Blast Wrecks Church in Plainview. 1 Dead
A gas leak caused a blast at the Church of God in Christ in Plainview Texas killing a woman and injuring 53. Worshippers trapped as debris and fire followed the explosion, with responders using a crane to clear wreckage and recover a body.
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Plainview, Tex
Church of God In Christ
Plainview
Public Safety
United Baptist
Henry Jackson
E. N. Givens
Ennis
A. Dukes
Pampa
Women’s Auxiliary
West Texas
King Spurns Bid to Drop Cicero March
AP reports Dr. Martin Luther King Jr rejects canceling a march to Cicero and announces open housing demonstrations. King and aides met in Atlanta while Jesse Jackson says a rally Monday will lead to a march in the South Deering area despite Sheriff Ogilvie’s request to halt the Cicero march. King says plans were announced last Saturday and eight days notice was given.
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Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
Cicero
King
Atlanta
Jesse Jackson
South Deering
Richard Ogilvie
Ogilvie
Big Casualty Toll Feared From Blast
A violent explosion at a Fort Wayne wire plant destroyed two office buildings at the Inca Division of Phelps-Dodge Cooper Products. Many trapped in debris basement. at least 12 taken to hospitals. Fire crews, cranes, and earthmovers worked on the rubble. cause undetermined.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Inca Division
Phelps- Dodge Cooper Products Corp
$250,000 Worth Of Bonds Found In Iowa
FBI called to investigate the discovery in Carter Lake Iowa of a metal box containing bonds reportedly worth about $250,000. The bonds were not negotiable and police say they were stolen from the Easy Parking Co. office in Omaha on August 5 when burglars peeled off the outer door of a safe.
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Omaha
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Carter Lake
Iowa
Easy Parking Co
UAW Eyes Next Step After Wage Reopen Rejection
In Detroit the UAW signals it will review the Big Three rejection of contract reopening to boost skilled workers. GM Ford and Chrysler cite progress on 1967 models as contracts run to next year. Douglas Fraser says reopening will top the agenda at the September 7 international executive board meeting.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Ford
UAW
International Executive ‘Board
Bushman, 83, Early Film Star, Dies
Hollywood report says Francis X. Bushman, a top early screen idol, died at 83 after a fall at his home. The AP notes his virile image helped shape early cinema and mourners gather as details emerge.
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Bushman
Dies
Hollywood
Francis X. Bushman
Moon Photos Show Blurry Lunar Images Improve Hope
AP reports from Pasadena and New York describe continued blurry high resolution lunar photos with optimistic US space agency officials. The same dispatch notes Brooklyn youths throwing rocks injuring two patrolmen in Bed-Stuy and a Spencer teen girl Wendy Pearson, 16, possibly drowned after a car crash near a ditch. Marine Lt Jerome H. George, Des Moines, has earned the Distinguished Flying Cross in Viet Nam in a Chu Lai ceremony. In Chamonix two German youths, Heinz Ramisch and Hermann Schridde, were rescued after a week on an icy ledge, thanking rescuers.
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Des Moines
Jerome H. George
Viet Nam
Wallace M. Greene, Jr
Marine Corps
Chu Lai
Chamonix
France
French Alps
Heinz Ramisch
Baden-Baden
Hermann Schridde
Karlsruhe
Freighter Mine Blasts Kill Seven In Vietnam Operation Toledo
A freighter loaded with war supplies was mined near the Baton Rouge Victory, flooding its engine room and killing seven American crewmen. Two Vietnamese gun boats viewed ashore as Marines continued blocking actions in the Toledo sweep near Saigon. Aerial combat north of Hanoi involved four Thunderchiefs and four MIGs with no damage. US salvage crews, river patrols, and helicopters supported the salvage, while the Viet Cong intensified attacks in Saigon.
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AP Photofax
Saigon
North
Viet Nam
Hanoi
U.S
Baton Rouge
States Lines of
Baltimore
iMad
San Francisco
Post Exchange
Long ‘Fao
Davenport Man Sought for Theft Of Dead Man's Missing Automobile
George Marion Smith Sr. was found dead near Wild Cat Den state park. Dale Lee Weih of Davenport is wanted on a larceny charge for taking Smith s1966 car. Investigators linked Weih to Smith in a Davenport tavern Friday night after Smith left Buffalo to return home. A 1958 Weih car, bought in July, was found abandoned on highway 22 near Davenport. Muscatine police investigated.
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Midwest
George Marion Smith, Sr
Davenport
Pine Creek
Wild Cat den State Park
William (Blackie) Strout
Scott County
Dale Lee Weih
Washington Street
Smith
Weih
Buffalo
Muscatine
State Hospital
Quad-City
Muscatine County
Unseasonable Iowa cool spell with mild warming ahead
Temperatures in Iowa linger in the 40s with readings in the upper 40s to lower 50s expected tonight and a day Wednesday reaching the 70s in most areas. A slow warming trend is forecast for Thursday under partly cloudy skies as records and park mysteries mix with local crime notes.
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Spencer
Storm Lake
Grinnell
Davenport
Man's body found under Pine Creek Bridge
A man identified as Smith was discovered face down in Pine Creek beneath the bridge amid a shallow, rocky bed. The incident occurred near the center of the bridge with the creek water minimal, on Wild Cat Den state park boundary land to the bridge’s left. Journal photo context indicates a dramatic scene captured at the site.
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Wild Cat den Park
Pine Creek
Smith
Billford
Bob Miller
Tom Hopewell
CBI
Pine Creek Bridge
Rock Island
Ill
Wild Cat den State Park
Funds OKd For Building New Homes
Senate House conferees agreed on a compromise bill to inject 4.76 billion dollars of government mortgage purchase funds into the lagging home building industry. The measure, channeled through the Federal National Mortgage Association, would apply to FHA insured and VA guaranteed mortgages and could be signed into law by week’s end.
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Washington
Senate House
House
Senate
Federal National Mortgage Association
Pentagon plan to train 40000 disqualified men
Secretary McNamara outlined a ten month program to train 40000 men rejected for education or health reasons, expanding to 100000 for the next fiscal year. The plan uses a vast Defense Department facility to create fully satisfactory soldiers under military authority, with about 8 to 10 percent expected to qualify for combat duty.
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New York
Robert S. McNamara
Pentagon
Defense Department
McNamara
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Washington
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Moon
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Robert Pearson
Associated Press
Jowans
Mason City
Johnson
John W. Gardner
Gardner
Labor Department
Council of Economic Advisers
Okd
United States
South Viet Nam
Berlin
Southeast Asia
Richard M. Nixon
VFW
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