February Deadline Set for City Transportation Study
City aldermen set February as the deadline for a decision on a joint city county transportation planning study. The decision followed a City Council and County Board of Commissioners meeting with C E Burrill outlining the Austin Mower County study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Burrill
Dist
State Highway Dept
Austin - Mower
Robert Shaw
Shaw
Burrill
State Dept. of Highways
Minnesota Dept. of Business Development
Marines Strike At Viet Cong Nest South Of Da Nang
Helicopters dropped two more U.S. Marine companies into the four day battle south of Da Nang as government and South Vietnamese troops pressed a hard core Viet Cong battalion. Reports cite light but steady contact and heavy fighting in the Mekong Delta area with fortified tunnels found by Marines.
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Thomas A. Reedy
Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang
Mekong Delta
Big
Air Force Base
Khue Bac
Henry Cabot Lodge
Delta
South China Sea
Valley Forge
Merry Christmas Trees Pose With Tree Family
A Columbus Ohio family the Trees poses with a Christmas tree scene featuring Merry 12 the youngest child and her brothers Douglas Fir and Jack in a holiday photo.
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Merry
Columbus, Ohio
Douglas Fir
Jack
London Flood Alert Canceled After High Thames Tide
London officials canceled a flood alert after gales and high tides. The Thames fell short of Friday’s peak, with Westminster water level within six inches of the House of Commons parapet as police lined the riverbank to warn of any surge.
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London
Thames
Westminster
House of Commons Terrace
Wilson Reports Lowered Earnings for 1965
Wilson & Co. meat packers report sharply lower fiscal year earnings ending Oct. 30 due to smaller hog supplies and higher prices. President Roscoe G. Haynie pegs 1965 earnings at $3.60 per share versus $5.14 in the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wilson & Co., Inc
Roscoe G. Haynie
Gemini 7 pilots prepare for historic space rendezvous
AP report from Houston details Gemini 7 crew Frank Borman and James Lovell nearing a 14 day mission with a planned nose to nose formation flight with Gemini 6 as launch crews ready the Titan 2 for a Sunday blast off. The two spacecraft are to meet 60 hours into the mission with a news event and photo session planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Thompson
Aerospace
Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
United States
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Mission Control
Scirra
Stafford
Space Twins
Borman
Lovell
Airorce
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Space
Space rendezvous in offing for Gemini 6 and 7 mission
Drawing shows the Gemini 6 craft rising to space after its blastoff from Cape Kennedy Florida on Sunday with Gemini 7 on target for a rendezvous in orbit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Johnson plans to switch fighters to bomber fleet
President Johnson and Defense Secretary McNamara aim to convert F11 fighters into FB111 strategic bombers forming a 210 aircraft fleet by 1971. The aircraft would match B52 range and speed while carrying 50 bombs and expanded penetrating capability. McNamara said the plan does not remove strategic bombers from the force despite earlier base cuts. The line item foresees 210 FB111s and 225 B52s in SAC by decade's end, for a total of 565 bombers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elton C. Fay Washington
Johnson
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Navy
Air Force
McNamara
Strategic Air Command
Johnson Signals Cuts to Fund Vietnam War
President Johnson seeks to persuade rivals in Washington and abroad that U S civilian programs will be trimmed to finance the Vietnam effort. Officials stated budgets will be cut below current levels or not fully disclosed as peace prospects unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Johnson
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Peking
Moscow
Congress
White House
United States
Robert S. McNamara
Secretary of Commerce
John T. Connor
Acquittal of 3 Will Trigger Racial Tension in Selma
In Selma Alabama the acquittal of three white men charged in the civil rights killing of Rev. James Reeb sparks fears of renewed racial strife. King official Andrew Young says the verdict may provoke demonstrations and continued tension in the city.
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Rex Thomas Selma
Ala
Boston
Selma
Martin Luther King Jr
Andrew Young
King’s
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Atlanta
James J. Reed
Broad Street
Cook
Hoggle Brothers
Reeb
R.B. Kelley
Police Break Up N Y Gang Rumble in Brooklyn Subway
Transit police halted a Brooklyn gang rumble at De Kalb Avenue after 75 teens rushed from a train. Three 13 year old girls were booked on weapons charges with five butcher knives and a stilettos found. 25 boys aged 14 to 20 were also charged.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Eugene K. van Denburgh
Elizabeth Marie
William Tell
van Denburgh
New York
Brooklyn
de Kalb Avenue
UNICEF chief proposes penalties for failed disarmament talks
Oslo based UN Children’s Fund chair Mrs. Zena Harman urged that abortive disarmament conferences be fined with a UNICEF contribution. She contrasted armament costs with UNICEF’s needs, noting $180 billion yearly arms spending versus a $35 million budget, and cited Polaris submarine costs at $200 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oslo
Norway
Zena Harman
U.N. Children’s Fund
Nobel Institute
Unicef
Harman
Washington
Alfred Nobel
Young Man's War: Yunck Awarded Purple Heart in Vietnam
Col. Michael R. Yunck of Santa Ana California smiles after receiving a Purple Heart for a wounded left leg amputated in Vietnam. He also earns a second battlefield Silver Star from Gen. Keith McCutcheon after being hit as he directed helicopter air strikes near Que Non during a Marine Vietnamese operation.
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Michael R. Yunck
Santa Ana
Calif
da Nang
South Viet Nam
Keith McCutcheon
1St Marine Air Wing
Col. Yunck
Que Non
Saigon
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Diego
Charles Berry
Berry
North
Ft. Lincoln, N.D
Bismarck
N. D
William L. Guy
Ft. Lincoln
Wilson Reports
LBJ
Ing
Earth
Jim
Frank
John Carlton
Texas
Joint Chiefs of Staff
By Frank Cormier
Alabama
Birmingham
Elmer L. Cook
Namon O’neal Hoggle
William Stanley Hoggle
Joseph T. Pilcher
N.Y
Children’s Fund
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