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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1969
Page
1
President Nixon announced a 50,000 troop withdrawal from South Vietnam to be completed by April 15, a slower pace than prior cuts. He warned of strong measures if enemy actions endanger remaining forces and cited cautiously optimistic briefings from observers and leaders in Vietnam.
The Senate voted 85 to 4 to approve a defense appropriations bill totaling about 69.3 billion dollars while banning American ground troops from Laos and Thailand. The move followed two hours of closed-session debate and a 73 to 17 vote on the amendment.
President Nguyen Van Thieu endorsed Nixon’s troop withdrawal plan and said South Vietnam would take a growing share of the war effort. Hanoi dismissed the move as progressless and urged full American withdrawal. A Viet Cong attack in Saigon hit a printing plant, wounding six. South Vietnamese forces claimed 83 enemy dead in Mekong Delta fights and freed two civilians.
An anarchist detainee under strong suspicion of Milan's bank bombing leapt from a fourth floor police station window during interrogation and died in hospital. Giuseppe Pinelli, 41, a railroad worker and head of a local anarchist group, died after the fall amid a sweep that followed the blast that killed 14 and wounded over 100.
Walter Vandermeer, age 12, identified as the youngest New York drug death, died after an apparent heroin injection in a West 117th Street tenement bathroom. Assistant medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden noted he sold papers in Harlem and earned about $85 weekly before expulsion from school.
Miss Ruth Fite honored at Lions Club Christmas party held at noon with L. W. McClendon leading, a poem reading, and a piano gift to Fern Maddox. Decorations by Alton Landrum, carols by LaNeal Castleberry and others, turkey dinner, attendance awards, and guests listed. First United Methodist Church opens sanctuary daily 9 am to 9 pm for viewing the Christmas tree with special hours by appointment.
A Columbus newspaper published a photo released by an Army officer from a Viet Cong base camp near My Lai two weeks before the March 16, 1968 raid. The image appears as Lt. William L. Calley Jr.’s pretrial hearing examines whether witnesses may discuss the massacre.
Dr. Gary V. Latham and another Apollo seismic expert urge the American Academy of Sciences to study detonating a small nuclear device on the far side of the moon to map its interior. They propose a kiloton blast with international cooperation and data sharing with the Soviet Union to minimize Earth impact.
Dr. Louis Jolyon West testified before a Senate veterans affairs sub committee that Vietnam veterans are being chemically lobotomized in VA hospitals by replacing psychiatric care with tranquilizing drugs. He warned the practice may continue for years, noting lobotomy as a past method has been abandoned.
Cooler air sweeps southern Texas with fog along the coast and far South Texas. A weakening cold front stretches from Beaumont to San Angelo, dipping temperatures in the Panhandle before sunrise and leaving readings as low as the mid twenties in Dalhart and Amarillo while Brownsville stays near 60.
Larry Jones was named president of the newly organized 4 H Boys Club. A Hunter's Safety Course will be the first program, taught by John Chapman with the National Rifle Association, starting at 7 30 p m the third Monday monthly in the Court House assembly room. Wayne Cure is vice president Royce Tippett secretary Kenneth Baker reporter and Kevin Wyatt council delegate were elected to other officer posts.
Childress native Tom Higley is named Regional News Director for KGNC TV and Radio. He will keep his post as Chief Photographer, and is the son of Mr and Mrs Morris Higley.
The MEET WEDNESDAY Directors of the Community Action Program will convene at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Community Action Center housed in the old East Ward School building.
Brent Gray of Henrietta Texas had his arms torn off in a drive belt accident while helping on a farm. Doctors in Oklahoma City performed a long surgery to reattach the right arm and attempt to save the left. The right arm showed fair function while the left was severely mangled.
The Commissioners Court will meet in a special session during the last week of the year to decide on a Texas Highway Department proposal. It would build a road from U S 82 east to FM 2562 and to U S 287, accepting two of three minutes while tabling action on the rest.
Eldridge Cleaver and a small band of exiles in Algiers show no plans to return to the United States despite offers of travel documents from the U.S. diplomatic mission. The Black Panthers face leadership losses after police raids and internal purges leaving few leaders and a notable exodus of key members.
North Vietnam delegates in Paris say Nixon’s pledge to pull 50 000 more troops shows the US intends to keep fighting. Libyan authorities demand U S forces exit Wheelus base as talks open near Tripoli. A Jan 5 extradition hearing is set for Charles D Watson over the Tate murders. In Chicago, activists announce an unofficial whites-only curfew. some black leaders oppose it.
ABC, CBS waited for their regular news to analyze Nixon Vietnam progress report. NBC spoke immediately after and again on its newscast. Nixon addressed the nation at 6 p.m. EST with coast to coast airings at 6:30 or 7 p.m. EST. This marked his second TV appearance since Agnew criticism of prior Nixon remarks.
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