Viet Cong Attack Near Saigon Amid Election Turmoil
Viet Cong forces attacked a government outpost four miles south of Saigon as U S officials report kidnappings and assassination threats aimed at disrupting elections set for September 1. Multiple clashes, air strikes, and naval actions follow, with casualties and ongoing security operations across South Vietnam.
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Saigon
UPI
Bryce Miller
United Press International Saigon
U.S
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Chieu Hoi
Tri Tam
Nguyen Car Ky
South China Sea
Hue
Demilitarized Zone
North
South
Viet Nam
Violent Rainstorms Rip Through South Plains
A heavy storm system dumped prolific rainfall across Texas Panhandle and North Texas with a tornado sighting near Arlington and roofs ripped from a Fort Worth grocery. Fort Worth and Lubbock reported no injuries, but multiple cities logged inch totals and power lines and telephone circuits were disrupted.
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South Plains
United Press International
East Fort Worth
Texas
Lubbock
Fort Worth
Panhandle
Seminary Hill
South Hills
Westcliff
Arlington
Heckathorn Re-elected President of Garden Valley Reunion
W. W. Bill Heckathorn was re elected president of the Garden Valley Reunion held at the Woman's Department Club. The group voted to meet next year on the fourth Sunday in August at the WDC with Mrs. Jimmy Sessions re elected secretary and Mrs. Bertha Johnson assistant secretary. Memorial services were by Mrs. Ben Teague. Attendance topped 80 with Lillie Halliburton of Albuquerque recognized for traveling the greatest distance.
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W. W
Bill) Heckathorn
Garden Valley
Woman's Department Club
WDC
Jimmy Sessions
Wellington
Bertha Johnson
Ben Teague
Heckathorn
Lillie Halliburton
Albuquerque, N.M
Reception Dates Set For Annual Teachers Event
The annual Teachers Reception will be held at Fair Park Auditorium on September 19. Details will be prepared by the Special Events Committee of the Chamber of Commerce during a meeting at 7 a.m. Wednesday at the Village Inn.
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Fair Park Auditorium
Evenus
Chamber of Commerce
Village Inn
Hung Jury in Speedding Trial of Local Rancher Sam West
Sam West a Childress County rancher faced a speeding charge in Justice of Peace Court. The jury reported no verdict and was dismissed after failing to reach agreement.
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Sam West
Childress County
Justice of Peace Court
Jessel Plans Marriage to Audrey Magee in Houston
Comedian George Jessel, 68, announced plans to marry Audrey Magee, 24, a Beverley Hills entertainer. He said love crosses age differences and the couple met at Houston International Airport after Magee arrived from Los Angeles. Magee is a Midland, Texas native.
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Houston
UPI
George Jessel
Audrey Magee
Beverley Hills
Calif
Jessel
Miss Magee
Houston International Airport
Los Angeles
Midland
Tex
Time Magazine issue sells out in Johannesburg
Time Magazine's last week's edition with a Verwoerd cover story appeared on newstands in Johannesburg on Monday and sold out promptly after censorship delays by the publications control board delaying distribution.
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TIME
Johannesburg
South Africa
UPI
Time Magazine
Hendrik Verwoerd
Verwoerd
Nation
Publications Control Board
Stock Market Suffers Setback and Rally Fails
The UPI report notes shrinking buying interest and rising selling pressure push the market lower after a morning rally. The Dow fell to 767.03, with 643 losers and 490 gainers as analysts cite inflation fears, borrowing costs, and government policy as factors, while some see a long way to bottom.
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Charles J. Parno
United Press International New York
UPI
Dow Jones
United Press International
New York Stock Exchange
Arryl Truman
United Press International Stock Market
Wall
Wall Street
Johnson Administration
Granville
James Dines
Gary Smotherman Improves After Emergency Appendectomy
Childress High School quarterback Gary Smotherman is reported fine after an emergency appendectomy on Monday. He remains sidelined for the Hasskel game on September 9 and may return to school soon. Joe Hardison and John Baker will handle QB duties until he can play.
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Bobcat
Gary Smotherman
Childress General Hospital
Ochis Smotherman
Gary
Jack Fox
Johnnie Gragg
Joe Hardison
John Baker
Slides of Holy Land Shown at Lions Club
A Lions Club program featured color slides of the Holy Land and the life of a shepherd narrated by John Gay. The 23rd Psalm inspired the narrative. Gay served as program chairman and guest Tommy Eubank attended.
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Holy Land
Lions Club
John Gay
Gay
Tommy Eubank
Kindle Not Allowed To Enter The Hospital
In Childress Texas a relative of Army Sgt Raymond Kindle 19 an encephalitis victim says an Army inquiry is examining a charge that Kindle was denied admission to Ft Sill Hospital in Oklahoma He had been in Korea and died in an Amarillo hospital The family says he was taken to Ft Sill after falling ill in Altus but was kept waiting six hours and denied entry Ft Sill authorities deny the denial
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Kindle
C. L. Kindle
Childress
Calvary Baptist Church
Korea
Amarillo
Three Robbins youths killed lying on highway
Three teenagers from Robbins North Carolina were crushed by cars while lying on a dark highway. State trooper Tommy Clark cited two possibilities including a game called chicken and noted lack of movement before impacts. Victims were Larry Eugene Sanders 18 Charles Leroy Carter 20 and Clinton Eugene Cox 15.
