Four in jail after armed robbery near Childress
Four people are jailed in Childress County on bonds of 5000 dollars each after an armed robbery north of Childress. Donald Edward Lococo and three others are charged as accessories, with Lococo also charged with armed robbery. Victim Kenneth McClendon of Fort Worth and Denver was robbed of a non cash check and credit cards. Federal agents headed to Childress as authorities pursue further leads and possible Arkansas kidnapping warrants.
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Childress
Arkansas
Ware
Federal
Childress County
Donald Edard Lococo
Caroly Lococo
Darrell Jerome
Joyce Jerome
Carlisle, Ark
Kenneth McClendon
Fort Worth
Denver
McClendon
Wellington
Donald Edward Lococo
U 83
Lococo
King’s Grocery
Sheriff's Department
All
Young musician escapes East Germany by homemade submarine
Berlin reports that Berna Boettger, 28, fled the East German Baltic coast in a self built U boat. He steered a watertight cylinder with a snorkel toward the Danish lightship Gedser at three miles per hour links to West Germany. He plans future dives and has filed three patent applications for his craft.
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Joeph B. Fleming
Berlin
UPI
East Germany
Berna Boettger
Baltic Sea
Boettger
West Germany
East German
Faelish Channel
Gedser
Warnemuende
Cold Front Drives Through Texas With Frigid Lows
A new Arctic front barrels into Texas from Oklahoma with light snow in parts and subfreezing temps across much of the state. Lows reach near 17 degrees in Amarillo and Dallas 31, while southern Texas stays milder in the 40s to 50s. Saturday looks fair and colder with highs in the 50s to 60s and 70s in the south.
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Texas
Panhandle
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Beaumont
Houston
Victoria
Laredo
Amarillo
Dalhart
el Paso
Lubbock
Dallas
Beaumont-Port Arthur
McAllen
Lighting Contest For Christmas Announced By Chamber
The Community Development Committee of the Chamber of Commerce announces the annual Christmas Lighting Contest. Mrs Doyg Skinner is secretary and Dalton Martin chairs the committee. Prizes are 15 for first, 10 for second, and 8 for third. Last year’s winners were Harry Thaten, R A Shade, and Dr Jeck Fox. Details and date to be announced later.
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Chamber of Commerce
Doyg Skinner
Dalton Martin
Harry Thaten
R. A. Shade
Jeck Fox
Rockefeller and Reagan clash over welfare reform plan
In Palm Springs California governors Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan traded sharp views on Rockefeller's proposed nationwide welfare overhaul. Rockefeller urged minimum standards linked to cost of living and contrasted state payments, while Reagan warned against leveling up or down across all states and called the idea akin to throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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Palm Springs
Calif
UPI
Nelson Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
New York
California
Rockefeller
Republican Governors Association
Mississippi
Richard M. Nixon
Reagan
United
Police escort union teachers into Harlem school amid parent protest
In New York Police escorted seven of nine disputed teachers into Public School 39 East Harlem as about 50 angry parents and supporters blocked entrances demanding their ouster. The school was closed for the day to prevent confrontation while teachers argued they were following a Board of Education order abolishing a post Thanksgiving holiday to recover time from citywide strikes.
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NEW York
UPI
East Harlem
Charles E. Wilson
Public School
Charles Wilson
Harlem
Board of Education
P. S. 39
Wolfson gets 18 month term for perjury in fraud case
Florida financier Louis E. Wolfson drawn an 18 month jail sentence and $32,000 fine for perjury and obstructing justice. Judge Edmund L. Palmieri ordered the sentence to follow a prior one year term from last September, with the earlier sentence awaiting appeal.
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New York
UPI
Florida
Louis E. Wolfson
Edmund L. Palmieri
Wolfson
Jury rules insanity in Hefley case despite hospital claim
In Fort Worth a district court jury disagreed with Rusk State Hospital officials and ruled that Charles Roy Hefley remains insane and should be returned to the hospital. Hefley confessed to killing Mrs. Carolyn Whitcher and drowning her two infant sons, an act that left Whitcher blinded, and the jury’s verdict follows calls for further testing before any recertification.
Ground Assault at Dong Ha Strikes Key US Base
North Vietnamese forces launched a ground attack on the Dong Ha base near the DMZ and hit two nearby bridges as fighting spread to 11 cities and bases. The assault left at least 17 South Vietnamese dead and 93 wounded, marking a deadly escalation ahead of Paris talks.
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Alvin B. Webb Jr
Saigon
UPI
Bss
Dong Ha
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Pps
Paris
Vietnam
Aigon
North Vietnam
Raymond Wilkinson
Dore Ha
Vietnams
Nixon Seeks Unity in America at California Dinner
President elect Nixon spoke in Los Angeles at a $250 per plate dinner honoring Cardinal James Francis McIntyre. He urged unity through concern for the poor and visited the Santa Marta hospital project, calling for national welfare standards to be discussed with Gov. Rockefeller.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Nixon
California
James Francis McIntyre
America
Century Plaza
Santa Marta
Wom
Cardinal
McIntyre
Palm Springs
Calif
Spiro T. Agnew
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Nixon backs black capitalism push via Project Own
President Nixon urges a major push to develop minority entrepreneurship through Project Own led by Howard J. Samuels SBA chief. The program targets 10 000 new minority businesses annually by mid 1969 rising to 20 000 by mid 1970 with government guarantees and bank lending accelerating capital to ghettos.
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Roy McGhee Washington
UPI
Nixon
Project Own
Johnson
Howard J. Samuels
Small Business Administration
Rochester, N.Y
Samuels
Brando Escorted From Miami Jet Over Cuba Joke
Marlon Brando was hustled off a National Airlines jet after asking if the flight to Cuba. An airline spokesman said Brando’s remark to a stewardess led agents to remove him. He later traveled to Jamaica and then a charter to Colombia for the film Quemade. Brando’s attorney called the remark a jest and noted sensitivity to Havana rumors.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Marlon Brando
Colombia
National Airlines
Cuba
Airlines
Brando
Jamaica
Norman H. Garey
Havana
County School Board to Meet at Courthouse Saturday
The County School Board will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Courthouse per President Rowden Cordell.
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Rowden Cordell
Gun Dealers Decry New Registration Law at Border
United Press reports gun dealers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley attack the new federal weapon and ammunition registration forms required under Public Law 90-618. Dealers complain of red tape and fear many will quit the business. the law imposes age limits and records on sales from cartridges to shotguns.
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Kenneth R. Clark
Rio Grande Valley
H. A. Haas
Valleyport Center
McAllen
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Donley County
Heriff
Bill Cornell
Santa Claus
Rotary Club
Santa
Rotary
Robert Carter
C. R. Dugan
Louise Bowers
Lajuana Skinner
New Cold Front
National Liberation Front
NLF
Washington
Ramsey Clark
Justice Department
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Clark
San Francisco
United Press International
Jordan
United Nations
Ag. 4
Eugene V. Risher
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