Gemini 9 Goes Ahead With On Time Cape Launch
Cape Kennedy reports go for Gemini 9 on Tuesday as Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan receive weather clearance for a 12 30 p m EDT liftoff. Officials at Cape Kennedy Houston and tracking stations prepare for a three day rendezvous and spacewalk to advance future Apollo moon missions. Flight Director Kraft hails the crew as best trained yet and notes the flight is among the most challenging US has attempted.
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Buddhist Hue mobilizes to oust Ky as Da Nang crisis grows
Buddhist leaders in Hue call for Khys ouster amid Da Nang seizure raising risk of civil war among anti Communist factions. U.S. forces and South Vietnamese troops clash with rebels near Da Nang while U.S. policy makers debate the crisis at the White House and Camp David.
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Des Moines man arraigned in Colorado murder case
Donald Leroy DeRaad 51 Des Moines, a former inmate, was arraigned on open murder charges in the death of Mary Jorgenson 46 Denver Colorado. The body was found in the Martin Hotel downtown with signs of beating. A preliminary hearing was set for June 1.
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Harry R. Grund
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Sioux City
Mary Jorgenson
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Martin Hotel
Mildred Harvey
Fort Madison
Grand
Mary Johnson
Johnson
Iowa weekend highway fatalities rise to five
Five people died in Iowa road crashes over the weekend, boosting the 1966 toll to 256. Zella Mary Rankin, 56, of Princeton Missouri, died in a two car crash north of Granger on Iowa 141 where a stopped vehicle pulled out. Fred Kursinchinski, 62, Des Moines, was listed in critical condition along with injuries to his wife Bessie and another couple. A Whittemore woman, Johanna Gengler, 67, died in a car truck crash at U.S. 18 and Iowa 44. Charles Conn, 24, Des Moines, and Francoise Magnier, 20, of La Rochelle France, also killed in an Interstate 80 crash near West Branch. Norman Thayer, 52, Hazel Green Wisconsin, died on U.S. 61 near Maquoketa.
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Granger
Missouri
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Central College
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Notice of Sale of School Buildings Probate of Will
Public notices list a sale of school buildings and the probate of the will for Laura Hoskins, with appointment of an executor.
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Students Honored At Washington Junior High Awards Day
Awards were given for scholastic and citizenship achievements at Washington Junior High. Top honors went to Marsha Lynn Knapp in seventh grade, Kurt James Jorgensen in eighth, and Cynthia Jean McCall in ninth. Sue Ann Lowe and Joseph Patrick Quinn won citizenship medals for 1966 based on student votes.
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Washington Junior High School
Marsha Lynn Knapp
Kurt James Jorgensen
Cynthia Jean McCall
Sue Ann Lowe
Joseph Patrick Quinn
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Typhoon Irma Grounds Ship Off Cebu Island
Typhoon Irma struck the central Philippines with 88 mph winds grounding the 740-ton Pioneer Cebu near Cebu Island causing zero visibility seas. About 150 aboard were feared aboard as rescue units from Philippines and U.S. services were mobilized though operations were doubtful while the storm raged.
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War critics urge Johnson to prune advisers and prep nukes
Critics say Johnson advisers bungled past decisions and misled the president on Vietnam policy. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. urged firing officials who wrongly pushed Cuba actions and misread Diem. Sen Stennis warned war could draw Red China, supports limited use of tactical weapons. Morse and Mansfield pressed caution against widening the conflict into China.
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Nguyen Cao Ky
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N.J
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Senate
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U.S
Mike Mansfield
China
Montana
Russell Rejects Expanding CIA Oversight by Congress
Senate Armed Services Chair Richard B. Russell says his committee alone holds jurisdiction over non budgetary CIA matters. He rejected enlarging Senate oversight, a move sought by Fulbright and McCarthy to add Foreign Relations members to the CIA watchdog panel.
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United Press International
Two University of Iowa students die by suicide
Two young men in Iowa City died by suicide. Russell Raymond Anderson, a former University of Iowa student, was found shot in a campus parking lot after a nervous breakdown. Phillip Jon Christensen, from Atlantic, was found hanging in his apartment room.
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Johnson County
George Callahan
Russell Raymond Anderson
Phillip Jon Christensen
Anderson
Iowa River
Three finalists named in Iowa Farmer’s Daughter contest
Cedar Rapids Iowa UPI reports three finalists out of 200 in the 1956 Iowa’s Favorite Farmer’s Daughter contest. Candice Ann Fortune Marilyn Anne Hempy and Kaye Pritchard are the contenders. Co sponsored by Iowa Electric Light Power Co and the WMT Stations. The winner will be announced Friday at noon with prizes including a Washington trip wardrobe luggage a transistor radio portable TV and an encyclopedia set. The runners up receive luggage and a transistor radio.
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UPI
Iowa
Candice Ann Fortune
Marvin Fortune
Westgate
Marilyn Anne Hempy
Verne Emree
Anamosa
Kaye Pritchard
Harold Pritchard
Buckingham
Iowa Electric Light & Power Co
WMT
Washington, D. C
Hold up targets Clover Farm Market owner in Iowa City
Iowa City police seek a man and woman as suspects in the fatal holdup at Clover Farm Market. Proprietor Ronald Lipius was shot and killed after handing over money. the female suspect fled with a male accomplice in a light green Chevrolet. The woman, 19 to 24, 170 to 175 pounds, wore horned rim glasses and blue jeans. The man, about 20, 5 feet 11 inches, wore brown trousers.
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Iowa Weather: Clouds and Showers Then Cooler Tuesday
Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms tonight ending Tuesday. Cooler Tuesday with highs in the 70s and lows tonight in the upper 40s to upper 50s. Outlook calls for generally fair and mild conditions on Wednesday.
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