Mount Pleasant Boy Dies After Traffic Crash
Mount Pleasant 3 year old Mark Stephen Willey died Monday night at University Hospitals from injuries after running into a street and being struck by a truck driven by 50 year old Robert L. Smith. No charges were filed. The victim was son of Mr and Mrs Larry J Willey, residents counselor at Iowa Wesleyan College.
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Iowa City
University Hospitals
Mark Stephen Willey
Larry J. Willey
Iowa Wesleyan College
Robert L. Smith
Farber Slain In Opinion of Medical Expert
In Freehold N J the prosecution rested its case in the murder trial of Dr. Carl Cappotino. The last witness, Dr Milton Helpern NYC chief medical examiner, testified Farber likely was murdered and not felled by a heart attack.
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Freehold
N.u
Carl Cappotino
Milton Helpern
New York City
William E. Farber
Pipeline to Port Closed Cuts Iraqi Oil for Europe
Syria cuts the Iraqi oil pipeline to Tripoli Lebanon and halts deliveries to Banias in a dispute over transit royalties. The move affects the bulk of Iraqi oil sold to Europe. Syria seeks royalties rising from 28 to 42 million dollars annually and has impounded IPC assets until claims for 1966 royalties are settled.
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Lebanon
Iraq
Tripoli
Banias
Baghdad
Iraq Petroleum Co
Europe
Syria
IPC
New Storm Hits East and Southeast Areas
A growing storm lashed the East and Southeast with snow sleet freezing rain and gale winds. Two inches of snow fell at Bluefield West Virginia and Roanoke Virginia. Weather warnings covered Delaware Maryland North Carolina Tennessee and Pennsylvania with possible several inches by nightfall. Gale warnings were in effect along the Atlantic Coast. A separate Pacific storm brought rain and snow to Seattle and the northern Rockies.
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Roanoke
Weather Bureau
Delaware
Maryland
North Carolina
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Atlantic
Charleston
D.C
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Pacific
Rockies
Cape Mendocino
Calif
Seattle
Mad Axman On the Run From Dartmoor Prison
A 230 pound escapee known as the Mad Axman fled Dartmoor prison prompting a nationwide manhunt. Frank Mitchell, 37, serving a life sentence for robbery with violence, escaped from a work party eight miles from the prison. Police warned parents on Dartmoor that he might seize a child as a hostage as bloodhounds and officers hunted across the moor in bitter weather.
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Dartmoor
England
Devon
Frank Mitchell
Mitchell
Britain
Arthur Conan Doyle
Axman
Fire kills three sisters in Maywood home
Three sisters Jackie Sales 14 Sheron 9 and Pamela 4 died in a Maywood fire. Brother Thomas 13 was burned and treated in fair condition at Westlake Community Hospital. Parents and five other children escaped unharmed. Fire believed to have started in the kitchen. cause undetermined.
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Maywood
Chicago
Jackie Sales
Sheron
Pamela
James Sales
Thomas
Westlake Community Hospital
Iowa Supreme Court Limits Highway Commission Access
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled the State Highway Commission cannot enter private property for road surveys without landowner permission. The 7-0 decision upholds a Wright County farmer challenge to the diagonal Interstate 35 route, prompting plans to seek federal condemnation if needed and urging legislative change for surveying rights.
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Iowa Supreme Court
State Highway Commission
Commission
Ed J. Kelley
Wright County
Mason City
Clear Lake
High Court
C. Edwin Moore
Highway Commission
U S Bomb Kills 2 Viet Civilians Near Hue
A U S warplane dropping a bomb on the village of Thon-Phu Gia near Hue killed two Vietnamese civilians and wounded one. The F4B Phantom strike came 3 miles from Hue, part of a pattern of accidental bombings raising civilian deaths and Marines casualties.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Thon-Phu Gia
Hue
Arizona Man Hurt in Night Crash Near Nichols
Frank Evan Lutz, 59, of Tucson, was seriously injured in a one car wreck a mile west of the highway 76 22 junction near Nichols shortly before midnight Monday. The 1933 model car ran off the road hit a culvert, rolled, and stopped on its side. Lutz, semi conscious, was taken to Muscatine General Hospital with multiple lacerations and chest injuries. A witness saw the car leave the highway, strike the culvert, and rebound onto the roadway.
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Frank Evan Lutz
Tucson
Ariz
Nichols
Lutz
Muscatine General Hospital
Dick Oppelt
Ruby's Cancer Too Far Along For Surgery
Dallas AP report says Jack Ruby's cancer has progressed beyond surgical cure. Dr. Jack Barnett, associate professor at Southwestern Medical School, states chemotherapy is the remaining hope, radiology ruled out due to widespread disease. A new tumor in the pleura near the chest was found Monday, same cancer type as in a neck lymph node.
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Dallas, Tex
Jack Ruby
Ruby
Jack Barnett
Barnett
Southwestern Medical School
Parkland Hospital
Kiesinger Defines West German Europe Policy With France
Bonn AP report says Chancellor Kiesinger bases his new government on deterring France and the United States and pledges a strong Atlantic alliance. He cites geography and history showing joint interests with France and Germany. He stresses partnership with France while not outlining responses to U.S. and British pressure on trade and troop economics.
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Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Bundestag
Bonn
Kiesinger
France
Europe
Willy Brandi
Germany
Charles de Gaulle
America
United States of America
Cancellor
United States
Rhodesian Oil Embargo Sought at United Nations
Three African members of the U N Security Council demanded a complete embargo on oil shipments to Rhodesia as part of a set of amendments to a British sanctions resolution. Mali, Uganda, and Nigeria pressed for expanding the trade ban to coal and manufactured goods, while deploring Britain’s stance and its allies Portugal and South Africa.
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U.N. Security Council
Rhodesia
Jan Smith
Mali
Uganda
Nigeria
Britain
Council
Smith
Portugal
South Africa
Weather Report Says Warmer with Partly Cloudy Skies
The Weather summary notes partly cloudy and warmer conditions tonight and Wednesday with overnight lows around 20 and daytime highs in the lower 40s. Monday’s high 30 with a night low near 20 and noon today at 31. River stage 5.2 feet.
Ike Able To Occupy Wheel Chair
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower has recovered enough from a gallbladder operation to sit in a chair for 25 minutes at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Brig. Gen. Philip W. Mallory said Eisenhower is up, alert, and progressing normally, though a discharge before Christmas remains uncertain.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Philip W. Mallory
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Gen. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Mallory
Liddy Fires 38 More From Iowa Agriculture Dept
DES MOINES AP L. B. Liddy the Republican now secretary of agriculture tells at least 38 more department employees they will be fired. Agriculture Secretary Kenneth Owen says the letters were sent Tuesday to about 38 workers in Des Moines. The department has about 190 fulltime workers. Liddy earlier announced 14 others would leave. Owen says most recipients work in clerical or auditor roles. Gov Hughes comments that people can draw their own conclusions and Liddy defends the move as improving efficiency and service at lower cost. He will announce further changes to the press as they occur.
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L. B. Liddy
Agriculture
Department
Kenneth Owen
Owen
Liddy
Ruby Davis
Davis
Harold Hughes
Iowa
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