Four Cars Leave Track At Fredonia
Four Rock Island Lines railroad cars left the tracks near Fredonia about two miles east of Columbus Junction after a journal box burned on a boxcar. The rear wheels were pulled from the first car, causing the three behind to derail on the crossing of the black-top road from highway 92. Railroad crews arrived about 1:30 to clear wreckage and repair a broken signal light and several ties.
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Redonia
Rock Island Lines
About & Am
Fredonia
Columbus Junction
Highway 92
Freedonia
Iowa Motor Accidents Fatal to 6
Six people die in Iowa traffic crashes on Thursday and one more early today. Victims include Matt Sladek, 71, and his wife near Grinnell in a two car rollover. Dennis Schoenbohm, 20, south of Atlantic after a car strike on a country road. Mark Smith, 17, near Spencer in a one car crash. Lynn Hoyt, 21, in a gravel truck collision with a train at Ferguson. and Kenneth Ichl, 19, northeast of Central City when a tractor rolled into a ditch. DES MOINES State Safety Department reports wage raises for 396 workers while denying raises to 43 habitually absent workers.
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Associated Press
Newton
Iowa
Matt Sladek
U.S
Grinnell
Dennis Schoenbohm
Viola
Atlantic
Mark Smith
Sioux City
Spencer
Lynn Hoyt
Maxwell
Union Pacific
Ferguson
Kenneth Ray Ichl
Central City
Linn County
Prospectors Rescued After Eight Days on Iskut River
Robert Gilroy and Max Portz, a pair of prospectors, survived eight days clinging to the floats of their overturned plane in icy Iskut River waters. Rescued near Terrace after a July 14 crash, they endured near starvation, continuous rain, and freezing temperatures as they drifted downstream on a mud bank.
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Robert Gilroy
Max Portz
Iskut
Gilroy
Terrace
Thini
Portz
Launch inquiry into fatal fall near Des Moines River
Authorities investigated the death of Rickey Dean Lind, 18, who fell from a Bennet Via duct over the Des Moines River to a concrete pier. He was found at 5 p.m. and died minutes later at the hospital.
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Fort Dodge
Dodge
Bennet
Des Moines
Rickey Dean Lind
Closed session ponders Cuba relations end proposal
American foreign ministers held a first closed session to discuss an alternate proposal for severing relations with the Cuban regime. The meeting could extend into the week while authorities seek full agreement on the scope of action to be taken.
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Washington
Inter- American
Cuba
De Gaulle Calls for Indochina Peace Conference
Paris President Charles de Gaulle urged an international conference to secure peace in Indochina. His stance on Western leadership drew cool reactions from Washington and West Germany, signaling mixed Western responses to the proposal.
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DeGaulle
Paris
Charles Diew Gaulle
Indochina
United States
West
Washington
West Germany
Arrest Three In Mississippi Under New Civil Rights Act
FBI agents arrested three Greenwood men Willie Amon Belk 47 a plumber Jimmy Aller Belk 14 and Sam Allen Shafer Jr 40 a Belk employee on a conspiracy to bar a Negro from a downtown government theater. They posted $1000 bonds.
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Greenwood, Miss
FBI
Bureau
Govie ‘Theatre
Willie Amon Belk
Jimmy ‘Aller Belk
Sam Allen Shafer Jr
Belk
Riots in Singapore Enter Fourth Day Leave Death Toll Rising
In Singapore Chinese and Malays clash for a fourth day as violence inflames the island. Official toll climbs to 19 with hundreds injured and over 1,400 detained by 7,000 police and troops. Curfews continue and authorities urge calm while leaders seek temporary order.
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Singapore
Target of Integrationist Efforts Damaged by Blaze
In St Augustine Florida the Monson Motor Lodge restaurant, a prime target of integrationist actions, was badly damaged by fire early today. Manager James Brock reported two one gallon containers of flammable liquid were thrown through a window and ignited by Molotov cocktails. Brock, who integrated his restaurant after the Civil Rights Act and later resegregated amid threats, could not identify the arsonists. A Ku Klux Klan rally nearby Thursday night drew several hundred segregationists. The fire at 3 17 am was spotted by motel watchman Gomer Bray, who heard glass shatter but saw no one outside. Firemen extinguished the blaze. damage estimated at 3000 dollars.
