Sixty Cuban prisoners freed depart for Miami
Sixty wounded inmates from the Bay of Pigs invasion leave Havana for Miami with exile negotiators aboard a special flight. The group includes a bullet-embedded patient, amputees and surgery cases as talks aim to free all 1,179 captives. Castro allegedly sought up to 500 000 dollars per prisoner. negotiators planned about 28 million dollars.
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Havana
UPI
Miami
Castro
Alvaro Sanchez Jr
Pigs’ Bay
Three Iowa editors win Master Editors Publisher award
Des Moines United Press International reports Carl Hogendorn Karl LeCompte and Lewis Warren win the Master Editors Publisher award from the Iowa Press Association at the annual banquet. John Feuling elected association president. Warren, a former Washington journalist figure, connected to the Washington Evening Journal.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa
Iowa Press Association
Carl L. Hogendorn
North English Record
Karl M. LeCompte
Corydon Times-Republican
Lewis A. Warren
Oelwein Daily Register
Carl Hamilton
Iowa State University
Ames
John E. Feuling
New Hampton Tribune
New Hampton Economist
Warren
Washington
Washington Evening Journal
Dutch Conditions For Giving Guinea To Indonesians
The Netherlands cabinet plans transferring New Guinea to Indonesia only with UN guarantees of Papuan self determination and a strong observer mission. They reject Bunker's plan without explicit Papuan safeguards, despite U S and U K urging acceptance. The Hague expresses resentment over U S handling and Indonesian involvement.
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Hague, Holland
UPI
Netherlands
New Guinea
Indonesia
United Nations
U.N
Thant
United States
Holland
U.S
India
Ellsworth Bunker
Bunker
Dutch New Guinea
Washington
J. H. van Royen
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Hague
Sukarno
C D Ferguson Dies Suddenly At 61
C D Ferguson 61 of 327 North Avenue B died Friday April 13 1962 of a heart attack while working at Washington Lumber Co Funeral services set for Monday at 2 p.m. at Sherman Eden Funeral Home with burial at Elm Grove Cemetery Military rites at the grave. He was born May 9 1900 in Houston Mo and married Beulah M Skinner Feb 15 1923 He had lived in Washington since 1929 He was a carpenter and member of the American Legion and VFW Survivors include his wife one son Robert of Washington two daughters Mrs Robert Palmer of Long Beach Calif and Mrs John Dea of Ainsworth two brothers Willis H Frankfort Ind and Merle R Radcliffe and one sister Mrs Howard Wright Washington.
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Orvis Donald Ferguson
North Avenue B
Washington Lumber Co
Sherman Eden
Elm Grove
Mr. Ferguson
Houston
George W. and
Ethel Singmaster Ferguson
Beulah M. Skinner
Ferguson
American Legion
VFW
France
Robert
Washington
Robert Palmer
Long Beach
Calif
John Dea
Ainsworth
Willis H
Frankfort
Ind
Merle R
Radcliffe
Howard Wright
ASC Official Denies He Received Gifts
Emery E. Jacobs, who quit the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service, says the only gifts from Billie Sol Estes were a plane ride a $9 hotel room a box of nuts and a nutcracker. He faced accusations of taking clothing worth $1 433.20 and blamed political ambition for the charges.
