Gifts to GIs in Vietnam Prefer Individual Mail Outreach
Armed forces officials Friday urged sending gifts directly to individual service members in Vietnam rather than bulk shipments to military addresses. They noted the supply line is strained and mail from communities adopting a unit aids delivery. Several local enlistees and promotions are listed, including Dean K. Sherman, Sidney Glynn, and Dennis Sturdivan, among others.
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Armed Forces
Vietnam
Post Office
West Coast
Drop in Jobless Rate November Employment Peak
The labor department reports the U S unemployment rate fell to 3 7 percent in November from 3 9 percent in October, the lowest in 13 years. Employment rose by 300 000 to a November high of 75 million, aided by temporary political election day hiring.
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Washington
Labor Department
Harold Goldstein
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Oslo police arrest war picketers during antiwar protest
About a dozen youths demonstrated against the U S and Premier Ky in Oslo. Police arrested a girl and three youths who refused orders to disperse. Officers seized Viet Cong and swastika flags and tore up signs reading Ky Quisling and U S out of Viet Nam.
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Oslo
Norway
U.S
Nguyen Cao Ky
Vietnam
Ky Quisling
Vidkun Quisling
Romney backer visits New Hampshire on Romney 1968 run
Michigan National Committeeman John Martin said he will sound out New Hampshire and other states about Governor George Romney possibly running in 1968 primaries. He plans a New Hampshire visit later this month and will review the situation with state leaders and potential backers.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Michigan
New Hampshire
George Romney
John Martin
Romney
Martin
Detroit Free Press
Free Press
Robert Boyd
Concord
N.H
Republican
William Johnson
Hanover
National
William Treat
Hampton
Johnson
Treat
Puerto Rico
Burns Prove Fatal Offic ers Named To Vinton Man 74
W Grant Pruett of rural Vinton died Friday morning at the Vinton hospital from burns suffered when his cookstove exploded after he poured kerosene into it. He, 74, lived alone on the Oscar Anderson farm northwest of Vinton and is survived by two sisters and two brothers. Services set for Saturday at 2 p.m. at Fry and Holland funeral home with burial in McBroom Cemetery near Shellsburg. Dr Robert A Sedlacek has been elected president of the St Luke s hospital medical and dental staff for the coming year.
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Vinton
W. Grant Pruett
Vinton Hospital
Pruett
Oscar Anderson
Anderson
Tom Mu
Robert A. Sedlacek
First Avenue SE
St. Luke’s Hospital
Robert W. Veley
William J. Moershel
John R. Huey
Dale D. Morgan
Richard E. Geiger
Woshart Plea Guilty In Federal Case
LaCrosse Wisconsin man Elmer Bernard Voshart 70 pled guilty in Cedar Rapids to interstate distribution of obscene material. Sentencing delayed for probation report after Sioux City grand jury indicted him in November for nine booklets three decks of cards and six rolls of 8mm film transported from near Reno Minnesota to Lansing on July 12.
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LaCrosse
Wis
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Edward J. McManus
Elmer Bernard Voshart
Voshart
Sioux City
Reno
Minn
Lansing
Cold claims two in Mexico City as cold wave grips city
An unusual cold wave in Mexico City claimed its second victim as police found a presumed vagrant frozen to death in the street. A second vagrant died the day before as temperatures dropped to 25 degrees.
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Mexico City
UPI
Awards Presented at Pierce School
Awards were presented recently at Pierce school to a long list of students including Terry Ard Kirk Ball Scott Berg John Bjorseth Kendall Bray Mike Daft Tom Daft Mike Davidson Corky DeBoer James Derman Mike Doyle Stephen Everts Mark Haag Steve Hastings Doug Holtz Kurt Jansen Kim Klima Randy Lefebure Tom Long Erik Lorenzen David Peterson David Prouty Mark Pucci Allen Rod erick Jim Sexton David Stullie Brett Warren Ronnie Wasik Brett Williams David Layher Jeff Davidson Donnie Boyer Mark Smedal Steve Lefebure Scott Farmer Craig LeClerc Mark Butcher John Slaperud Mark Cullen Mike Tiffen and Dennis Douda. NCAA football Auburn Alabama 1245 p m Saturday in COLOR on KCRG TV Ch 9.
