Daily Brief: Vandalism, Weather, and global notices
City police investigated two vandalism cases in the Washington business district. A phone in a booth was destroyed and a plate glass window at Perdock's auto garage on West Washington Street was exploded by a firecracker. Rainfall measured .72 inches. farmers report up to five inches in a week across multiple counties. Washington and UPI reports note welfare aid expansion due to a Supreme Court ruling. federal heroin seizure in New York. Iwo Jima replaced by Rising Sun flag. Freeman advocates nationwide food stamp program. Navy selects 54 aquanauts for undersea experiments off California starting in October.
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Local youth ready to go to work
Rusty Green, youth coordinator for the South Iowa Manpower Center, asks farmers needing help with mowing and making hay to contact him at the Community Action Center on East Washington Street. He has a file of unemployed local youths for farm work including weeding, buying, corn shelling and tractor operation. residents seeking home or farm tasks should call 653-2853.
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Too much food for Indians at conference on biomedical challenges
A Pan American Health Organization panel notes high disease costs of Western diets on American Indians. Dr James V Neel says future access to primitive examples ends, while Dr Thomas A Burch links Pima gall bladder disease to feast and famine history and modern overindulgence, noting obesity among Pimas near Phoenix.
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Saigon brace for major 7 000 to 15 000 attack by Communists
UPI reports U.S. intelligence says Hanoi ordered a new full scale offensive on Saigon with 7 000 to 15 000 troops. Light contacts already near the outskirts while a major assault may wait two weeks. Ho Chi Minh seeks a victory before Paris talks, with Moscow supplying arms. Pham Hung named to direct the southern offensive. The U.S. conducts B 52 raids, targeting Viet Cong dumps and supply routes as North Vietnamese air defenses stiffen in Saigon.
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Hanoi presses Geneva basis peace talks amid bombing stalemate
In Paris Hanoi for the first time proposes discussing a Vietnam settlement per the 1954 Geneva accords, but insists the United States must end all bombing of the North first. U.S. envoy Cyrus Vance and Xuan Thuy lead talks, with no progress after 10th session. Vance says no movement, yet not discouraged. Paris weather joke from Hanoi spokesman contrasts with the stalemate. There are six state parks and historic sites in North Dakota.
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Ramsey Clark urges strongest gun control at Senate hearing
Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark called gun peril a national catastrophe and urged Congress to pass broad gun control. He backed Johnson administration proposals for national firearm registration licensing and bans on mail order sales and interstate ammunition shipments. Edward Kennedy letter praised the bills as a national necessity.
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Joseph D. Tydings
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Judiciary Committee
Trudeau casts ballot in Montreal polling station
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau votes at a downtown Montreal polling station as Canadians head to the polls to elect a new federal government in a nationwide election.
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UPI
Salinger urges Kennedy backers to push for revolutionary change
Pierre Salinger, long time Kennedy aides, calls for ongoing political activity among Kennedy supporters and favors a third candidate such as George McGovern if Hubert Humphrey breaks with Vietnam policies. He notes uncertainties of 1968 and backs Humphrey only if he clarifies Vietnam stance while predicting a Chicago convention contest. Iowa forecast notes cooler southeast, partly cloudy tonight, highs in 70s, turning sunny Friday.
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George McGovern
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Vietnam
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Iowa
Fortas Named Chief Justice in Johnson Surprise
President Johnson announced Justice Abe Fortas as chief justice, succeeding Earl Warren who retires at 77 due to age. Fortas will take the post after Senate approval, with Homer Thornberry chosen to fill Fortas' circuit seat. Warren cited age after 15 years on the court.
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Youth with knife near Mrs Nixon in Lansing
Secret Service agents and Michigan State Police arrested a young man near Mrs Nixon at Lansing Airport as she waited for Richard Nixon. The man, described as a young Negro, carried a knife up his sleeve and was dragged into a side room after being apprehended just outside the lobby.
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Intercepted Memo on Stalled Peace Talks
An old timer compares current peace talks to a three bottom plow in an Iowa field after a two inch downpour, suggesting little progress and muddy stalemate in negotiations.
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Iowa
Probate of Wills and Executors Appointments
Public notices list probate actions and executors appointeds for the estates of Carrie Mayhew Harold F Messenger Sr and Helen P Jackson as published today on page 6.
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Harold F. Messenger Sr
Helen P. Jackson
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