Gemini 7 near end of 14th day space endurance flight
Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell approach final return from a 14th day endurance mission aboard Gemini 7. Ground control reports good health and stable readings as retrorocket maneuvers and splashdown near. They anticipate a safe reentry over the Pacific and splashdown off the Atlantic recovery ship USS Wasp.
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Ronald Thompson
Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Earth
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
Mission Control
Borman
Charles Berry
Lovell
Berry
Wasp
Atlantic
Ike to Leave Hospital for Gettysburg Home Today
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower will depart Walter Reed General Hospital on Saturday for his Gettysburg home. He has been recovering from two heart attacks since November 9 while at his Augusta vacation home and entered Walter Reed on November 23 after treatment at Fort Gordon Georgia.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Walter Reed General Hospital
Eisenhower
Augusta
Walter Reed
Ft. Gordon
Swedes Watch Nude Dance On Swedish TV Show
In Stockholm seven American dancers from the San Francisco based American Dancers' Workshop Company performed in the nude on a Swedish TV show titled Parades And Changes. The four men and three women undressed slowly while the audience remained largely unmoved by the provocative scene.
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Stockholm
UPI
American Dancers’ Workshop Company
San Francisco
Record Indiana Holiday Sales Boom Across Indiana
Indiana merchants report a record Christmas season with about 21 percent higher sales than last year. Strong demand for jewelry major appliances and especially color TV sets drives gains in Indianapolis Kokomo Seymour and Richmond with stores selling out of mid price toys and popular TV models. Savings checks distributed in November help fuel the surge as shoppers prepare for Christmas Week.
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Indianapolis
Santa Claus
Indiana
Chambers of Commerce Bank
Hoosier
Kokomo
Seymour
S. Richmond
Yale
J Muncie
LBJ and Wilson Set Rhodesia Oil Embargo Plan
President Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson agreed on an oil embargo against Rhodesia and agreed to aid Zambia to keep sea routes open. They discussed Britain's defense budget and how to hold expenditures to target levels by decade's end.
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Washington
Johnson
Harold Wilson
Rhodesia
London
Zambia
Wilson
U.N. General Assembly
White House
Britain
Africa
Tan Smith
U.S
Robert 5. McNamara
George W. Ball
McGeorge Bundy
Suez
Gemini 6 Crew Back At Cape After Historic Rendezvous
Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford return to Cape Kennedy after a flawless Gemini 6 rendezvous with Gemini 7. 400 Cape workers greet the astronauts with banners as they praise the launch team and contrast Titan 2 with Mercury era rockets. Debus credits the crew for boosting public confidence in the space program. A separate notice reports Vincennes University receiving a $250,000 loan to expand student union dining facilities in Vincennes Indiana.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Imen
Atlantic
Schirra
Stafford
Wally
Tom
Sehirra
Kurt H. Debus
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Debus
Vincennes U
Washington
Community Facilities Administration
Vincennes University
Vincennes
Ind
Gemini 7 Advised to Mail Christmas Packages Now
UPI reports from Houston Space Center that mission control urged Gemini 7 to mail Christmas packages promptly. The postmaster general cited nationwide delays, while Gemini 7 joked about not finding a post office, suggesting Gemini 6 should have delivered.
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Mission Control
Gemini 7
Traffic Toll Rises in Indiana Deaths Reach New High
Indiana records 1419 traffic deaths this year, second only to 1941 as fatalities mount. Linton worker dies of a heart attack after a truck crash near Spencer. Hockmeister, 19, killed in two car crash near Evansville. Bailey, 33, critically hurt. Baileys injured. Miles, 18, dies on Turnpike near Valley Forge. Three South Bend youths injured.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Linton City
Ind. 67
Spencer
Louis W. Hockmeister
Rt.1
Boonville
Ind. 1
Evansville
iKenneth R. Bailey
Rt. 2
Mount Vernon
Hockmeister
Robert J. Baibley
Itell
South Bend
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Valley Forge
James Underly
Edward Blankert
Blankert
Sacred Heart Hospital
New York
Hoosier Guardsmen To Train In Panama
About 200 Indiana National Guard officers and NCOs from the 38th Infantry Division sail Jan 2 for two weeks of jungle warfare and survival training in the Panama Canal Zone. They will conduct jungle patrolling escape and evasion cliff sealing and land navigation and then instruct other Hoosier guardsmen.
