Da Nang Attack Fails to Sink U S Navy Vehicle
Vietnamese raids seize vast communist arms as U S and South Vietnamese forces further pressure Hanoi. In Da Nang a U S Navy cargo ship was damaged by an underwater explosion but not sunk. The attack, seen as propaganda, followed broader raids that captured thousands of tons of rice and tons of mines and ammunition in Mekong Delta and Tay Ninh.
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Saigon
UPS
da Nang
North Viet Nam
South China Sea
U.S. 7Th Fleet
United States
U.S
Maxwell D. ‘Taylor
Washington
17Th
Taylor
Johnson
South Viet Nam
Phan Huy Quat
Viet Nam
UPI
la Qui Hai
Tay Ninh
Chuong Thien
Mekong
Elmer Long Rites Planned in Wellman Monday
Funeral services for Elmer Samuel Long will be held at 1 30 p m Monday in the Powell Funeral Home Wellman Rev Earl Josten to conduct the service burial planned in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Marengo Mr Long died at his home Thursday afternoon
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Wellman
Elmer Samuel Long
Powell
Mr. Long
Earl Josten
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Marengo
Ington Community High honors 3rd quarter students
Principal E Kelly Schlapkohl lists honor 1011 status students for the third quarter at Ington Community High. Names include Kathy Bakehouse Brian Britain Lyle Brock Jami Bump Pat Butler Mariene Chabal Carma Chorpening Doug Cole Beverly Davison Doug English Carolyn Hammen Mike Hansen Steve Hardy Carl Hays Bonnie Henry Dave Hutchcroft Susan Knupp Dennis Marek Dan Martin Connie Messer Linda Miller Susan Minick Alice Owen Judy Parriott Art Petratz Vivian Potratz Karen Soucek Dave Tindal and many more students across the student body.
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Kathy Bakehouse
Brian Britain
Lyle Brock
Jami Bump
Pat Butler
Mariene Chabal
Carma
Doug Cole
Beverly Davison
Doug English
Carolyn Hammen
Mike Hansen
Steve Hardy
Carl Hays
Bonnie Henry
Dave Hutchcroft
Susan Knupp
Dennis Marek
Dan Martin
Connie Messer
Linda Miller
Susan Minick
Alice Owen
Judy Parriott
Art Petratz
Vivian Potratz
Karen Soucek
Dave Tindal
S Angeles Times
Karen Vosika
Margie Waddell
Craig Warnler
Jerry Westermark
Janet Wulf
Ed Wulf
Seizure of 373 machine guns by California authorities
Authorities seized a 373 weapon cache at Erquiaga Arms Co in City of Industry California in what state officials call the largest illegal arms seizure in state history. Federal state and county agents found weapons linked to private right wing groups the Minutemen and the Rangers who reportedly planned transfer to Latin America. The Erquiaga firm owned by Juan Erquiaga reportedly operated without a state license and may be connected to militants in Guatemala.
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City OF Industry
Calif
UPI
California
Latin America
Erquiaga Arms Co
Los Angeles
Erquiaga
Minutemen
United States
Rangers
Brezhnev backs record farm investment to fix Soviet system
Brezhnev won Central Committee approval for a plan to invest 71 billion rubles in Soviet farming over five years to fix agricultural problems. In Iowa, Rep. Schmidhauser temporarily assigns aide James Alsip to the First District to report on levee floods and coordinate emergency repairs with the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Moscow
UPI
Leonid I. Brezhnhev
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Khrushchiev
Communist Central Committee
John Or. Schmidhauser
James W. Alsip
Schmidhauser
Alsip
Iowa
John Piel
Army Corps of Engineers
Cross country rider resumes trip toward World's Fair
Washington residents recall two horsemen who passed through last November en route to New York City and the World's Fair. Ted Friesz and his horse Duke were featured in the Rock Island Argus. Ted left the area recently to resume his journey toward the World’s Fair in New York, starting in Tacoma May 16 194. They stopped at Muscatine for the winter November 29. Friesz worked at McHenry Sr. until last Saturday when he and his horse were trucked back to Muscatine to resume the trip to New York. He plans to arrive in New York City in 50 days. A companion who was with Friesz in Washington months ago apparently has given up the trip. Information about Mr Fries was received by Chuck Hotle of Washington.