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Pack
Pierce School
Terry Ard
Kirk Ball
Scott Berg
John Bjorseth
Kendall Bray
Mike Daft
Tom Daft
Mike Davidson
Corky DeBoer
James Derman
Mike Doyle
Stephen Everts
Mark Haag
Steve Hastings
Doug Holtz
Kurt Jansen
Kim Klima
Randy Lefebure
Tom Long
Erik Lorenzen
David Peterson
David Prouty
Mark Pucci
Allen Roderick
Jim Sexton
David Stullie
Brett Warren
Ronnie Wasik
Brett Williams
David Layher
Jeff Davidson
Donnie Boyer
Mark Smedal
Steve Lefebure
Scott Farmer
Craig LeClerc
Mark Butcher
John Slaperud
Mark Cullen
Mike Tiffen
Dennis Douda
Wind Storm Hits Valdez Alaska After 1964 Quake
Winds up to 100 miles per hour battered Valdez Alaska injuring few but causing major damage. A 22 unit motel, 21 homes, two churches and 10 businesses were destroyed or heavily damaged at the new townsite at Prince William Sound. Harborview hospital suffered minor damage as the town of about 1000 works to recover from the 1964 earthquake.
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Juneau
Alaska
Valdez
Harborview
Prince William Sound
Communists Back World Conference at Hungarian Congress
The ninth congress of the Hungarian Communist Party neared completion in Budapest with a large majority of foreign delegates endorsing the idea of a global communist conference.
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Budapest
Hungary
Communist Party
Americans Plead Guilty in Soviet Theft Case
Two American soldiers aged 24 and 25 pleaded guilty to theft and currency violations in Leningrad, Tass reported. Craddock Gilmour was released on bail as Ray Wortham remained in jail, with a trial expected soon in a Moscow region court.
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Moscow
UPI
Tass
Leningrad
Ray Buel Wortham
North Little Rock
Ark
Craddock Gilmour
Salt Lake City
Gilmour
Wortham
U.S
West Germany
Police Chief Slain During Jail Breakout in Ironton
In Ironton Ohio Police Chief Gene Markel was killed during a jail breakout on Friday. Deputy C L Chapman was disarmed by inmate Jim Bailey who freed three others and opened cells. Patrolman Charles Giles died from gunfire while responding to the incident. Giles was in critical condition.
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Ironton
Ohio
UPI
Gene Markel
Jim Bailey
C. L. Chapman
Donald Jenkins
Carl Hallack
Ronald Browning
Markel
Charles Giles
Hallack
Giles
Johnson Aide Sees 1967 Prosperity Despite Inflation
President Johnson and Gardner Ackley forecast continued prosperity in 1967 with easing inflation. They briefed after a long policy conference, reviewing economic reports and Friday Labor Department employment figures. Johnson announced release of 150000 tons of copper from government stocks in early 1967 to aid defense industries.
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Austin
Texas
Johnson
Gardner Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Ackley
Labor Department
Washington
Garrison Farmer Gored by Boar in Virginia Farm Incident
Garrison Farmer Richard Christy, 55, was gored in the thigh by a boar on his Vinton farm. He was admitted to Virginia Gay hospital after the tusk punctured his right leg.
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Vinton
UPI
Richard Christy
Virginia Gay Hospital
Berkeley Faces 1965 Free Speech Movement Boycott
Berkeley students mark the second anniversary of the Free Speech movement with sit-ins and class boycotts as rain-soaked pickets rally at Sproul Hall. University officials meet in emergency talks to plan response amid tensions and campus protests.
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Berkeley
Calif
UPI
University of California
Navy
Sproul Hall
The
Daily
Californian
Two Juveniles Charged with Trespassing
Police detectives say two boys aged 13 and 14 were charged as juveniles with trespassing at the salvage yard at 908 L Street SW. They were apprehended on site by patrolmen and turned over to their parents awaiting action by Linn County probation officers.
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Police Juvenile Bureau
E. Cohn On
Sons
L Street
Ceda Rapids
Linn County
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