Iowa Governor to display Iowa-grown Christmas tree
Governor Harold Hughes and family will feature an Iowa grown Christmas tree at the executive mansion for Christmas. The tree comes as a gift from the Iowa Christmas Tree Growers Assn harvested Tuesday at the Norman Hansen farm near Drakasville. Hanson, president of the association, stands with Winston Etchen of West Des Moines representing the Iowa Horticultural Society in the photo.
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Harold Hughes
Executive Mansion
Iowa Christmas Tree Growers Assn
Norman Hansen
Drakasville
Hanson
Winston Etchen
West Des Moines
Iowa Horticultural Society
AP Photofax
Defense Budget Faces Few Cuts Likely Under Johnson
Washington and Clinton report show defense spending tied to Vietnam expansion. Johnson plans a new budget with potential supplemental funds to cover war costs. Congress expects limited cuts, possibly targeting foreign aid and select domestic programs as the conflict widens. Senator Russell signals escalation and broader U.S. engagement against Communists.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
Texas
Richard B. Russell
Senate Armed Services Committee
Bundy Leaves LBJ Staff to Lead Ford Foundation
McGeorge Bundy, 46, resigns as President Johnson's special assistant for national security affairs. He will leave February 28 to become president of the Ford Foundation with a reported salary of 73,000 dollars. Johnson accepts the resignation with genuine regret as Moyers notes the job may remain unfilled.
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Johnson City
Tex
Texas White House
McGeorge Bundy
Johnson
Bundy
White House
Ford Foundation
Bill D. Mayers
Moyers
Harvard College
John F. Kennedy
State Department
Canary Islands plane crash kills 32 tourists
A chartered Spanish DC plane with Scandinavian travelers crashed after takeoff from Santa Cruz de Tenerife in windy rain. The house it struck burned. 32 aboard were killed and two house occupants were gravely injured.
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Santa Cruz DE Tenerife
Canary Islands
Santa Cruz
Muscatine County Major Highway 38 Project Planned
The Iowa highway commission outlines a five year program with nearly 1.5 million dollars for 1969 and 1970 to modernize Highway 38 from the junction with Highway 61 at Muscatine’s north edge to Highway 6 eight miles away. The plan also lists right of way costs tied to I 80, a 1967 girded bridge near Scott county, and additional small bridge projects near Muscatine with costs totaling about 56,000. No other Muscatine County highway work is scheduled for the period.
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Iowa Highway Commission
Muscatine
Muscatine County
Highway Commission
Louisa County
Town
Scott County
Commission Plans Modernization of Highway 38 in Johnson County
The Iowa State Highway Commission outlines projects through 1969 totaling about 10 million dollars in Johnson County. Pre June 30, 1967, construction and scales at I-80 interchanges with Highway 38 in Cedar County cost 90 thousand. Signs and intersection lighting along I-80 from I-35 north of Des Moines to Iowa City are planned for 196? at 424 thousand, with more signs and lights east to the Mississippi at 596 thousand. The 1966 plan includes 5.3853 million for interstate construction, with a five year interstate program totaling 230.9813 million and primary road addition of 284.7795 million. A channelization and junction improvement at Hershey Avenue and Grandview Avenue on routes 6 and 92 is proposed for 14 thousand.
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Commission
Johnson County
Cedar County
Des Moines
Iowa City
Towa City
Mississippi
Hershey Avenue
Grandview Avenue
Pope Paul VI closes Vatican II council in peace
The pope declared the Vatican Ecumenical Council the greatest in Church history and closed its three year session with the crowd in St. Peter's Square. He urged renewal for the world beyond the Roman Catholic Church as 100000+ Romans and pilgrims watched. No meat ban lift was announced.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Vatican Ecumenical Council
St. Peter's Basilica
St. Pe[ers Square
John XXII
Apostolic “Palace
Elite Viet Ranger unit destroyed near Tam Ky
Viet Cong forces encircled and virtually destroyed an elite South Vietnamese ranger battalion near Tam Ky, 380 miles northeast of Saigon, with 30 to 50 wounded lifted by helicopter. The battle disrupted a two day lull as U.S. air attacks continued on North and South Viet Nam and bridges around Dien Bien Phu were struck.
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South Viet Nam
Tam _ ye
Ganger
Route 1
U.S
North
South
Viet Nam
Dien Bien Phu
Rach Gia
Tam Ky
Chu Lai
da Nang
Leatherneck
Rendezvous Rehearsal Scheduled
Gemini 7 astronauts reported strong after four days in space as Gemini 6 prepared a ground rehearsal for a rendezvous next week. Officials noted a computer issue in Gemini 6 could delay a Sunday launch, with Monday or Friday as alternate targets, while Cape Kennedy technicians replaced the spacecraft memory.
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Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Cape Kennedy
Fla
SPACE
Center
Houston
Tex
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
Space Agency
Iowa Tax Commission Order Delayed in 32 Counties
A Polk County District Court judge ordered a one year delay in enforcing the Iowa Tax Commission adjustments to property assessments in 32 counties and cities. Mitchell County led the suit, with 30 others intervening. several others sought to intervene but petitions were faulty. The injunction halts enforcement while the case proceeds, affecting certification of tax books and tax collection timelines.
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Des Moines
Iowa Tax Commission
Polk County
Dale Missildine
Mitchel County
Lought
Buena Vista
Cass
Ida
Iowa
Mitchell County
Folk County District Court
Thomas McKay
Commission
Missildine
Allamakee
Appanoose
Boone
Dallas
Dubuque
Franklin
Fremont
Greene
Hamilton
Harrison
Humboldt
Town
Jackson
Jasper
Keokuk
Kossuth
Marshall
Mills
Mitchell
Osceola
Page
Parahontas
Scott
Sioux
Story
Webster
Wright
Marshalltown
Davenport
Bettendorf
Fort Dodge
Two Link Defendant With Attack Identified in Reed Slaying
In Selma witnesses, two ministers from Boston identify Elmer L. Cook, 42, manager of a novelty company, as in the lead of a group that attacked Rev. James J. Reed, fatally injured last March. The witnesses testified during the trial of three white men in Reed's slaying amid a civil rights campaign.
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Selma
Ala
James J. Reed
Boson
Elmer
L. Cook
Reed
Alabama
Orloff Miller
Boston
Cook
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