Johnson Defies Critics at AFL-CIO Speech
President Johnson pledged not to be deterred by critics or poll numbers and urged labor leaders to help Democrats win a big Congress in 1968. He attacked Republicans as wooden soldiers while calling for wage restraint and progress on education amid rising prices.
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Miami Beach
Fila
Johnson
Afl-Cio
Organized Labor
House of Labor
Congress
Rcles
George Meany
Meany
White House
Bill Hubbard
Pittsburg
Leonard Rude
Parsons
L. Hugh Chapman
Chanute
Wayne Moran
Charles F. Scanlan
Canada urges risk for peace in Vietnam at NATO talks
Canadian Foreign Secretary Paul Martin told 14 NATO foreign ministers that the United States must gamble as it has in war to pursue peace in Vietnam. He offered Canada’s unrestricted help for any viable plan to end the war as Dean Rusk spoke after him without responding.
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Brussels
Belgium
Paul Martin
Canada
United States
Vietnam
Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Martin
Congress Plans Early End To Spending Season Before Christmas
An intercepted letter shows a plan by Congress to finish its spending season a week early, before Christmas. The missive, addressed to Cha, reflects budgetary timing decisions and year end priorities.
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Congress
Pioneer 8 Launch Sends Solar Weather Scout Toward Sun Orbit
Cape Kennedy officials report the Delta rocket's 9 08 a m EST liftoff carrying Pioneer 8 and a communications satellite. The solar wind probe will test a sun orbit between Earth and Mars to forecast radiation storms and aid future manned missions.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Earth
Pioneer 8
Mars
America
Three Boys Injured In Erie Highway Wreck
Three Fulton youths aged 15 to 18 were injured when their 1961 Chevrolet turned into a southbound truck on US59 near Erie. Danny Carney 17 Mark Cameron 18 Kenneth Bukter 15 suffered head face and limb injuries. they were taken to Labette County Medical Center. The 54 year old truck driver Austin Stevens of Muskogee Oklahoma was unhurt. The wreck damaged the truck about $500 and kept the highway blocked about an hour.
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Okla
Vogel
Carney
Army Induction For Three Here
Three area young men went to the U S Army Induction Center in Kansas City today for induction tomorrow Mrs Nelda Wall said They are Steven Leon Dimon Gary Lee Nichols and Samuel George David all of Chanute
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U.S. Army Induction Center
Kansas City
Army
Nelda Wall
Selective Service Board
Steven Leon Dimon
Gary Lee Nichols
Samuel George David
Chanute
Yule Light Theft Arrest Is Made
Police arrested Kenneth Le Roy Ketcherside at 611 S Central yesterday on a misdemeanor warrant for theft of outdoor Christmas lights from Ed Hardendorff's home. He claimed he drove the car but said youths in the vehicle took the lights. he was released pending further investigation.
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Kenneth Leroy Ketcherside
R. 2
Ed Hardendorff
S. Central
Ketcherside
Post Office Open On Saturday Here
The Chanute post office will be open Saturday from 8 30 a m until 5 p m for the convenience of Christmas mailers. Window service will be provided the full time of the open hours.
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Chanute
Florence Kelley
Airlift Pushes U.S. Troop Level in Vietnam to 475,000
The largest airlift of the Vietnam war raises U.S. forces in South Vietnam to about 475,000 as two more brigades of the 101st Airborne Division arrive. Some 7,000 paratroopers have flown in since Nov. 17 with 3,000 more expected by Dec. 29.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
United States
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Screaming Eagles
Bastogne
Pacific
101St
Olinto M. Barsanti
Bien Hoa
William C. Westmoreland
101St Airborne Division
Vietnam
Congress Moves Toward Adjournment With Pay Raises and Cuts
Congress clears major spending bills as it aims for weekend adjournment. A $5.4 billion pay raise for 5.5 million federal workers and servicemen is approved, plus a 10 percent across the board cut to save $4.1 billion and a $1.61 billion OEO appropriation. Postal rates rise to fund the raises and Social Security measures may follow.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Johnson
Kidnappers Take Banker's Wife in Glendale Bank Heist
Frances Howe, 50, was held hostage for ransom after two men, later identified as Robert Sheader and Edson Largand Little, demanded $80,000 then settled for $50,000. They were arrested with the ransom money after a two hour ordeal.
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Glendale
Calif
Union Bank
van Nuys
Howe
Jobless Rate Dips in November 1966
The national unemployment rate fell four tenths of a percent to 3.9 percent in November, the sharpest monthly drop in over six years. The seasonally adjusted unemployed totaled 2.894 million, while total employment rose by 450,000 to 75.1 million with gains in nonmanufacturing and in state and local government.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Three Chanute youths held in lumber yard theft
Three youths were held at the Chanute city jail after a break in at Smith Lumber Co on Main Street. Ronald Bright, 19, and two 16 year olds admitted stealing $64.18, and also attempted to break into Anderson grocery before fleeing from a patrol car.
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Chanute
Smith Lumber Co
E. Main
Ronald Bright
S. Steuben
Anderson
S. Highland
Weather Toons Offer Cold Sweep Across Region
Area forecast calls for considerable cloudiness and cold weather tonight and Thursday with a chance of light snow or freezing drizzle. Low temperatures mid 20s tonight, highs in the 30s Thursday. In Kansas, snow boosted 1968 wheat prospects with reports of 1 inch at Dodge City and 3 inches at Garden City, with heavier totals toward Lamar Colorado and slick highways northeast to Oakley.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Dodge City
Garden City
Richard Garrett
Lamar
Colo
Garrett
Oakley
Southeast Kansas Highway Group Urges State Backing for Highways
The Southeast Kansas Highway Association adopted a resolution urging the 1968 Legislature to finance development of four corridor highways US 69 US 169 US 59 and the Galena to Wichita diagonal along KS 96. The group called for funding by any means and discussed area unity and future toll road options.
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Keith Wright
Southeast Kansas Highway Assn
Missouri
Chanuke
Here
Galena
Wichita
Kan
State Highway Department
House
Senate
Rude
Scanlan
Charles Carter
Independence
Ray Sheperd
Fort Scott
Robert Hartley
Baxter Springs
Carter
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Coop
Eugene Beachner
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George Neely
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Yule
Murray Hill
Tribune
Ralph Benson
Sandra McCune
Ralph
Albert Benson
S. Wilson
Sandra
Larry McCune
Westmoreland
Erally
1St Division
Ft. Campbell
Southeast Asia
Congressional
Houses
Office of Economic Opportunity
Frances Howe
Lice
Robert Sheader
Edson Lagrand Little
North Hollywood
TOONS
Sas
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Coffeyville
Iola
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