Britains sanctions threat backfires as Rhodesia crisis rattles markets
London stocks tumble as Britain plans United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia raise feared economic damage. Pound slips then recovers amid Bank of England action. tobacco copper and Rhodesian bonds fall. Wilson seeks negotiated settlement while Brown heads to UN. Rhodesia's white-led regime vows to fight on despite penalties.
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Laurence Meredith
Press International London
UPI
London Stock Exchange
Britain
United Nations Economic
Rhodesia
Sanc
Law
Harold Wilson
U.N
Smith
South Africa
Portugal
Wil
Russian Built MIGs Down Three US Planes
US jets clashed with Soviet built MIGs for a fourth day as air strikes aimed at Yen Bay rail yard and barges near Hanoi continued. Three American aircraft were downed, with two lost Monday and a third near Dien Bien Phu. Massive damage to the rail line and a missile site were reported, while refugee outflows from the Mekong Delta and Viet Cong desertions highlighted the war’s impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryce Miller
United Press International Saigon
UPI
U. S
Hanoi
China
Viet Nam
Dien Bien Phu
North Viet Nam
Yen Bay
Hanoiwen
U.S
Mekong Delta
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mutual Broadcasting Company
Red
Lodse
Poll Shows LB Popularity At All Time Low
Washington piece reports Harris poll finds 43 percent approve of Johnson overall and 42 percent for Vietnam war while civil rights and economic policies fare lower. compares to October and January highs. Gallup counters with 48 percent approval after Johnson's Asian tour.
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Washington
APT
Johnson
Louis Harris
Washington Post
Gallup
Harris
Attend Session For Hospital Technologists In Abilene
Mrs. Mary Helen Mack MT and Mrs. Edith Law attended the third 1966 meeting of the Texas State Society of American Medical Technologists in Abilene last weekend. Workshops covered The Problem Crossmatch LDH Isozymes and RPR Card Test. Lectures included intrauterine hemolysis quality control and urinalysis. Morris Yarrow BA MT president of the society presided over the meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Helen Mack
Edith Law
Abilene
Texas State Society of American Medical Technologists
Morris Yarrow
B.A. M.T
China accuses US planes of sinking six fishing boats
Peking says U S planes bombed in the Gulf of Tonkin on Nov 30 and Dec 1 in international waters. The claims describe 17 killed and 29 wounded across six boats with further losses and warnings from China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph L. Galloway
United Press International
TOKYO
UPI
Red China Today
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Peking
New China News Agency
NCNA
China
Chinese Defense Ministry
Washington
Defense Department
Viet Nam
Hoihonz
Saikai
Kwangtung
Haihong
Cold Front Pushes Through Texas Panhandle Tonight
A cold front moved into the Texas Panhandle lowering temperatures to seasonal levels. The front was expected to slow and reach from Clovis New Mexico to Childress Texas by evening, with a punch enough to reach Dallas Fort Worth by Wednesday morning. Overnight readings ranged 45 to 69 degrees.
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United Press International
Texas Panhandle
Clovis
N. M
Childress
Amarillo
Dallas-Fort Worth
President Johnson awards Medal of Honor to Sgt O'Malley
President Johnson draped the Medal of Honor on Sgt Robert Emmett O'Malley of Queens New York the first Marine to receive the Nation's highest gallantry award in the Vietnam War during a ceremony in Austin Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin, Tex
UPI
Johnson
Robert Emmett O'Malley
Queens
N. Y
Jack Ruby Trial Moves to Wichita Falls in Texas
Dist. Judge Louis Holland set the second Jack Ruby trial for slaying Lee Harvey Oswald in Wichita Falls Texas. The Texas 30th District Court will host the case with February as a possible date. Wichita Falls was chosen to supply a large juror pool and transportation access as directed by the Texas Court of Appeals.
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Dallas
UPI
Louis Holland
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey
Wichita Falls
Holland
Texas
30Th District Court
Ruby
Texas Criminal Court of Appeals
Dallas County
Wichita County
Oklahoma
Pioneer County Leader Jacob Tred Thomas Dies at 75
Jacob Tred Thomas 75 longtime farmer and pioneer resident, first white child born in Childress County north of the Red River, died Monday at St Josephs Hospital Wellington. Funeral 2 pm Wednesday First Baptist Wellington. burial West Wellington Cemetery. Survived by wife Emma Winter. son J W of San Francisco. daughters Mrs Truman Parrish Sudan, Mrs C L Blanford Amarillo, Mrs Carrol Tolleson Clarendon. brother Frank Wellington. sisters Mrs Essie Helvey Dimmitt, Mrs Bessie Scally Oxnard Calif. 16 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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Jacob Tred
Ard
Wellington
J. W
San Francisco
Truman Parrish
Sudan
C. L Blanford
Amarillo
Carrol Tolleson
Clarendon
Frank
Essie Helvey
Dimmitt
Bessie Scally
Oxnard
Calif
Bobcat Mothers Meeting Announced at Greenbelt Lanes
All interested persons are invited to a Bobcat Mothers meeting at 7 p m Thursday in the dining room of Greenbelt Lanes for community consensus and planning.
