Keokuk Armory Explosion Kills Seven At Thanksgiving Eve Dance
A gas explosion ripped the National Guard Armory in Keokuk Iowa during a Swing Easy Square Dance injuring at least 47 and killing seven. Rescue teams battled flames as crews from three states aided hospitals. early reports suggested as many as 70 were present.
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Keokuk
Iowa
UPI
National Guard
William Bennett
Tony
Alice Summers
Kenny Anderson
Joseph May
Iowa National Guard
Moscow closes Washington Post bureau over Penkovsky papers
Soviet authorities order the closure of the Washington Post Moscow Bureau in retaliation for publishing the Penkovsky papers. Moscow demands correspondent Steph Rosenfeld leave within seven days as Kremlin criticizes the papers as a CIA forgery while noting prior expulsions of ABC and other outlets.
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Moscow
UPI
Washington Post
Penkovsky
Soviet
Foreign Ministry
Steph Rosenfeld
Post
Rosenfeld
Kremlin
Oleg Penkovsky
Soviet Union
ABC
Sam Jaffe
Washington
David
Rebecca
Mrs Hutchinson 66 of Cairo Dies in Muscatine Hospital
Mrs Maude Hutchinson aged 66 of near Cairo died Wednesday at Muscatine General Hospital. Funeral set for Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Stacy Funeral Home Columbus Junction with Rev Hubert Sunderman officiating. Burial Cairo Cemetery. Survived by husband Paul H Hutchinson three daughters Mrs Lewis Lanatt Davenport Mrs Ted Wiley and Mrs Alfred Lanatt Muscatine a son Dallas Muscatine three grandchildren and sister Mrs John Patterson St Ansgar.
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Columbus Junction
Maude Hutchinson
Cairo
Muscatine General Hospital
Stacy Funeral Home
Hubert Sunderman
Hutchinson
William
Eva Sellers Rutt
Paul H. Hutchinson
Lewis Lanatt
Davenport
Ted Wiley
Alfred Lanatt
Muscatine
Dallas
John Patterson
St. Ansgar
Two men killed in crash near Wapello
Funeral services for Wesley Roth of Burlington are pending. Roth, 30, died in a one car crash three miles south of Wapello on highway 61 Wednesday afternoon. He formerly lived in Wayland with parents and wife Lucille Wenger. Also killed was Dr. Donald Eddie Bedell Jr., 27, of Burlington. Bedell was known in the area for golf competition at the Washington Golf and Country Club. Both had been pheasant hunting. Roth is survived by a brother, Donnie, three children, and his parents.
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Wayland
Wesley Roth
Burlington
Zehr
Roth
Wapello
Highway 61
Lloyd Roth
Lucille Wenger
Ralph Wenger
Near Wayland
Donald Eddie Bedell Jr
Bedell
Iowa
Washington Golf and Country Club
Mr. Roth
Donnie
Mrs. Cora Morgan Dies at 70 in Iowa City
Mrs. Cora Morgan of Columbus Junction Iowa died Wednesday afternoon at University Hospital Iowa City at 10:30. Funeral services were held at Stacy Funeral Home with burial in Columbus City Cemetery. She was 70 and survived by a daughter Mrs. Robert Garrett of Columbus City a son Lyle Morgan of Columbus Junction eight grandchildren two brothers Guy Troxel of Klamath Falls Ore and Paul Morgan of Columbus Junction and two sisters Mrs. Lois Polton of Columbus Junction and Mrs. Edna Enslin of Klamath Falls.
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Columbus Junction
Cora Morgan
University Hospital
Iowa City
Stacy Funeral Home
Columbus City
Morgan
Richard
Mabel Schultz Troxel
Arvide Morgan
James Morgan
Robert Garrett
Lyle Morgan
Guy Trox
Mobutu Seizes Power in Congo Coup in Leopoldville
Lt. Gen. Joseph Mobutu toppled Congo's civilian government and declared himself president for five years in a bloodless coup. He ordered Col. Leonard Mulamba to form a national union government and planned to cancel February elections. Mobutu pledged no violence and declared the crisis over.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
UPI
Joseph Mobutu
Mobutu
Joseph Kasavubu
Evariste Kimba
Leonard Mulamba
National Union
Kasavubu
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Col
Mulamba
High School Choir Plans Holiday Concert
The Washington High School choir will present Amahl and the Night Visitors as part of the annual Christmas concert on December 21. Rehearsals are underway under director Vernon Feuerhelm who notes the same musical may be seen on NBC TV on December 12. Local residents are encouraged to learn more about the program before attending.
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Washington High School
Amahl
Vernon Feuerhelm
Nbc-Tv
Arrested in Miami drops five fire bombs
Lon David Shaw an electronics technician told police secret voices directed him to drop Molotov bombs on Negro and Jewish neighborhoods in five air raids aimed at scaring rioters. He said the attacks were psychological warfare and prevented larger riots. He was arrested after a November bombing in North Bay Village and had rented planes for all the nights of the attacks.
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Charles P. Mears
Armory
Keokuk
Kirksville
Mississippi
Coast Guard
Goldenrod
John Breheny
Miami
UPI
Lon David Shaw
Shaw
Air Force
Florida
Fred Mowry
North Bay Village
Kilgore, 80, dies in Ainsworth area
Harry H Kilgore, 80, died Wednesday November 24 1965 at Washington County Hospital. His home was southeast of Ainsworth. he had been ill six months. Funeral Friday at 2 pm at Jones Funeral Home with Rev Dale Brehmer. Born March 3 1885 in Kirkwood Illinois he married Mabel Squire April 11 1906. Surviving: wife, son Claude of Ainsworth, two grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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Harry H. Kilgore
Washington County Hospital
Ainsworth
Jones
Dale Brehmer
Ainsworth Cemetery
Mr. Kilgore
Kirkwood
Ill
Frank P
Mary Reynolds Kilgore
Mabel Squire
United Presbyterian Church
Claude
New Homes Begin In Hotle Sub-division Washington
Excavation started today in the Hotle subdivision of Washington for 42 planned dwellings. Hal Hotle of Hotle Development and Realty said four homes should be underway before winter, with new streets and utilities planned south of East Harrison Street and west of South 12th Avenue.
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Hotle
Washington
Harrison Street
South 12Th Avenue
Hal Hotle
Hotle Development and Realty
City of
Iowa Weather Forecast Partly Cloudy Little Cooler Tonight
United Press International reports a partly cloudy trend with a slight cooling. Lows range from the 20s in the north to the 30s in the south, and Thursday highs reach the 40s north to 50s south.
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United Press International
Iowa
Thanksgiving calm in Vietnam as troops dine
In South Vietnam fighting slackened for Thanksgiving and thousands of American GIs shared turkey dinners. General Westmoreland visited Phan Rang to eat with paratroopers while supply missions delivered hot meals under fire. A U.S. Navy strike on a civilian vehicle prompted an investigation as casualties rose nationally.
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Saigon
Vps
South Viet Nam
William C. Westmoreland
Viet Nam
Phan Rang
101St Airborne
da Nang
U.S
Lewis’ Walt
Third Marine Amphibious Force
Walt
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Dallas Kinney
Illinois
Missouri
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Rantoul
Graham Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital
Indianapolis Coliseum
Jim Regan
Regan
Mrs. Hutchinson
Columbus
Mobutu Takes
Congo’ River
Kasayubu
High School Singers
Teresa Anderson
Richard Anderson
Lincoln School
Nang
Quung Tri
Westmoreland
Mutual Broadcasting Co
Ia Drang
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