Mississippi Floods Swamp Dubuque and Plains Nearby
Mississippi River floods stretch across Dubuque Iowa with eight feet over flood stage and crest forecast for 26.5 feet. Volunteer sandbag teams number about 1,000 aided by reinforcements from New Hampton Iowa with thousands of sandbags already deployed.
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Associated Press
Dubuque
Iowa
Illinois
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Quincy
Ill
New Hampton
Wisconsin-Illinois-Iowa Junction
Eightelock
Gary High School Band to Return for Winchester Festival
Gary West Virginia's Gary High School Band directed by John A Cempella will rejoin the Festival parades in Winchester. The group plans to march in both parades and stay at the Friendship Fire Hall as a homecoming for Cempella amid McDowell County roots. A Berryville mail misaddress shows Evening Star Office without city or state yet delivery succeeded.
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Gary
W.va
John A. Cempella
Winchester
Cempella
Friendship Fire Hall
McDowell County
West Virginia
Star
Berryville
Evening Star
Winchester Station Joins 4 State Automatic Weather Network
Winchester joins an automatic hydrological observation system among 20 stations spanning four states to speed weather and river forecasts by six to 12 hours. The AHOS network will cover McConnellsburg Pennsylvania to near Staunton Virginia with Winchester reporting rain data to the U.S. Weather Bureau in Washington. The Winchester site uses a punched tape rain gauge installed at Dr. Walter S. Hough’s Fairmont Avenue residence to record time and rainfall, though transmission to the bureau is not yet live.
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Winchester
US Weather Bureau
Middle Atlantic
McConnelsburg
Staunton
Strasburg
Front Royal
U.S. Weather Bureau
Washington, D.C
Weather Bureau
Walter S. Hough
Fairmont Ave
Hough
Voting Bill Debate Faces Long Path in Senate
Senate leaders aim to vote early next week on a Wil liams amendment to strengthen election fraud penalties as debate enters its second day. Ellender warns debate could run eight weeks if a poll tax rider blocks a two thirds vote. The bill would empower federal registrars in five Deep South states and parts of six others and pause literacy tests.
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Washington
Senate
John J. Williams
R-Del
Mike Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen
Williams
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana Democrat
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Ellender
Dirksen
Philip A. Hart
de Mich
Deep South
Federal mediator steps into pivotal steel talks in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh AP reports chief federal labor negotiator William E. Simkin intervened to avert a May 1 steel strike. He will meet with 11 major producers after briefing United Steelworkers leaders who demand a 17.9 cent per hour raise. The union accuses companies of resisting realistic bargaining and cites potential impact on 425000 workers.
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Pittsburgh
William E. Simkin
United Steelworkers Union
Simkin
USW
David J. McDonald
Beagle Poncho Traverses to North Shore Vet for Care
In Duluth Minnesota Poncho a three year old beagle walked about two miles to the North Shore Veterinary Hospital seeking help after a porcupine encounter. The Alvin Davis family brought him in for shots and treatment and staff removed quills from his chest and head before poncho was sent home.
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Duluth, Minn
North Shore Veterinary Hospital
Poncho
Beagele
Alvin Davis
Davises
Davis
Soviet Molniya 1 satellite orbits for first time
The Soviet Union announces its first communications satellite Molniya 1 is in a high elliptical orbit and has transmitted television between Moscow and Vladivostok four thousand miles away. Tass notes the craft will relay TV programs and long distance communications though not in synchronous orbit.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Vladivostok
Sea of Japan
Tass
Molniya 1
Molniya
U.S
Telstar
Three Klansmen freed on bond in Liuzzo murder case
Three Ku Klux Klansmen, Eugene Thomas 42, William Eaton 41, and Collie Wilkins Jr. 21, were released on $10,000 bonds each in Birmingham awaiting trial for first degree murder in the ambush slaying of Viola Liuzzo during the Selma to Montgomery march. The indictments allege they killed Liuzzo by shooting her in Alabama near Lowndesboro on March 25. the grand jury report criticized statements by high government officials. federal cases against another suspect were noted but not pressed.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Detroit
Matt H. Murhy Jr
Johnson
Murphy
Lowndes County
Grand Jury
Hayneville
Eugene Thomas
William Orville Eaton
Bessemer
Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr
Fairfield
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Viola Gregg Liuzzo By Shooting Her With A Pistol.’’ Mrs. Liuzzo
Teamsters Union
U.S. 80
Lowndesboro
Selma
Montgomery
T. Worth Thaggard
Gary Thomas Rowe
Rowe
New York Times
FBI
Klan
Fire Bomb hurled at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York
A man tossed Molotov fire bomb at the main altar of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan injuring Emma Gomez Reyes. David L Malone, 25, identified by police, was arrested hours later and charged with arson, desecrating a church and felonious assault.
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New York
St. Patrick’s
David L. Malone
Houston
Tex
Sst. Clare’s Hospital
Robert F. Wagner
New York Public Library
Malone
Department of Welfare
Former Fete Queen Gretchen Merrill Gay Found Dead in Windsor
Gretchen Merrill Gay 38, former Apple Blossom Queen of 1948 and six year U S women’s figure skating champion, was found dead in her Windsor apartment. Police say she may have died naturally up to a week ago. trophies lay nearby highlighting a skating career beginning at age 10. She held the U S women's title from 1943 to 1948 and retired after 1949. Her 1953 marriage to William Otis Gay ended in divorce with no children.
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Gretchen Merrill Gay
Windsor
Conn
William Otis Gay
Boston
Boston March Delayed as King Lead Protest for Civil Rights
The Boston Common march led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr faced a late start while thousands gathered to protest segregation in schools jobs and housing. Officials expected 25 000 participants but early counts put about 5 000 at the Roxbury starting point amid talks of a SCLC meeting with the Boston School Committee and other tensions.
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Boston
Boston Common
Martin Luether King Jr
King
Roxbury
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Boston School Committee
Male
Colm Peabody
Massachusetts
Peabody
Presser Wanted for One Hour Quality Cleaning
Advertisement notes a one hour cleaning presser position at 161N Loudoun Street next to a shoe sale. Evening shoes from Lovett Shoe Corporation offered at 20 percent off in a Silver Gold White color range.
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Presser
Loudoun Street
White Lovett Shoe Corporation
Aircraft Return Safely After North Viet Nam Raids
About 200 U S Air Force and Navy planes destroyed six bridges and a river ferry in North Viet Nam in the largest action to date. Four Americans were killed on the ground, with another death announced. eighteen Americans were killed this week. Ground fire was light, carrier-based Navy planes participated, and an American Special Forces officer was killed west of Saigon.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Navy
North Viet Nam
Marine Corps
Viet Nam
Quang Khe
Xuan Son
Gianh River
Dong Hoi
Phuoc Thien
Hanoi
Ly Nhan
Pho Son
Som Phuong
Xom_ Gia
Phu Qui
Midway
Hanecock
Weather Outlook for Richmond Virginia
A weak low pressure area moves toward Virginia bringing cloudy skies and showers across the region. Expectations include light rainfall with possible scattered showers, followed by gradual clearing later in the day as the system passes.
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Richmond
Virginia
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David D. Malone
Sal
Pine Motor Co
Snt
Sacred Heart Parish
Trinitarian Seminary
Handley High School
Miller Hardware
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