Plane crash kills 81 recruits near Ardmore Oklahoma
A chartered American Flyers Lockheed turbo prop carrying 98 people including 92 soldiers and 6 crew crashed in a thunderstorm on a hillside near Ardmore Oklahoma. Eighteen died on impact or soon after, with sixteen injured in fair to critical condition as rescuers pulled survivors from the wreckage.
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Gene Autry
Okla
UPI
Lockheed
Oklahoma
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAA
Washington
Perrin Air Force Base
Sherman
Tex
Ardmore
Oklo
Harold Rudd
Joyce Franks
Ardmoreile
Pvt
James Gorman
Bellerose
N.Y
Reed Pigman
Oka
Gorman
Marines hunt remnants after Viet Nam battle
Allied forces report 322 Communist dead with at least 200 more carried away. About 3,000 Marines and equal South Vietnamese forces swept 335 miles north of Saigon, closing in on scattered units. Heavy bombardment and napalm helped crush pockets of resistance as fighters fled toward the hills.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Lewis J. Fields
1St Marine’ Division
Viet Nam
Quang Ngai
Bomb blast hits witness home in Alabama case
A bomb shattered the Swanner home in Montgomery injuring Jessie Eugene Swanner 52, his wife Wilma 50, and grandchild Renee Gibson 2. Police say multiple dynamite sticks caused destruction, no racial motive detected. another grandchild Jacqueline Gibson 3 unharmed. FBI ATTU and local police investigating. two Tennessee men sought.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Asst
D. H. Lackey
Jessie Eugene Swanner
Wilma
Renee Gibson
Lackey
Swanner
Jacqueline Gibson
FBI
Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit
ATTU
Tennessee
Bandstra pleased with feed hearing in Des Moines
Rep Bert Bandstra sponsor of a bill to curb large scale feeding ops by meat packing firms and officers called the two day hearing very good He helped schedule opening hearings in Iowa with more sessions to follow in Washington A subcommittee will decide if the bill should be reported out after final Washington hearings Bandstras remarks noted opposition exposed during the second day of proceedings
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Des Moines
UPI
Bert Bandstra
Iowa
Washington
Bandstra
House Agriculture Committee
Fire at Finnish mental hospital kills 29 patients
In Lapinlahti Finland a wooden mental hospital housing 34 years old building burned early today killing 29 patients most trapped in locked rooms. Seven patients and six others fled while three were in serious condition. Police counted 18 women and 11 men among the dead.
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Lapinlahti
Finland
UPI
Anti Reds Attack Jakarta Building
A mob of about 100 young anti Communist demonstrators raided the headq uarters of the Partindo left wing party in Jakarta and abducted three leaders of its student movement. The raiders seized meeting minutes labeling General Nasution as a right wing dictator and a fascist.
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Jakarta
UPI
Indonesia Party
Partinado
Student Action Association
Kami
National Front
Partindo
Abdul Haris Nasution
Six Nights For My Fair Lady at Washington High School
Ticket sales for My Fair Lady exceed expectations and a sixth show has been added. The Monday performance opens at 8 p.m. in the Washington High School auditorium replacing the previously planned Tuesday show. Tickets are available at Osincup's Drug Store before closing Monday or at the high school on Monday evening. Remaining performances through Saturday proceed as announced.
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Washington High School
Osincup
Washington council minutes and probate notices
Minutes of the Washington city council meeting list actions including the appointment of an administrator for the estate of Ronald D. Krantz and probate of the will with appointment of executor for the estate of George A. Prosser.
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Washington City Council
Ronald D. Krantz
George A. Prosser
Lodge Cables Hint At Easing Viet Nam Tensions
President Johnson voiced cautious optimism that a constitutional government may emerge in South Viet Nam as Ambassador Lodge plans a home visit after delays caused by Buddhist demonstrations. Officials noted no urgency in Lodge’s return, while McNamara warned of possible major Communist push during the monsoon and elections. Johnson cited Honolulu talks as unrelated to Saigon unrest.
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Washington
UPI
USS
Henry Cabot Lodge
Johnson
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Lodge
Honolulu
Saigon
Ambassador Lodge
Viet Nam
Artificial Heart Patient Improves After Surgery
Marcel L. De Rudder, 65, coal miner from Westville Illinois, shows slight improvement after receiving a grapefruit sized artificial heart at Methodist Hospital in an operation led by Dr. Michael E DeBakey. Vital signs stabilize. left ventricular bypass performs about 75 percent of heart work. Uncertainty remains about potential temporary brain damage and prolonged unconsciousness.
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Dist Hospital
de Rudder
Michael FE. DeBakey
Westville
Ill
Michael E. DeBakey
Edna
Methodist Hospital
DeBakey
Iowa Rep. Wilson Plea Rejected by Supreme Court
Iowa Supreme Court Friday rejected a plea by State Rep. William P. Wilson to plead guilty to failing to leave his name at the scene of an accident that killed a pedestrian. Wilson, 28, Cedar Falls, had pled guilty to a related charge, but a municipal court ruled a typographical error invalidating that count. He later pled innocent to a more serious charge of failing to aid a person injured in the crash that killed 65-year-old McKinney Thomas in Des Moines downtown March 27.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Supreme Court
William P. Wilson
Wilson
Cedar Falls
Howard Brooks
McKinney Thomas
Richard Pinegar
Brooks
Supreme Court
Pinegar
Iowa Weather: Cloudy With Light Rain East and South
United Press International reports Iowa will see cloudy skies with little temperature change tonight and Sunday. Occasional rain or drizzle is possible in the east and south. Overnight lows 45 to 60 degrees. Sunday highs expected 57 to 68 degrees.
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United Press International
Iowa
Iowa treasurer withdraws 33.7 million from state banks
Des Moines Iowa state treasurer Paul Franzenburg announced plans to pull 33.7 million in state funds from 103 Iowa banks after a university econom ists study. He cites a 4 percent state rate versus near 5 percent on U S Treasury Bills and asks for a phased withdrawal to avoid economic disruption. The report questions the 4 percent cap and notes only three quarters of one percent of deposits are affected.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Paul Franzenburg
Iowa
Franzenburg
U.S. Treasury
U.S
W.E. Alley
Drake University
James W. Christian
Iowa State University
Charles E. Marberry
University of Iowa
Iowa Treasury
Treasury
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Fayetteville
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Robert S. McNamara
Houston
API
Marcel L. de Rudder
W. P. Wilson
Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press Association
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