Farm home fire claims life of Iowa youth
In Clear Lake Iowa a farm home fire killed 17 year old Leo James Greene early today. The five room frame house near the Dunlaps burned before firefighters arrived. Dunlap and Mrs Dunlap escaped. Leo was trapped in the kitchen. Neighbor John Nichols reported finding the youth under a kitchen table still alive but unable to save him. Cause under investigation by deputy state fire marshal.
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Clear Lake
Iowa
UPI
Here
Leo James Greene
Robert Dunlap
John Greene
Dunlap
Leo
John Nichols
Nichols
Arabs and Soviets hold crisis talks as cease-fire tested
Militants among Arabs met with Kremlin leaders in Cairo for anti Israel action talks after a mortar round hit the Suez Canal zone cease-fire. The U N observers reported the violation while Moscow and Cairo kept heavy diplomatic traffic as Malik flew home from eight days of talks with Nasser and allies.
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United Press International
Kremlin
Cairo
Israal
Suez Canal Zone
U.N
Sudan
Israel
Soviet’ Union
United Nations
Egyptaan
West Bank
Suez Canal
Qantara
Moscow-Cairo
Jacob Malik
Nasser
Houri Boumedienne
Abdel Rahman Aref
Mohamed Ahmed Mahgoub
Moscow
Alexei N. Kosygin
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Notice to bidders for gasoline supply to Washington district
Public notices announce a bid invitation for supplying gasoline to the Washington school district. Also listed is probate of the will and appointment of executor for the estate of W. Foster Bickel. A budget estimate for the County Board of Education is shown.
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Washington
W. Foster Bickel
County Board of Education
Rusk rejects changing course on Viet bombings
Secretary of State Dean Rusk said North Vietnam is hurting badly and warned against halting bombing without proof it would prompt peace. He dismissed suspending strikes and urged evidence of a response from Hanoi while noting no dramatic changes from the Glassboro talks with Soviet leader Kosygin.
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Washington
UPI
Dean Rusk
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Rusk
State Department
Britain
Far Pacific
United States
U. S
Moscow
Glassboro
Johnson
Alexei Kosygin
Kosygin
Russia
Vietnam
Middle East
Task
Soviet Union
Israel
Johnson Campaigned for Tax Hike Amid Spending Cuts
President Johnson weighs adjustments to a 6 percent income tax proposal as Treasury and White House warn of a mounting deficit. House GOP Leader Ford cites possible 15 percent non defense cuts and a $10 billion Pentagon delay to avoid tax increases. Officials project 1968 deficit near $24 billion without tax hikes.
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Washington
UPI
House
Gerald R. Ford
Johnson
Ford
GOP
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Pentagon
Defense Department
Capitol Hill
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Congress
Helicopters Rescue Green Berets Near Saigon Amid Viet Nam Clash
U S Army helicopters rescued a surrounded Green Beret unit 70 miles northwest of Saigon as 600 guerrillas pressed near the Cambodian border. Reinforcements of 150 soldiers were flown in while gunships pounded positions to free the wounded. Elsewhere jets hit targets from Hanoi to Haiphong, including a stadium with SAM launchers, and 42 enemy killed in a coastal action near Saigon with seven Americans wounded.
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Saigon
Aps
Robert Bowes
Mineral Wells
Tex
1St Infantry Division
Hanoi
Haiphong
A Shau
Laos
Vietnam
U.S
Oregon
Thi Liet
U.S. Air Force
North Vietnam
Panhandle
U.S. Army
Des Moines Tax Schedule Details for Three Percent Rate
The state tax commission announced the new three percent sales tax schedule effective Oct. 2. The schedule lists charges from zero to 14 cents as untaxed, 15 to 45 cents taxed at one cent, 46 to 80 cents at two cents, 81 cents to $1.14 at three cents, and from $1.15 to $1.45 at four cents.
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Des Moines
IDPA
State Tax Commission
Jetliner Collides With Small Plane Over Hendersonville
A Piedmont Airlines jet with 73 passengers and 5 crew collided with a single engine Cessna near Hendersonville North Carolina. The flaming jet crashed by Interstate 26 and U S 64, scattering bodies along the highway. FAA reported the light plane missing. no survivors confirmed.
