96th Washington High commencement honors scholars
The 96th annual commencement at Washington High School honored scholarship recipients chosen by faculty. Winners include Diana Marie Hammen and Thomas Lowe with top awards, plus multiple Rotary Kiwanis and Legion scholarships. Four Class of 1966 speakers delivered talks as Supt Phleger and other officials presented diplomas.
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Washington High School
Henry Shields
University of the Receipient
Diana Marie Hammen
Paul Hammen
Thomas Lowe
Robert Lowe
Ella Griffith
Linda Johnson
Walter Johnson
Rotary Club
Judith Kleese
Elwood Kleese
Kiwanis Club
Mollie Kneen
Phil Kneen
Martin McCarthy
Bernard McCarthy
Steve Keating
Claire Keating
Carol Wilson
Lyle Wilson
Supt
John V. Phleger
Burge J. Hammone
Dean W. Luers
Board of Education
Dean Kurtz
Beverly Smith
Vernon Feuerhelm
Charles E. Cowell Jr
Vernon G. Elgin
Barbara Humston
Family of six slain in Warren Township home
In Warren Township Trumbull County, a steelworker Michael Collins 31 killed his wife Minnie Collins 29 and their four children David 7 Andy 6 Silas 4 and Viola 3 before likely killing himself. The victims were found in their beds with shots to the head and Mrs Collins stabbed multiple times.
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Warren
Ohio
UPI
Warren Township
Trumbull County
Guerrillas Clash With South Vietnamese In Major Attack
About 1,000 Communist guerrillas struck a 350-man South Vietnamese battalion in a day long battle 68 miles southwest of Saigon. Vietnamese forces later recaptured the position. U.S. and allied units reported dozens of enemy dead and significant material losses across multiple hotspots as B52s and aircraft conducted strikes.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
1St Air Cavalry
1St Infantry Division
U.S. Marine
Quang Ngai
Navy
South Viet Nam
Gemini launch delayed one day to Wednesday
Gemini 9 mission with astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan faces a one day delay from Tuesday to Wednesday. Sources say the extra 24 hours allows thorough checks on the Atlas booster used to fling a target into orbit for the rendezvous and spacewalk plan, though no specific problem is cited.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Thomas Stafford
Eugene Cernan
United Press International
Houston
Stafford-Cernan
Atlas
Ocean
Gemini
Iowa Weather Tonight and Saturday Forecast
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Saturday. Lows near 50 in the northeast and upper 50s in the south. Saturday highs in the 80s.
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United Press International
Iowa
Teachers Honored at Washington May Breakfast
Long service teachers in the Washington school system and Supt. John V. Phleger were recognized at the annual May breakfast of the Washington Teachers Association at the high school. Awards honored ten, fifteen, twenty and forty year veterans, with Phleger receiving a farewell gift as he departs for Geneseo Illinois. Officers for the coming year were named and guests attended as the Swingin Demons performed.
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Washington
John V. Phleger
Washington Teachers Associaton
Mary Booth
Harold Levens
Jesse Linch
Tom English
Carleton Bump
Ruth Simpson
Elsie Glassburner
Phleger
Carol Forgey
Robert Kleese
Alan Bergstrom
U S vows to end dollar outflow without harm
Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler said the United States aims to stop the dollar outflow without forcing Americans to cut travel or defense. He urged free world cooperation on IMF reform, tariff cuts, and aid to poor nations, conceding deficits may linger while Vietnam war continues.
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Washington
UPI
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
United States
U.S
Free World
Fowler
American Bankers Association
Granada
Spain
Viet Nam
Ky says Hue rebel leader not against me amid Saigon riots
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky said the Hue rebel leader Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi was not against him as Americans evacuated Thi’s Hue stronghold. In Saigon thousands of Buddhist youths battled police amid tear gas and rioting, burning and protests against the government and U.S. presence.
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Saigon
UPI
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen Chanh Thi
Thi
Hue City
Vietn Hoa Dao
Chu Lai
Tri
da Nang
U.S
Hue
U.S. Information Service
Californian Arrested in Cedar Rapids Armed Robbery Case
A 31 year old California man Paul Donald Smith was arrested in Cedar Rapids and charged with armed robbery and criminal assault in the Swisher farm wife raid. He was found driving a rented car after dawn and is to be arraigned at Coralville Police Court. The assault occurred Thursday on a rural road near Swisher. the victim, Mrs Joseph Novotny, 37, described a gun pointed demand for money, a $5 theft, binding and rape, with her two children returning home as the offender fled in a Dodge Charger. Police traced two rental cars from Chicago O'Hare and Cedar Rapids areas and identified smith by vehicle description. The initial custody charge was carrying a concealed weapon.
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Iowa City
Iowa
UPI
California
Cedar Rapids
Paul Donald Smith
Howard
Calif
Coralville
Smith
Linn County Sheriff’s
Joseph Novotny
Swisher
Novotny
O’hare
Chicago
Negro Green Beret buried with full military honors
A 19 year old Black U S Army paratrooper Pfc Jimmy L Williams of Wetumpka Alabama will be buried with full military honors at Andersonville National Cemetery after his grave in the town's segregated cemetery was denied due to no vacancies The case drew attention as his mother rejected a pauper plot and spoke of equal burial rights and non segregation The funeral arrangements were set for Sunday with burial Monday or Tuesday at the national cemetery in Georgia and the family faced conflicting statements from officials and relatives
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Wetumpka
Ala
UPI
Green Berets
Jimmy L. Williams
Viet Nam
Andersonville
William
John Williams
Demp Thrash
Williams
Thrash
Johnnie
Turncoat Admits Assisting Reds in Broadcast Propaganda
Clarence Co Adams a 37 year old Memphis Negro and Korean War turncoat arrived from Communist China and told reporters he volunteered to tape radio broadcasts for the National Liberation Front and the Viet Cong. He said he made political propaganda aimed at discouraging American Negro soldiers in Vietnam from fighting, urging them to seek equality.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Clarence Co. Adams
Viet Nam
Memphis
Tenn
Adams
China
National) Liberation Front
Baby arrives in a Dallas bottling plant lobby
Tom Rubio sped to a Dallas plant with his wife in labor. Nurses at the scene and Mrs Evelyn Wormser helped deliver baby Tom Rubio IV in the car. Mother and child weighed 6 pounds 14 ounces and were said to be doing well at Baylor University Medical Center. The event interrupted a childbirth class at the plant auditorium.
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Dallas
UPI
Tom Rubio
Ercella
Rubio
Evelyn Wormser
Dallas Association of Parent Education
Baylor University Medical Center
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Tom Kuncl
Penelope Hampsher
Allen Hampsher
Tonya Hernandez
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Regina Gunnarson
LeRoy Gunnarson
Keith Norton
John Kurtz
Helen E. Levis
Dixie Smith
Gregory Smith
Campbell
Dean Pohren
Leonard Pohren
American Legion Auxiliary
Janet Talbot
Norma Talbot
U. S
Viet Hoa Dao
John F. Kennedy Square
U.S. Post Exchange
Nguyen Co Ky
Pointblank
An Quang
U.S. Information Agency
Johnson
New Haven
Turncoat
Reds
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