Echo I balloon dies in fiery South Atlantic crash
NORAD reported Echo I the nightly balloon show aircraft fell to a fiery death off the West Coast of South America. Decay time was estimated at 7 47 p m EDT. Three more brief items note a consulate blast in Quebec injuring none a Cosmos 221 unmanned satellite launch from Moscow and an earthquake disaster in New Zealand with one dead and fourteen hurt.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
South America
North American Air Defense Command
NORAD
Echo I
Moscow
Soviet Union
Brussels
West Germany
Brittany
France
Pompidou
Edgar Faure
Belgium
Paul van Dem Boeynants
Pompidou Calls Leaders To Meet
Flooding swept southern Ohio causing evacuations and road closures while trains derailed. Report notes Circleville and several counties hardest hit with 80 families moved to schools as crews evacuate homes. In Denver, a woman was found murdered. Cedar Falls reports a child drowning. in Paris Pompidou summoned labor and business leaders to address a nationwide strike wave amid fears of paralysis to France’s economy.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Circleville
Chillicothe
Logan
Scioto
Clinton
Fayette
Athens
Roderick List
Paris
Georges Pompidou
France
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
General Confederation of Workers
Pompidou
French Confederation of Democratic Workers
Iowa superintendents split on local control in schools
An AP survey of area school superintendents shows six say lack of local control harmed programs while seven report no harm. Officials cite heavy state oversight and insist future local input will rise, with calls for stronger state guidance as district reforms continue.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Sup
Robert E. Horsfall
Marshalltown
Associated Press
North Central, Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
State’ Department ‘of Public Instruction
Association
Mason City
Burlington
Paul Johnston
Sioux City
Ankeny
Creston
Waterloo
Sheldon
Robert W. Johnson
Bettendorf
Department of Public Instruction
Johnson
Keithsburg Man Killed in Vietnam
Keithsburg Illinois born EMI Gordon Curtis Brown 36 formerly of Keithsburg killed by a land mine in Vietnam on May 19 while investigating a wooden box. He served 20 years in the Navy and was to complete his tour in a week. Funeral set May 30 in Long Branch New Jersey. His wife and three children reside in Coronado California.
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da Nang
U.S
1St Marine Division
South Vietnam
Saigon
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Keithsburg
Ill
Emi Gordon Curtis Brown
Vietnam
Clair N. Brown
C.K. .Duncan
Naval Personnel
Washington, D.C
Kein Thanh
Kein Gian
Brown
Coronado
Calif
Long Branch
Old Alton Navigation Lock Threatens Upper Mississippi Traffic
Towboat operators and shippers warn the Alton Illinois navigation lock must be replaced or become the bottleneck of upper Mississippi commerce. The Army Corps of Engineers calls Lock 26 antiquated and schedules a public hearing in Alton. Traffic, near 41 million tons annually, is rising about eight percent yearly, heightening the stake in upcoming meetings and a possible new lock.
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ST. Louis
Alton, Ill
Upper Mississippi
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Congress
Alton
Mississippi Valley Association
MVA
Mva-National Waterways Conference
Rock Island
Minneapolis, Minn
Mississippi
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New Zealand
Lingston
South Island
Reelton
U.S. Information Service
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Kwangtung Province
Red China
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John F. Hanlon
IRS
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Dubuque County
Thomas Nelson
Dubuque
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa River
James R. Vanek
Mary Sue Miller
Randolph
Gregory ‘Ward Burt
West Des Moines
Burt
Lowa
Denver
Helen Lasille- Boyle
Lost Nation
Albert Boyle
Boyle
Cedar Falls
Matthew Dunbar
Cedar River
James Dunbar
Joseph Koscielniak
Dearborn
Mich
Detroit
Paul J. Lowery
MCC
Harold Blake
Chicago
Muscatine
Community College
Riis Park
Wright City College of Chicago
Grand Rapids
Willmar
Minn
Dan McCleary
MCC Indians
Indians
Chicago Cubs
San Francisco Giants
Boston
Boston Common
Boston Army Base
Army
Harold Hector
Gary Quigley
Focal Draft Boards
U.S. Attorney's Office
Frank ‘Poindexter
Roxbury
James W. Smith
Harvard
Columbus, Ga
Walugeumbe Samanguru
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Defense Department
Laos
America
Air Force
Cambodia
Demilitarized’ Zone
Leathernecks
Con Thien
Bonnie Parker
Billie Joan Moon
Bonnie
Dallas Crown Hill
Bonnie and Clyde
City News
Women’s
Church News Farm
Old Alton
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