Thant At Shwe Dagon Pagoda For Son Grave Visit
World diplomat U Thant kneels in prayer at Shwe Dagon Pagoda with his family to mark the grave of his son Timmy who died in a traffic accident two years earlier. In Portugal, a holiday train crash near Porto kills 85 and injures over 100, the worst in the privately owned railway company’s history.
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U Thant
Rangoon
Burma
Thant
United Nations
Shwe Dagon
Oporto
Portugal
Portuguese Railway Co
War measures eyed in Viet Nam report
The Nation notes new U S and Viet Nam measures likely to be announced next week not involving North Viet Nam expansion. Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh of South Viet Nam is expected to reveal tightened war plans possibly including more U.S. planes training and advisory forces.
Derailment blamed on burned gut journal hack in Atlantic 9
A Rock Island freight train derailed in the yards on a Sunday, 21 cars left the rails and blocked the main line. No injuries were reported.
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Atlantic
Hax
Rock Island
Local Man Dies In River Near Muscatine Plant
Edwin J Elliott 55 of 1147 Sherman Street drowned in the Mississippi near a municipal power plant after his boat failed to return. Rescue units recovered his body at 2 a.m. with evidence he died by his own action. He was a Muscatine resident, member of Knights of Pythias and Muscatine Power Boat club, survived by a widow, five children, a brother and five sisters, with funeral arrangements pending.
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Edwin J
Te) Eniitt
Sherman Street
Muscatine House
Mississippi River
Muscatine
Swayze
Elliott
Mr. Ellioth
James E
Eva Hahn Elliott
Evelyn Gritton
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Kenneth Carpenter
Jerry Musgrove
Molina
Barbara Elliott
John E. Elliott
George Schaefer
Lago
Fla
Faulty Ground Equipment Cancels Moon Shot Firing
Cape Kennedy Florida observers report an attempt to launch the Ranger camera spacecraft to the moon was postponed today due to technical problems in the ground equipment and associated systems at the launch site.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Ranger
Mrs Chapman Gets 30 Years In Iowa City
Evelyn Chapman, 26, secretary at University Hospitals, was sentenced to 30 years after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the June 19 shooting of her husband, taxi driver Carl Lincoln Chapman, 28, whose body was placed in a closet at their home. She testified that her husband had confined her before, and said she wanted him there. The report also notes a separate NASA Ranger 7 moon mission update with Atlas-Agena launch troubles and a planned moon landing.
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Iowa
CIFY
Evelyn Chapman
Chapman
University Hospitals
Carl Lincoln Chapman
He Chapman
Clair E.‘Hamilton
Ralph Neuzil
Lost in Yosemite Boy Survives 8 Days
John Ireland, a Los Angeles youth, wandered from a Harden Lake campsite July 18 and survived eight days in Yosemite terrain by drinking water and living off his body fat. Rangers found him three miles from camp as night temperatures dropped. He weighed 15 pounds less, but doctors call his condition good. the boy spoke of plans to return home and recalled the cold and mosquitoes as the worst parts of the ordeal.
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Xnosemite National Park
Calif
Yosemite
John' Ireland
John
Harden Lake
Gil Hall
Jim Reilly
Ireland
Lewis Memorial Hospital
Latins OK Cuban Trade Break
Washington reports that American republics ended sanctions on Cuba, backing a diplomatic break and embargo. Castro called the actions impudent and unjust, while OAS officials said the bloc can defend itself. Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay abstained or faced shifts as Latin nations debated the move and promised to respect majority decisions.
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Cuba
Fidel Castro
Thomas C.” Mami
Inter
Organization of American States
Castro
OAS
Santiago de Cuba
Americas
Miami
Zeneral
Tis
Venezuela
Mexico
Chile
Bolivia
Uruguay
Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Americas
Six Die in Boone Sunday Car Crash
An Iowa State architectural student survived a two car crash at a rural Boone intersection. Six people died including Raymond L. Brummyer, 32, Ames, his wife, their three children, and two youths in the other car. The crash raised Iowa's weekend toll to 422 for 1964, a figure about 60 higher than the previous year.
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Boone
Iowa
Boone Hospital
Raymond L. Brunlmyer
Ames
Here
Inmate escapes from Iowa City reformatory
An Iowa inmate escaped from custody Monday at University Hospitals in Iowa City. William F. Chamberlain, 24, of Sabula, had been taken there for treatment after the escape. He had served four years of a 10 year Clinton County sentence for car theft.
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Reformatory
Iowa City
Anamosa
University Hospitals
Charles
Haugh
William F. Chamberlain
Sabula
Clinton’ County
Goldwater Endorses Brinkmanship as Western Policy
A West German magazine quotes Senator Barry Goldwater saying that brinkmanship is a respected path for nations, aligning his foreign policy with that of the Eisenhower era. He reportedly told Werner Holzer he favors readiness to push to extremes to be respected and to seek peace, and suggested meeting De Gaulle to ease Franco American tensions.
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BOM
Germany
Sen. Barry
Goldwater
Werner Holzer
Revuy
Holner
Prescotl
Ariz
Rolzer
Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
Atlantic
Alliate
Gold Water
Woodward Will Probe Wilton Fund Shortage
County Attorney Garry Woodward announced plans to meet Wilton officials early this week over a $10 209 shortage in the Wilton utility fund revealed by the state auditor. The auditor said funds were handled by Mrs Marvella J Holmes. Woodward said he needs more information before considering charges. Mayor Richard Buroker said restitution had not been made as of Saturday and town attorney Frank Gillett was on vacation expected back Aug 3.
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Harlem
New York
Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Rochester
N. Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Skokie Police
Garry Woodward
Wilton
Marvella J. Holmes
Woodward
Richard Buroker
Buroker
Frank Gillett
Hoffa Faces Possible Jail Term and Fines
Hoffa and six others were found guilty in Chicago on four counts of fraud and conspiracy for defrauding a $280 million Teamsters pension fund. Hoffa, a pension trustee, faces up to four years in prison and up to $11,000 in fines, with the jury delivering 21 findings on multiple counts after 13 weeks of testimony.
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Chicago
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Pension Fund
U.S
Robert F.kennedy
Hyannis
Mass
Joss
Chattanooga
Tenn
Hoffa Convicted In Fraud Case Walks From Court
James R. Hoffa, convicted of fraud in arranging loans for the Teamsters Union pension fund GAP Photofax, is shown walking down a corridor from U.S. District Court on a late Sunday following the verdict.
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James R. Hoffa
U.S. District Court
Teamsters
Union Pension.fund
GAP
Photofax
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