Red Cross Unable To Aid Prisoners In Vietnam War
In Geneva the International Red Cross told Averell Harriman there is little it can do to protect American prisoners in Vietnam. Red Cross president Samuel Gonard cited political complications as the reason for the committee’s limited ability to intervene in the conflict.
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Samual Gonard
International Red Cross
Averell Harriman
U.S
Geneva
Switzerland
Gonard
Harriman
International Red Cross Committee
United States
Red Cross
Samuel Gonard
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Pentagon's Used Gear Rebuilt for Aid Work Worldwide
U S aid agency repurposes discarded military equipment once deemed junk by the Pentagon. The six year program repairs cranes tractors and bulldozers costing the government 300 million dollars and uses them overseas amid Senate scrutiny of military disposal practices.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Foreign Aid Agency
Agency For International Development (Aid
Senate
Ernest Gruening
D-Alaska
Defense Department
South Viet Nam
Henderson County Well Yields Oil After Deep Drill
L A Miller and friends invested 14000 in an Henderson County oil well near Stronghurst. The well spurted after reaching 416 feet on the Frank Anderson farm, but gas pressure waned. Miller estimates 40 to 75 barrels daily as leases on 2200 acres are pursued for further wells.
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Strong Huron
L. A. Miller
Iowa
Henderson County
Miller
Frank Anderson
Stronghurst
McDonough
Andersons
Jack Benringe
Danville
Anderson Farm
Weather forecast notes mild thunder shower risk and temperatures
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Saturday with a chance of a few scattered thunder showers. Low near 40s tonight, high Saturday in the upper 70s. Highs Thursday around 88 and a night low near 50, with noon today about 73. River stage about 10.4 feet.
Inflation Signals Slow Rise in April Prices
The Labor Department reported a one tenth of one percent rise in wholesale prices for April, suggesting further cost pressures for households as the consumer price index keeps climbing. Separate briefs note a Des Moines hotel bill suit against Rep. William Wilson, a Nebraska court upholding the 1965 installment sales law, and a Davenport worker killed in a Bloomfield crash, with Missouri and Iowa notes on weather and draft figures.
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Washington
Labor Department
Waterloo
William Wilson
Cedar Falls
Des Moines
The
Boss Hotel Co
Wilson
Savery
Fierce battle as Air Cavalry closes on Viet Cong near Bong Son
In central Viet Nam American air cavalrymen press toward a trapped Communist battalion. U S officials report 142 Viet Cong killed, 30 captured, 307 rounded up. Air cavalry fight spans a five mile arc near Highway One with heavy ground action ongoing.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
U.S
Ments
1St Air Cavalry
Bong Son
City Electric Rate Cuts Bring 281,900 Savings
Muscatine municipal electric department trustees adopted revisions on Thursday night after Stanley Engineering Co. study. The plan lowers residential rates, introduces a universal all electric rate, and adds new commercial and large power rates. Total annual reductions are about 281,900, with 174,700 for large power users.
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Muscatine
Stanley Engineering Co
Board
Garvin Girl Placed With Aunt in Custody Case
Muscatine District Court ruled that 4 year old Margaret Ann Garvig will be reared by her maternal aunt Mrs Darlene Leech in Muscatine. Judge M L Sutton sustained a writ of habeas corpus sought by Leech after a February dispute when the father Jack Garvin forcibly took the child from the Leech home. The court cited the child’s best interests and proximity to relatives while noting Garvin's lack of support for his other children. The ruling details a lengthy custody dispute that began when Garvin took the girl to Chicago. Continued on pages 3.
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M. L. Sutton
Muscatine
Margaret ‘Ann Garvig
Darlene M. Leech
Kenneth
Sutton
Jack Garvin
Garvin
Margaret Ann Tive
Bart Schafnit
Atalissa
Schafnits
Ware
Supreme Court
Leech
Margaret Ann
Schafnit
Chicago
US Jobless Rate Drops to 3.7 Percent in April
Washington AP reports the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in April, the lowest in over 12 years, with total employment rising to 73.1 million. Labor officials say the strength signals ongoing relief from labor shortages and a positive long term trend despite March's 3.8 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Harold Goldstein
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Control Board chairman to take federal position
DES MOINES AP Russell L Wilson will leave his post as chairman of the State Board of Control to take a federal job. Wilson spoke with Gov Harold Hughes this morning and no comment was provided by either office. Washington AP Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told the House Appropriations Committee a reduction in the continuous airborne alert of B52 bombers is ordered. The alert has lasted over five years and will be scaled back as radar warning systems improve. The extent of the reduction was not disclosed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Victor, Gillespie
Selective Service
Russell L. Wilson
State Board of Control
Wilson
Harold Hughes
Hughes
Washington
Apr
Robert 5. McNamara
House Appropriations Committee
British Killers Get Life Terms
Ian Brady convicted of a triple murder in Britain's bodies on the moors case. Myra Hindley found guilty of two murders. Brady and Hindley each sentenced to life imprisonment for the killings, including the Evans and Downey girl cases.
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Chester
Bingiana
Ian Brady
Britain
Brady
Myra Hindley
Miss Hindley
Evans
Downey Girl
Muscatine YMCA plans $800000 building fund drive
Plans for an $800,000 Muscatine YMCA building fund drive were announced at a noon luncheon. The project will complete the new building started with a 1997 $357,000 addition housing the pool, offices, lounge, chapel and showers. Gifts totaling $450,000 from the Musser Trust and Kent-Stein Foundation were pledged. The drive aims to raise $350,000 over three years.
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Muscatine
YMCA
Eugene H. Seyb
Ymca Board
Musser Trust
Kent-Stein Foundation
C. R
Margart K.musser
Conviction Of Jacobs Reversed In 8th Circuit
The 8th Circuit reversed the conviction of Iowa grain elevator operator Gilbert D. Jacobs for false statements to the Federal CCC. Jacobs, operator of facilities at Muscatine Wilton Junction and Durant, faced a $1500 fine, two year suspended sentence and two years probation. The court found no clear evidence of false intent and noted carelessness not equivalent to falsity. The decision said records showed sufficient grain in warehouses to cover CCC deliveries and that transactions did not cost CCC extra.
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ST. Lguis. Mo
Iowa
Federal Commodity Credit Corp
8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Gilbert D. Jacobs
Muscatine
Wilton Junction
Durant, Town
Jacobs
Cedar Rapids
CCC
McKee
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Joseph Lippman
Uruening
Rep. Wilson
Lincoln, Neb
Nebraska Supreme Court
High Court
Chutist
Minneapolis
Nick Plantanida
Davenport
Bloomfield
Lyle J. Schmidt
Missouri
Keokuk
Sandra Cochran
Mount Sterling
Town
Here
la Crosse
Lansing
Dam No
NC McGregor
NC Dubuque
NC Davenport
China Sea
U.S. Command
Air Force
Gulf of Tonkin
Hanoi
Navy
Dien Bien Phu
Dong Hoi
Strategic Air Command
Guam
U. S. 1St Infantry Division
By John Kasbeer
Control Board
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