Community Events Spotlight PTA Game Night and Local Dinners
Bailey Inglish PTA hosts a 7 to 9 p.m. game night in the cafeteria to raise funds for a library remodeling. Entry is 50 cents with refreshments. chili supper has been dropped due to weather and workload. Also Friday a community dinner offers home cooked food. Saturday features the Gober Community Improvement Club barbecue at the Community Center. Lamar County and Fannin County students noted in recent college enrollments. Bonham student Mary Ann Bailey marches in Mardi Gras parade with the Lamar State band in New Orleans.
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Cantrell
Bailey Inglish Pta
PTA
Bailey Inglish
Bonham
Lamar State
Beaumont
New Orleans
Mary Ann Bailey
Elevator inspection at courthouse yields quick third floor feat
A brief bit notes a courthouse elevator inspection on Tuesday. The narrator claims they rode to the third floor and back before inspectors began.
Bonham Garment Worker Lou Rothberg Dies in Auto Crash
Lou Rothberg, a longtime garment industry figure in Bonham and later Dallas, was killed Tuesday in an automobile accident near Stephenville. Born about 54, he had operated Bontex and later RHR Manufacturing in Bonham. Funeral services were planned for Thursday at Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home in Dallas.
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Lou Rothberg
Bonham
Stephenville
Rothberg
Dallas
Bontex
North Main Street
RHR Manufacturing
Sparkman-Hillcrest Funeral Home
Defense Chiefs Meet With LBJ Over Vietnam Troop Calls
Gen. Earle G. Wheeler met with President Johnson to report on a proposed troop buildup in Vietnam. Westmoreland seeks up to 100,000 more troops beyond a 525,000 ceiling, with Wheeler proposing 50,000 reservists. The White House session included McNamara and other officials as debates over draft, reserves, and force levels continued amid a thinning active contingency in the United States.
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Washington
UPI
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Johnson
White House
U.S
Vietnam
Wheeler
Saigon
William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Andrews Afb
Maryland
South Vietnam
McNamara
Clark M. Clifford
Dean Rusk
Richard M. Helms
Central Intelligence Agency
Joint Chiefs
Khe Sanh
Vietnam Demilitarized Zone
United States
Europe
Korea
Southeast Asia
U.S. Vietnam
France says Hanoi pledges halt to bombing as peace talks condition
Paris states Hanoi has given assurances that an unconditional halt of U S air raids on North Vietnam is a necessary and sufficient step to open peace negotiations. The cabinet, led by President de Gaulle, endorses Thant’s call for swift talks to avert wider world peace risks.
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Paris
UPI
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Charles de Gaule
United Nations
Thant
Gorse
U.S
Council of Ministers
Trunt
Southeast Asia
Kennedy Aims 18 Point Reform To Draft System
Sen Edward Kennedy proposes an 18 point bill to overhaul U S draft selection policies and procedures. He urges a random like selection and regional draft offices while keeping deferments for graduate students unchanged amid Army and academic objections. The proposals echo last year’s presidential commission findings and Kennedy led a subcommittee on draft manpower.
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Washington
UPJ
Vietnam
Edward M. Kennedy
Maassachusetts Democrat
Senate
Kennedy
Congress
Army
Atty
Burke Marshall
Polygraph Test Set For Man In 1936 Bonham Murder Case
A former Bonham resident, Adolphus Jones, 45, was found beaten to death near Bonham on October 10, 1936. A man held for investigation will undergo a polygraph test Friday after asking Sheriff Dudley Jackson to come to Dallas to hear his information. No charges have been filed yet.
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Bonham
Fannin County
Dudley Jackson
Jackson
Dallas
Adolphus Jones
Fair Board Sets Dates for 1968 Fair
Members of the Fannin County Fair board heard a 1967 financial report and set the 1968 show for October 24 to 26. Bryce McIntyre reported the 1967 fair paid its way and posted a small surplus of about 570 dollars.
