Rapids
Dennis Williams
James Payne
Independence
Carl Sparks
Miami
Pentagon
Navy
Triton
Naval Air Squadrons
Congress
Vietnam
City News Daily Report
Women’s News
Richard Nixon
Republican Party
Secret Service
Louisa Judging
FFA
Says David Merrick
Mortician’s
Humphrey
Broadway
George Mahoney
Hubert H. Humphrey
Pfc
Robert Goo
Dayton
Ohio
Maj
Paul Roberts
Las Vegas
Nev
John Front
Britton
S.D
Navy Yeoman
Steven Wedeck
Burlington
Reagan
Romney
James A. Rhodes
Pennsylvania
Michigan
New Jersey
Hitneis
South
Midwest
Far West
Confederacy
North Carolina
Arkansas
Beach
Nelson Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Kentucky
Louise County Fair
Columbus
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