Florida frost slams crops across state in record freeze
North and central Florida suffered the hardest frost on record as crop damage spread from Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades. Officials warned tender vegetables and truck crops were severely harmed while citrus largely escaped. lows ranged from the upper teens in the north to mid 30s in the south.
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Florida
Lake Okeechobee
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Johnson
Everglades
Fort Myers
Palm Beach
Marines Sweep Mountains Southwest of Da Nang in Major Op
Five thousand U S Marines backed by air strikes sweep the mountains 30 miles southwest of Da Nang in a large operation. Since December 7, 123 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have been killed and 41 captured. 18 Americans killed and 73 wounded. Air force bombers dropped 750 tons of explosives. North Vietnamese ambushed a U S army convoy near Dau Tieng. 50 attackers killed as Americans suffered losses.
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U.S
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Dau Tieng
U.S. 25Th Division
Mekong
Marion City Manager Don Weih Named For 1969 Post
Don Weih formerly city manager of Galena Illinois was chosen Marion city manager effective February 1 1969. Salary set at 15500 yearly, 1500 above prior rate. Weih replaces Peter F Crivar o who resigned December 1 to join Des Moines. Weih is 49 and married with four children. He holds a 1966 master’s in city administration and political science from Iowa and a 1941 economics bachelor’s from Iowa State.
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Don Weih
Galena, Ill
Marion
Weih
Peter F.crivaro
Des Moines
Galena
Ill
Sioux City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Iowa State
Shaffer Plans 40 Percent Guaranty Bank Stock Sale
Cedar Rapids banker Shaffer announces sale of about 40 percent of his Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. stock. About 10 000 shares will be offered to existing bank shareholders at 128 dollars per share. After December 30 remaining stock may be bought by an underwriting group of directors Loomis Becker and McIntyre. Shaffer will stay as president and notes no obligation to buy or sell.
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Shaffer
Guaranty
Charles Loomis
Harold M. Becker
Scott McIntyre
Loomis
Loomis Construction Co
Becker
Home Investment Co
McIntyre
United Fire and Casualty Co
Grou
Mother Dies as Auto Fumes Haunt Dyersville Family
In Dyersville a veterinarian’s wife Imogene Fennessy died and two relatives were unconscious after carbon monoxide from a running car filled the home. Dr William Fennessy and his daughter Robin 14 were treated and released after hospital care. Robin woke and called police. Patricia the younger sister found her later.
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Dyersville
Imogene Fennessy
William Fennessy
Dr. Fennessy
Robin
Dubuque Hospital
Quadruplets Born to Italian Woman with One Surviving
In Imperia Italy 28 year old Maria Columba Gariano gave birth to four babies two boys and two girls. One newborn died leaving three in good condition. Her husband a policeman and the family had expected three babies and named two boys and a girl. The mother is reported to be doing well. In Lourenco Marques Mozambique doctors report recovering quintuplets and twins from past pregnancies.
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Imperia
Italy
Maria Columba Gariano
Lourenco Marques
Mozambique
Clara Felisberto Matangua
Kidnaping of Emory student Barbara Mackie shocks Atlanta
Barbara Jane Mackie twenty year old Emory coed and daughter of Florida land developer Robert F. Mackle was abducted from a motel near Emory University in Atlanta by two white men one possibly age twelve. Mrs. Mackle was chloroformed and bound during the hours long incident. FBI investigating and police withheld full details.
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Atlanta
Barbara Jane Mackie
Florida
DeKalb County
Miss Mackle
Robert F. Mackle
Deltona Corp
Miami
Mackle
Key Biscayne Hotel
Nixon
DeKalb
Emory University
Emory
Teens to Share Lot of World's Hungry Folk
Fifteen members of the Christian Youth Fellowship in Champaign Illinois will live in a 8 by 16 foot shack on the University Place Christian church lawn subsisting on 3 cents a day to feel hunger and cold. The project aims to raise awareness of global hunger during the holiday season. The first shift of four youths and an adult will move in Friday, followed by another group a day later. They have not planned how to spend their 30 cents to maximize nourishment.
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Champaign, Ill
Christian Youth Fellowship
University Place Christian Church
Stan Herrin
Herrin
Execution stayed in Speck murder case
The Illinois Supreme Court stayed the execution of Richard Speck for the eight nurse murders pending possible U S Supreme Court action. The January 31 date was set for execution. Public defender Gerald Getty said he would petition the U S Supreme Court and has until February 20 to file.
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Chicago
Richard Speck
Illinois Supreme Court
US Supreme Court
Gerald Getty
U.S. Supreme Court
Chuckle Sticker Referenced on Rolls Royce Poster
A humorous bumper sticker mocks tax timing with a sharp line about poverty. The phrase reads Day your taxes early I need my poverty check, attributed to a Chuckle Rolls-Royce poster.
U S South Vietnam Split Widens Over Talks
Paris UPI Ky assails Defense Secretary Clifford amid Saigon rejection of any purely American North Vietnamese settlement. Ky meets Harriman and says Saigon must speak for itself. Harriman calls talks good but declines to detail rift specifics.
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UPI
Vietnam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Clark Clifford
Saigon
Averell Harriman
Harriman
Cyrus Vance
Washington
Clifford
Nixon team plans slow start on new legislation
President elect Nixon and leaders confer on strategy for Congress. Early focus will emphasize improving Great Society programs while delaying major new bills pending studies and reports. Nuclear nonproliferation treaty may be pushed for early Senate action between Jan 3 and 20.
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Nixon
Gress
Spiro Agnew
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Everett Dirksen
Gerald Ford
Johnson
Congress
Dirksen
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