Traffic Fatalities Early New Year Weekend Drop From Last Year
The Associated Press reports traffic deaths in the first hours of the New Year weekend show a sharp drop from the Christmas period. Through 6 p.m. Friday 15 deaths were recorded, vs 76 last Saturday. The National Safety Council estimates 460 to 540 more deaths may occur by midnight Monday. Weather across the nation included snow in New Mexico and Arizona and sleet belts in the Great Lakes region.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
New Mexico
Arizona
Montana
Great Lakes
Chris Noel Adopted by Big Red One in Vietnam
Actor and radio disc jockey Chris Noel, famed for her go go image, is officially adopted by the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam. She visited rifle companies, helped at hospitals, signed casts, and urged support for the war effort while expressing strong personal support for the troops.
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Big Red
Lai Khe
Chris Noel
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Armed Forces Radio
Hanoi
Hannah
Vietnam
William E. DePuy
Korea
Philippines
Los Angeles
Hawaii
Chris
West Palm Beach
Fla
Charlie
Berkeley
Bailey to Prepare Defense for Mill City Chiropractor
Boston lawyer F. Lee Bailey plans to seek a retrial or new proceedings in the murder case of Dr. John R. Mitchell a Minneapolis chiropractor charged with killing his wife Nancy Mitchell whose body was found in a burning home Bailey arrived in the Twin Cities with pathologist Dr. Richard Ford and investigator to prepare a defense and will file a habeas corpus writ in U S District Court Bailey will work with Minneapolis attorney Ronald Meshbesher who arranged the briefing Mitchell is free on a 15000 bond.
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Lee Bailey
Mill City
Wife
Minneapolis
Boston
F. Lee Bailey
T. Eugene Thompson
Bailey
Twin Cities
John R. Mitchell
Nancy
Thompson
U.S. District Court
Stillwater State Prison
St. Paul
U.S. Supreme Court
Sam Sheppard
Cleveland
Ohio
Carl Coppolino
New Jersey
Richard Ford
Ford
Coppolino
Mitchell
Ronald Meshbesher
Stillwater Man Dies in Head On Crash
Minneapolis reports Minnesota’s 1966 traffic deaths reached 964, a New Year tally record. Stillwater resident Lyle Norman Nelson, 37, died in a head on collision on U S 10 near Coon Rapids after 1 am. Donald James Schmolke, also in a single vehicle, was severely injured and hospitalized. Nelson’s home address is 1221 South Third Street Stillwater. Schmolke’s address is 13160 Crooked Lake Boulevard Coon Rapids.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Lyle Norman Nelson
Stillwater
Highway Patrol
U.S. 10
Coon Rapids
Nelson
Donald James Schmolke
Schmolke
South Third Street
Crooked Lake Boulevard
Drifter Reunited With Family After Misidentified Burial
Ferdinand H. Kirchner 58 is alive and back with siblings in Reading Pa after being buried as a Trenton murder victim. Police hold Armando Rivera 18 of Philadelphia for the shooting that led to the mistaken burial. Kirchner plans to see his grave and confirm his identity.
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Lancaster
Ferdinand H. Kirchner
Trenton
N.J
Kirchner
Reading
Harry Savior
Millersville
Ferdinand
Allentown
William Kirchner
George Hunter
William
Armando T. Rivera
Philadelphia
Texan Arrested for Threatening LBJ
Granville Ray Stockton, 20, was charged by the Secret Service with threatening the President. He was arrested at his parents' Denison home Friday night. Christian Herter Sr., former secretary of state, died at 71 after serving as Massachusetts governor and later a trade aide to President Johnson.
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Denison, Tex
Granville Ray Stockton
Secret Service
Stockton
William Stockton
Washington
Christian Herter Sr
Christian Herter Jr
Herter
Massachusetts
Johnson
Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa Fights Rough Seas Tow Yawl
CG Cutter Tamaroa speeds through the Atlantic to tow a battered 70 foot yawl after its rigging was torn in heavy seas. Three women and two men were plucked from the yawl Friday night, while five other men stayed aboard to await the cutter’s arrival.
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New York
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Armour Swift Fined for Short Weights in Minneapolis
Armour and Swift were fined 25 each by Municipal Judge Edwin P. Chapman after a city weights inspector found 50 packages of Armour wieners to be up to half an ounce light per pound and 24 Swift frankfurters labeled one pound plus 17 labeled 12 ounces to be up to an ounce light.
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Minneapolis
Armour & Co
Swift and Co
Edwin P. Chapman
Tom Miller
Swift
AP Guild Strike Vote Under Federal Mediation
Negotiations between The Associated Press and the American Newspaper Guild reached a federal mediator as the Guild asked members for strike authorization against AP.
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New York
Associated Press
American Newspaper Guild
Yugoslav Leader Frees Milovan Djilas Amnesty for Tito Critic
Belgrade reports President Tito granted amnesty and Djilas, once vice president and top reformer, is released from an eight year eight month prison term after more than eight years served. Djilas, famed for The New Class, had criticized the Communist system.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Milovan Djilas
Djilas
Aleksander Rankovic
Communist Party
Rankovic
Britain Calls for Peace Talks With U S Over Vietnam
Britain urges negotiations with the United States and North Vietnam as Hanoi remains silent on the proposal amid a two day cease fire. The scene shows members of the 2nd Brigade 1st Infantry Division during the truce with soldiers Spec. 4 Robt Brouillette of Vergennes Vermont Spec. 4 Richard Puerini of Providence Rhode Island and Spec. 3 Clarence Killion of Bakersfield California shown by AP wirephoto from Saigon.
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Illette
Vergennes
Richard Puerini
Providence
R. I
Clarence Killion
Sakersfield
Calif
Saigon
Coroner's inquest concludes on car train deaths in Austin
Coroner Dr. George Stahl announces that Gerald Hallman and William Foster died from careless driving by Michael Nihart linked to drinking. Nihart to face Municipal Court arraignment Wednesday. Witnesses testified about beer purchases and the liquor store visit.
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George Stahl
Mower County
Gerald A. Hallman
Oakland Ave
William R. Foster
Sth Ave
Michael Nihart
Austin Rt. 2
Milwaukee Road
Austin
Stahl
Kenneth Nihart
Michael
Nihart
Roger Plunkett
Rolland
Alice) Pratt
Austin Rt. 3
Robert Nihart
3Rd Ave
Foster
Hallman
Denny Roberts
Larry Dahmen
Mitchel L. Buxton
North Main Liquor
Robert
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Hugh A. Mulligan
South Vietnam
Ameri
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Massachusetts State Police
LBJ
West
Montenegro
University of
Bob Hope
Anita Bryant
Hope
Hope Troupe
Tary
Far East
Joey Heatherton
Nora Hope
Bob
Britain
U.S
Nhs
di An
Sai
Diane Dammen
15Th St. SE
St. Olaf Hospital
Jack Fisher
6Th St. NW
Alan Jacobson
5Th Ave. NE
Marvin Foster
Brownsdale
Okinawa
Naha
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Formosa
Raymond Palmer
London
Brita
United States
North
George Brown
Brown
Hong Kong
Dean Rusk
Red China
U.S. State Department
Harold Wilson
Scilly Isles
Whitehall
Haiphong
Wilson
North Vietnam
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