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Fannin County Fair Board
Jimmie Buford
Fair Board
Bryce McIntyre
Buford
Cooperstown Holds Baseball Hall of Fame Origin
Cooperstown New York hosts the Baseball Hall of Fame established as a shrine to the sport. The village is known for the landmark museum and its historic roots in baseball lore.
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Cooperstown, N. Y
Baseball Hall of Fame
Zigzag trenches near Khe Sanh signal renewed assault
UPI dispatches report North Vietnamese troops have dug zigzag trenches within 100 yards of the U S Marine Base at Khe Sanh as 6 000 Marines face about 16 000 enemy. The tactic echoes Dien Bien Phu to infiltrate perimeter lines and support a potential major offensive timed with monsoon easing and escalating attacks across Saigon Kontum and the Central Highlands.
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Dien Bien Phu
Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Mixed Rain Snow Forecast Hits Bonham Area
Bonham residents faced a cold front bringing rain mixed with snow late Tuesday night. Temperatures dropped from 60 to 40 degrees by 7 a.m., with winds north, and a low near 20s expected Thursday morning. High winds disrupted areas as the storm moved across North Texas.
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Bonham
North
Texas
Rotary talk on student exchange program at meeting
Rotarian Dean Smith spoke at a noon Rotary meeting about the student exchange program. He described foreign students coming to study business and economics, noting Hi-Yield Fertilizer’s annual summer participant and praising the international friendship it fosters.
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Dean Smith
Rotary
Smith
Powell Loses Bid To Regain Seat
The U S Court of Appeals rejected Adam Clayton Powell's challenge to his ouster by the House, upholding a district court ruling that Powell could not appeal his exclusion. Powell, living in exile in the Bahamas, was barred from his Harlem seat after charges of abuse of travel and payroll privileges and improper conduct toward New York courts. The ruling reinforces the separation of powers argument that the judiciary should not intervene in legislative decisions.
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Washington
UPS
U.S. Court of Appeals
Adam Clayton Powell
House
U.S
George L. Har, Jr
Harlem
Powell
Bahamas
New York
Hart
Jook
Durant Man Hurt in Wreck on State 78 Near Bunham
Larry Traw of Durant Oklahoma was slightly injured Wednesday when his car skidded on wet pavement on State 78 north of Bunham and struck a tree. Officer Ridle reported Traw headed south, skidded on a curve, hit a tree, bounced into another, suffering a forehead bruise and body bruises. Damage was estimated at about $1,000.
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Larry Traw
Durant
Okla
State 78
Bunham
Bob Ridle
Aad Traw
Tran
Richery
Rhode Island Nickname Litue Rhody Confirmed
A regional nickname confirms Rhode Island as Litue Rhody, reflecting local usage and historic branding in community lore.
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Rhode Island
Grand Jury to Meet Friday in Sixth District Court
The Janu ary term grand jury for Sixth District Court will convene at 9 a.m. Friday for the first session. Notices of selection on the 16 member panel have been mailed to Fannin county citizens by the sheriff's office. County Attorney Pat Beene said few cases are on the docket and the body is expected to finish in one day. The petit jury panel reported Monday for civil and criminal hearings was excused for the week after cases settled or postponed. Trial of Melvin Parker on a burglary indictment was postponed to later in the term.
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Grand Jury
Sixth District Court
Fannin County
Sheriff's Office
Pat Beene
Melvin Parker
Brynner Car Crash in France No Serious Injury Reported
Actor Yul Brynner was involved in a car accident in Cagnes sur Mer France when his vehicle rolled over several times Tuesday night. Brynner escaped injury according to police statements.
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Cagnes-Sur-Mer
France
UP1
Yul Brynner
Beld
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Randolph
Hyepock
Lamar County
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Georges Gorse
Mai van Bo
West
Man
Khe Sahn
Central Highlands
Kontum
Earley Q. Wheeler
Durant Man
Brynner
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