Marines Strike North of Da Nang in Harvest Moon Sweep
U S marines pressed air attacks to cut communist escape routes during Harvest Moon near Da Nang. Jets napalm and B 52s blasted positions as helicopters ferried marines toward Viet An and the Chang river. Commanders hailed the barrage while losses were listed at 27 US deaths and about 600 enemy dead in the week long operation.
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Saigon
U. S
da Nang
Rice Valley
Marine
Jonas Platt
Viet An
Chang River
Laos
Washington
Pentagon
Snow Storm Brings Heavy Snow Across Kansas and Nebraska
North winds drive temperatures to the teens as a western plains storm dumps almost a foot in Kansas with Larned hit hardest. Six to seven inches fall in a northwestern rural area, Denver and Casper pick up two inches. New Jersey suffers rain, Victoria records 1.26 inches in six hours. Widespread gray skies, cold snaps, and 3,400 North Dakota homes without power after sleet damages.
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Chicago
Plains
Kansas
Nebraska
Larned
Kan
Denver
Casper
Wyo
New Jersey
Texas
Victoria
Cut Bank
Mont
Lander
Noutheastern
North Dakota
Dakotas
Woman follows bus into trolley tunnel in Philadelphia
Pamela Jacobson 21 of New Brunswick New Jersey followed what she believed was a bus. It was a trolley car and she drove her sister Ballard 22 into a trolley tunnel stalling on the rail ties. She was visiting Philadelphia on leave from the University of Oklahoma.
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Philadelphia
Pamela Jacobson
New Brunswick
N.J
Jacobson
University of Oklahoma
Ballard
Pamela
Pamela Charged After Trolley Tows Damaged Car
Police and Philadelphia Transportation Co. were alerted about a car in the tunnel. A trolley hooked to the car to tow it out, guided by a maintenance man. the car sustained minor damage. Pamela faces reckless driving charges.
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Philadelphia Transportation Co
Pamela
Collision Course Between Gemini 7 and Echo 2 Stuns Australia
Frank Borman and James Lovell shared a tense night as Gemini 7 and the Echo 2 satellite appeared to converge over Carnarvon Australia. Officials in Colorado Springs said they were 434 miles apart, while tracking teams warned of potential collision if at the same altitude. The two astronauts later slept as both craft continued their record chase.
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Ed Dunbar
Carnarvon
U.S
Borman
Lovell
Houston
Cape Kennedy
Gordon Cooper
C.S.T
Plane Missing With 81 Aboard in South Vietnam
A US air force C-123 cargo plane carrying 81 people including four American crewmen and 77 Vietnamese soldiers disappeared south of Qui Nhon while en route to Nha Trang. Search efforts along the coast and toward the South China Sea have so far failed to locate the aircraft.
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Pleiku
Vietnam
Qui Nhon
U.S
Nha Trang
South China Sea
South Vietnam
Saigon
Bien Hoa
Donkey Mountain
da Nang
Chuckle Reflects on Aging and Work Versus Fun
The brief column notes how aging shifts priorities, making work feel heavier while leisure appears more challenging yet appealing. It laments the changing balance between labor and pleasure as years pass.
Four-Foot Snake Spooks Family. Police Trap on Stairs
Thomas Trainor and his family slept through a tense moment when a four foot snake appeared on the bottom stair. He phoned police who captured and killed the reptile while his cat Timmy reacted with a hiss. No one was hurt.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Trainor
Timmy
Trainor
Federation Sets Youth Look For AFL-CIO Leadership
In San Francisco the AFL-CIO pledged to renew effort for better life for all workers as George Meany, 71, is unanimously re elected as president with a $70 000 salary. Delegates backed a plan to reduce council age and push education funding and civil rights. The convention criticized segregation efforts and endorsed education funding while inviting other unions into the AFL CIO.
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San Francisco
Afl-Cio
America
George Meany
Labor Federation
Meany
Federation
Patrick Gorman
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
Gorman
American Trade Union Movement
Congress
Supreme Court
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Harry Bridges
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
United Mine Workers
Senate
Everett Dirksen
Goldberg Proposes U N Peace Service
U S Ambassador Arthur Goldberg urged the General Assembly to create a comprehensive U N peace service as an alternative to armed conflict. He outlined three core aims: expand qualified personnel for peace work, offer incentives for peaceful settlement, and adopt proven settlement approaches. He stressed flexibility on means but firmness on the end.
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United Nations
U.S
Arthur Goldberg
U.N
General Assembly
Special Political Committee
Goldberg
Vietnam
State Court Upholds Use of Road Funds for Engineering
The Iowa supreme court affirmed a Linn county district court ruling allowing road use tax funds to pay engineering services on the Cedar Valley road. Three Cedar Rapids residents challenged the use, but the ruling held that engineering studies are a necessary part of road construction and aid highway progress.
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Iowa Supreme Court
Linn County
Cedar Valley
Cedar Rapids
C. C. Slapnicka
Joseph J. Kolarik
Walter Payn
Iowa
B. J. Maxwell
Slapnicka
Kolarik and
Payn
David McGuire
Supreme Court
Tax Millage Uncertain for Linn County in 1966 Budget
Linn County residents face unknown 1966 taxes as certification of assessed valuation from the state tax commission is due by January 1. County Auditor Charles Werner notes figures from city and county assessors are pending final approval. Cedar Rapids plans a 12 million dollar 1966 budget. officials warn millage estimates may not reflect eventual levies until valuation certification is received.
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Linn County
State Tax Commission
Charles Werner
Werner
Tax Commission
Stewart Shank
Missing Director's Plane Sought In Colorado New Mexico
A large air search began for Beech Travelair plane carrying Dr W Randolph Lovelace II director of space medicine his wife Mary and pilot Milton tovecace Brown 27 of Albuquerque. They disappeared after leaving Aspen Sunday en route to Albuquerque. Ground units and planes from multiple bases joined a 282 mile sweep through 11 000 foot mountains as weather improved.
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Albuquerque
N.M
U.S
Space Medicine
Colorado
New Mexico
W. Randolph Lovelace II
Mary
Milton Tovecace Brown
Aspen
Colo
Civil Air Patrol
Hamilton Air Force Base
Calif
Luke Afb
Ariz
Eglin Afb
Fla
Kirtland Afb
North American Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Lovelaces
Civil Air Patrols
Cambodia Rejects Red China Aid Says Self-Reliance Guides Policy
Prince Norodom Sihanouk said Cambodia will not take financial aid from Red China, stressing that the nation will rely on its own resources to stay independent. He framed the decision as a matter of sovereignty and self-sufficiency.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
Red China
Sihanouk
Psychologist Really Trains Dogs in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills dog psychologist Dr. Dave Miller uses a neuropsychological method to train elite canines. He claims he can induce instant obedience in five minutes by a bronze alloy chain and tuning fork that emit a 34 000 cycle sound, shaping dogs with conditioned responses without punishment. Ygor the wolfhound, a client of Miller, reportedly responds swiftly to the technique.
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Ygor
Dave Miller
Los Angeles
Miss Singleton
Miller
Singleton
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Lovelace
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Southwest
Alvin Eurich
Aspen Institute
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