Truce Area Hit As Ground War Quiets Down
U S B52s bomb the demilitarized zone while air and ground operations in North and South Vietnam ease. Brig Gen Richard T Knowles of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade survives a helicopter hit over Ho Bo Woods with a wounded crewman, marking a second such incident in five weeks amid bad weather limiting North Vietnam missions.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam
South
Tay Ninh
Lumbus
196Th Light Infantry Brigade
Ho Bo Woods
Knowles
Army aids Mao as Red China vows to seize power
The official Xinhua News Agency said the military leaders pledged to help Mao Tse tung seize party and financial power from officials pursuing the capitalist road. Reports from Tokyo described army units moving to crush a Fangshan uprising near Peking, with clashes also in Tientsin and Paoting.
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Tokyo
Red China
Mao Tse- Tung
Mao
Peking
Fangshan
Tientsin
Paoting
Capital
Law Officers Meet Here On Safety
More than 100 law officers and city and county officials attended a traffic safety meeting today sponsored by the Kansas Highway Commission. It was the fifth in a six part state series on uniformity in accident investigation and reporting traffic control regulations and signs and on new federal safety laws. Claud R. McCamment, the commission safety director, led the session at the division highway office building.
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Kansas Higway Commission
Claud R. McCamment
Kansas Highway Commission
Division Highway
Weather shifts to much colder with gusty winds
Area forecast calls for south to southwest winds 30 mph with gusts near 50 today then shifting to northwesterly as much colder air arrives tonight. Wednesday expected partly cloudy and much colder with highs in the 40s and a low near 30.
U S Mediation Ends 20-Hour Nicaraguan Uprising
U S diplomats are credited with ending a 20 hour revolt in Managua after mediation by the U S Embassy. The uprising left 21 dead and more than 100 wounded. Rebels freed 117 foreign hostages including 89 North Americans from the Gran Hotel fortress before surrendering arms and being allowed to go free.
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Managua
Nicaragua
U.S
Gran Hotel
Walter McFarland Honored With Gift from New Mexico
Walter B. McFarland a longtime educator and former Las Vegas New Mexico superintendent received a Navajo rug gift from the New Mexico Schoolmasters Club. The presentation came via Dr J L Burke and included a message from W G Short recognizing his life and service.
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Walter McFarland
New Mexico
Walter B. McFarland
S. Larson
McFarland
Las Vegas
N. M
New Mexico Schoolmasters Club
Chanute
J. L. Burke
The
College of the Southwest
Hobbs
W. G. Short
Schoolmasters
Schoolmasters Club
Car Crash Near Walnut Injures Two
A 1962 Ford driven by Linda Fox 19 and her brother Lawrence 27 lost control on loose gravel, struck a bridge bannister, and overturned near Walnut. Both were admitted to Mercy Hospital Fort Scott for observation. neither seriously hurt. Sheriff’s office investigated. bridge damage about 100 dollars.
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Walnut
Linda Fox
Here
Miss Fox
Lawrence
Mercy Hospital
Fort Scott
Neosho County
City Commission votes 2 1 on zoning letter for shopping center
City commissioners narrow the path to South Plummer development by approving a letter of intent to Berthot Construction Co. The vote split 2 1 with Mayor Fred Harris and Commissioner J W Kensett in favor and Commissioner Dave Evans opposing. The measure aims to guide completed plans before zoning and not bind future commissions.
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South Plummer
Berthot Construction Co
Fred Harris
J. W. Kensett
Dave Evans
Commission
Harold Neptune
S. Plummer. Berthot Also Attended, With Bill K. Wolfe
Jim Blessing
John White
Harris
Kensett
Evans
Three Teens Held For Military Absence From Fort Leonard Wood
Three teenage servicemen were held at the city jail today on charges of absence without leave from Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. Police found the trio walking on North Plummer about 1 a.m. Two youths are brothers from Erie county and the third hails from Pennsylvania.
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Fort Leonard Wood
North Plummer
Erie
Pennsylvania
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Spending Plan Critique
A reader observes a national spending plan allegedly worth 135 billion dollars as central to taxpayer concerns. The item frames the plan as a refrain in public discourse about government priorities.
Johnson proposes $135 billion budget with tax hikes
President Johnson urged sacrifices to finance a record budget for fiscal 1968 totaling $135 billion while warning against deeper cuts that could trigger a recession. He cited a $6 percent income tax surcharge and emphasized spending controls. The plan includes $19.4 billion for Vietnam within a total defense budget of about $67 billion and $72.3 billion for defense overall.
Budget highlights outline Johnson plan for fiscal 1968
President Johnson's budget proposes total outlays of 135 billion dollars for the year starting July 1, with 126.9 billion in revenues and an 8.2 billion deficit. Defense tops 72.3 billion including 22.4 for Vietnam and 375 million for Nike X antiballistic missiles, while space and Great Society programs receive notable funding. The plan also anticipates ongoing Vietnam spending, an unmanned Mars mission by 1973, and phased Social Security tax increases to finance benefit increases.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Vietnam
Mars
Laos
Thailand
NATO
Great Society
Agency For International Development
Soviet Union
Moscow
State of the Union
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marsh
Floods Rage At Rio De Janeiro Deadly Brazil Disaster
About 150 bodies recovered with police estimating as many as 500 dead. Rescue workers comb mud and debris after torrential rains caused landslides and a bus was swept into the Paraiba River. A construction camp was engulfed as 300 residents were in the area.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Paraiba
Rio
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka Kansas 1967
Traffic death log for Topeka Kansas shows 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday with 24 fatalities in January 1967 compared to 22 in the same period in 1966. The AP report presents a snapshot of road fatalities for the period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Thunderstorm Watch Issued Across Kansas Missouri Illinois
The Weather Bureau issued a severe thunderstorm watch for parts of eastern Kansas and much of Missouri with west central Illinois. Severe storms with large hail and damaging winds were expected from noon to 6 p m this Tuesday along a corridor from Chanute Kansas to Springfield Illinois.
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Kansas City
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Chanute
Kan
Springfield
Ill
Tax Cut, Higher Interest Target State Finances
Senate Democrats introduced Gov. Docking backed measures to cut the income tax from 2.5 to 2 percent on the first 2000 of taxable income and raise interest paid on inactive state funds. The package, costing $6.7 million in tax cuts offset by $6.5 million in higher bank interest, also tightens anti holding company rules for insurance firms and touches on road garbage disposal penalties and local government finance reforms. Senate Republicans held caucuses but took no policy positions.
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Topeka
Senate
Democrats
Robert Docking
Docking
U.S. Treasury
Commissioner of Insurance
Kansas Corporation Commission
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G. W. McDowell
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