Explosion targets Cedar Falls road grader at site
An early morning blast at a Cedar Falls construction site destroyed a road grader owned by Assink Bros. Police found six sticks of dynamite with a sighted but out fuse inside the unfinished building. A tire imprint and fingerprints were recovered as investigators probed labor tensions and potential links to other recent Iowa blasts. Wayne Leroy Adams of Mason City was later arrested in Atlantic on charges of injury to property by explosives.
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Cedar Falls
Earl Immer
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Lockard
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Henderson Mfg. Co
Seedorff Masonry, Inc
Strawberry Point
Schoff Construction Co
Lisbon
Wayne Leroy Adams
Mason City
Atlantic
Airmen set record for Vietnam War strike missions
Saigon AP reports American warplanes carried out 156 missions on Friday the most in the war to date, with 133 on Thursday. No U S planes were lost. Navy crews flew 73 missions attacking transport vehicles and watercraft. Air Force jets hit supply depots, staging areas and fuel dumps in the southern North Vietnam panhandle, causing numerous secondary explosions and fires.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S. Command
U.S
Air Force
Panhandle
North
Viet Nam
Faith Heads for Florida Drop Storm Taming Plans
A campaign to weaken Hurricane Faith by bombing its eye using silver iodide was canceled as the storm neared the southeastern Bahamas. Project Stormfury was called off though scientists stood by for possible weather modification tests. Faith stayed weaker than expected, but officials warned Florida of potential impacts in the coming days.
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Miami
Fla
Bahamas
National Hurricane Center
Puerto Rico
San Juan
P.R
Gordon Dunn
Florida
Broward Williams
Faith
Fiery Iowa Auto Crash Kills Three In Ditch Fire
Mrs Ethel Pauline Hammer 52 and two grandchildren Jeffrey Humeston 6 and Douglas Humeston 4 of Ankeny near Des Moines died Friday when their car struck a bridge abutment on US 7 five miles north of Carroll and plunged into a ravine catching fire. Sheriff's officers said all three were trapped and burned. the car was too damaged to determine the cause.
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Carroll
Movnes
Ethel Pauline Hammer
Jeffrey Humeston
Douglas
Robert Humeston
Ankeny
Des Moines
Humeston
Here
Carroll Fire Department
Five Murder Charges Lodged Against Davis
Arthur James Davis, 26, awaits a court appearance in New Haven State Jail on five counts of murder. Police say he killed five people in a New Haven apartment early Friday with a carbine, including the mother of his girlfriend and four visitors. Victims include Mary McClease 51 and Carolyn Sykes 24 with her son Michael 5 and Richard Leathers 27, Neal White 27 of Dover North Carolina. Francine McClease 14 is in poor condition and Troy Sykes 4 is in satisfactory condition.
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Arthur James Davis
New Brunswick
N.J
New Haven
Conn
Davis
Francine McClease
Troy Sykes
De Gaulle Arrives in Addis Ababa Amid Tense Welcome
French President Charles de Gaulle lands in Addis Ababa after a stop in Djibouti where rioting occurred over independence demands. Emperor Haile Selassie greets the visiting leader at a flag bedecked airport as Ethiopian jet fighters escort the plane. A 21 gun salute marks the arrival.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Charles de Gaulle
Djibouti
LBJ in Texas for Birthday
President Johnson marks his 58th birthday at the LBJ Ranch in Texas hill country after a brisk one day tour of Idaho Colorado and Oklahoma. He used a speechmaking handshaking tour to appeal to the Soviet Union to join American efforts to end the danger of nuclear devastation.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
West
Texas
LBJ Ranch
Idaho
Colorado
Oklahoma
Soviet Union
Fire in Trailer Fatal to Woman in Maquoketa
Mrs. Evelyn Prindle was killed and her husband Tommy, 51, burned seriously when a trailer home fire tore through their dwelling in Maquoketa. A passing policeman spotted the blaze, but it was already out of control. Prindle was hospitalized at Town City.
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Maquoketa
Evelyn Prindle
Tommy
Prindle
Town City
Inquest Scheduled Into Priest Death At Pekin Mississippi River
Rev. Sylvester Nogai 29 assistant pastor of St. Josephs Catholic church Pekin Ill was found dead after a reunion boat trip on the Mississippi near Campbell Island. An inquest is planned. Survived by parents and siblings. Body to be taken to LaSalle Ill for services.
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Oquawka
Sylvester Nogai
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Pekin
Mississippi River
Here
Father Nogai
Sedarwall
Biggsville
Campbell's Island
Iowa
Illinois
LaSalle
Ill
James Tierney
Muscatine
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Assink Bros
Assinks
Wendell Lockard
Larry Lang Ford Co
Holiday Inn
Teday
de Gaulle
LBJ
la Salle
Ius
Nitra
Bagus
SWIFT
Bologna
Washington
Bartletts
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