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Washington
New York City
Friesz
Duke
Rock Island Argus
Ted
New York
Tacoma
Wash
Muscatine
McHenry Sr
Mr. Friesz
Mr. Fries
Chuck Hotle
No Whitewashing Alabama to Seek Death Penalty
Alabama officials indicate plans to pursue the death penalty for four Ku Klux Klansmen charged in the shotgun slaying of Viola Liuzzo, a 39 year old Detroit mother of five assisting civil rights demonstrators. The case center on a December 28 1965 incident on U S 80 near Montgomery.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Alabama
Richmond Flowers
FBI
U.S
Notice of Forfeiture of Real Estate Today
Public notices item reports forfeiture action on real estate with details pointing to official process and page reference to public notices today.
Johnson declares war on Klan after Detroit woman's slaying
President Johnson, angered by the Detroit slaying tied to Alabama voting rights tensions, announces curbs on the Ku Klux Klan. He orders DOJ to draft legislation and seeks congressional probes. Four Klan members are arrested for the murder of Viola Liuzzo, with federal conspiracy charges to follow.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Detroit
Alabama
Ku Klux Klan
Charles L. Weltner
D.ga
Congress
Ice
Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert Shelton
United Klans of America
Shelton
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Viola Luzzo
Montgomery
Selma
Justice Department
Law
Art Nicholas Deb
Katzenbach
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
White House East Room
Virgil J. Grissom
John W. Young
United Klans of America, Inc
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Liuzzo
High bid for Oswalds guns in Marina Oswald estate
Marina Oswald appointed to handle the Oswald estate by a judge and bonded for 5000 dollars. An appraiser valued the 6.5 mm rifle used in the Kennedy assassination and the 38 caliber pistol at 10900 dollars for their historical interest. The artifacts include a diary a telescopic sight a sling and a cartridge clip. The government holds the weapons while Mrs Oswald hopes to sell to secure her family.
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Dallas
UPI
Marina Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
United States
Marina
Oswald
F. W. Bartlett Jr
Kennedy
J. D. Tippit
Jack Ruby
William Blaylock
Department of Justice
Warren Commission
Blaycock
Weather update shows snow and cold through weekend
Mostly cloudy tonight with snow in the northern portion and snow across the area on Sunday. Lows 18 to 25. Southeast region sees cloudy skies and snow spreading tonight, continuing Sunday as winds shift and temperatures fall.
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United Press International
Towa
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U.S. Navy
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North Korea
Elmer Long
E. Kelly Schlapkohl
Ington Community High
Linda Anderson
John Bordwell
Jenta Chorpening
Gail Close
Mari Crone
Carla Grimes
Tom Duensing
Diana Hammen
Bill Hardy
Mark Heilman
Ellen Jarrard
Linda Johnson
Terry Jungbluth
Judy Kleese
Mollie Kneen
Dean Kurtz
Eve Leavitt
Phil Lemke
Tom Lowe
Lois McBee
Dave McDaniel
Ellen Moriarty
John Phleger
Mary Powers
Sally Quinn
Don Rinner
Jan Schiebel
Jacki Schoonover
Dave Seifkas
Maria Simmering
Dixie Smith
Doug Snyder
Charlotte Stanley
Mike Tait
Anita Weeks
Carol Wilson
Gwenyth Wolfe
Jeanne Allison
Marcie Anderson
Rich Ballard
Doris Eli
Linda Bower
Kim Boyer
Mary Butler
Dennis Coon
Larry Dittrich
Connie Emeson
Steve Foss
Gary Greene
Ron Gregory
Barb Grim
Curt Gunnarson
Pat Hansen
Beverly Henry
Dick Holden
Vicki Horak
Carol Hornung
Trudy Hysell
Ken Jensen
Bud Jungbluth
Nancy Knutson
Jim Koebler
Lannie Leon
Pat Lewis
Pam Loeffler
Joyce Long
Doy McAvoy
Mary McBee
Monica McCarthy
Peg McGaffey
Jim Mallory
Jean Miller
Tom Mitchell
Mike Moore
Debbie Nardy
Sally Owen
Deborah Pachi
Dick Peck
Diane Perdock
Connie Potter
Brian Richardson
Barb Robertson
Judy Roland
Mary Romine
Pam Romine
Susan Roth
Bob Ryner
Barb Schumacher
Debbie Schwartz
Joe Scranton
Sheila Shelangoski
Dick Sojka
Tom Stephens
Larry
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Attorney General
Collie Leroy Wilkins, JR
Viola Gross Luizzo
Wilkins
Jefferson County
Whree Klansmen Released
Collie Leroy Wilkin Jr
Fairfield
Wilkin
Arthur E Gamble Jr
Lowndes County
George Wallace
Teamsters Union
Anthony J. Liuzzo
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Church World Service
Odd Fellows Hall
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