Remap creates six county Des Moines patrol district
State Safety Department announces a new six county Town Highway Patrol district headquartered in Ottumwa. District 1 and District 14 shrink. District 13 HQ moves to Mount Pleasant to improve access to Burlington, Fort Madison and Keokuk traffic. No patrolmen relocate. some shift under new district jurisdiction.
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Des Moines
Ottumwa
State Safety Department
District 14
Fairfield
Mount Pleasant
Mahaska
Wapello
Davis
Marion County
Monroe
Appanoose
Warren
Madison
Osceola
Union
Clarke
Lucas
Ringgold
Decature
Wayne
Tne
Peso
Polk County
U S Proposes Withdrawing Advisers From Laos
Geneva report says the United States offered to pull out military advisers in Laos and require Communist advisers to leave as part of a plan to neutralize the kingdom. Ambassador Harriman announced the phased withdrawal would be supervised by neutral truces teams, with French instructors remaining under the 1954 Geneva accords. different nations attended the Geneva talks on Laos seeking neutral status.
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Geneva
United States
Laos
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Laotian Princes Hold Talks Amid Illness
Three Laotian princes interrupted their conference as one, Prince Souvanna Phouma, fell ill with a slight indisposition but expected to recover by Wednesday. Aides and a working committee including Quinim Pholsena, Gen. Phoumn Nosavan, and Phoumi Vongvichit met in Munich to bridge rifts between pro Western and pro Communist factions.
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Munich
Switzerland
Souvanna Phouma
Troma
Quinim Pholsena
Phoumt Nosavan
Rival Congo regimes plan June reconvening at Lovaniung University
Rival Congolese factions led by Kasavubu and Gizonga reach a pact to reconvene Parliament on a June date at Lovaniung University outside Leopoldville. Delegates from Leopoldville and Stanleyville agree to a guarded session with arms deposits and strict isolation for MPs. In a separate report, shell rock worker Arnold W. Beevers, 61, of Waverly, died when a sewer ditch collapsed.
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Leopoldville
Congo
Joseph Kasavubu
Antoine Gizonga
Lovaniung University
Leopold Ville
Stanleyville Eqzimes
Lovanium
Shell Rock
Arnold W. Beevers
Waverly
Boards Discuss Nichols Lone Tree Districts Meeting
County education boards from Louisa Johnson and Muscatine met informally at Muscatine County Superintendent Frank Ralston's office to review possible reorganization of Nichols Independent and Lone Tree Community School Districts before petitions circulate. Johnson Supt Marshall Field and board members Stevenson Smalley and Musser attended. Louisa Supt Robert Gibson and board members Gast Thomas. Muscatine board members Collier Hoopes Kiln and Gillett attended with Supt Ralston.
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County Boards of Education
Louisa
Jonson
Muscatine
Muscatine County
Frank Ralston
Nichols Independent
Lone Tree Community
Johnson County
Marshall Field
Stevenson, Smalley
Musser
Louisa County
Robert Gibson
Membbers Gast
Thomas
Disarmament Talks Who Should Come
Washington says United States and Soviet Union enter round two of disarmament talks with debate over invitees for the conference set to open in July. Monday’s first meeting served to test positions and seek feelers from potential participants.
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Washington
United, States
Soviet Union
Ikeda Opens 3 Day Washington Talks On Welcome Visit
Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda arrived in Washington with his wife for a three day schedule of talks. He was greeted with full military honors by Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Rusk, then toured to the government guest house for meetings. IKeda said the trip aims to strengthen friendship and discuss shared interests with the United States.
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Hayato Ikeda
Washington National Airport
Lyndon Johnson
Clement Conger
Washington
Kennedy
Hewin Fom
Los Angeles
Ramport
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Potomac River
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Ykeda
Ikeda
America
Freedom Ride Prisoners Held in Jackson Jail Cell
Charles R. Oldham, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, alleges 14 white women are jailed in a single cell at Hinds County Jail in Jackson, sleep on concrete floors, in a 13 to 15 foot space with no beds. He notes most male Freedom Riders are moved to Parchman Prison.
