China claims plane shot down in US jets air clash
The report says U S jets hit Communist North Vietnam with the war's heaviest air raid, China claims a MIG 17 was shot down near the border, and Washington warns of possible bombing of North Vietnamese airfields while Marine units fight a large Viet Cong force 370 miles north of Saigon.
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Viet Nam
Peking
U.S
China
U.S. Navy
Air Force
Guam
da Nang
Air war possibilities linger in Southeast Asia report
UPI reports Washington warning that North Viet Nam jet airfields near Hanoi could be bombed if U S planes suffer losses from MIG attacks. Peking claims U S jets shot down a Chinese aircraft. Defense Department had no comment. The piece notes MIGs have yet to inflict major damage, with past losses limited to a March 1965 air mission.
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Viet Nam
U.S
Saigon
UPI
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Southeast Asia
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Harkness indicted on murder charge
Earl C. Harkness 68 of rural Mount Pleasant was indicted by the Henry County Grand Jury on first degree murder. District Judge George Van Allen set bond at $60,000. He is charged in the fatal shooting of Dale F. Edgington 24 of rural West Point on April 28 as both men worked on a farm about 10 miles southeast of Mount Pleasant.
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UPI
Earl C. Harkness
Henry County
Grand Jury
George van Allen
Harkness
Dale F. Edgington
West Point
Beck accuses Hughes of silence on Iowa agriculture policy
Des Moines reports GOP gubernatorial hopeful Robert K. Beck charges Gov. Harold Hughes with failing to speak or act for Iowa farmers. Beck, Centerville publisher seeking the nomination, criticizes Hughes and Agriculture Secretary Kenneth Owen for not taking a stand on recent farm measures and notes agriculture remains Iowa’s primary industry.
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UPI
Robert K. Beck
Harold E. Hughes
Iown
Beck
Centerville
GOP
Hughes
Iowa
Kenneth Owen
Johnson
Owen
Washington
Witness Refuses to Testify Again in Liuzzo Killing Trial
In Hayneville Alabama FBI informant Gary Rowe refuses to testify further delaying the trial of Eugene Thoma, one of four Ku Klux Klansmen charged in the murder of Detroit civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo after the Selma voting rights march. Rowe previously testified in three trials but now declines, with federal officials confirming his location but noting he will not return to the stand.
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Hayneville, Ala
UPI
FBI
Viola Liuzzo
Gary Thomas Rowe
Eugene Thoma
Liuzzo
Detroit
U.S
Rowe
Justice Department
Massive search for kidnaped girl in rural PA
State Police and FBI launched a wide house to house canvass in Shade Gap Pennsylvania to locate Peggy Ann Brodnick a 17 year old high school student abducted on her way home from school. Volunteers including classmates joined the search as police ques tioned residents and checked every lead at a central search control.
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Shade Gap
UPI
FBI
Peggy Ann Brodnick
Peggy Ann
Here
Rent subsidy plan signed by Johnson
President Johnson signed a 2.8 billion dollar appropriation to start a rent subsidy program through June 30 and urged Congress to restore funds for a national teacher corps. The plan provides subsidies for needy families in public housing and requires future votes to continue. The package also includes 9.5 million for a teacher corps to place teachers in poverty areas, though House action cut funds for next year.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
House
Johnson Defends Viet Nam Policy Before 6000 Democrats
President Johnson and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield defended diverse Viet Nam views within the Democratic Party at a Washington dinner attended by over 6,000 Democrats. Johnson urged resolve and warned that backing down would betray freedom, while Mansfield emphasized open discussion and that party unity rests on room for differing opinions.
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UPI
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Senate
Mike Mansfield
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South Viet Nam
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Viet Nam
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D-Ark
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Foreign Relations Committee
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Democrats defend farm policy record on the farm floor
Democrats from Iowa and Wisconsin urged farmers not to overlook six years of policy gains under Democratic administrations citing a 20.5 percent rise in net farm income to 14.1 billion and a 40 percent per-farm increase. Rep Neal Smith led the message with calls for a White House farm panel, restraint on White House staff comments, and removal of export controls that push price limits on hides.