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ST. Augustine
Brock
St Augustine
Gomer Bray
Four Yachtmen Rescued After Nine-Day Atlantic Ordeal
Four Connecticut sailors from Waterbury and New Haven were rescued after nine days adrift on a tiny life raft 420 miles east of Cape Henry. The motor vessel Maidan picked them up in good health aside from sunburn and minor sores. They left Saybrook on July 11 in the Gooney Bird for a Bermuda trip that ended July 17 when it hit a submerged object. Coast Guard and Navy planes located the raft and coordinated the rescue near Wilmington, Delaware bound Maidan.
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Portsmouth
Maidan
Wilmington
Del
Ralph
C. Stevens
Lea Pogorzelski
Waterbury
Philip Karakoush
Cheshire
Julius Kasimer
New Haven
Saybrook
Conn
Stevens
Bermuda
Coast Guard
Navy
Cape
Henry
Pete J. Theodorelas
Youths Attack CORE Pickets in New York City
White youths hurled missiles at CORE pickets outside Police Headquarters in Lower Manhattan amid racial unrest in Harlem and Brooklyn. CORE accused police of brutality and sought the ouster of Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy. An egg and a rock injured none of the pickets, but a police inspector was treated after being hit. About 1,500 onlookers jeered, and seven whites were arrested for disorderly conduct.
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New York
Harlem
Brooklyn
Lower Manhattan
Congress of Racial Equality
Michael J. Murphy
Murphy
Henry Yack
East Side
Pulice
Long Frugality Woman Wins 16 Million Divorce Award
Mrs Ednah Capron, aged 74, secured an interlocutory divorce decree and a 16 million dollar settlement from George A Capron after 55 years of marriage. She testified to frugal living and neglect, including denial of care while bedridden, with Capron once offering a million dollars to be rid of her. The settlement included Newport Beach home, apartment houses, and 8601 acres near Laguna Niguel, with a purchase option to regain the land for 16 million by late February 1985.
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Los Angeles
Ednah “Race Capron
Capron
Ain
Newport Beach
Calif
Laguna
Niguel
Laguna Beach
California
Greg Sherwood Dodge
Horace E. Dodge
Herney
Heat Wave Expected to Ease This Weekend
Weather Bureau indicated the heat wave should loosen its grip this weekend with cooler air moving in from the northwest. Daytime highs Thursday reached 91 to 98 degrees across Dubuque Lamont Sioux City Mason City and Cedar Rapids, while Thursday night lows varied from 68 to 75.
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Associated Press
Dubuque
Lamont
Sioux City
Weather Bureau
Mason City
Cedar Rapids
Harbor blast kills dozens in Algiers port
Algerce Soir reports 400 dead and 165 injured after a fire and explosion in the hold of the Egyptian ship Alexandria. The blast hit the Algiers harbor Thursday night and into today. Authorities note possible sabotage as a cause being investigated.
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Algiers
Alexandria
Bone
Alger Ce Soir
U S Soldier Killed in Fourth Viet Nam Ambush
In South Vietnam near Ban Me Thuot a Special Forces enlisted man was killed and an American officer wounded during a midweek ambush by Communist forces. The attack followed strikes against Montagnards with Ban Me Thuot cited as the area of operation. The casualty tally marks the 1591st American combat fatality since December 1962.
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Saigon
Viet. Nam
South Viet Nam
Special’ Forces
U.S
Ban Me ‘Thuot
Ban Me Thuot
Buon Brieng
Goldwater and Johnson to Confer Today on Civil Rights
Republican nominee Barry Goldwater and President Johnson plan a broad discussion today aimed at avoiding inflaming trouble in the civil rights campaign. The leaders seek a calm, constructive exchange on the political climate and possible steps to ease tensions.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
Goldwater
New Honors Planned For Hoover
WEST BRANCH A letter from former President Herbert Hoover will be read at a program observing his 90th birthday on August 10. Hoover cannot attend due to ill health. The hour long observance at 2 PM is open to the public and includes laying a cornerstone for a new Herbert Hoover Library addition and transfer of deeds from the Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation to the General Services Administration of the federal government.
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West Branch
Herbert Hoover
Herber Hoover
Iowa Commission Allows CNW to Remove Oakville Depot
The Iowa Commerce Commission authorized the Chicago and North Western Railway to remove its Oakville depot in Louisa County and discontinue passenger service with no objections filed. The action clears the way for depot removal and service ending.
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Des. Moines
Iowa Commerce Commission
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Oakville
Louisa County
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