De Gaulle Denies France Will Leave NATO Alliance
Paris reports quote President de Gaulle not seeking Soviet ties and Premier Pompidou stating France will not abandon NATO. Government debate follows, with assurances of continued U S friendship and plans to discuss evacuation of U S bases in France and French forces in Germany. Britain and others respond to France’s NATO timetable.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Russia
China
United States
Georges Pompidou
France
Atlantic Alliance
Pompidou
National Assembly
de Gaulle
Washington
Bonn
U.S
Germany
Yvon Bourges
Britain
Rock Island Transit Explains Sigourney Move
About fifty Washington business leaders attended a meeting at the armory to hear Rock Island Motor Transit officials explain plans to relocate the Washington motor freight terminal to a site near Sigourney. Company executives cited geographic, economic, and service reasons and stressed that Washington will not be abandoned as a service area.
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Rock Island Motor Transit
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Rock Island Motor Freight Terminal
Paul Kluding
W.B. Robison
L.L. Cole
Motor Freight Company
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Klucing
Rock Island
Sigourney Complex
Rock _ Island
Klading
Robison
Rock Island Motor
LCC
Washington Terminal
Lawmaker pleads innocent in traffic death case
Des Moines. State Rep. William Price Wilson D Cedar Falls pleaded innocent to an amended charge of failure to aid the injured in a March motor vehicle crash that killed 65 year old McKinley Thomas. A May 4 preliminary hearing was set. Wilson remained free on $1,000 bond as defense and prosecution sparred over charge substitutions and legal technicalities.
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Des Moines
UPI
William Price Wilson
Cedar Falls
Thomas
Edward Brooks
Wilson
Brooks
Deny reports of Gemini launchings
SPACE CENTER Houston reports that two manned Gemini spaceships were allegedly planned for a simulated rescue mission this year. NASA officials say the reports are unfounded and that Gemini craft 10 and 11 have no such missions. Officials note the schedule constraints and shared launch facilities at Cape Kennedy.
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Cape Kennedy
Missing Ottumwa man sought in state wide search
Ottumwa Iowa authorities are seeking 21 year old John E Mc Landsborough Jr of Minneapolis who vanished after learning his mother was ill He reportedly planned to drive from Minneapolis to Ottumwa in a 1962 red Pontiac Tempest The son left his apartment with his possessions intact and police issued an alert for his whereabouts
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Iowa
UPI
John E. McLandsborough Jr
Minneapolis
McLandsborough
John
Guidance programs expanding rapidly in Iowa high schools
Iowa Board of Public Instruction reports nine years of steady growth in guidance services. In 1957-58 only 6 high school districts had guidance programs, 11.5 percent. By 1965-66, 304 districts, 65.1 percent, offered guidance services. Trade title V-A aid and a new law mandating one or more professionally trained counselors in each high school helped expansion.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa
Iowa Board of Public Instruction
61St General Assembly
Viet Cong Mortar Attack Hits Tan Son Nhut Air Base
A Viet Cong mortar and small arms attack at Tan Son Nhut near Saigon killed eight, wounded 128, and caused extensive aircraft damage. Seven of the dead and 109 of the wounded were American. U S security was boosted as sandbag revetments were rebuilt and patrols sought remnants of the attacking unit.
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VPI
United States
Tan Son Nhut
William C. Westmoreland
Three Die As Storm Battered Luxury Liner Michaelangelo
The Italian liner Michaelangelo, en route Genoa to New York, was struck by 45 foot waves in a North Atlantic storm. Three people died including John J. Steinbach and Dr. Werner Berndt, both skull fractures, and Desiderio Ferrari of Genoa. Ten others injured, two Americans among them. The storm also endangered the Rokos V and Chascal, with overboard losses and missing sailors. searches resumed as the Michaelangelo planned to reach New York Friday.
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UPI
Michaelangelo
Italian Line
Genoa
Italy
John J. Steinbach
Chicago
Werner Berndt
Hamburg
Germany
Desiderio Ferrari
Steinbach
Berndt
Italian Lines
Ferrari
Chascal
Kingston
Jamaica
Avonmouth
England
Coast Guard
Argentia
Chuscal
Iowa Health Chief Pushes Local Public Health Expansion
Iowa Health Commissioner Dr. Arthur P. Long urged a public awakening to expand local and regional public health services. He warned most counties lack health officers and sanitation capability, calling for funds to modernize hospitals, add mental health facilities, and extend environmental hygiene programs.
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UPS
Iowa
Arthur P. Long
Iowa Hospital Association
Long
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