25 Dec 1965
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1965
Page
1
Christmas reverberates from Bethlehem to Berlin as Americans celebrate with family while troops in Vietnam, Korea, and Cyprus eyes reflect concern and hope. Leaders and civilians alike face war, embargoes, and displacement amid holiday observances and charity.
Christmas Eve truce began at 6 p m and ran to midnight with self-defense exception. Viet Cong proposed 12 hours of halt ending at 7 a m. Seven mortar rounds near Chu Lai were deemed not a cease-fire breach due to field miscommunication. Marines stayed alert, no casualties reported as calm held along lines from Mekong Delta to North Vietnam.
A series of pre dawn fires in Newark and Jersey City killed eight, with a hotel blaze in Newark killing three and tenement fires trapping victims on upper floors. An arson investigation follows rapid evacuations and multiple rescues as fire crews battled smoke and flames.
Nationwide storm system brings snow from Northwest to upper Midwest with heavy rain from Texas to Illinois. Alaska cold air drives subzero temperatures as six inches or more fall in Idaho and Montana. Thunderstorms in Texas gulf coast. Port Lavaca tornado injures three. milder, dry Christmas forecast.
A Portales resident sent a Christmas gift box reinforced with multiple wires and a detonator to Santa Maria California. A six man bomb squad from Vandenberg Air Force Base dismantled the device in a field after postal workers flagged the wrapped parcel.
A bright sun melted most snow across the Panhandle after Friday light falls. Carrouzetts led with five inches, Spearman four with drifts, Lipscomb and Guymon three each. Amarillo and other towns saw minimal moisture and improving highway conditions. Temperatures rose to the high 40s with mid teens mornings.
More than 90 percent of U S bankruptcy petitions are filed for individuals rather than businesses. On average 447.7 persons file a petition each day, voluntary or involuntary.
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