Blast Fire Kills Nine in Two Readings Pa Homes
A gas fueled explosion and blaze leveled two adjoining houses in Reading Pennsylvania killing nine people from two families. Fire crews spent over 11 hours in the rubble pulling out charred remains as investigators traced a possible gas line issue near the scene.
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Reading
UPI
Frank Stanislaw
Robert Geiser
Geiser
Russell Bowers
Water Department
Stanislaw
Viet Cong Attack Near Saigon Slated as Major Clash
About 500 Viet Cong stormed a U.S. command post northwest of Saigon. American artillery repelled the attack, fatally wounding at least 103 enemy fighters. The engagement, part of multiple New Year incidents, left 5 Americans dead and 28 wounded, with civilian casualties and damage reported in the Mekong Delta and central highlands.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Central Highlands
Mekong
U.S. Army
25Th Infantry
Kantum City
Highlands
Que Son
Johnson Set to Deliver State of the Union Next Wednesday
President Johnson will address the reconvened Congress and the nation in a live televised State of the Union at 8 p.m. CST next Wednesday, with radio coverage noted by legislative sources.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
House
Senate
Sihanouk Reaches Accord With Bowles On Cambodia Policy
Cambodian leader says a broad agreement with Chester Bowles aims to keep Cambodia out of the Vietnam conflict and deny sanctuary to communist guerrillas. He notes a minute session to bolster the International Control Commission and says U.S. forces will not pursue across the frontier.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Norodom Sihanouk
Chester Bowles
U.S
Cambodia
Bowles
International Control Commission
Vietnam
Sihanouk
U. S
Jacqueline Kennedy
FCC Asked to Order Equal Time for McCarthy
McCarthy’s lawyers petition the FCC to require ABC NBC and CBS to grant him equal time to reply to President Johnson’s remarks. They claim Johnson is an obvious candidate and seek immediate hearing with subpoenas for aides directing campaigns in New Hampshire Wisconsin Massachusetts and California.
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FCC
McCarthy
Washington
Eugene McCarthy
D - Minn
Federal Communications Commission
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Johnson’s
Commission
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr
Benedict P. Cottone
Marvin Watson
Watson
Bernard Bouton
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
California
China applauds A test results despite no seventh blast
TOKYO AP reports China praised successful guided missile and hydrogen bomb tests while avoiding mention of a seventh explosion detected by the U S on Christmas Eve. Beijing claimed the tests show how rapidly the Chinese people are catching up with and surpassing advanced world standards.
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Tokyo
U.S. Atomic Energy
China
Three Patients Strangled in St Louis State School Incident
Three male patients were found strangled early Wednesday in a dormitory ward at the St Louis state school and hospital. Authorities say the killings were premeditated and four other patients are being questioned. Names include Allen Jackson 24 Henry Miller 22 of St Louis and Gary Earl Boenker 22 of St Charles.
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ST. Louis
St. Louis State School and Hospital
F. J. ‘Pete’ Vasel
Cecil Baker
Allen Jackson
Henry Miller
Gary Earl Boenker
St. Charles
Donnelly Hall
Bellefontaine
Four Million Dollar Counterfeit Money Shipment Nabbed
Manhattan Secret Service announced the largest counterfeit seizure in U S history with 4.1 million in counterfeit ten dollar bills. Joel Lee a 39 year old Miami Beach attorney was arrested at Kennedy Airport in a $90 million counterfeit scheme yielding further arrests in Ohio and more across the country.
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New York
UPS
Secret Service
Joseph Hoey
U. S
Eastern District of
Kennedy International Airport
Joel Lee
Miami Beach
Lee
Albert Whitaker
Akron
Ohio
Canton
Louis Christian
James Clark
Clinton
Robert J. Rotatori
U.S
Cleveland
Whitaker
Raymond Grunewald
Miami
Kennedy Airport
Kentucky Man To Head Iown Social Services
Des Moines Iowa Gov Harold Hughes appoints Maurice A Harmon 51 of Kentucky as commissioner of the new Iowa social services department set to begin Feb 15 The post pays 24000 annually Harmon formerly led Kentucky child welfare since 1965 and is among Hughes first Kentucky picks for state agency leadership.
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Harmon
Social Services
Board of Social Welfare
Board of Control and Parole Board
Surveyor 7 Lands On Moon Near Tycho Crater
In a near perfect landing despite a 43 percent success chance, Surveyor 7 touched down at a 15 000 foot Tycho crater near the lunar south central edge. The craft filmed rugged terrain of rocks and a ridge as it prepared to test geology and soil using a trenching tool and radiation analysis.
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Pasadena
Calif
Surveyor 7
U. S
Tycho
Copernicus
Lee Shearer
U. S. Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Disturbed 14-Year-Old Fires From Bakery Building
A 14 year old expelled youth in Cedar Rapids fired at least seven shots from the former Trausch Bakery building injuring no one. Police say the boy, hysterical and upset over a haircut, surrendered after two officers persuaded him to drop the rifle. He was taken for mental health evaluation.
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Cedar Rapids
Trausch
Sixth Avenue
Richard Miller
Bill Welty
Welty
Miller
Mental Health Institute
Independence
Fifth heart transplant patient dies after small donor heart
Louis Block, 57, world's fifth heart transplant recipient, died 10 hours after a smaller donor heart was implanted at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. The operation, led by Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, used a balloon pump to assist circulation. donor Helen Krouch weighed under 100 pounds.
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New York
Louis Block
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn
Black
Adrian Kankowitz
Kantrowitz
Helen Krouch
East Peterson
N. J
Kantrowitzi
Arthur Kantrowitz
Avco Corp. Research Laboratories
Everett, Mass
Miniature snooping devices at school tops a chuckle
A humorous note remarks that many homes are bugged by tiny listening devices and jokes they repeat every word at school, credited to Copr. TM 1968.
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LDER
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Clark
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Iown Social Services
Forst’s. Harmon
Montana Department of Institutions
Division of Juvenile Rehabilitation
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