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Indianapolis
Indiana National Guard
Panama Canal Zone
38Th Infantry Division
Hoosier Force
Gemini re-entry timing data released by Space Center
Space Center Houston reports Gemini spacecraft re-entry sequence with retrorockets firing at 8:28 a.m. communications blackout from 4:53 to 8:57 a.m. Drogue chute deploys at 30 000 feet at 8:59 a.m. Splashdown occurs at 9:05 a.m. EST.
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Space Center
Houston
UPT
Space Agency
Gemini
State Health Body Puts Squeeze On Local Nursing Home
The Indiana Health Facilities Council named Shipley Nursing Home and eight other Hoosier facilities as substandard and refused 1966 license renewals. Shipley at 2417 Pearl St will cease operations January 1 though owner had planned June closure due to fire hazard findings. Hamilton Rest Home in Noblesville also affected.
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Shipley Nursing Home
Pearl St
Hoosier
Indiana Health Facilities Council
Shipley
Hamilton Rest Home
Noblesville
Vance Koonce
Division of Health Facilities
Mildred Gardner
Anderson
Selective Service Inducts 26 Madison County Men in December
The Selective Service System offices here report that Boards 48, 194 and 195 inducted 26 Madison County men into military service in early December. Names include Horace Jackson Jr and others from Anderson, Alexandria, Pendleton, Lawrence, Middletown, and Maryville. Officials urge 18 year olds to register within five days and remind registrants to keep board records current on address and status.
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Selective Service System
Madison County
Horace Jackson, Jr
Earl Stanley Boone
Walter Allen
Thomas Wallace
Kenneth Lee Lurber
Sidney Butler, Jr
Michael Vance Barnett
Larry Gene Lightfoot
William Lee Mathews
Anderson
Alfred James Duffy
Thomas Earl Imel
Jeffrey Allan Lockwood
Gerald Andrew Fields
Alexandria
Lester Edward Shinkle
el Wood
Philip Andrew Young
Robert Ellsworth Lee
Stephen Douglas Zarkdull
John Robert Pegs
John Jerry Brandenburg
David William Hollowell
Richard Alan Ginley
Dennis Wayne Robinson
Pendleton
Jonathan Max Stoops
Lanes
Ricky Duane Everhart
Mary Weville
Draft Board
Tee Ake
U S Doubts Russia Downed Lost Plane
The Defense Department discounted any chance that the missing U S Air Force Bay aircraft was shot down by the Soviets. The West Germany based plane disappeared Tuesday during a routine training mission about 90 miles north of the Turkish Black Sea coast after departing from Incirlik Air Base near Adana Turkey. Search operations continued for the two man crew.
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Washington
Defense Department
U.S. Air Force Bay
West Germany
Black Sea
Incerlik Air Base
Adana
Turkey
U S Weighs Use of B 52 Bombers Against Laos
U S plans secret B 52 strikes on Laotian infiltration facilities aiding Viet Cong in the south. Operations follow prior tactical raids and an agreement with Savannakhet authorities. Reports say 4500 men and 2500 tons of supplies could move per month through the Laos corridor.
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Saigon
UPS
United States
Laos
U. S. Defense Department
Souvanna Phouma
Panhandle
Thej
North Vietnamese
Mildest December Weather Likely Continues Here
Forecasters say milder than usual December may persist with daytime highs above freezing. The five day outlook shows temperatures about 46 degrees above normal, with Northern Indiana near 20-34 and southern areas 28-44. Rain or snow is uncertain for early next week.
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Associated Press
Indiana
South
Man Sues Downtown Store Over Icy Sidewalk Injury
H. Leon Lewis sues S. 8. Kresge Co. for 62000 damages after a December 17 1963 fall on an icy sidewalk in front of the Meridian Street store in Anderson. He claims painful lasting injuries and violation of city ordinance 495.
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Anderson
S. 8. Kresge Co
Meridian St
H. Leon Lewis
Newborns Reported at Local Hospitals
Born at St. John's Hospital to Mr and Mrs John Barne 215 Cottage Ave a boy Born at Community Hospital to Mr and Mrs Jack Hinchman 2616 Seminole Dr a girl
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St. John’s Hospital
John Barne
Cottage Ave
Community Hospital
Jack Hinch- Man
Local November Economy Shows Steady Tide Across Sectors
Anderson's November economic picture shows steadiness with mild gains over October 1964. Construction volume rose 144 percent from October and 20 percent year over year, gas use climbed 36 percent, and unemployment fell 90 percent in weekly claims year over year, while poor relief dropped 45 percent from 1964 levels.
