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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1965
Page
4
The Viet Cong carried out several low level actions against U S and South Vietnamese forces as a 30 hour Christmas cease fire ended. The U S military said three marine attacks caused casualties and that enemy fire was returned in the Third and Fourth corps areas with one strike in First corps.
U S Marines report a patrol was attacked by Viet Cong during a 30 hour cease fire that authorities say never held. Christmas Eve mortar fire near Chu Lai blamed on communications gaps, not a formal cease fire violation. The Viet Cong had pledged a 7 p m to 7 a m truce.
Dr. E. L. Lindley 52 of 455 Cottage Grove Ave SE Cedar Rapids died in a city hospital at 11:30 a.m. Saturday after a six month illness. An Iowa 1939 MD, he served as a major in the army medical corps in the Southwest Pacific and earned the Bronze Star. He practiced internal medicine and held multiple medical society memberships.
Thousands of Cubans losing jobs are reportedly offered farm work to support families while awaiting permission to leave for the United States. Sources say the move follows orders to fire those who applied for refugee flights from Varadero to Miami. Some protest and a Swiss embassy channel is being explored. Fidel Castro's regime eyes stability ahead of a tricontinental anti-imperialist meeting. Workers in fields would earn lower pay than other field laborers. Exact numbers remain unknown.
A proverb-like line tells fathers that fishing with their sons reduces the need to search for them, presenting a lighthearted familial tip about spending time together.
A House Republican task force urged the administration to begin a campaign to exclude Red China from the United Nations next year. They warned admission would threaten the UN and enable a veto by a Marxist-Maoist state. The group emphasized China’s aggression in Korea Tibet and Vietnam as grounds for exclusion.
Luci Baines Johnson and her fiancé Patrick Nugent made a surprise Christmas visit to the Nugent family home in Waukegan from Austin aboard a private Beechcraft plane. They traveled with secret service protection, landed at O'Hare and were later driven to the Nugent residence.
A Christmas day crash on Highway 13 near Central City killed Mary Catherine Coleman 46 and her daughter Doris 15, with husband John Coleman dying later of a heart attack. Kenneth Coleman 13 was in critical condition. six others were injured, some in good condition, one 82-year-old woman in fair condition. Survivors include brothers John, Gerald, and Kenneth. several relatives. Funeral services are pending Brady Mortuary with burial at Mt. Calvary.
David Ward, 13, a Memphis delivery boy, spent most of his eleven dollar weekly earnings to buy a Christmas tree and gifts for Mrs. Brady Neals, a 71 year old blind woman. A bicycle theft followed but donors from across North America sent four bikes and other gifts. He plans an education fund and hopes to become a doctor. Mrs Neals said, I am blind but I can see goodness.
Special to The Gazette Tipton Iowa First Lt Dennis Eilers, a Tipton native and Coe College 1961 graduate, is reported missing after his air force C 47 vanished Dec 24 over Vietnam. Eilers, 27, married to Belva Schnack, has two young sons and planned a long air force career.
James Farmer plans to resign as national director of CORE to head a national literacy program funded by federal and private money. The Washington Post reported he would become executive director of a new non profit to manage grants under the program.
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