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St. Louis
Charles R. Oldham
Congress of Racial Equality
Hinds County
Jackson
Miss
Oldham
Eichmann Defends Role in Nazi Extermination Plans
Adolf Eichmann testified in his own defense accusing Israel of kidnapping him in Argentina and insisting he joined the Nazi party in 1932 as part of a broader struggle against the Versailles treaty. He claimed he helped Jews to emigrate in Austria and denied responsibility for mass slaughter as the trial continued for over 24 hours.
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Eichmann
Moshe Landau
Hichmann
Landau
Israel
Argentina
Iu Dh
Buenos Aires
Ichmann
Nazis
Hiller
Germany
Lichmann
Ulat
Austria
Stockton Youth Dies in Granary Accident
A seven year old Stockton boy Deloy Stecher suffocated in a granary on his parents farm four miles south of Stockton. He climbed to the upper level of the bin while corn was being unloaded and was covered by grain. His death was pronounced at the scene after medical staff arrived. Survivors include his parents two brothers and three sisters. Burial will be at Memorial Park cemetery after services at St Mary's Catholic church Muscatine.
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Stocklah
Yural
Stockton
Here
Tate
Deloy’ Alien Stecher
Francis Stecher
Gottom
Stecher
Deloy Stecher
St. Mary! Catholic Church
Muscatine
Durant
Albert Meineke
Davenport
Deborah
Riley
St Mary's Catholic Church
Memorial Fark
Coad Married as Divorce Suit Dropped in Iowa
Washington Democrat Merwin Coad announced he married the wife of his former chief aide about two months after securing an Alabama divorce. He wed Carol Faye Peters in Martinsburg West Virginia on May 19, and said his new wife had divorced her prior husband in Las Vegas Nevada. The three term congressman said his ex wife Dolores dropped her divorce suit against him filed in Boone Iowa on June 8.
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Washington
Merwin Coad
Iowa
Abou
Alabama
Coad
Carol Faye Peters
Martinsbur
W. Va
Double Springs
Ala
Winston County
Deadline Friday on Castro Deal
Detroit reports the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee sets a Friday noon deadline for Fidel Castro to accept 500 farm-type tractors as full ransom for 1,214 April invasion prisoners. If not, the deal expires. The committee says only agricultural tractors and exactly 500 will be shipped for humanitarian purposes.
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Detroit
Mich
Fidel Casio
Takeit Ordea Vesit
Castro
Prisners
Taylor Considered for White House Military Adviser
New York Times report says President Kennedy is seriously weighing Gen Maxwell D Taylor for the post of personal chief of staff to the commander in chief. If appointed, the role would revive the historic White House military adviser position once held by Fleet Adm William D Leahy under Roosevelt and Truman.
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New York
Kennedy
Maxwell D. Taylor
White House
Rgavigery
New York’ Times
Washington Dispatch
Fleet Adm
William DB. Leahy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry
Truman
Erbe Record Defended by State GOP Chairman Nagle
Des Moines—Republican state chairman George Nagle praised Gov. Norman Erbe’s administration for sound fiscal policies and efficient government while countering Lex Hawkins who said the GOP-led 1961 legislature failed to lead. Nagle cited central purchasing, data processing studies, and welcomed Erbe’s inquiry into the State Liquor Central Commission, noting recommendations were accepted. He rejected Hawkins’ criticism as baseless vilification and affirmed the governor’s honesty and fiscal prudence.
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Erbe
GOP
Nagle
Des Moines
Norman Erbe
George Nagle
Town City
Democratic Party
Lex Hawkins
Hawking
Exhe
Assembly
State ‘Liquor Central Commission
Hawkins
Recall of Geneva talks top negotiator Arthur Dean
The State Department said the United States is recalling its chief negotiator at the Geneva nuclear tests talks, Arthur H. Dean, for consultation in Washington. It is unclear if he will return to the conference after meeting President Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk on the talks' apparent failure.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Geneva
Arthur H. Dean
Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Endless Card Tale Highlights Florence Space Learner
A seven year old girl in West New York receives a public library card after an exception to rules. Florence shows knowledge of space, astronomy basics, and geography, naming planets, satellites, astronauts, and the 50 states in alphabetical order during a ceremonial grant.
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New York
N. J
Florence
Outer ‘Space
Ence
Alan Shepard Jr
United States
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