Apollo 17 Splashdown Nears After Historic Lunar Tour
Apollo 17 crews led by Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt close the 12 day mission with a planned 2 24 p m Tuesday splashdown in the South Pacific aboard the carrier Ticonderoga 403 miles southeast of Samoa Forecasters predict ideal weather for a safe recovery as the crew reviews ultraviolet and Coma Cluster observations and the dark south region of the Milky Way.
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Virgo
Richard G. Henry
Johns Hopkins University
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Moon
America
Lunar
Unseasonal Cold Stretches Into Week With Ice Ponds
Local observers note lingering sleet and ice on ground last Sunday and Monday with shade and north walls most affected. Ice thick enough to skate at times, while ponds and creeks froze over thinly amid a cold spell. Optimist Tom Gelhausen hints at an early spring if winter retreats.
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Tom Gelhausen
Fighting Intensifies As US Raids Return to Hanoi Area
Saigon reports heavy ground fighting in South Vietnam with government troops inflicting major losses on Communist forces. Hanoi radio claims resumed US mining and rockets in Haiphong area after a Halloween pause, while US officials dispute north of the 20th parallel bombing claims. A South Vietnamese cargo plane crash near Bien Hoa kills five.
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Haiphung
Long Time Schoolman Claude Dillehay Dies in Bonham
Claude H. Dillehay 77 longtime Bonham school superintendent died after an extended illness in a Bonham nursing home. Funeral services were at Wise Funeral Home with burial in Oak Lawn cemetery Decatur, where he began his career at age 23. He served in Olney Hereford Vernon before Bonham retirement in 1960. Survivors include his wife Lena Maude of Bonham, daughter Mrs Mario Arteaga Jr. of Santo Domingo, sisters Mrs Anna Lee Morris and Mrs DD Stevenson of Decatur, half brother Dowden Dillehay, and three grandchildren Virginia Ann Arteaga, Mario Arteaga III, and Robert Patrick Hl.
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Bonham
Wise Funeral Home
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Bunham
Olney
Hereford
Vernon
Lena Maude
Mario Arteaga, Jr
Santo Dumunge
Dumunichin Republic
Anna Lee Murris
DD ¢ Stevenson
City Officials Open Study for New Bonhan Police Chief
City council members and City Manager Dan Mize plan an interim session to set guidelines for accepting applications for the Bonhan police chief job at Ironside. The move follows Chief Thurman Rent's death and has mayor Bud Mundy and a council majority supportive.
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Thurman
Bonham Area Weather Nears Warmer Trend This Week
A change in weather is due in the Bonham area through Wednesday as the National Weather Service forecasts end of sub freezing nights and 30 degree days. Temperatures drop below freezing Monday, then mid 40s Tuesday morning and low 60s by afternoon. Clouds are expected to decrease with rising semi-percentage as high pressure holds and a Pacific Northwest front brings colder temps by weekend.
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Pacific Northwest
Woman Trapped in Debris After Machinery Breaks Free
A woman named Joyce Taylor was trapped for 44 minutes Sunday night when a large machine toppled onto her home in Haverton Clug. Police reported her condition improved. authorities could not identify the machine type.
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Joyce Taylor
Truman Night Restful Amid Serious Health Struggle
Kansas City AP reports former President Truman, 88, slept peacefully and told doctors he felt all right. Doctors say his kidneys have failed to respond to medication for six days and his heart condition remains too weak for a kidney machine. Vital signs at 15 am EST show BP 130/56, pulse 74, respiration 24, temp 98.4.
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Research Hospital
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Weekend violence in Belfast leaves woman wounded and eight shot
Gunmen wounded a woman in northern Belfast on Sunday as part of weekend violence across Ulster. The eight total shootings include three Roman Catholics and four Protestants among Saturday casualties, with two more deaths reported in the province.
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New Sheriff Names Staff in Fannin County
Raymond Taylor, newly elected Fannin County Sheriff, announces a 5 member deputy staff. The team includes Harvey Trapp, Bobby Madison, H R Van Zandt, Ed Fulcher, and Cap Van Zandt. Taylor plans ongoing training and 24 hour department operation.
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Fannin County
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Bobby Madison
H. R. van Zandt
Ed Fulcher
Cap van Zandt
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Taylor
Bunham
Ector
Dudley Jackson
Sheriff Jackson
Lax Safety Blamed as 24 Die in Two Explosions
UPI reports 24 miners died in two weekend blasts blamed on lax enforcement of safety rules. Five died and three were critically injured at Itmann No 3 after methane and trolley sparks caused a methane explosion. four more gas explosions at a Wenton coke plant killed 19 and wounded 10. UMWA President-elect Arnold Miller condemned enforcement failures and urged stricter law adherence.
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United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
Arnold Miller
Itmann
Wenton Steel Co
Hume
Family extradited from Texas to Colorado in murder case
Two Texas residents, Carl Robert Taylor 34 and Sherman McCrary 47, were flown to Colorado on charges including kidnapping and murder. They are jailed locally while authorities pursue the case tied to the killing of Shema tartan, a Utah waitress, with other suspects from Nevada under investigation.
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