Viet Cong Attacks Tan Son Nhut Air Base In Six Hour Battle
Viet Cong mortared Tan Son Nhut and an assault force breached Allied defenses before being driven off after six hours. At least 10 U.S. servicemen wounded in the billet attack near the aid headquarters. Air losses included several aircraft and 11 crewmen listed missing or captured. The raid followed heavy shelling and new strikes near Hanoi with Phantom jets and MiG fighters engaged by antiaircraft fire.
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Richard H. Growald
United Press International Saigon
UPI
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
U.S
Tan
Viet Nam
U.S. Army
Air Force
Nguyen Cao Ky
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Tass
Atc
TS. Navy
J.G
David Renmann
7Th Fleet
Thailand
Gulf of Tonkin
Navy
Kosygin demands US peace terms on Viet Nam
Soviet Premier Kosygin told a Paris luncheon the United States must accept the five point peace plan from Viet Nam for relations to improve. He urged withdrawal of American troops and warned against German reunification diluting Europe. He spoke on his France visit amid tensions over West Germany and European security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Sibera
United Press International Paris
UPI
Alexei N. Kosygin
Russia
United States
Washington
Viet Nam
Kosygin
U.S
Orth Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
France
West Germany
East Germany
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
Italy
Britain
Inequities In Texas School Taxation Probed
A Dallas real estate appraiser hired by Governor’s committee finds wide gaps between claimed and actual property assessment ratios in 180 districts. Bartlett urges standardized, updated policies and training to fix unequal tax bases and state funding allocation.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
Governor's’ Committee On
Charles R. Bartlett
Dallas
Texas
Bartlett
Science Fair Set for February by Childress School System
The Childress School System will hold its annual Science Fair on February 24 and 25 as a 100 percent extracurricular activity. Exhibits are to be prepared at home and brought to the exhibit hall by the exhibitors or their parents. Steering committee members include H. P. Powers and several teachers.
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Childress
J. W. Hamilton
Inez Robinson
Maggie Gaines
Mary Lou Austin
Kathryn Hamilton
Nince Walkup
Draft pool expands under lowered AFQT standards
The Defense Department creates a pool of about 350000 men from which 40000 former rejectees may be drafted by September 30 under looser AFQT rules. The group mixes whites and blacks who scored above minimum AFQT but were previously rejected for limited trainability, with high school graduates gaining automatic qualification.
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Darrell Garwood
United Press International Washington
UPI
Defense Department
County Economy Rises Fast in Childress County
A Department of Commerce report finds Childress County residents increased real income per capita from 1652 to 1766 between 1980 and early 1980s, boosting after-tax purchasing power and retail spending from 1540 to 2051 per capita. The gain, 33.0 percent, exceeds national 19.0 percent and regional 17.3 percent increases.
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New York
Childress County
Department of Commerce
Commerce Department
Labor Department
United States
South Central States
Father of Bill Hamm Dies in Houston
Capt. S. O. Hamm, father of W. O. Hamm of Childress, died about 2 p.m. Saturday in Houston of a heart attack at age 68. Funeral services are pending but likely Tuesday in Houston. A Texas Ranger captain for years, he helped organize the Texas Highway Department and later served as a special investigator for Superior Oil. Survivors include his wife, Bill, and two grandsons.
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S. O. Hamm
W. O
Bill) Hamm
Childress
Houston
Hamm
Texas Rangers
Texas Highway Department
Superior Oil Company
Bill
Free Coffee and Doughnuts for December 17 Event
The Childress County Old Settlers Association will serve free coffee and doughnuts all Saturday December 17. W E F Helms president announced the event. The Sam Privitts Chuck Wagon will supply the refreshments at Avenue B and Main Street for the public to attend.
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Childress County
Old Settlers Association
W. E F. Helms
Sam
Pre-Winter Cold Grips Texas with Four Deaths
A pre-winter cold front pushed into northern Texas with temps near freezing and drizzle creating icy bridges. Four deaths occurred in a car crash on an ice coated bridge near Denton involving students and a high school teacher, as the arctic front moved south from Kingsville to Laredo to Del Rio.
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United Press International
Texas
Denton
Weather Bureau
Kingsville
Laredo
del Rio
Two Charitable Christmas Parties Planned for Needy Children
Two Christmas parties for needy children are set for December 24. Gerald Havens, Exalted Ruler of Childress Elks Lodge 1113, announced the events. The first at 2 30 p.m. at the Elks, the second at 4 p.m. at the old J J Rhoads School in northeast Childress. Donations are coming in, with many individuals listed as contributors.
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Gerald Havens
Childress
Elks Lodge 1113
the Elks
J. J. Rhoads
Havens
E. E. Kingbaum
I Rothwell
Lee Driver
Jim Parker
Richard Bird
Wiley Tabor
Homer Baker
E. B. Mills
M. A. Barron
Dalton Martin
4. P Yearigain
James Lyles
Dub Eikman
Bill Duke
Crews Bell
Clinton Halford
Ted Bruce
Jim Ross
W. T Smith
Kenneth Sledge
George Weatherbee
Gene Perkins
C. B. Glear
Wayland Mitchell
O. T. Roth
Harold Halford
Bill Atkinson
W. H. Tippett
Gene Smith
Dick Whaley
Davie Wright
Vietnam Veteran Speaks at Rotary Club in Fort Sill
Capt Gerard M. Devlin a Vietnam War veteran will address the Childress Rotary Club at noon in the Childress Hotel. He serves as an infantry instructor at Fort Sill Artillery and Missile School and spoke from first hand experience about Vietnam. He was a Ranger advisor to the Vietnamese army from 1964 to 1965 and has earned the Distinguished Service Cross Bronze Star with V Purple Heart and Vietnam Gallantry Cross. He is from Waltham Massachusetts and has a wife Anne and three children Michael Deana-Lyn and Patricia.
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Fort Sill
Okla
Childress
Childress Hotel
Gerard M. Devlin
U.S. Army Artillery and Missile School
Vietnam
Devlin
Waltham, Mass
Army
Korea
Germany
Anne
Michael
Deana-Lyn
Patricia
Red Guards Fight Workers in China Riots Reported by Tass
Tass reports mass protests against Red Guards in Peking explode into bloody riots amid clashes with workers and party members. In Shanghai at least 200 Red Guards beaten and 30 hospitalized as violence widens. Li Bao-hua, central committee member and son of a founder, beaten during interrogation.
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Moscow
API
Communist China
Tass
Peking
Communist Party
Red Guards
Shanghai
Red Guard
Mao Tse-Tung
Li Bao-hua
Party Central Committee
Bao-hua
Former Resident Hugh L Copeland Dies in California
Hugh L Copeland 72 of Citrus Heights California died of a heart attack about 3 p m Saturday. He was born December 26 1894 in Tell and was survived by his wife Lela a son Billy and several daughters and grandchildren. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at the Church of Christ in Roseville.
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Hugh L. Copeland
Citrus Heights
Calif
Land of
Childress
Church of Christ
Roseville
Copeland
Tell
Lela
Billy
Ters
Claude Baers
Alvin Mondson Amarillo
Leota
George
Possum Kingdom
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Sim Vaughn
Greenbelt Lanes
Rayford Holtman
Dodson
Lakeview
Wellington
Memphis
Jean Hassell
Netherlands
Armed Services
Bill Hamm
Rotary Club
Red Chinese
California
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