27 Dec 1965
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1965
Page
1
The nation records a Christmas holiday traffic death toll of 707 over 78 hours. Ohio reaches a new high 50 deaths surpassing 49 in 1956. Weather and long drives pushed fatalities beyond earlier Council estimates.
U S planes avoided North Viet Nam skies for a third day as Marines fought ground battles in Da Nang area with 63 Viet Cong killed. In south, mines and rocket fire produced U S casualties and Air Force losses rose to 10 planes.
President Johnson showed cautious optimism that hostilities in Viet Nam would not return to pre Christmas intensity as U S bombings remained paused after the cease-fire. The White House said Saigon would decide the fate of the accord while Johnson attended worship in Johnson City and visited his boyhood home where a deer hunter and a girl with a firecracker caused a scare.
U S Army charges Special Forces soldiers George E. Smith and Claude McClure with aiding the Viet Cong during their captivity in Vietnam. They were captured in November 1963 near Saigon and released November 27 at the Cambodian border. Both receive defense attorneys as cases may go to court martial on Okinawa.
Chicago reports Luci Baines Johnson promises to pursue higher education after marrying airman Pat Nugent of Waukegan. At 18 she shows her engagement ring after Mass at St Bartholomew's in Waukegan. President Johnson has long urged both daughters to complete college. Lynda Bird Johnson travels to Wyoming to visit a friend.
Vice President Hubert Humphrey starts a week long trip to the Philippines Japan South Korea and Nationalist China with aims to discuss Viet Nam and to improve his domestic image. President Johnson plans to send adviser Jack Valenti along.
A fire about two miles east of Uniontown claimed the life of a young mother Martha Garrison about 22 and her four children. Firemen said the family slept in a four room home as the father Homer around 26 escaped and later reentered the blaze to save them. He was hospitalized with burns.
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A powerful storm moves into the northwest with gale warnings from northern California to Puget Sound. Cape Mendocino reports winds up to 52 mph as heavy rains hit Oregon and Washington coasts and inland California. Cold waves linger in the Midwest.
Clarence Miller, mayor of Lancaster, announced his bid for the Republican nomination in the May primary for congress in Ohio's 10th District. A longtime city official and Ohio and national league participant, he has been an electrical engineer for a decade and holds multiple local posts.
Siamese twin girls born Christmas Day in California were separated in a three hour operation. Doctors say they have a better than even chance of survival, though final outcomes remain uncertain. The 12 pound twins Lisa Marie and Sheila Norine were born at Holy Cross Hospital and treated at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital by an 18 member team.
On the George Washington Bridge New York New Jersey a small plane with two men aboard clipped a truck driven by Woodrow Leone 47 of Guttenberg New Jersey and landed between lanes. The plane with engine trouble aimed for the Hudson River but the two occupants walked away with minor injuries and the plane rested in the center lanes while traffic was light.
Gov James A Rhodes will ask the state controlling board to release 3.5 million dollars in bond issue money for a highway research center to be built on 7000 acres of land in central Ohio. In other items, a peace vigil near the LBJ Ranch urged U.S. action to end the Vietnam war. A Berlin border incident left a man dead as East German guards repelled would be refugees. The cube of items also notes asylum for Cuban freighter officers, Valachi memoirs ruling, and a Job Corps center opening at Camp Perry with 112 youths arriving for training next month.
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