Johnson outlines expansion of Manpower programs
President Johnson told Congress that the nations manpower programs will be expanded and improved in the year ahead to reduce unemployment and prevent worker shortages. He cited the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 as key, proposing an Office of Assistant Secretary of Labor for manpower and focused on the Job Training and on the job training to meet future shortages. He noted 2.7 percent unemployment as evidence no broad shortage yet warns of matching jobs to workers to sustain high employment and price stability.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Secretary of Labor
Schmarije Seeks Post In Primary
Clarence F. Dehmarie, 2015 Mulberry Ave, announces candidacy for state representative on the Republican ticket in Muscatine and Louisa counties. A Muscatine native, he and wife Doris have long been active in local politics, with roles as delegates and founders of two firms. He earned B.S., M.S., and PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa, taught graduate work, and worked at Battelle and U.S. Steel before moving to Muscatine to produce carbide tools for the pearl button industry in 1941.
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Clarence F. Dehmarie
Mulberry Ave
Muscatine
Louisa County
Doris
Schmarje, Sr
Schmarje Tool Company
Ronda Button Company
Garfield
University of Iowa
Schmarje
Battelle Memorial Institute
Duquesne
U. S. Steel Company
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Tech
Clarence
Apute
Pearl Harbor
McCollom Pleads Innocent in Double Slaying
Donald W. McCollom 37 of rural Davenport pleaded innocent to first degree murder in the deaths of his wife Pauline 33 and her brother Richard L. Jurgensen 2. A knife was used on the wife and a hunting rifle on the brother. McCollom was ordered held without bond and bound over to Scott County District Court after waiving a preliminary hearing. The killings occurred at the McCollum home west of Davenport. he surrendered in Muscatine hours later.
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Davenport
Donald W. McCollom
Bertram Metcalf
McCollom
Scott County District Court
Pauline
Richard L. Jurgensen
McCollum
Daven +port
Muscatine
She Would Rather Sew Than Bake
TaylOR RIDGE, II) AP Mrs Marvin Oak 37 a prize winning look is a Rock Island County homemaker and mother of two who crafts harness in a basement workshop. She is almost the only woman harness maker she knows and began after receiving a leather tooling kit six years ago. She taught herself by reading books and studying patterns then using trial and error.
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Taylor Ridge
Marvin Oak
Jobless rate hits nine year low at 3.7 percent
The nation’s unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in February, the first time under four percent in nearly nine years, with unemployment dropping to 3,150,000 and total employment rising to 71.6 million, per the Labor Department. A separate Tass dispatch reports a major quake in eastern China near Moscow.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Two Muscatine youths begin reformatory terms
Two Muscatine youths aged 16 and 17 started serving district court terms of up to 10 years at Anamosa reformatory. Fred Arthur Dahl, 16, was moved from juvenile court to district court after pleading guilty to forging a $20 check. Gary Lee Blake, 19, also faces larceny charges in Cedar County. Charles Dean Young, 17, began a term of up to 10 years after parole was revoked for breaking and entering at Farm Bureau. Multiple others linked to the forged checks face juvenile or district court actions.
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Muscatine
Anamosa Reformatory
Fred Arthur Dahl
R. K. Stohr
Ruth Sprague
Green Street
Young Dail
Quincy, I
Gary Lee Blake
Durant
Blake
Cedar County
Dick Oppelt
Clifford Bennett
Dabl
Anamosa
Charles ‘Dean Young
Kansas Street
Young
Farm Bureau
Lucas Street
Dahl
James Robert Eister
East Sixth Street
Steven Aaron Rhodes
West Fulham Avenue
James Richard Hunter
Walnut Street
Hunter
Everett Reinier
Orange Street
Stohr
Koepping
Chestnut Street
De Gaulle Letter Triggers U.S. NATO Standoff
President Johnson’s reply to Charles de Gaulle signals U S intention to move NATO installations out of France rather than cede them to Paris. Paris views the move as a lever to reshape or exit the alliance, with 39,000 American troops at about a dozen bases at stake.
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Washington
Johnson
de Gaulle
U.S
White House
United States
France
NATO
Paris
de Gaulie
West Germany
Venation Atlantic Alliance
In Dakota Village They Fought High Drifts to Survive
In Buchanan North Dakota a 100 resident village fought blizzard drifts burying homes and cutting power for 24 hours. Ralph Cebula his wife and their twins sheltered in a basement using a makeshift stove while neighbors endured freezing conditions and drifting snow as officials warned of further blizzard risk.
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Buchanan
N.D
Dakota
Ralph Cebula
Mrs
N. D
Walter Riker
Administration Tax Bill Amendment Loses 74 to 10
The Senate rejected by 74 to 10 an effort to strip two excise tax boosts from the administration's tax bill and restore revenue by suspending a business modernization tax credit. Sen Albert Gore Jr led the proposed change, which would have kept higher auto and phone taxes but shifted funds elsewhere. The measure aimed to fund Vietnam War costs, with final action expected later in the week.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
FDA Bans Sale of Ineffective Antibiotic Lozenges
The FDA moved to remove hundreds of antibiotic lozenges and related products marketed for sore throats from stores. The action affects up to 250 products under about 500 trade names from over 70 manufacturers, labeling them ineffective and unjustified. Former Iowa representative Chester Hougen calls for Iowa superhighways funded by tolls to spur development.
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Iowa
Waterloo
Chester Hougen
Towa
Hougen
Towa Highway Commission
Card game killing leads to ten year term
Jesse Crawford, 66, of Waterloo, was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to shooting a woman during an argument at a Waterloo hotel card game. In Council Bluffs, Carolyn Loon, 52, lost an arm when an electric coffee urn exploded at the Pure Oil Truck Stop restaurant.
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Waterloo
Jesse Crawford
State
Crawford
Council Bluffs
Carolyn Loon
North Viet Air Attacks Increased
North Viet Nam air war intensified with 53 missions in 24 hours. Four U S jets and crews of three were lost. Pilots knocked out a fuel dump and a missile site near Son La and Thanh Hoa. Attacks expanded across roads rail lines ferries and bridges from the 17th Parallel to Vinh.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Navy
Son la Ail
Hanoi
U. S
Thanh Hoa
17Th Parallel
Vinh
U S Senate Hearings Weigh China Policy Shift
Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened public hearings urging drastic U S policy changes toward Red China. A Doak Barnett of Columbia University urged recognizing Beijing, seating two Chinas in the UN, and expanding trade with the regime as U S policy to deter Vietnamese intervention. Partly cloudy with modest temperature changes and a river stage of 182 feet.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
A. Doak Barnett
Columbia University
East Asian Institute
United States
United Nations
Barnett
Sen
JW. Fulbright
D-Ark
Viet Nam
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