Independence Day Boosted Patrols Aimed at Traffic Safety
Public safety officials in Iowa plan a coordinated three day effort to reduce traffic deaths during the Independence Day weekend. Deputies and sheriffs patrol from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight with air support and pamphlets urging drivers to slow down. Last year the nation saw 486 traffic deaths over the period, six in Iowa, highlighting a dangerous holiday pattern.
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Iowa
Iowa Highway Patrol
Eisenhower and Indo China buildup debated in Congress
Washington lawmaker Melvin Laird challenged claims that Eisenhower opposed a ground force buildup in Vietnam. The record shows Eisenhower and Dulles supported a U.S. allied intervention as Dien Bien Phu approached, aiming to reinforce French efforts and deter Communist expansion. The April 5 1954 Eisenhower Churchill letter is cited as proof of a willingness to deploy troops if needed.
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Washington
Melvin Laira
Wisconsin
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Eisenhower
Indo China
Laird
House
Ho Chi Minh
Dien Bien Phu
John Foster Dulles
Beit
Winston Churchill
Dien Bien Pou
Churchill
Ike
Southeast Asia
Tke
United States
Poisoning Outbreak Strikes Scott's Grove Rally in Kansas
In Wichita Kansas over 2,000 rallied at Scott's Grove Kingman County when hundreds fell ill after suspected poisoning. Two Brassfield children died and many others were hospitalized. Local dry goods stores closed all day July 5 to honor the nation’s birthday.
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Wichita
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Alliance
Scott's Grove
Kingman County
John Brassfield
Gordon Cloak and Millinery
Dollar Store
Eisenhower Calls for Reforms in Political Conventions
Washington report surveys reform ideas for party conventions as Eisenhower urges tighter floor control five minute limit for demonstrations and exclusion of nondelegates, while noting calls to curb speeches and improve order. Analysts discuss delegates as a political elite and the long-standing debate over primaries versus conventions.
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Congress
Dwight D
Eisenhower
Bert
Farley
Ritchie
James MacGregor Burns
Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Williams College
Aaron Wildavsky
University of California
Dr Crane’s Worry Clinic Explores Family Strain and Change
A wife describes her husband Dr Bob Crane a long trusted physician who for 25 years led a church and boy scouts. In recent months he drinks, works late, criticizes her cooking and acts distant, leaving his wife worried, patients lost, and their family life unsettled as he hides behind routines.
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Crane
Boy Scouts
Thius
Judge the Youth on His Own Merits Dear Abby
Anonymous reader asks how to handle a daughter involved with a boy whose parents run a nudist camp. Abby replies that children aren’t responsible for parents’ behavior and urges judging the boy by his own merits while ignoring gossip. The column then shifts to a playful anecdote about a marriage proposal using an ice ring, and guidance on a husband who dodges kissing his children, concluding with light musings on plant talk and weeding.
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Abby
Doesn't Look Like Hero By HAL BOYLE DA WANG
Airman J C Jon H Young 24 of Portland Oregon treats civilians on days off. He has flown 230 of 250 missions and recalls the F105 rescue of two American pilots after gallant helicopter hoist work in North Vietnam. Ground fire damaged their plane but they completed the mission and returned to safety.
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Hal Boyle DA Wang
South Viet Nam
J.C
Jon H. Young
Portland
Ore
Jon
Joe Phelan
Stamford
17Th Parallel
North
Viet Nam
Young
Prayer Excerpt Centering Love to God and Jesus
A devotional prayer centers on loving God with heart soul strength and mind and requests divine help to stay focused on the one major life purpose. The prayer ends in Jesus name amen.
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