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Washington
UPI
Emery E. Jacobs
Agriculture Department
Texas
Billie Sol Estes
Jacobs
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Estes
Will Wilson
Lone Star
Wilson
Dallas
Neiman-Marcus
Billie Sol
West Texas
Kennedy Wins Steel Price Fight as Prices Halted
President Kennedy’s three day campaign forced major steel firms to drop a proposed $6 a ton price hike. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Retreat, with others wavering, while the Justice Department opened an antitrust inquiry. Pentagon buys from holdouts, signaling pressure on inflation and industry pricing.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Truman
Northampton
Norfolk
Steel
United States
Robert F. Kennedy
US. Steel Corp
Republic Steel
Jones & Laughtlin
Bethleham
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
National Steel
Pittsburgh Steel
Wheeling Steel
Inland Steel Co
Kaiser Steel Corp
Armco Steel
Allegheny Ladium
Great Lakes Steel
Kaiser
Inland Steel
Midwest
Leslie B. Worthington
Justice Department
U.S
Pentagon
Lukens Steel Co
Coatesville
28 Million Acres of Corn Diverted
The Agriculture Department announced farmers have signed up to divert 28,227,200 acres of corn and grain sorghum and 14,671,000 acres of wheat under feed grain and wheat stabilization programs through April 5. Advance payments total about 407.58 million dollars for feed grain diversions and 162.60 million for wheat diversions. The signup period for 1962 participation continues.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
United States offers Berlin plan to ease East German tensions
UPI reports officials propose a four part plan for Berlin including increased status for East Germany and a NATO non aggression pledge. The package also envisions internationalization of Allied access routes to West Berlin and a pact not to supply nuclear weapons to other nations. Khrushchev seeks occupation status drop and formal recognition for East Germany.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Russia
Berlin
East Germany
Europe
West Berlin
U.S
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Nikita Khrushchev
Germany
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Fairfield Man Critically Injured In Car Crash
A 31 year old Fairfield man William Langner Jr was listed in critical condition after his car left the road on the northeast edge of Fairfield crashed down an embankment crossed a ditch and jumped 25 feet landing across Crow Creek He was taken to University Hospitals at Iowa City with head and neck injuries Police said the crash was discovered when smoke and steam from an overheated radiator drew responders to the scene The car lights were on and the motor was running.
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Fairfield
UPI
University Hospitals
Iowa City
William Langner Jr
Langner
Crow Creek
Debre Steps Down as De Gaulle Names Pompidou Premier
Michel Debre resigns as French premier after three years at the helm amid Algerian talks. President de Gaulle selects banker Georges Pompidou, a political outsider, as the new premier, with key ministers expected to remain in place.
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Paris
UPL
Michel Debre
Charles de Gaulle
Debre
de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Pompidou
de Yaulle
National Defense
General Strike in Algeria as OAS Leader Sentenced to Die
A general strike in Algiers spread to Constantine Oran and Bone after Edmond Jouhaud, second in command of the OAS, was sentenced to die by guillotine. Shops closed, transport halted, and public offices remained largely idle as violence and casualties mounted nationwide with 16 killed and 35 wounded.
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Algiers
Algeria
UPI
Secret Army Organization
OAS
Edmond Jouhaud
Jouhaud
Constantine
Oran
Bone
Snow blankets eastern region with up to six inches
A spring storm coats from the Great Lakes to New England with up to six inches of snow. Western Pennsylvania towns report six inches as crews clear mountain highways near Ligonier. Readings dip below freezing with 21 at International Falls. Limestone Maine records over three inches in six hours. The storm drops near nine inches in upper New York and the White Mountains. La Crosse Wisconsin totals reach 78.7 inches, its winter record. Fog shuts down Los Angeles and Long Beach airports. In New York City a Greenwich Village church earns a $1000 gift from East Asia Christian Conference for Judy Judson Memorial Church work.
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United Press International
Great Lakes
New England
Pennsylvania
Ligonier
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Somerset
Lower
Ohio Valley
Appalachians
International Falls
Minn
Limestone
Maine
Upper
New York State
White Mountains
New Hampshire
la Crosse
Wis
California
Los Angeles International Airport
Long Beach
New York
UPI
Greenwich Village
Judson Memorial Church
American Baptists
Congregational Christian Churches
East Asia Christian Conference
Burma
Adoniram Judson
East Asia Conference
Asia
Automated heart monitor device alerts doctors by beeps and blinks
A battery powered device strapped to a patient's arm alerts doctors to changes in heart condition with beeping sounds or blinking light. The device was developed by Chemetron Corp.
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Chicago
API
Chemetron Corp
Iowa Weather: Fair to Partly Cloudy Through Sunday
Weather report for Iowa shows fair to partly cloudy conditions through Sunday. Cold front brings lower temperatures with tonight's lows 20 to 25 north and 25 to 30 south, highs Sunday in the 30s north to near 40 in the far south, and a Monday outlook of mostly sunny and slightly warmer in the west.
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Iowa
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ASC
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Washington Jaycees
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Marsha Moothart
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Pam Farrell
Judy Westen
Pat Farrell
Gary Moore
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