Stockton Girl Is Chosen As West Liberty Fair Queen
Patsy Best, 18, daughter of Elmer and Mrs Best of Stockton Rt 1, won Miss West Liberty Fair from eight contestants. She will compete for Miss Iowa State Fair and plans to enter Iowa State College this fall majoring in applied arts and journalism. Other finalists were Margaret Wickers Muscatine second and Greta Gehrke West Liberty. The fair opened Saturday with ideal weather and a large opening-day crowd.
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Floyd DeForest
Police Clash With Whites In Chicago Protests
Police and whites clashed in Chicago as hundreds protested civil rights marches. At least 16 people were injured and 21 arrested after three parades by about 1,000 civil rights advocates. One march neared Marquette Park where whites, led by an American Nazi rally, chanted insults and stoned vehicles carrying Black residents.
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Weather: Partly cloudy and cooler with small rain chances
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Tuesday with 20 percent rain chance tonight and 10 percent on Tuesday. Low tonight mid 60s, high Tuesday around 80. Sunday high 46, night low 54, noon reading 4 percent. river stage 5.4 feet.
Machinists Vote Awaited on Airline Strike Settlement
Washington AP reports a three year contract settlement reached after 39 day airline strike, subject to a vote by 35 400 IAM members and five major airlines. Terms kept secret but estimated at 90 million dollars. Union leaders explain terms and call meetings for voting while labor officials push for approval.
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P. L. (Roy) Siemiller
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Airlines strike ends with large settlement and wage escalator
The long and costly airline strike involving United Eastern National Northwest and Trans World ends with a settlement offering higher wages and a cost of living wage escalator. Siemiller refused to forecast vote results, Reynolds says the agreement was voluntary and covers major airline and local issues plus orderly return to work. The strike cost about 300 million in revenue and 60 million in wages for 35,400 strikers and 30,000 laid off workers.
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News Briefs from Iowa and beyond headline roundup
Gov. Hughes enters University Hospitals for routine tests after feeling unwell this morning. In Colorado, a 19-year-old Iowa girl may have died from an insect bite in Estes Park. Minnesota fire damages Grace Lutheran Church in Albert Lea by an estimated $200,000 from a 4 am blaze. A Lunar Orbiter mission lifts off for lunar portraits from Pasadena. Riverton mourns a soldier killed in Viet Nam on his 20th birthday. Linden reports a store fire causing $35,000 to $50,000 in damage.
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Des Moines
Six From Iowa Family Killed in Potosi Crash
Seven people die in a two car head on crash on US 61 near Potosi Wisconsin. Among the dead are six Fondell family members from Dubuque Iowa including Joseph 37, Rita 37, Dawn 7, and Jean 4. Two Fondell children, Faye 11 and Karen 8, die later in a Dubuque hospital. The other car occupant Vinc ent Pennekamp 16 of rural Lancaster Wisconsin also dies. Thomas 10 and Mark 9 Fondell are hospitalized in critical condition. Carl Hall 19 of rural Lancaster is in fair condition. Grant County authorities call it the worst traffic accident in the county.
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Mrs. Etta Walton 82 Dies After Muscatine Crash
Mrs. Etta Walton 82 of 2100 Ridgewood drive died at Muscatine General hospital at 7 15 p m after a head on collision on Washington street near Weed park hill. Her daughter in law Mrs Glenna Walton 50 and other driver Richard Honea 24 were hospitalized. Honea faced a liquor operating charge. Walton had two sons Parker and Jesse V on a Canada fishing trip. Funeral set for 1 30 p m Wednesday at Ralph J Wittich funeral home with burial in Sharon cemetery.
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Nebraska flood damage estimated in millions
Residents in the Loup River Valley began cleanup as officials warned the flood damage would total many millions. A Friday downpour dumped up to a foot of rain on central Nebraska, but the flood threat appeared over after weekend storms. Gov. Morrison toured by air and cited extensive damage to highways bridges and public property.
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Judge Slater, 67, Former Iowa Grid Great, Dies
CHICAGO AP Circuit Judge Fred W. Slater, 67, famed Iowa football star in the 1920s known as Duke Slater, died Sunday night of stomach cancer. A 1948 Chicago Municipal Court appointee and 1960 Superior Court member, his career spanned the Circuit Court creation in 1964. Surviving are three sisters. his wife predeceased him.
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Los Angeles
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Vancouver
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Relatively Cool Weather Ahead Across Town
Relatively cool conditions are forecast for town this week with temperatures about four to six degrees below normal. The five day outlook calls for up to an inch of rain around Wednesday and scattered showers moving across Iowa late Sunday are expected to taper off.
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Iowa
North Viet force hit by heavy ground fire in Ta Drang Valley
U S air cavalrymen faced heavy fire from North Vietnamese troops as Air Force rockets struck the foe in Ta Drang Valley. Rain mud and jungle hampered maneuvers while a rocket firing helicopter went down in flames killing four crew. Casualties were light for the U S side and enemy toll unknown. Two American planes were lost over North Viet Nam with two more mistaken attacks on South Viet Nam villages under investigation.
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Hansen Proposes Interstate Bridge Financing Bill
Rep John R Hansen of Iowa proposes a federal aid bill to pay 9 percent of bridge costs that link two states. He says it would accelerate badly needed bridge construction in Iowa by expanding beyond current 50 to 90 percent federal shares for interstate highway bridges.
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John R. Hansen
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