Veterans Day Salute Notes 17 Viet Nam Victims
The Messenger lists 17 area deaths among more than 5,000 American service members who died in Viet Nam. It chronicles the Southeast Ohio casualties including Cpl Ronald K. Ash, Cpl Francis I. Toops, Spec. 4 Virgil Giffy, Staff Sgt. Gerald H. Gaylor, Pfc Calvin C. Tolley, Pfc Phillip R. Looney, and others, with brief biographical details and service histories.
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Viet Nam
Messenger
United States
James T. Davis
Livingston
Tenn
Hocking County
Clark Air Force Base
Philippine Islands
Ohio
Cpl
Ronald K. Ash
George H. Ash
Laurelville
da Nang
Laurelville High School
Marines
Francis I. Toops
Frederick C. Toops
Logan
Logan High School
Virgil Giffy
James Giffy
Liverly Creek Road
Gerald H. Gaylor
West Virginia
Oak Hill
Gaylor
Calvin C. Tolley
Eddie Lou Howery
Carpenter
Tolley
Albany High School
Phillip R. Looney
Harry Looney
Second St
Athens
Looney
Parkersburg
W. Va
Athens High School
Ohio University
Rhodesia marks first birthday independence day
Rhodesia led celebrations in Salisbury for the first anniversary of independence from Britain under Prime Minister Ian Smith. Beatle John Lennon says the group will not split up and will continue recording. Ohio voters show higher passage rates for city bond issues than rural districts. Electricians strike at West Coast shipyards with government talks planned to end it. Nautilus submarine and Essex carrier return home for repairs after collision off North Carolina. A topless waitress trend emerges in New York with police summonses tied to cabaret laws. Viet Cong frogmen training for attacks on U S ships noted by Navy sources in Saigon.
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Rhodesia
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Education Association
OEA
San Francisco
P— Electricians
Federal Mediation Service
Tioup
Washington, D. C
Norfolk
Essex
North Carolina
Morehead City
N. C
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U. S
Four Thousand More Yanks Reach Tay Ninh Front
U S commanders sent a 4000 man brigade to Tay Ninh as enemy casualties rose to about 900 in over a week of fighting. The operation Attleboro, largest U S action of the war, involved 25000 or more Americans and focused on the Viet Cong stronghold 60 miles northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.
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South Viet Nam
U. S
Tay Ninh Front
Attleboro
U.S
Mekong Delta
Chuong Thien
Erals
North Viet Nam
Panhandle
Hanoi
Haiphong
Lunar Orbiter 2 in orbit with Soviet satellites
PASADENA Calif America s Lunar Orbiter 2 on a mission to photograph 13 potential landing sites entered lunar orbit. Three Soviet spacecraft share the same orbital region but scientists said there is no danger of collision or radio interference.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
Athens schools struggle as new state laws bite
Inside Today reports Athens city buses bulging due to new state laws causing delays and crowding. The rest of the page notes Msgr Bernard Lemming's Thoughts for Meditation and Mason School Board’s failure to hire an ESEA project director, with a Holiday House bazaar planned by AVNA on page 10.
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Mason School Board
ESEA
Avna Awe
Weather outlook cool to below normal through midweek
Daily highs forecast near normal in early period but generally 2 to 4 degrees below normal from Saturday through Wednesday. Cleveland 82, Columbus 51 to 32, Cincinnati 54 to 26. Cooler overall with a brief warm spell Sunday and again Wednesday. Precipitation around 0.5 inch, mainly showers in the first half of the period.
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Sennen
Cleveland
Columbus
Cincinnati
McNamara Flags ABM Race as US Weighs Defense Net
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara says the Soviet Union is deploying an antiballistic missile system and the United States is weighing a Nike X style defense. He cites costs up to 30 billion dollars and notes it is too early to build a Chinese threat focused system while Moscow prepares an ABM shield.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
Soviet Union
United States
McNamara
President Johnson
Texas Ranch
Johnson To Scale Back Great Society Proposals
President Johnson said he will lay fewer Great Society proposals before a more Republican 89th Congress and focus on financing programs already authorized. He indicated some new proposals but fewer than in 1966, aiming to navigate a GOP and conservative Southern Democrat opposition.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Texas
House
Trate
89Th Congress
Federal Judges Press Georgia Election Ruling Bar Runoff
Three federal judges heard suits seeking to block Georgia's General Assembly from selecting a governor after a split vote. Maddox led with 447,000. Callaway 443,000. Arnall 58,000 as write-ins. The ACLU seeks delay pending reapportionment. a bipartisan group requests a runoff, arguing legislative choice violates a unitary election.
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Atlanta, Ga
Georgia
Howard H. Callaway
Lester G. Maddox
Ellis G. Arnall
General Assembly
Gemini Launch Nearer To The Moon Mission
The Gemini project countdown advances toward a four day venture to the moon. Titan 12 carries astronauts Lovell and Adrin as ground crews complete final checks and fuel load. The launch follows nine prior manned flights as Rhodes warns against dancing on the graves of election losers.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Florida
Nixon warns on peace price in 1968 campaign
Former Vice President Richard M Nixon says both parties may concede to the Vietnamese Communists for a popular peace in 1968 unless President Johnson ends the war in 1967. He notes Republican gains strengthen a no reward for aggression stance and urges action to end the war without appeasement.
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Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Nixon
Southeast Asia
Florida
House of Representatives
Asia
Lyndon Johnson
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