Record 552 July Fourth traffic deaths in 78 hour period
United Press International tallies 552 highway deaths from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday marking a repeat of last year's peak. California led with 52 deaths, Ohio 37 and New York 35, while Alaska and Delaware had none. The National Safety Council warned the total could rise toward a four day holiday record.
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Ohio
New York
Missouri
Texas
Illinois
Michigan
Alaska
Delaware
National Safety Council
Arizona
Howard Pyle
The
Safety Council
Darnell pleads innocent in Iowa teen slaying
Council Bluffs in Iowa Roger Oliver Darnell 25 entered a not guilty plea on first degree murder charges in the brutal beating death of 17 year old Kathleen Rose Hastert. Bond set at 50000, Darnell bound over to the county grand jury. Kathleen Hastert a St Francis High grad worked at Mutual Benefit of Omaha. Police found her body in underbrush near Third and Fourth Aves after a midnight to early morning search sparked by her father’s call. Detectives tested clothing for bloodstains as authorities pursued leads. In a separate note Richland saw suspects break into Thermogas building for the fifth time since November. A typewriter and adding machine were stolen along with other items.
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Alan Ardell
Kathleen Rose Hastert
Pottawattamie
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Kathleen
St. Francis High School
Mutual Benefit of
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Clarence J. Hastert
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Fourth Avenues
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Charles Merriman
Richland
Thermogas
Keokuk County
Disowns son after wild beer party in Detroit
In Detroit 18 year old Albert Jr held a rock n roll beer party that drew 80 youths and a three piece band. Police intervened as a brawl ensued. Albert Sr vows to disown his son completely and will not pay the boy's $100 fine. The teen faces a 15 day jail sentence and disciplinary actions at home after being forbidden to host gatherings.
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UPI
Albert Scobie
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Scobie
Rev Smith’s Mother Dies in Ohio and Burial Plans
Mrs Bert Smith of West Union Ohio mother of Rev M Smith of Washington dies Sunday. Rev Smith pastor of Washington Methodist Church had been called to West Union for his mother’s illness but returned. Burial set in Minneapolis with services there, then return to Washington planned for Saturday.
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Danny Fenn on Wallace's Farmer cover photo
A photo of five year old Danny Fenn was on the July 3 Wallace's Farmer Magazine cover. Danny, grandson of Washington residents Mr. and Mrs. Prior Fenn, posed on his grandparents’ farm in an oak tree crotch on five acres. The article also notes South Carolina leading cardiovascular death rates in the United States per the American Heart Association.
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Rioting in Arnolds Park ends as cleanup begins
In Arnolds Park Iowa police arrested about 100 revelers after a weekend of rioting tied to Independence Day celebrations. The disturbance prompted an alcohol embargo and National Guard standby orders. A resort operator was injured, three youths jailed, and officials planned a postmortem review.
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UPI
Lake Okoboji
Gary Murphy to Speak at Pilotburg Church
Gary Murphy will speak with slides from New Zealand at a Pilotburg Ladies Aid Society program Friday at 8 30 p m in Pilotburg Methodist Church. The public is invited. Murphy attended the International Farm Youth Exchange program living with New Zealand families. In a separate incident, a Lone Tree woman Barbara Jarrard 29 was killed when a car driven by Déscoteau 20 struck her bicycle near Lone Tree. Déscoteau was charged with drunken driving and released on $500 bond.
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Barbara) Jarrard
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Brighton
Aretha Engle
Dallas
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Clarence Shaffer
Myron Burroughs
Earl Burroughs
Iowa
Barbara H. Jarrard
Diane A. Jarrard
Iowa Highway Patrol
Descoteau
Irving Sayer
Bellevue
Bellevue Road
Dubuque
Sayer
Richard Schaefer
Rockwell City
Fire kills four children in Galesburg home
Four children aged 18 months to six years died from smoke inhalation as a two story frame house burned early today in Galesburg Illinois. Police blamed the blaze on fireworks heard blocks away. The Lopeman family had just returned from a Missouri vacation with a large supply of fireworks. the cause remains undetermined. The parents escaped unharmed.
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Art Lopeman
Galesburg
Missouri
Sweep through Zone D north of Saigon in joint Viet Cong hunt
American Australian and Vietnamese troops conducted a large sweep through Zone D a jungle area 30 miles north of Saigon in a second joint search and destroy effort in a week. No contact was made as B52 strikes earlier this week targeted the war zone. Ba Gia garrison near Saigon held out against repeated assaults with U S planes flying over 100 sorties to locate captured long range howitzers. Authorities evacuated the Rex Bachelor Officers Quarters after a bomb threat, clearing the dining area and top floors.
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Frightened horses lunge into crowd at Milwaukee parade
At the Day in Old Milwaukee parade a Roman chariot team spooked and bolted into a 600000 spectator crowd injuring seven, including three children. Driver Herbert Onley was thrown and later hospitalized. a vendor and six spectators were treated and released. The incident disrupted the parade from Ringling-Barnum Circus.
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Donna Dimoff
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Winter
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Death of Sadie Gordon in Richland at 89
Sadie Gordon 89 longtime Brighton resident died Monday at 8 p.m. in Helens Guest Home Richland where she had lived since 1952. Funeral service Wednesday 2 p.m. Gould Funeral Home Richland Rev William Kanne in charge. Burial Hillcrest Cemetery Brighton. Born Boone County August 5 1876 daughter of Anthony and Jennie Frain. Survived by one daughter Mrs Noel Carter Globe Arizona. Member Christian Church.
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William Kanne
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Des Moines Woman Shot Through Window
A Des Moines woman, Judy Steinbeck, 20, was shot in the head early today by a .45 caliber pistol. She was found in a pool of blood outside a first floor apartment after the assailant fired through a screen window into her bedroom. Police questioned a suspect whose identity was not released.
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Steinbeck
Express service cut at several Iowa towns by REA
The Railway Express Agency Inc received permission from the Iowa Commerce Commission to discontinue express service at Dexter Homestead Walker Walcott Brighton Oxford and Earlham Iowa. The commission also allowed discontinuing express agency service at Lovilia and to handle express traffic for that station through Albia offices.
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Albia
Gunman killed after police siege near Willow Avenue
In Pittsburgh, Leroy Scott 25 an albino with blond hair and hazel eyes was killed after robbing a home and murdering the girl's father Aaron Godfrey by 22 caliber rifle. Police fired on him as dawn broke ending a nightlong standoff that saw Lt Colemon McDonough and Patrolman Leo Mincin wounded and others involved.
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Iowa Weather Outlook Clouds and Shwr Threats
Considerable cloudiness this afternoon with showers and thunderstorms affecting 50 to 60 percent of the area. Locally heavy rains possible in the east this afternoon and in the extreme east tonight. West tonight partly cloudy and mostly cloudy state wide Wednesday. Little temperature change with tonight’s lows from the lower 60s west to middle 60s east. Wednesday highs in the 80s.
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United Press International
Iowa
Eight Iowans die in Independence Day weekend crashes
Iowa traffic toll reaches 335 for 1965 as eight people perish over the holiday weekend. Victims include Mabel Dyas of Bellevue in a U.S. 30 crash, Victoria Suits and infant Lisa in the same vehicle, and several other fatalities across Davis, Linn, Polk, and surrounding counties. Authorities note charges in some cases and detail single-vehicle and head-on crashes, with weather and road conditions cited.
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Bellevue
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