North Texas towns glow with Christmas lights across Cooke County
Lights blaze on courthouses in Gainesville Sherman Weatherford and other towns with red green and multicolored displays. Interstate 20 widens to four lanes near Ranger amid ongoing road work and detours. Farmers gather for tax and Social Security talks at the courthouse while Busy Cottonseed flow and 24 hour oil mill in Sweetwater report demand. Helicopters buzz Fort Wolters while bank funds clear a check for Red Acree.
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Texas
Cooke County Court House
Gainesville
Fm51
Mies
Sherman
Santa
Court House
Weatherford
Swetwater
Bonham
Cisco
Eastland
Ranger
Decatur
Jack Jenkins
Texas A&m Extension Service
Jim Lewis
Sherman Office
Social Security Administration
Bonham Forecast Predicts Warmer Weather This Week
The U S Weather Bureau reports warmer weather in the Bonham area through Wednesday. Skies will be clear to partly cloudy tonight with higher temperatures, and Wednesday brings considerable cloudiness but continued warming. Bonham records a morning low of 35 degrees.
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Bonham
U. S. Weather Bureau
Mideast Casualties Reported by Militia Sources
Militia sources say 25 percent of Israelis have been killed since 1967 with about 1,005 wounded in fighting against Arab forces. Arabs have suffered about 600 killed, another 1,300 captured.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Middle East
County Employees to Get 10 Percent Wage Increase
Fannin county commissioners approve a 10 percent across the board raise for all county employees, with official action to be taken at the January court meeting. The court also approved two new police cars for the sheriff's department at 4305 dollars total, retaining an existing car, and named Dr. FE Williams as county health officer for two more years.
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Fannin County
Sheriff's Department
Commissioners’ Court
Jerry Boone
Ford- Mercury, Inc
Boone
FE. C. Williams
Dr. Williams
Bud Miller
Bonham Library Joins City Administration Under Ordinance
The Bonham city commission approved incorporating the public library into city administration to secure future federal book funding and meet legal requirements. The action honors longtime library board members. The meeting also discussed traffic at North Center Street and Russell Avenue with no warrant for a signal, but a flashing beacon may be justified. City offices will close December 24 and 25 for Christmas.
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High Way Department
North Center
Russell Avenue
J. W. Cravens
Dan Mize
Center Street
U S Destroyers Cruise Black Sea Provocations Escalate
Two U S destroyers the Dyess and Turner entered the Black Sea amid Soviet protests claiming provocation. U S officials termed the moves routine exercises lasting about five days in international waters as Moscow warned of escalation amid NATO naval moves in the Mediterranean.
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Istanbul
UPI
U.S
Black Sea
Moscow
Dyess
Turner
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
Pravda
Tass
6Th Flee
Leonid Velichansky
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Naples
Italy
Velichansky
Soviet Unions
Fake Officers Loot $883000 in Tokyo Bank Heist
A man posing as a traffic police officer tricked four Toshiba Electric Co bank employees into surrendering $883000 in Christmas bonus funds. He fled on a stolen white motorcycle on a road behind Fuchu prison, stealing the scene as Japan’s largest highway robbery to date.
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Tokyo
UPA
Fuchu
Toshiba Electric Co
Fighting Erupts In Thailand Near Battle Zone
Heavy clashes between government forces and guerrillas aided by tribesmen continue 300 miles north of Bangkok. Thai air and helicopter strikes return after a year as Thai 3rd and 6th armies deploy tanks and armored units. At least 11 guerrillas are reported killed with many wounded. government losses are unreported.
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Bangkok
UPI
Peace Talks Delayed as Viet Cong Accuses U S of War Crimes
Viet Cong deputy Thao charges the United States with crimes worse than Nazi Germany and pushes to negotiate directly with the Front. Diplomats say North Vietnam and the United States plan a compromise to begin talks next week, with Saigon excluded from direct representation.