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Greenbelt Lanes
Pat Henry Speaks at Childress Lions Club Meeting
Childress High School senior Pat Henry spoke to the Lions Club about a guided tour of France Scotland and England in August with about 90 Texas students. He described guiding mishaps and visited cities including Paris Glasgow Edinburgh Leeds York Lincoln Birmingham Stratford London. Leroy Gaines chaired and Owen Henry attended as a guest.
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Pat Henry
Childress
Childress Lions Club
France
Scotland
England
Texas
Pat
Paris
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Leeds
York
Lincoln
Birmingham
Stratford On Avon
London
Leroy Gaines
Owen Henry
Rotarians Set Two Meetings This Week
Rotarians will hold two meetings this week. Tonight at 6 30 p m they host the annual Christmas party at Hotel Childress. Wednesday's regular meeting in the hotel features Capt Gerard M Devlin Fort Sill as guest speaker discussing Vietnam War service and Pearl Harbor Day address.
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Devlin
U.S. Army Artillery and Missile School
Fort Sill
Hussein Troops Hunt Palestine Gun-Runners in Nablus
King Hussein orders house to house searches in Nablus after clashes with gun runners amid shootings that have killed eight and wounded twenty five. Police seize weapons, arrest three, and a curfew remains as Cairo backed PLO documents surface. Israel protests border incursions as Arab League talks planned in Cairo.
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John Lawton
Jerusalem
Jordan
UPI
Hussein
Nablus
Israel
Amman
Hebron
Palestine Liberation Organization
Cairo
Arab League
Tunisia
Methodist Layman Head of Churches
Dr Arthur S Flemming a Methodist layman who served as secretary of health education and welfare in Eisenhower's cabinet was elected president of the National Council of Churches He has led the University of Oregon since 1961 and will keep that post during his three year non salaried term as head of the church body
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Louis Cassles
United Press International
Miami Beach
UPI
Arthur S. Flemming
Eisenhower
National Council of Churches
Flemming
University of Oregon
Collision on Avenue F Near 19th Street Causes Heavy Damage
A two-vehicle collision at Avenue F and 19th Street Northwest at 8:30 a.m. Monday left both cars heavily damaged. Livinia Pear Wrinkle of Childress tried to turn across Avenue F and was struck by Vera Davis Smith of Dumas as fog and poor visibility hindered visibility, according to Highway Patrol Officer John Whitfield.
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Avenue F
19Th Street
Livinia Pear Wrinkle
Childress
Vera Davis Smith
Dumas
John Whitfield
The
Highway Patrol
Directors of CofC Protest Cotton Plan
Directors of the Chamber of Commerce protested the Agriculture Department plan to calculate 1967 cotton acres, warning the scheme will cost area cotton farmers about 4 million dollars. They prepared protest letters to Lyndon B. Johnson and other national figures.
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Cofc
Chamber of Commerce
Agriculture Department
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert Humphrey
Orville Freeman
Ralph Yarborough
John Tower
Bob Price
Jack Hightower
Bill Heatly
Harles Vowell
West
Vernon Woman Dies From Houston Crash Injuries
Mrs. Sandra Pliler 28 of Vernon died in a Houston hospital after a one car crash Saturday night. She was daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cargile of Vernon, born June 8, 1938, and survived by her husband Wilfred and four children, plus parents and siblings. Burial in Vernon cemetery. She attended laboratory technician school and was a Church of Christ member.
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Sandra Pliler
Vernon
Houston
Wichita Falls
Wilfred Picler Jr
Gloria
Catherine
Laverne
Roy Southern
Fort Worth
Robert Cargile
Andrew Cargile
Cargile
Sacramento
Test Abandoned Hodges Fowler No. 1 Dry Hole Report
The Hodges W P Fowler No 1 located east of Kirkland has been declared a dry hole and will be abandoned. This update notes cessation of drilling with no further activity planned at the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Fowler
Kirkland
Probation officer fights fake oil credit claim
Don Sneed a Fort Worth county adult probation officer received out of state oil company letters claiming $35.46 and later $35.99. He and Dist Atty Grady Hight suspect a computer error and confusion over credit cards, with misdirected mail and garbled responses.
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Fort Worth
Sneed
Atty
Grady Hight
Tax on Soft Drinks Will Cost Children
Texas lawmakers consider a one-cent per bottle tax on soft drinks and an eighty-cent per gallon use tax. State Rep. Tomon Granbury plans to file the bill while Texas Bottlers Association officials and TH president Charles Sandahl Jr. react to the proposal.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Texas Bottlers Association
Tomon Granbury
Charles Sandah
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