Whitewright Sun debuts under Buddy and Pat ember
New publishers Buddy and Pat ember relocate from Grand Saline to Whitewright and launch the Whitewright Sun with their first issue described as a humdinger. Local notes mention Wayne Crani Il and John Morrison’s humorous track tale with a blind pig, barber race to save 25 cents, and a subscription renewal from Annie Berger in Alvin. A Lions Club banquet date and a Corinth Baptist church singing are also noted.
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Buddy
Pat Ember
North Texas
Feld
Pat
Whitewright
Grand Saline
Whitewright Sun
Wayne Crani Il
John Morrison
Bryce McIntyre
Bryce
Morrison
John
Cranfill
McIntyre
Car jumps curb in east side crash near square
Frightening accident Friday afternoon on the east side of the square. Mrs Doris Mason Crawford of Ector drove onto the curb after a brake failure, struck a parking meter, and halted near the curbside.
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Doris Mason Crawford
Ector
Driver Grumbles as Deputy Encounters Out of Gas Pickup
Milwaukee deputy Jerome Kathrein stops a pickup along Interstate 94 to find a driver who grunts in response. The owner arrives and explains he ran out of gas and placed his pig in front to keep it warm.
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Milwaukee
Wis
UPI
Jerome Kathrein
Checks Returned From Portland Cheese Factory Theft
Sixty checks totaling 15000 dollars stolen from the Portland cheese factory on New Year’s Day were found back where they were taken, on a cooler.
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Sparta
Wis
Portland
Teens roll to school in 1953 hearse
Four Albuquerque teens John Arneson Ralph Baxter Danny Glendro and Bobby Dike drive a 1953 model hearse to school, explaining that no one else around has one.
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Albuquerque, N. M
Priest returns 26 sweaters for a suit in fair exchange
In London a Liverpool priest who got 27 identical black sweaters traded back all but one for a suit. He said the plan ensures each donor believes the gift is the one he received and avoids hurting anyone's feelings.
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London
UPI
Liverpool
Sunday Times
Firemen urged caution during Milwaukee house blaze
UPI reports firefighter Clarence Hardison may have told colleagues to handle axes carefully while fighting a fire in an unoccupied Milwaukee house that belonged to him.
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Milwaukee
Wis
UPI
Clarence Hardison
Hardison
Israeli Jets Bomb Farm Areas in Jordan Valley
Four Israeli jet fighters attacked Jordanian farms near the Sea of Galilee, dropping napalm and strafing ground targets for about an hour. One Israeli soldier was wounded. Jordan reported no casualties on the Jordanian side. The strikes followed a Jordan River gunbattle and were part of Israel’s latest air raids amid tense ceasefire lines.
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AMMA
Jordan
UPI
Jordan River
Jordanin
Jordan Valley
Sea of Galilee
Jerusalem
Beisan
Lebanon
France
Israel
Beirut
Charles de Gaulle
Middle East
A-Manshiya
AsaShna
Gaullist
Charles Helou
Paris
Georges Gorse
de Gaulle
Saigon Control Rises to Seventy Six Point Three Percent
A UPI report from U.S. pacification headquarters says 76.3 percent of South Vietnam’s population, about 13 million people, live in areas deemed relatively secure from Viet Cong harassment. December gains added 537,000 peasants under government control as efforts move troops into villages with wavering loyalties.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S. Pacification Headquarters
South Vietnam
U.S
Massachusetts Constitution Shapes Federal Frame
The 1780 Massachusetts State Constitution drafted by a popularly elected convention established a pattern for drafting the Federal Constitution, influencing its structure and principles.
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Massachusetts
Seven Die In Fannin County Traffic Toll Of 1968
A Highway Patrol report by Dwaine Cox tallies 214 accidents in Fannin County during 1968 with seven fatalities. It lists U.S. 82 and State 78 as high-incident routes and notes investigations spanning multiple towns and cooperation with adjacent counties.
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Fannin County
Dwaine Cox
U.S
State
U. S. 69
Honey Grieve
Madonia
Leonard
Ector
Bonham
New Strategy Hard Try Set to Break Deadlock in Talks
In Paris Allied negotiators began a new strategy to break the deadlock in multiparty talks on Vietnam. Diplomats said the Allies planned a hard new attempt in forthcoming meetings with North Vietnam to settle the shape of the negotiating table and the order of speakers.
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Paris
UPI
Vietnam
Viet Cong
Hanoi
North Vietnam
National Liberation Front
NLF
Harriman
Thuy
America
Johnson
Vance
Henry Cabot Lodge
Richard M. Nixon
Ha van Lau
Astrasbouro
Laos
Thailand
Alled
Indochina
China
Lao
Mao Pulls Red China Out of World Communist Movement
Moscow reports claim Mao Tse tung abandoned scientific socialism splitting from Marx and Lenin while Pravda attacks Peking. Observers see this as Moscow gearing to eject China from the world Communist movement as Indochina tension rises and Paris talks loom.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Red
China
Communist Movement
Mao
Pravda
Peking
Marx
Lenin
Bil Matthews Named New Sam Rayburn Superintendent
Bil Matthews elected superintendent of Sam Rayburn schools to fill the vacancy from Luther Taylor's death. A Bonham native, he leads Windom schools since 1967 and brings ETSU degrees in business administration and education. Matthews will assume duties January 20 and has a family including wife and nine year old son Kirk.
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Bill Matthews
Windom
Sam Rayburn
Calvin Felts
Matthews
Luther Clinton Taylor
Bonham High School
East Texas State University
ETSU
Powderly - Reno
First Baptist Church
Window
Bonham
Kirk
Nine-man patrol slain by Vietcong guerrillas near Saigon
A nine-man U.S. infantry patrol sleeping in a hut near Dong Tam was wiped out by Vietcong gunfire. Six Americans were killed, the squad's Vietnamese scout died, and two others were wounded. The patrol had been ordered to contact base but failed the radio link. Smoke and fires followed the ambush as base defenses endured mortar and rocket fire.
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Saigon
UPS
Vietgcong
UPI
David Lamb
Lwgon
U.S
South Vietnam
Lamb
Dong Tam
Katum
An Hoa
Burmese jungle clash leaves 150 rebels dead report says
Press Trust of India reports New Delhi that in upper Burma over the past three months Burma troops killed more than 150 Naga rebels trained by China. About 1000 rebels allegedly seized money and food in the region.
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New Delhi
UPI
Upper
Burma
Press Trust of India
Cool weather persists as Sunday forecast calls for warm-up
Bonham remains cold with light rain unlikely as Sunday slopes toward partly cloudy skies and a gentle warm trend. Overnight lows near 22 in Bonham with a Friday high around 37. Sunday expected to reach the mid 50s under light, variable winds.
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Bonham
Texas Panhandle
Brownsville
Gulf Coast
Congressman Freed Amid Kathmandu Pardon Confusion
The report states that Congressman K Mahendra granted pardons on Friday to a former congressman convicted of crimes against the state after a political event in 184. The pardoned individual had been living in exile and bedi.
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Kathmandu
Nepal
K Mahendra
Kong Tak
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Annie) Berger
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Fair Exchange
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Fannin
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