Beans and garden talk amid weather chatter in Bois d Arc area
Residents discuss bean planting timing and frost risk as a doctor visit nears. Local neighbors recall Green Thursday beans though frost claimed them. Bois d Arc district Boy Scout Exposition set for Saturday at Sam Rayburn Memorial Armory with outdoor demos if weather allows. Gober PTA hosts a 6 30 pm game night at the school gym to fund projects.
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Sam Rayburn Memorial Armory
Gober Pta
PTA
Senator Russell Hospitalized for Lung Cancer Treatments
Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, 71, was admitted to Walter Reed Army Hospital to begin cobalt treatments after announcing a left lung tumor. An aide said he would stay through the weekend and likely until Monday.
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Washington
UPI
Richard B. Russell
Senate
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Russell
Georgia
World powers urged truce during 1967 Middle East war dispute
Al Ahram reported Cuba and Communist China sought to block a cease-fire as Syria's Baath factions clashed over leadership. Soviet weapons shipments and a new 13 man command headed by Hafez al Assad surfaced amid power struggles between Atassi Jadid and Assad allies.
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United Press International
Cuba
China
Middle East
al Ahram
Syria
Mao Tse-tung
Fidel Castro
Hassaenein Haikal
Cairo
United Arab Republic
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Damascus
Baath Party
Noureddin Atassi
Strongman
Hafez al- Assad
Al-Assad
Mustafa Tlas
Atassi
Salah Jadid
Air Force to Study Not to Contact Order in Pueblo Case
Rep. Otis G. Pike says his subcommittee will probe why the Tth Air Force was told not to contact South Koreans when the Pueblo spy ship was seized. Lt Gen Seth J. McKee testified that Gen Charles Bonesteel or staff advised against contact while U.S. fighters had orders to attack if needed.
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Air Force
Charles Bonesteel
U.S
South Korea
McKee
North Korea
Wonsan Harbor
Two Bronze Star Rites Here Today
Two Bonham youths receive posthumous Bronze Stars in separate ceremonies. Pvt. First Class Jerry M. White is honored with the Bronze Star and Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and V device at Sam Rayburn Memorial Armory. Capt. W J Mixon Jr of Dallas is slated to present the Bronze Star to SCpt Billy R Bowen at the Bowens home. Bowen was killed March 18 1968 near Quang Nam. White was mortally wounded December 13 while aiding a fallen comrade in action.
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Vietnam
Army
Ruth White
Jerry M. White
Sam Rayburn Memorial
Amory
Marine Corps
W. J. Mixon, Jr
Dallas
James Bowen
South Fourth Street
Billy R. Bowen
Corporal Bowen
Quang Nam
Jerry White
Witnesses Say Sirhan Incapable Of Premeditation
Los Angeles witnesses say Sirhan B. Sirhan cannot maturely and meaningfully deliberate a murder. Court appointed psychiatrist Dr Tric H Marcus testified Sirhan is schizophrenic and mentally incapable of premade p rided planning in Kennedy’s 1968 assassination.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Tric H. Marcus
Sirhan
Marcus
Tom Collins
Seymour Pollack
Grant Cooper
Pentagon cites Red submarine threat to Polaris and Poseidon subs
The Pentagon warns of a growing Soviet submarine force that could threaten hidden U.S. Polaris and Poseidon subs. Defense leaders say the danger could emerge by the mid 1970s as they back the Safeguard ABM program. A source disputes the threat’s novelty.
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Washington
UPS
Pentagon
Soviet Union
U.S
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
David Packard
Senate Armed Services Committee
UPI
Russia
Laird and Packard
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Air Force
United States
Laird
Symington
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Packard
Gore Calls ABM Decision Mistake
Senator Albert Gore challenged the Nixon administration at a Senate hearing, calling the Safeguard ABM network defense in search of a mission that would endanger U.S. security and labeling the deployment plan a mistake, as Defense Secretary Melvin Laird faced the panel.
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Washington
API
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Pentagon Chiefs
Safeguard
U.S
Gore
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Senate Foreign Relations
Nixon
Pentagon
Kentucky horse farms close doors amid arson fires
A spate of barn fires blamed on an arsonist prompts three more major Kentucky stables to close farm visits. Calumet Farm owned by Mrs Gene Markey and Stalking Station owner Lou Doherty in Fayette County join Clairborne Farm owner A B Hancock Jr in Bourbon County in shuttering public access. Spendthrift Farm of Leslie Combs Jr had already closed Monday.