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Anderson
Yorktown To Get Temporary License Branch In Delaware County
Democrat County Chairman Robert W. Stewart announced a temporary license branch will operate in Yorktown during January and February to aid western Delaware County motorists. A second temporary office will open in the Courthouse tax payer’s booth in Muncie. These offices will issue passenger plates only while Muncie’s regular branches handle titles transfers and drivers licenses.
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Democrat County
Robert W. Stewart
Yorktown
Delaware County
Muncie
Stewart
American pilot to receive packages from U.S. after December
Washington UPI reports Capt. Philip Elbon Smith, an American pilot held in Red China, will be allowed monthly packages after December 30. Smith’s plane was shot down over the Gulf of Tonkin in September. His wife Judith lives in Victorville California. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smith of Roodhouse Illinois.
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Washington
UPI
Red China
Red Cross
Philip Elbon Smith
Gulf of Tonkin
Judith
Victorville
Calif
Oscar Smith
Roodhouse
Area Scores and Blizzard Disrupts Japan
High school results show Anderson, East Chicago Washington, Huntington, Madison Heights, New Castle, Fairmount, Pendleton, St Marys, Rogerton, Yorktown, and other teams with scores listed. A separate Japan report notes a cold wave and blizzards disrupting air, sea, and land services across the country.
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High School Anderson
East Chicago
Washington
Alexandria
Huntington
Elwood
Noblesville
Madison Heights
New Castle
Fairmount
Anderson Highland
Pendleton
Anderson St. Mary's
Rogerton
Daleville
Yorktown
Cowan
Greenfield
M. Vernon
Hancock Co
Hamilton Heights
Lapel
Japan
Tokyo
Weekend Snow Forecast Brief
Mostly cloudy with light snow flurries in the morning. Chance of more snow Sunday. Temperatures range from the low 20s to near 30. Sunrise is 8 01 a.m. and sunset 3 09 p.m.
Juvenile Court Sentences Add to Tuesday's Docket
Judge Nelson Bohannan presided as two youths faced delinquency charges. Charles Osborne, 13, received an indeterminate sentence to Indiana Boys' School after being found delinquent. Steve Beeman, 16, had one case taken under advisement while both teens were linked to a December auto theft in Anderson. Two other youths pled not guilty to contributing to delinquency and await trial January 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Nelson Bohannan
Yestern
Charles Osborne
Park Avenue
Indiana
Plainfield
Steve Beeman
Eufaula
Oklo
Oklahoma
Beeman
Pitt St
Bohannan
Kenneth Jester
W. 12Th St
Johnson Receives Conditional Peace Offer From Ho Chi Minh
AP dispatch reports President Ho Chi Minh offered to negotiate a Vietnam peace with two conditions, rejected as stated. Secretary Rusk seeks clarification while the United States maintains it wants unconditional talks. A letter exchange with Amintore Fanfani disclosed details of the offer and the pause in negotiations.
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Washington
Johnson
Ho Chi Minh
North Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
White House
United States
Rusk
Amintore Fanfani
U.N. General Assembly
State Department
Fanfani
How To Become Millionaire Told Dobich Salesmen
Two former salesmen for Michael Dobich testified at Indiana Securities Commission hearings about exposure to high level briefings and an article on how to become a millionaire in 12 years. Bonner and Hoffman said their Dobich Securities Corp. employment ended with voluntary bankruptcy after Dobich’s death in a helicopter crash. A ruling on Hoffman and Bonner’s applications to work as securities brokers was expected next week.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Michael Dobich
Indiana Securities Commission
R. Lee Bonner
Terre Haute
Paul K. Hoffman
Nashcenses
Dobich Securities Corp
Dobich
Doxsee
Hoffman
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Edward Ray McCoy
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Paul Michael Sandefur
Russia
Markleville
Eastern Hancock
Rogerstown
Frankton
Fanfam Aid
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Kikihanen
Council 302 Boy Scouts
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