Iowa official seeks power to probe beer taverns
Des Moines reporting chief Gene Needles of the State Liquor Control Commission urges expanded authority to inspect taverns selling beer without liquor licenses. He notes most complaints target licenseless taverns and contrasts Iowa limits with Michigan where agents can search without complaints. Michigan licenses refunds bolster local enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Liquor Control Commission
Gene Needles
Needles
Michigan
Commission
Treawe
Iowa
Towa
Avink
Tawa
Two Spurn Anti Barry Maneuvers
Washington report notes two Republican figures Richard Nixon and William Scranton refuse to back any stop Goldwater push. Nixon warns a split party would ruin the nomination’s value while Scranton says he will not participate in efforts to block Goldwater, backing him after California primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Barry Goldwater
Republica
Richard M. Nixon
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Goldwater
Arizona
Airife
Nixon
Long Island
Harrisburg
Scranton
California
Students Learn From Judge After Senior Prom Vandalism
Keokuk High School seniors faced Judge Ralph B. Smith after a prom prank that defaced Cardinal Stritch High School and a police car. Each of 21 students was fined 85 dollars plus costs, with 25 dollars suspended if they wash off the paint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Stritch High School
Superior Court
Ralph B. Smith
Outbreaks Continue As South Korea Closes Colleges
Kim Chong-Pil, a key figure in Park Chung-hee's regime and ex-secret police head, resigns as protests surge. All colleges and universities are shut until July affecting 125,000 students across 85 schools. Demonstrations spread to five cities led by university campuses in Pusan Chongju Kwang Ip and Daegu with clashes, tear gas, and hunger strikes demanding end to military rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kim
Park
Japan
Korea
Seoul
Pusan
South Korea
Donga
Kimekon
Chongju
Kwang Ip Taegu
Jaw
Fire and blast engulf Coralville bottle gas plant
A fire and explosion at the Coralville bottle gas plant on Highway 6 caused about $40,000 in damage. Two employees from Eeona-pas Service, Inc. were injured. Leroy Cart, 17, of Ainsworth and Nick Woods, 21, of Iowa City were in fair condition at a hospital. The blaze forced a detour on the four lane highway for nearly a half day. Weather forecast calls for partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with upper 50s to near 80 by Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coral
Ville
LAP Photofax
Iowa
CIPY
Coralville
Eeona-pas ‘Service, Inc
Leroy Cart
Ainsworth V
Nick Woods
Lowa
Cal Shubh
Bor
Hancher in Farewell to SUI Graduates
President Virgil M. Hancher of the University of Iowa, retiring after four years as SUI president, urged graduates to pursue lifelong learning and embark on a "great adventure." He announced plans to go to New Delhi for five years with the Ford Foundation and received an honorary Doctor of Law degree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancher
SUI
Towa City Ih
Virgil M. Hancher
University of Town
SUL
Iowa City School
New Delhi
India
Ford Foundaton
SUI Camanittee
Governor backs Board decisions on prisons in Iowa
DES MOINES Gov Harold Hughes said he would stand behind the State Board of Control on any decision it makes regarding Iowa prisons. He would not commit to backing a firing of Benjamin Baer as director of corrections. Hughes emphasized the board must not retreat on penal programs, noting riots at Anamosa and Fort Madison and praising Baer as aide and friend while urging continued discipline and rehabilitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Haugh
Leavenworth
Kaw
State Board of Control
Anamosa
Ydes Moines
Harold Huhes
State Board
Benjamin Baer
Baer
Iowa
Fort Marchéon
Reformatory
Ray -Purcell
Hughes
Bar
Ryghes
Pleads Innocent In Murder Case
Clifford Harold Smith of Ferndale Arkansas pleaded innocent to second degree murder. He was bound over to district court with bond set at twenty dollars, which he did not post, and remained jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Clifford Harold Smith
Ferndale, Ark
Daday
Smith
Three year old Californian hailed as youngest hobo
A visiting three year old, David Larson of Lancaster California, rode a Milwaukee Road freight train six miles from a grandma’s house near Edlora to Steamboat Rock. Sheriff Lowell McCormick led a search as the boy wandered along tracks. Crews stopped the train and returned him. he was found safe and returned to his mother, who expressed relief and concern for his danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldora
David Larson
California
Jay
America
David
Milwaukee Road
Grandma
Steamboat Rock
Ani
Lerwit
Russell Larson
Lancaster
Calif
Haidin Colmly
Lowell McCormick
Ernest Lee
McCormick
Ori'hum
Kalamazoo youth confesses to five slayings
A 17 year old from Kalamazoo admitted killing five people after police captured him on a tip related to the slaying of teacher Gary Advert Smock in Plymouth. He said he also killed Charles Edward Snyder in Elkhart during a robbery and claimed three more similar murders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Mich
Gary
Plymouth
Larry Ranes
Karl Lutz
Ranes
Smack
Charles Edward Snyder
Elkhart
Ind
Red Supply Base Erased By Raiders
U S and Vietnamese special forces conducted a three day helicopter supported operation west of Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border. About 25 Viet Cong were killed amid widespread destruction of sustenance supplies including 1 000 tons of rice and tens of thousands of poultry. The sweep involved some 300 Vietnamese special forces 200 Rangers and 20 American advisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tay Ninh
South
Viet Nam
U.S
Vaico Oriental
Cambodia
Veterans Observe 20th D-Day Anniversary at Omaha Beach
Veterans from the Allied nations gather at Omaha Beach to mark the 20th anniversary of the Normandy landings. U S delegation led by Gen Omar Bradley and Cyrus Vance attends ceremonies as towns honor the invaders with two days of remembrance. Reenactments and parachute jumps linked to the 1944 invasion recall the wartime feats of veterans John Lee and Robert Murphy from Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha Beach
France
Normandy
D-Day
U.S
Omar J
Bradley
Cyrus. Vance
Maxwell. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Also Mentioned on This Page
Keokuk High School
Kim Chong-Pil
Chung Hoe Park
Democratic Republican Party
AP Photafox
Frank Starzel
Associated Press
University of Iowa Today
City Press-Citizen
Phiotofax
Lad
Taylor
1St. Airborne Division
Cers
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Birtend
Dwight “D. Eisenhower
de Gaulle
Bob de Gaulle
Trante
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
St. Mere Eplise
Lee
Sire Ural Steel
Worcester
Mass
Murphy
Westwood
William Tucker
Athol
Interstate Commerce Commission
Beuzevillean Plain
St .Mere-Hylise
Macpay
Tucker
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!