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Paris
UPI
United States
Nazi Germany
Duong Dinh Thao
Vietnam
Saigon
Viet Nam
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Chao
South Vietnam
Hitler
North
Thao
Nguyen Cao Ky
Hanoi
Sxicco
Viet Cong Radio A
North Vietnam
Hano
U.S
Judge Charles Walker Failed To Keep Word
UPI Chicago A federal judge says Daniel Walker who released a report alleging police riots at the Democratic National Convention went back on his word, potentially breaching grand jury secrecy. William J. Campbell, chief judge, says the timing and motivation of the report may be investigated. The court will treat the grand jury’s report as the definitive account.
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Chicago
UPI
Daniel Walker
William J. Campbell
U.S. District Court
Campbell
Walker
National Commission On Violence
Grand Jury
Hamilton on Loan to Rangers Buffalo Farm Club
Rookie defenseman Allan Hamilton aged 22 was assigned by the New York Rangers on loan to their Buffalo farm club in the American Hockey League.
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NEW York
UPI
Allan Hamilton
New York Rangers
Buffalo
American Hockey League
Nixon cabinet lineup hints emerge in leak filled report
The report suggests possible Nixon cabinet picks including John N. Mitchell for attorney general and Robert H. Finch for health and welfare secretary. Moynihan may head housing and urban development, Volpe could lead transportation, Romney for commerce, Kennedy for treasury, Blount for postmaster, with labor and interior to be filled by various candidates.
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John N. Mitchell
Nixon
New York
Gev
Robert H. Finch
California
Housing and Urban Development
Daniel Pp. Moynihan
Harvard
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Massachusetts
New York City
US deaths in Vietnam top thirty thousand
UPI reports the toll of Americans fatally wounded in Vietnam has surpassed 30,000, with nearly half occurring this year. The update notes repeated shellings around nine camps near Saigon and the Cambodian border, plus a rescued pilot and ongoing air and ground offensives.
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Saigon
UPI
Vietnam
U.S
Cambouida
America
North Vietnam
Air Force
Robert L. McCann
Dedham
Mass
Tri Ton
Nui Co
Quake Shakes Philadelphia Area for First Time in 139 Years
A morning ashquake hit the Greater Philadelphia region with negligible damage. ESSA recorded 2.5 on the open-end Richter scale at 4:13 a.m. EST, felt as far as 40 miles east and 20 miles west. toll booths on two bridges trembled while police and emergency lines swamped with calls. Historical note says last center was in 1840.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Greater
Benjamin Franklin
Walt Whitman
Delaware River
Environmental Science Services Administration
ESSA
Washington
United States
Divers search for 17 bodies after river collision
Divers descend again to the Mississippi River bottom to recover 17 crewmen believed killed when Coast Guard cutter White Alder collided with the Helena near White Castle Louisiana. Oil slicks and swift currents halted the hunt earlier. A four man inquiry board opens into the collision. Three Coast Guardsmen survived.
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New Orleans
UPI
Mississippi
Coast Guard
Donald Davidson
Helena
White Castle
Suspect Held in Store Burglary Near Bozeman Grocery
One suspect was arrested Monday by the Sheriff's department in connection with the burglary of the Bozeman Grocery at Lowell's Bluff Sunday night. Sheriff Dudley Jackson and Deputies H. R. Van Zandt and Leonard Collingsworth made the arrest. They recovered groceries taken in the burglary and found 11 fishing rods hidden at the suspect's home.
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Sheriff's Department
Bozeman
Lowell’s Bluff
Dudley Jackson
H. R. van Zandt
Leonard Collingsworth
Monday Busy Day for Bonham Volunteer Firemen
Bonham volunteers responded to a mobile home fire on Lannius Street at Jer ry Shipman’s residence Monday night and conducted three daytime grass fire runs within city limits on West Third East Sam Rayburn drive and Katy boulevard.
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Bonham Volunteer Fire Department
Lannius
Jerry Shipman
West Third
Sam Rayburn Drive
Katy Boulevard
Lubec Maine Named Easternmost City in the United States
The article identifies Lubec in Washington County Maine as the easternmost city in the United States, noting its geographic position on the Atlantic coast and its distinction among U S towns.
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United States
Lubec, Maine
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