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Lexington
UPI
Kentucky
Gene Markey
Calumet Farm
Lou Doherty
Stallion Station
Fayette County
A. B. Hancock, Jr
Clairborne Farm
Bourbon County
Spendthrift Farm
Leslie Combs Jr
Saigon Braced as Communists Attack Drops Massive Losses
U.S. and South Vietnamese forces report intensified enemy strikes near Saigon with 20 American warplanes destroyed at Chu Lai and heavy clashes around Atlas Wedge. Guerrillas claim ongoing counterattacks leaving casualties on both sides. U.S. crews suffer helicopter and jet losses but rescue efforts continue.
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Saigon
UPS
Chu Lai
U.S
White
DC3 Crash Kills 16 on Foggy New Orleans Runway
A DC3 crashed on a fogbound New Orleans runway killing 16 passengers from Memphis on a fishing trip. Frederick Thirkield III watched his father burn to death as survivors described delays in firefighting and a chaotic rescue amid the wreckage.
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New Orleans
UPI
Frederick Thirkield III
New Orleans International Airport
Winford Smith
Stepfather Receives 41-Year Sentence in Child Death
Palo Pinto Texas Jim Dean Steele 22 was sentenced to 41 years in prison for the beating death of his 3 year old stepdaughter Sharon Kay Curtis who died last June. He showed no emotion in the Palo Pinto court as a signed statement detailing the abuse was read into evidence.
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Palo Pinto, Tex
Jimmy Dean Steele
Palo Pintoo
Steele
Sharon Kay Curtis
Texas Weather Forecast Delivers Mild Spring Weekend
The U S Weather Bureau predicts mild weather for Texas with only occasional drizzle in South Texas. Temperatures rise slightly for the first weekend of spring as a weak Pacific front dissolves over Central Texas.
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United Press International
Texas
U.S. Weather Bureau
Soviets Open Door to Talks on Seabed Weapons Ban
In Geneva the Soviet Union signaled willingness to compromise on a treaty banning nuclear and mass destruction weapons from ocean floors. Alexei A. Roshchin said the text should not be taken literally and urged negotiations while aiming to bar seabeds from all military use.
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Geneva
UPS
Soviet Union
United States
Alexei A. Roshchin
U.S
Roshchin
Nixon
Map of Death Camp Doerr Trial Details Deadly 150 Mile March
Prosecutors in the Alois Doerr Nazi trial showed a map marking where women died on a 150 mile forced march in 1945. Doerr faces charges for aiding the murder of 217 of 3,073 women from Russian, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian backgrounds. Witnesses described naked exposure and abuse at Halmbrechts camp.
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Hof
Germany
UPI
Alois Doerr
Doerr
Nia
Erich Kormann
Halmbrechts
President Nixon Visits Truman in Missouri For Sentimental Stop
President Nixon flew west for a weekend trip that begins with a stop in Independence, Missouri to meet former President Harry S. Truman, once a sharp critic. He plans major conferences in Vietnam and most of the weekend in Southern California.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Harry S. Truman
California
Vietnam
Independence
Three Months of Talks Fail to End Vietnam War
In Paris the allied and Communist negotiators failed to reach agreement on ending the Vietnam War after three months of talks. Lodge noted some progress in understanding positions while Tran Buu Kiem said there was no progress. The Viet Cong accused the Nixon administration of escalation, which Lodge denied, stating the offensive was planned before his term.
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Paris
UPS
Henry Cabot Lodge
Tran Buu Kiem
Lodge
Nixon
South Vietnam
U.S
Rusty Floor Causes Tragic Car Crash Death
In Troy Pennsylvania an 11 year old car floor collapse trap caused the death of a one year old boy as the car on Route 14 was driven by Walter Bolt with his son Christopher in the back. The floor gave way dropping the child to the road before the car ran over him. He died at TJ Community Hospital from a skull fracture.
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Jack Brooks
Memphis
Brooks
Troy
Walter G. Bolt
Route 14
Here
Christopher
TJ Community Hospital
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Dad
Memphis, Tenn
British Honduras
Young Thirkield
Smith
West Tennessee Sportsmen's Association
Tennessee
Buford Ellington
Ochsner Foundation Hospital
Truman
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