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Clark
Joint Rites Today For Estelline Men
Funeral services are set for William Alton Abrams and L. V Bruce at 3:00 p.m. in the First Baptist Church Estelline with Rev. Royee Denton and Rev. R H Knight officiating. Interment for Bruce at Hulver Cemetery and for Abrams at Estelline. The men died after Abrams’s pickup crashed into a parked tractor-trailer on Highway 287 west of Childress Sunday night. Abrams died at Childress General Hospital and Bruce died soon after admission.
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Wiliam Alton Abrams
L. V Bruce
First Baptist Church
Estelline
Royee Denton
RH. Knight
Childress
Mr Bruce
Hulver Cemetery
Mr. Abrams
Abrams
Highway 287
Childress General Hospital
Bruce
Volcanic Eruption Kills 28 in North Celebes Island
Antara reports Mount Awu on North Celebes erupted on August 12 killing 28 people and injuring more than 2,009. The blast left 40,000 homeless as three villages were destroyed and 21 others heavily damaged.
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Jakarta
Last Series Of Raids Against Mosquitoes
CORPUS CHRISTI Texas reports the last series of Air Force spraying raids against Culex mosquitoes carrying encephalitis. Two deaths and about 94 potential cases in Texas, with 11 deaths including seven in Dallas and others in Hale Center Amarillo. Spraying by three 123rd Air Force planes began Sunday, with traps showing no mosquitoes since.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Dallas
Hale Center
Amarillo
W. R. Metzger
State Health Department
Brooks County
Hale County
Lamb County
Lubbock
Tom Green
Nolan County
Eiffel Tower jumper claims 349th self inflicted death
An unidentified man scaled new safety barricades at the Eiffel Tower on Monday night and leapt from the 337 foot level. He becomes the 349th person to die by own action at the landmark since 1889.
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Paris
UPI
Eiffel Tower
Funeral Set Wednesday For B R Foster Sr
Funeral services for B R Foster Sr 82 a retired lumber yard and grocery store owner in Goodlett will be conducted at 3 39 pm Wednesday at Goodlett First Methodist Church Interment will be in Goodlett Cemetery under Knowles Funeral Homes Quanah Born in New Albany Mississippi he moved with parents to Fannin County as a boy later living in Childress and Goodlett He retired in 1955 Survivors include daughters Mrs W L Tabor of Goodlett Mrs Weldon Howell of Amarillo and Mrs Graham Reynolds of Concord California sons B R Jr and Van of Quanah fourteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren
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B. R Foster Sr
Goodlett
Goodlett First Methodist Church
Knowles Funeral Homes
Quanah
Foster
New Albany
Miss
Fannin County
Childress
Goodiett
W. L. Tabor
Weldon Howell
Amarillo
Graham_ Reynolds
Concord
Calif
B. R. Jr
Van
Strikers Bowling League Plans Winter Session
Members of the women’s Strikers bowling league meet at 7 30 p m tonight at Greenbelt Lanes to organize the winter league.
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Strikers
Women’s Strikers Bowling League
Greenbelt Lanes
San Francisco Nurses Stage Hospital Strike
San Francisco nurses walk out at three city hospitals leaving General Hospital with a skeleton staff of 35. 148 of 360 at General reported sick and 42 of 140 at Laguna Honda joined the action. Nurses rejected a pay offer matching private hospital increases and Mayor Shelley prepared an emergency plan to fund their demands.
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Robert Potter
San Francisco
UPT
San Francisco General Hospital
Irene Pope
General
Laguna Honda
Hassier Health Home
Diane Gunderson
General Hospital
John F. Shelley
Father Gr. Fader
Roy L. Webb
Webb
Tippett Places in Buffalo Rodeo Events
Rovce Tippett of Tell, son of Mr and Mrs W H Tippett, placed in three events at the Harver County FFA Fair and Rodeo in Buffalo Oklahoma over the weekend. He won first in bull riding second in calf-tyme and third in pole bending.
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Rovce Tipnett
W. H. Tippett
Tell
Harver County
Buffalo
Okla
Money found in Le Havre harbor unclaimed
Police say the $13,800 found in a sack floating in Le Havre harbor remains unclaimed. The money has not been reported missing and no holder has come forward.
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E Havre
France
UPI
U.S
le Havre
Plane Carrying 3 Lubbock Men Vanished en Route to Detroit
Civil Air Patrol launches a three state search for three Texans aboard a two engine plane that disappeared while en route to Detroit on a church mission. The men Jack Goodman Cody Corbell and Harold McElroe were last heard from after taking fuel in Springfield Illinois. Fifty CAP planes scoured Michigan Indiana and Illinois as authorities feared a crash between Springfield and Detroit. The trio from Lubbock Texas included pilot Cody Corbell and Harold McElroe with Goodman owner of G and G Construction. The church project meeting was to be held with the Port Huron Port City group officials.
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Detroit
Civil Air Patrol
Roger Burgess
CAP
Springfield
Ill
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Burgess
Lubbock
Tex
Jack Goodman
G & G Construction Co
Cody E. Corbell
Goodman
Harold MceInroe
Corbell
MceInroe
Church of Christ
Port Piver Aztec
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Red River
Mineral Weils
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Hico
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Canton
Mineola
Cooper
Sulphur Springs
Denton
B.R. Foster Sr
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