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Washington
UPI
Neal Smith
Diowa
Iowa
Stanley Greigg
John Hansen
Bert Bandstra
John Schmidhauser
Lynn Stalbaum
Stalbaum
Smith
Johnson
White House
Agriculture Department
Council of Economic Advisors
Gordon Ackley
Appeal to British Seamen by Wilson
Prime Minister Harold Wilson made an 11th hour appeal to Britain's 62,500 merchant seamen to call off a midnight Sunday strike over pay and hours. He met for two hours with the National Union of Seamen executive board at Downing Street, urging reconsideration without offering new terms, citing potential vast damage to Britain's economy if the lifeline were cut.
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Longon
UPI
Harold Wilson
Britain
Wilson
National Union of Seamen
NUS
No. 10
Downing Street
William Hogarth
Kosygin Visits Egypt Amid Anti US Aid Push
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin visits a Russian financed reclamation project near Cairo as Egypt denounces U.S. aid policies in Al Ahram. President Nasser’s spokesman Heikal says US cooperation is impossible outside the Western world. Nasser and Kosygin tour the 90 mile north reclamation site and Alexandria.
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U.A.R
UPI
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U.S
Alexei N. Kosygin
Here
United States
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Mohammed Hassanien Heikal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Heikal
Nasser
Alexandria
Friday the 13th defended by prof in Rhode Island
Providence based brief notes a retired mathematics professor from Brown University explains the calendar repeats every 400 years and the 13th falls on Friday 688 times while Sundays Wednesdays Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays occur fewer times, defending Friday the 13th as the most common day.
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Providence
R.I
UPI
Alumni Monthly
Brown University
Bancroft H. Brown
Hanover
N.H
Brown
Dartmouth
No slaughtering at Columbus Jct plant
Waterloo Iowa Bath Packing Co will not resume production at the Columbus Junction plant until late summer or fall due to hog supply and demand conditions. About 150 workers remain on layoff as operations have been paused since May 2.
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Waterloo, Iowa
UPI
Columbus Junction
Bath Packing Co
Frank Wylie
Park Division
Iowa
Wylie
Unseasonable Rain Ends in Flooded Texas Streets
Heavy rain spread through Beaumont Port Arthur and Orange causing street flooding while the eastern half of the nation received more downpours. Colder air drove record low temperatures from the Great Lakes to northern Texas with readings near 32 in Wichita and 27 in Grand Island.
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Great Lakes
Weather Bureau
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Orange
Paducah
Huntsville
Ala
Weather Iowa Mixed skies with scattered showers
Partly cloudy tonight in Iowa with a warm trend on Saturday. Saturday will be partly cloudy to cloudy and warmer with a chance of scattered showers. Low temperatures tonight in the 30s or low 40s and highs Saturday in the 60s. Outlook for Sunday shows partly cloudy skies with a continued chance of scattered showers and little temperature change.
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United Press International
Iowa
Rotary honors McCleery for Distinguished Service Award
Richard H. McCleery the president of McCleery-Cumming Calendar Co. received the Washington Rotary Club 1966 Distinguished Service Award. The tribute cited his longtime civic work with Marion Avenue United Presbyterian Church Washington YMCA fund campaigns and leadership roles. Areces urges vigilance against Communism and lauds freedom while other Rotary notes honor attendance milestones and feature a student quartet at the Country Club event.
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Richard H. McCleery
McCleery-Cumming Calendar Co
Washington Rotary Club
Rotary
Glenn Mace
McCleery
Washington
Ohio
Marion Avenue
Ularly
Current Fund
Selective Service Board
Washington’s Men's Club
Calendar
National Advertising Specialty Association
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