Midwest farmers vow revolt at polls over Johnson farm policies
Senator Jack Miller of Iowa joined Republican Roman Hruska of Nebraska in denouncing the Johnson Freeman farm program at the National Plowing Matches and Soil Conservation Field Days in Jefferson Iowa. They argued inflation hurts farmers and said farmers will lead a revolt at the polls next November. Vice President Hubert Humphrey addressed the same event with a contrasting pro urban economic outlook.
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Jefferson
Iowa
UPI
Jack Miller
Administration Farms
Miller
Roman L, Hruska
R-Neb
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey Humphrey
Johnson-Freeman
America
Hruska
Nebraska
Midwest
Plowing champions named on Friday in national matches
Rodney Hansen of Prole Iowa won the large plow event with 62 points in a six competitor field. William Goettenmoeller Versailles Ohio captured the level land title with 86.33 points, following a family legacy as his father won the same title ten years ago. The Goettenmoellers and Ohio neighbor William Rhoades of Greenville won contour and level categories as two Ohioans seek backing for the 1968 world championships in Southern Rhodesia.
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Jefferson
Iowa
UPI
Ohio
Rodney Hansen
Hansen
Proie
Des Moines
William Goettenmoeller
Versailles
Colfax
Lawrence
Lou) Goettenmoeller
Goettenmoeller
Darke County
William Rhoades
Greenville
Rhoades
Southern
Rhodesia
Germany
John Grieser
Springfield
D. Dean Tolzman
Minnesota Lake
Minn
Duane Tolzman
Springport
Mich
Weather Brief from United Preps on TOWA Suit
Partly cloudy today with a chance of widely scattered showers west and north central. Winds from the southeast to south at 8 to 12 mph. Tonight and Sunday remain partly cloudy with locally cooler temperatures in the far north.
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United Preps
Sues National Towa
Dirksen Opposes Rights Bill as Senate Braces for Showdown
Senator Everett Dirksen sang a sharp rebuke to the civil rights bill saying no a thousand times. He and Senate leaders met with Attorney General Katzenbach but action stalled with Democrats predicting a late next week showdown over open housing provisions.
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Washington
UPI
Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Dirksen
Nicholas Katzenbach
Mike Mansfield
Mont
Katzenbach
Iowa to Lead Nation in Corn Production and Yield
UPI reports the USDA forecast Iowa will produce 868.7 million bushels of corn in 1965 with an average yield of 8.0 bushels per acre, narrowly surpassing 1963 and 1964 records and topping Illinois for both crop and yield. Forecast cites higher plant population, fertilizer use, and favorable August weather as key factors.
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Washington
UPI
Iowa
U.S. Agriculture Department
State Department
Hawkeye
Des Moines
Humphrey Frames Farm Price Rise as Long Overdue Justice
Vice President Hubert Humphrey told a National Plowing Matches crowd that higher farm prices are long overdue economic justice not inflation. He pledged administration steps to aid planning, stated CCC stocks won’t undercut farmers, and urged an early 1967 feed grains program while stressing a balanced, growing agricultural sector.
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Jefferson, Iowa
UPI
Hubert Humphrey
Corn Belt
Humphrey
Commodity Credit Corporation
House of Representatives
Gemini 11 spaceflight postponed to Monday at Cape Kennedy
The Gemini 11 mission led by Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon was postponed due to Atlas booster autopilot failures and a Titan rocket skin leak. Mission Director William Schneider said the two day delay preserves a daylight first orbit rendezvous objective for the lunar program.
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Gemini
Charles Conrad
Richard Gordon
Titan
William Schneider
Conrad
Woll
Gordon
Cape
Rocketeers eye amateur orbital shot from New Jersey
Robert Jones, 19, of Clark NJ, and Fred Wagner, 20, of Narberth PA, plan a $4000 three stage rocket launch to place a peanut sized payload into orbit. They aim for a 5 p.m. EDT launch from a land site off New Jersey after securing permission and with a General Electric engineer observing their test methods.
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N.Y
Cape Kennedy
Robert Jones
Clark, NJ
Fred Wagner
Narberth
Jones
Wagner
New Jersey
Rutgers
Academy of Aeronautics
New York
General Electric Co
Washington County School Election Set For Monday Vote
Qualified voters in Washington County go to the polls Monday September 12 to elect school board members and decide a proposed three fourths of a mill tax levy to fund Area X community college and vocational school at Cedar Rapids. Candidates include incumbent Robert Kleese in district 3 with L. W. Robison and Lyle Wilson.}{
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Washington County
Area X Community College
Cedar Rapids
Regio Washington
Washington
Brighton
Robert Kleese
L. W. Robison
Lyle Wilson
Kleese
Henry Soucek
Walnut
Ington
Keokuk publisher leads Iowa Daily Press Assn
Dale E. Carrell Jr., publisher of the Keokuk Daily Gate City, was named president of the Iowa Daily Press Association. He succeeds Robert H. O’Brien of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. John Bishop, co publisher of the Burlington Hawk Eye, becomes vice president. Officers include K E Green W D Archie F H Simpson and Robert J McCoy. Board members take three year terms.
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Iowa City Press Citizen
W.D. Archie
The
Shenandoah Sentinel
F. H. Simpson
Atlantic News - Telegraph
Robert J. McCoy
Waterloo Courier
Whites and Blacks Attend Verwoerd Funeral in Pretoria
Black African leaders joined white dignitaries at the state funeral for Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of Apartheid, as 4000 mourners gathered at the Union Buildings amphitheater. Verwoerd, 64, was stabbed to death in Cape Town while in Parliament.
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Pretoria
South Africa
UPS
Hendrik Verwoerd
Dutch Reformed Church
Verwoerd
Union
Cape Town
US planes attacked as MIGs clash over North Vietnam
An American F105 jet was shot down by ground fire while MIGs attacked three Thunderjets over North Vietnam. Ground fighting near Saigon persisted with U S and South Vietnamese forces clashing with Viet Cong units in multiple actions. One Viet Cong wounded, four communists reported slain in Co My rain forest fighting as security tightened for elections.
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North
Viet Nam
South
Ost
Hanoi
Haiphong
Panhandle
USS
1St Infantry
Sion
Co My
Elections Turmoil Grips Saigon Before Sunday Vote
Vietnamese government forces moved into Saigon to deter Buddhist demonstrations and Viet Cong attacks as authorities warned of terror threats nationwide. American personnel faced city curfews while Buddhist hunger strikes and violent incidents underscored a tense election eve.
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UPS
Viet Cong
UPI
Robert Kaylor
Hue
Biddhist Students Association
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.N
Thant
Viet Nam
Lodge
Thick Thang
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