Nixon era defense budget cuts reduce US forces and jobs
Pentagon officials project about 1 million fewer Americans will be involved in defense over the first 30 months of the Nixon administration. With budget planning for 1970 71, the defense book could total 73 to 75 billion dollars, 2 to 4 billion below this year, as Melvin R. Laird orders base closures program cancellations and force reductions to curb spending.
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Washington
Pentagon
Armed Services
Melvin R. Laird
Christmas Truce Fails as 111 Viet Cong Attacks Reported
In the final hours of a 24 hour Christmas truce, allied forces accuse 111 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese attacks. Casualties include 12 South Vietnamese soldiers killed and 2 missing, with 66 Americans killed since Jan 1 1961 and 713 wounded last week. B52s resumed raids north of Saigon and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to slow infiltration.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
South Vietnamese
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
POWs Celebrate On Christmas Day in Hanoi Broadcast
The AP reports from Hong Kong that U S prisoners of war in North Vietnam heard a Christmas Eve program on Radio Hanoi despite heavy static. James Collins of Atherton California sang Silent Night while pastor Bu Hoai Thu preached peace.
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Hong Kong
James Quincy Collins
Atherton Calif
Bui Hoai Thu
Radio
Radio Homo
U.S
Bu Hoai Thu
The
King
Israeli Warplanes Strike in Jordan and Gaza Fronts
Israeli warplanes attacked Arab guerrillas in Jordan after earlier fire on an Israeli patrol near the Sea of Galilee. Jordanian vehicles burned, mines dismantled, and air duels reported. Across the cease fire line, saboteurs blew a Gaza railway segment. On the Suez front, one Israeli was killed during a long raid to destroy Egyptian surface to air missile sites.
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Associated Press
Jordan
Sea of Galilee
Beisan
Lebanses
Gaza Strip
Plainview Rites For Husband Of Former Resident
Funeral services for Pete Blakney 77 will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lemons Memorial Chapel in Plainview. He died Thursday in a Plainview hospital. burial is in Plainview Cemetery. Blakney, born in Sunset, moved from Silverton in 1927 and retired after 21 years as manager of Hale Center Airport. He was a Methodist and a member of the Plainview Masonic Lodge. Survivors include his wife Maude Crain, a sister Mrs. Alice Lowe of Dallas, and a brother Ed of Hereford.
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Plain View
Plainview Lemons Memorial Chapel
Pete Blakney
Plainview
Plainview Cemetery
Blakney
Maude Crain
Childress
Sunset
Silverton
Hale Center
Methodist Church
Gang Robbery Incidents Reported In Fort Worth Park
Police arrested a 17 year old in connection with a gang attack on 12 teens at Botanic Gardens. Ten victims described similar robberies and assaults by a group of about eight youths. three girls were injured. Police later indicated a polygraph cleared the suspect. Two minor fires were reported, one near Fort Worth and Denver rail line and a grass fire at Avenue D.
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Fort Worth
Botanic Gardens
Denver
Childress
Avenue Dev
Nixon Keeps Budget Work Amid Winter Washington Stay
President Nixon remains in the White House delaying a California trip to finalize the federal budget due to Congress next year. He will study the tax reduction and reform bill and may sign a measure boosting Social Security benefits by 15 percent next Thursday.
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Washington
California
Nixon
San
Ter Tricia
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Congress
Even Santa Befuddled By Politics In Texas
Report notes Texas 1970 campaigns clouded by indecision as Gov. Preston Smith faces Republican pressure from Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes mulling re election while Sen. Ralph Yarborough monitors a possible challenge from George Bush. GOP signals hint gubernatorial race shifts and party spending.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Santa Claus
Texas
Preston Smith
Ben Barnes
Barnes
U.S
Senate
Yarborough
Bush
GOP
William Steger
Smith
Paul Eggers
Wichita Falls
U. S. Treasury Department
Texas holiday violence toll tops 28 deaths in period
Traffic led all violent deaths in Texas during the Christmas holiday, with 28 fatalities reported so far. Of the total, 18 died in motor vehicle crashes, while shootings fires and stabbings accounted for most of the remaining deaths.
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Associated Press
Texas
Sport Rites Saturday In Marshall
Ross Sport 61 of Marshall died suddenly of a heart attack Tuesday in a Marshall hospital. Funeral services set for 10 a.m. Saturday at the Methodist Church in Marshall with burial in Andrews Cemetery Karnack Texas. Survivors include wife Ann a son Mike of New Orleans and one grandchild. Mrs Bailiff and Mr and Mrs Tom Bailiff were to travel today to attend services.
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Ross Sport
Marshall
T. C. Bailiff
Childress
Methodist Church
Andrews Cemetery
Karnack
Tex
Sport
Childress High School
Shell Oil Company
Suspect Arson In Stable Fire At Pleasant Valley
Mrs. Anna Belle Scott, owner of a Pleasant Valley stable at 540 W. Central, Blames arson for a fire that killed six Quarter Horses and caused an estimated 45 000 to 50 000 in losses. Amarillo fire crews responded, three units extinguished the blaze by midnight. investigation ongoing.
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Pleasant Valley
Anna Belle Scott
W. Central
Scott
Amarillo
South Korea rejects North Korean nonpolitical meeting proposal
Seoul refused North Korea’s offer to convene a nonpolitical groups meeting to discuss returning passengers from a hijacked South Korean airliner. Information Minister Shin Bum shik warned it would be a great mistake for the North to pursue such talks.
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Seoul
South Korea
Shin Bum-shik
Two Christmas Day Highway Crashes Reported
Two highway accidents were investigated by the Department of Public Safety on Christmas Day. At 2:05 a.m. east on U.S. 62 near Childress, Billy Ray Hubbard and passenger Jack Hubbard escaped injury after hitting two black cows. A second crash at 4:45 a.m. on U.S. 287 east of Childress involved James E. Tilley who fell asleep and rammed into Paul Wayne Allison’s car and trailer. Tilley received a ticket for following too closely. Patrolman Tommy Beal led both investigations.
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Department of Public Safety
Jack Thornhanger
Billy Ray Hubbard
Slaton
U.S. 62
Childress
Hubbard
Jack Hubbard
Les
U.S. 287
James E. Tilley
Fort Carson
Colo
Paul Wayne Allison
Joaquin
Texas
Tilley
Tommy Beal
Agnew Sets Out on 37,000 Mile Asian Tour
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew begins a lengthy 10 nation trip designed to foster relations with Asian powers. He departs from Andrews Air Force Base aboard Air Force 2 with plans including stops in the Philippines and a potential Vietnamese visit, though Vietnam is not on the official itinerary.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Vietnam
Agnew
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Air Force 2
Travis Air Force Base
California
Honolulu
Philippines
Formosa
Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Reds Say Wives Will Hear From POWs Gradually
Paris reports that Hanoi officials released 58 American women and 94 children after a Christmas Mass and promised that information about missing or captured POWs would come gradually. The group arrived exhausted from travel and skepticism about the assurances given by North Vietnamese representatives.
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Paris
Hanoi
Notre Dame Cathedral
North Vietnam
United States
Atlantic
Texas
Margaret Fisher
Sebring
Fla
U.S
Kathleen Johnson
Salina
Kan
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NEA, Inc
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