Local Crime and Community News Briefs
Multiple small items cover a break in at H and H Firestone Store with losses listed, a tornado relief food drive active in Washington, city council bids for paving and Read O Matic meters set for consideration, a former Lee County deputy treasurer sentenced for false entry, thieves stealing an entire prefabricated house, and progress toward US Soviet air service with Montreal Copenhagen stops and CAB approval expected.
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H & H Firestone
East Washington Street
Washington
Huber
Keokuk
Iowa
UPI
Robert Laubersheimer
Lee County
Fort Madison
Laubersheimer
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
New York
Civil Aeronautics Board
Aeroflot
Montreal
Pan American
Copenhagen
Goldwater warns Vietnam talks or war could end quickly
In Melbourne Florida Barry Goldwater told Florida Air Academy graduates that if peace talks fail and the war returns to battlefields the conflict could be won rapidly with heavy enemy devastation. He said he hopes envoys succeed but remains skeptical about outcomes. He is the 1964 Republican nominee. Harold Stassen ran a frugal May 7 Ohio primary campaign, reporting 5.80 in funds spent mainly on postage and telephone calls.
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Melbourne
Fla
UPI
Barry Goldwater
Vietnam
Goldwater
Florida Air Academy
Columbus
Ohio
Harold Stassen
Ted W. Brown
Peace talks stall as U S outlines bombing halt terms
U S negotiator Harriman pressed for three conditions to halt all bombing in the North: stop DMZ artillery, end DMZ ground attacks, and halt massive infiltration into the South. North Vietnam rejected a reciprocity offer, calling Johnson’s appeal absurd, while Le Duc Tho’s possible Paris attendance looms. Talks adjourned with deadlock ongoing.
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Paris
Hanoi
Harriman
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
North
South Vietnam
Thuy
United States
North Vietnam
Johnson
le Duc Tho
Tho
France eases as strikes fade and de Gaulle crisis eases
Paris amid easing tensions after two weeks of nationwide strikes. Government accuses leftists of aiming to topple the Fifth Republic and install a totalitarian regime while de Gaulle remains in office. Pompidou’s new government reviews lessons as army and police are kept ready. Wage accord from May 27 faces rejection, with no immediate effect.
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Paris
UPI
Fifth Republic
Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Yves Guena
Guena
Gaena
Pompidou
Independent Republican Party
Raymond Mondon
French National Assembly
National Assembly
Champs Elysees
UPI Telephoto
Navy widens search for Scorpion with new deep-sea gear
The Navy reports no definite clue to the Scorpion at sixth day of the largest sea search in history. New equipment Deep Diver and ADS Mark IV are being airlifted to the Azores to aid exploration along submerged banks 360 miles south of the Azores while five destroyers and five submarines scan the deep Atlantic toward the Continental Shelf. A third sweep covers a 100 mile corridor into Norfolk where the sub would surface near the end of its expected approach.
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Norfolk, Va
UPS
Deep Diver
Azores
Scorpion
Cruiser
Irving Banks
Atlantic
United States
Norfolk
94 year old West Chester woman buys first refrigerator
Spry 94 year old Miss Gertrude Moothart defies age as she purchases her first refrigerator with a lifetime guarantee. She recalls moving food to a damp basement and jokes about learning what to store inside while adjusting to the machine’s quiet hum. She lives in a home built in 1899 by her father and brothers and is now considered a modern homemaker.
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Gertrude Moothart
West Chester
Miss Moothart
Gertrude
Helen Gilbert
Brad Haines Bountiful Utah Myrtill curdle Yours WEJ
Bountiful Utah resident Brad Haines writes a brief note to Myrtill, warning she may react with startled amusement. He signs off with a casual farewell to WEJ.
Battle in Saigon as house to house fighting rages
Allied forces battled Viet Cong in Saigon with infiltrator bands. About 500 guerrillas were killed since the invasion began six days ago. Viet Cong held two sectors in Cholon while U.S. Marines freed two captives near Hue. Vietnamese and U.S. forces reported heavy fighting, civilian casualties, and continued attempts to disrupt traffic near the city.
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Saigon
UPI
Spocsmen
Cholon
U.S
Hue
Central Highlands
North Vietnam
Roger Norum
Red
Paris
Vietnam
Binh Loi
UNDAUNTED BY RAINS AT RESURRECTION CITY MARCH
About 550 demonstrators led by Hosea Williams stayed through heavy rains and camp disruptions to press welfare reform demands. HEW Secretary Cohen visited, pledging concrete responses, while Andrew Young outlined action cadres to 15 cities. Williams became city manager of the tent city, with Jesse Jackson reorganized to extend the campaign.
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Washington
UPI
Resurrection City
Hosea Williams
South
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Wilbur J. Cohen
Cohen
Williams
Congress
Andrew Young
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Baltimore
Richmond
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Del
SCLC
Jesse L. Jackson
Chicago
Weather Summary for Iowa by United Press International
Generally fair conditions across Iowa tonight and Sunday. Cooler readings in eastern areas tonight. Low temperatures expected from 45 to 55 degrees. Outlook for Monday shows little change in conditions.
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Iowa
Boy’s turtle swallowed by Brad Haines baffles doctors
A Utah boy Brad Haines two faced a costly scare after swallowing a dime store turtle Myrtle. X rays failed to locate the reptile once lodged in his intestines then stomach and later disappeared. Doctors postponed surgery and hoped stomach acids would expel the creature as Brad remained on a liquid diet.
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Brad
Myrtle
Russell Haines
South Davis Medical Center
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