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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1966
Page
1
Senator and House leaders urged U Thant to take the lead in arranging Viet Nam peace talks. Mansfield said he believes a fresh approach is needed to move negotiations forward.
Ottumwa police and a scuba diver with a National Guard mine detector comb the Des Moines River bottom near the location where Mrs. Roth Maloney's car was found five miles southeast of Ottumwa. Authorities press on as the probe into the woman's shooting continues.
Des Moines filed reports that Jack Peters withdrew from the Republican nomination race for governor citing opposition to the party establishment. Peters left the Sept. 6 primary behind Robert K. Beck and William Murray and pledged to back the eventual nominee to defeat Harold Hughes. In Iowa weather, Sumner saw hot, summery conditions with a storm risk as a front approaches tonight and Wednesday.
Island Levee district voters elected a three member board to oversee the 28 233 acre area. Harold Snider district 1 Arthur Shepard district 2 and Jess L Greiner district 3 were chosen in a 72 vote tally in Louisa county. The first board serves until January when another election will be held. The trustees may levy taxes for flood protection with a current budget of 7500 dollars from local taxes. Election results will be canvassed next week by county supervisors.
Donald Wayne McCollom, 37, of Davenport, was sentenced to 60 years in the Town State Penitentiary after pleading guilty to open murder in the March 3 death of Richard L. Jurgensen. He was convicted of second degree murder in Jurgensen's shooting and for the fatal stabbing of his wife’s brother-in-law. Judge Mason Grant said the court cannot condone taking a life.
Dust from a passing truck forced all but the rear ranks of the Meredith Marchers to the road shoulder near Louise Mississippi on Monday. The march concluded at a farm on the outskirts of Louise.
In Hue, Premier Ky's soldiers seized Theravada Buddhist insurgent leader Thich Tri Quang from his hospital room as he ended a four month hunger protest. Ky's move follows a crackdown on the Buddhist uprising, while rival monk Thich Tam Chau appeals for guarantees of life and liberty for Quang and other leaders.
A Marine A6 Intruder collided with another plane near Hampton Virginia damaging 10 homes and injuring 40 with two deaths including a mother and her infant. Marines ejected safely and survived. the crash damaged a shopping center and a bowling alley roof.
AP reports American paratroopers from the 101st Airborne and 1st Cavalry engage Viet Cong in Phu Yen Province jungles. About 69 enemy killed or believed dead, some 2,000 allied troops in a 36 hour battle near Tuy Hoa.
The aircraft carrier Enterprise arrived in San Francisco from six months off Vietnam. More than 5,000 sailors cheered on deck as the ship passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. Part of the superstructure had been dismantled for safe clearance. Hundreds of cars halted as motorists gawked at the mammoth warship. Two bands played as the ship docked.
A Chicago and North Western freight train rammed the rear of another east of Lowden late Monday night. One major injury reported to Fred Morgan 61 Clinton engineer. two broken legs. Anthony Ferrari 57 Boone brakeman suffered minor injuries. released after hospital treatment.
Davenport Marine Norbert Simmons, 24, earned the village’s gratitude for repairing a war damaged pump. He died last Wednesday from a chest wound, as notified by the Defense Department. Survived by his wife Josephine and two young daughters in the Philippine Islands, and his father Charles Simmons of Andalusia, Illinois.
Washington AP Viet Nam war costs stay within bounds set by Defense McNamara and Pentagon officials say spending could rise beyond planned limits if actions against the Communists require it but current use through June 1967 remains within budget. Air bombardment and ground munitions rates are cited with projected higher levels not yet reached and spending kept to necessary bounds.
Marine Staff Sgt James E. Howard arrives at Travis Air Force Base after a Viet Nam battle near Chu Lai. He bears a paddie and a snow white hair, indicating the 12 hour fight that left six of his men dead and many Viet Cong casualties. His mother Edith Schnedler joins his wife and six children in San Diego awaiting final transfer to a hospital.
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