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Hendersonville
N.C
UPI
Piedmont Airlines
Atlanta
Roanoke
Washington
FAA
Grady Walker
Asheville-Hendersonville
U.S. 64
Moon monitor voyage to report lunar radiation hazards
The UPI report says a 230-pound windmill shaped moon monitor launched on a three day trip from Cape Kennedy aboard a Douglas Delta rocket. It will orbit the moon to measure space dust speeds magnetic forces and radiation while reporting on hazards for Apollo astronauts. The flight marked the lunar Explorer s 50th mission in eight years.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
United States
Lunar
Apollo
Moon
Physics Laboratory
Earth
Delta
County audit details embezzlement by former treasurer
State Auditor Lloyd Smith issued a special audit showing former Washington County Treasurer W E Howell embezzled 45500 over 23 years by listing sight drafts at year end. Shortages ranged from 200 in 1946 to 5500 in 1965 with 113 shortages total. Bonding companies may cover a 4500 shortfall after bond limits. A special assessment will be levied to make up the difference.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Lloyd Smith
Washington County
W. E. Howell
Howell
American Surety
Hawkeye Casualty
Fidelity and Casualty
Travelers Indemnity
Western Surety
Smith
Iowa Marine Killed in Vietnam Near Da Nang
A Crescent Iowa couple learned their son Marine Pfc Wayne Reed 18 was killed in action in Vietnam near Da Nang. The Defense Department notified Mr and Mrs Donald Reed that he died Sunday from gunshot wounds after six months in country and over two years in the Marines since January 1966.
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Crescent
Iowa
UPI
Vietnam
Defense Department
Donald Reed
Pfc
Wayne Reed
da Nang
Reed
Lost city of Atlantis possibly found on Thira island
Two scientists from Woods Hole and Wellesley College report ruins of a Minoan city on Thira in the Aegean Sea, 3,400 years old and buried by a volcanic eruption. They say the discovery could be part of Atlantis, presenting a landmark archeological find since Pompeii. The pair announced the finding at a Boston museum news conference.
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Boston
UPI
Atlantis
Plato
Pompeii
Thira
Aegean Sea
Christ
James Mavor
Mavor
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Massachusetts
Emily Vermeulle
Wellesley College
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Union head hits Morse appointment
PiL Ron Siemiller president of the machinists union calls President Johnsons choice of Senator Wayne Morse to head a railroad mediation panel a colossal blunder and an insult to unions. Morse says he will help the railroads and unions reach a contract settlement within 90 days.
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Washington
UPI
Machinists Union
Johnson
Wayne Morse
Oregon Democrat
Pil (Ron) Siemiller
Siemiller
Morse
Iowan Holds Wife at Gunpoint in Waterloo Parking Lot
Insurance adjuster Paul Frederick Tharp, 45, held his wife at gunpoint in a parked car for over three hours in Waterloo. Tharp, from a Waverly address, was arrested after approaching as she left John Deere plant parking. A crowd of about 1,000 gathered as police said he handcuffed her and kept her prisoner.
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Waterloo
Iowa
UPI
Paul Frederick Tharp
John Deere and Co
Tharp
Weather outlook for Iowa by United Press International
Variable cloudiness and chance of widely scattered thundershowers through Thursday with little temperature change. Lows tonight expected around 60 to 65 degrees.
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United Press International
Iowa
Guardsmen Called To Cairo Race Turmoil In Egypt Neighborhood
Fifty Illinois National Guardsmen sealed off about ten blocks of Pyramid Court in Cairo after teen age gunfire and firebombings. Police reported three fires, one injury, and mobs throwing molotov cocktails aimed at the White Coleman lumber yard amid long standing housing discrimination tensions in the Little Egypt town.
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Cairo
UPI
Illinois National
White-Coleman Lumber
Negro District
Cai
Illinois
Egypt
Preston Ewing
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Ewing
Little
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