Kidnaper Captured Near West Plains Missouri
West Plains Missouri AP police arrested Clarence Allen Bryant wanted on a kidnapping warrant in Texas and for escape in Iowa while indicted for shooting a policeman. He offered no resistance, taken in a vacant house two miles south off Missouri 17. Relatives were notified of another death in DuBuque.
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Clarence Allen Bryant
Texas
Iowa
Bryant
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Copter Mishap Deaths at 10
The Army announced the death toll reached 10 in a crash of two Huey helicopters during a training mission at a base near Louisville. Ten soldiers were at Ireland Army Hospital, two in serious condition. The 10 killed were members of the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment at the base.
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Louisville
Ireland Army Hospital
17Th Air Cavalry Regiment
John Caithness
College riot blamed on exams and book prices
DENISON AP Pressure of final examinations and a dispute over used book prices sparked a party raid that grew into a small riot at Midwestern College. About sixty students were arrested, with ten defendants pleading innocent. Jail terms were handed to two students, while most others paid fines and costs. Many participants burned books in a bonfire as dormitory furniture and mattresses were tossed onto the fire.
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Denison
Midwestern College
William Jahnke
Stock Rigging Probe Expanding
New York AP. About 20 brokerage house employees are questioned in a probe into multimillion dollar manipulation of stock exchange issues. Salesmen from over a dozen firms in New York and Chicago face questions about cash bribes or blackmail threats by alleged stock tiggers. Some have been fired or placed under suspicion. The inquiry, advancing on multiple fronts, covers at least two NYSE issues and a broader group on the AMEX.
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New York
Chicago
New York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange
Vatican elevates 27 cardinals including four Americans
Pope Paul VI appointed 27 new cardinals, four Americans among them, expanding U S representation to nine and the College to a record 120. American appointees include Archbishops Krol O Boyle Cody and Bishop Brennan, while Italy leads with 39 cardinals. The consistory will be held June 26.
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Paul VI
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College of Cardinals
John Joseph Krol
Philadelphia
Patrick A. O’boyle
Washington, D.C
John Patrick Cody
Chicago
Francis J. Brennan
Shenandoah
Vatican
Germany
Italy
Sacred College
France
Paul
Egidio Vagnozzi
Collie Thunder Reunites With Family After 3 Months Missing
PONTIAC Michigan AP Thunder a 3 year old collie is back home after a three month disappearance that began with dognappers and ended with medical care at a Veterans Hospital in Ann Arbor The dog was found in an experimental lab and had undergone one operation toward a lung transplant The Shorters learned Thunder had been bought by a hospital from a dealer for 6 dollars and later recovered him at the hospital where a rep from the National Animal Welfare Institute identified him and reunited him with his owners
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Mich
Thunder
Jim Shorter
Veterans Hospital
Ann Arbor
Dorothy Dyce
Detroit
Shorters
Callie
Rosalie Shorter
Steury
British Mariner Settling Down To New Delights
Plymouth England AP Sir Francis Chichester the ancient mariner of the new Elizabethan age settled down today to enjoying some of the delights of shore life Behind him was an epic 28 500 mile single handed circum navigation of the globe in his 53 foot yacht Gipsy Moth IV For the 107 days outward voyage to Sidney Australia and the 119 days return voyage around Cape Horn he was alone with the sea and sky But the 65 year old seaman said as he stepped ashore Sunday night that he was looking forward to some peace and quiet.
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England
Francis Chichester
Sidney
Australia
Cape Horn
Weather outlook with clouds and rain chances
Cloudy conditions with little temperature change and a 50 percent chance of rain tonight, lows around the mid 50s. Tuesday remains cloudy and slightly warmer with a 40 percent chance of rain, high near 70. Sunday’s high 66, night low around 49. Rain total about 0.22 inches, noon temperature today 62.
Mortar Fire Hits American Soldiers Near Hue and Duc Pho
Communist gunners struck U S forces on the central coast in a pre dawn attack as troops near Duc Pho faced heavy mortar and automatic fire. In Hue a hotel housing members of the International Control Commission was bombed while casualties were reported on both sides.
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U.S
Hue
International Central Commission
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Duc Pho
Theternational Control Commission
Commission
North Vietnam
Mortars and Machine Guns Fire Across Gaza Front
Beir ut dispatch says mortar and machine gun fire from the Gaza Strip targeted farmers and soldiers inside Israel. An Israeli army spokesman in Tel Aviv cited one lightly wounded, as 40 minutes of firing ended. The flare coincides with Nasser’s blockade threats and readiness to fight aggression, amid Gaza front line activity linked to Egyptian irregulars and PLO members after UNEF withdrawal.
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Middle East
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Gulf of Aqaba
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Palestine Liberation Army
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Egypt
Boy Scout Killed by Freight Train Near Lamont
In Lamont a 14 year old boy, Johnathon Higgins Jr. of rural Aurora, was struck and killed by a freight train on the eastern edge of town as he and five companions returned from a Boy Scout camping trip. He apparently misread warning cries and ran across the tracks into the Chicago Great Western tram.
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Lamont
Johnathon Higgins Jr
Aurora
Eight Iowans Die in Memorial Day Weekend Accidents
The Associated Press reports five deaths from traffic crashes and three from drownings as the Memorial Day weekend nears its midpoint. Names include Connie Marie Swihart 18 of Monroe Dennis Stender 18 Eldridge Carl Smith 19 Forest City Dean Nuss 21 Marion Joseph Paul 51 near Dallas Center Roger Evans 37 Pauline Kansas, plus two teen drownings Katherine Dyer 12 Buffalo Sheri Decker 14 Janesville and Darrel Brown 21 University of Iowa student from Jesup, drowned near Iowa City.
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Carl Smith
Forest City
Dean Nuss
Marion
Joseph Paul
Dallas Center
Roger Evans
Pauline
Ellsworth
University of Iowa
Katherine Dyer
Buffalo
Mississippi River
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Sheri Decker
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Janesville
Cedar River
Darrel Brown
University of Towa
Jesup
Coralville
Towa City
Memorial Day traffic toll rises to near records
CHICAGO AP reports Memorial Day weekend deaths climbed to 394, with safety officials fearing a record four day period. National Safety Council president Howard Pyle notes fatalities are about 5 percent lower than last year’s three day weekend but the four day span could push the weekly total to a new high, following previous peaks of 720 on Christmas 1965 and 636 on July 4 last year.
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Chicago
Howard Pyle
National Safety Council
Sioux Falls Marine Lost Leg To Viet Cong Booby Trap
Vietnam veteran Lance Corporal Perron Shinnemen, 32, of Sioux Falls South Dakota, pictured at home with crutches after stepping on a Viet Cong booby trap. He is jobless and supports a wife Shirley and a child.
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Perron Shinnemen
Sioux Falls
S.D
Shirley
Perron
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