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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1969
Page
10
The Sea Transport Service ship carried 8900 rockets and tons of bombs in 2000 pound sizes for Da Nang, Vietnam. Winds up to 40 knots and 20 foot seas battered the vessel as a large starboard hole left it precarious to stay afloat.
The Red Sea earns its name from a free-floating blue green alga with a red pigment that can tint surface waters. Britannica notes 103 chemical elements are known, with elements 93 to 103 synthesized by humans.
In November 1969 two books revisit the old Met after its 1966 closing. John Briggs delivers Requiem for a Yellow Brick Brewery tracing 1883 1966 with anecdotes and analysis. Judith Clancy’s Last Look at the Old Met presents twelve pen and ink views of the building’s final days and Bolshoi occupancy. Christopher Keene wins the Rudel Award to join NYC Opera for 16 performances, then apprentices in New York.
Summary of several incidents includes Dallas lounge stabbing death of Sam Ware 29 and a Dallas hospital death of Jody Gunstow 2 from a Grand Prairie traffic crash. League City near Galveston reports Anton Ansen Jr 22 killed in a car crash. Houston resident Charleene Chamness 21 critically injured. In Vietnam, pilots engage North Vietnamese forces with helicopters and jet bombers, destroying trucks and bunkers as ground forces advance through a bunker complex amid ongoing exchanges of fire.
Maj. Gen. Jaafar El Numairi announced a military political and economic alliance among Egypt Sudan and Libya at a mass rally in Tripoli. President Nasser and Libyas Col Kadafi sat beside Numairi as he spoke in broad terms, with a closer reading suggesting abstract rhetoric rather than concrete plans.
A 12 year old boy who pleaded guilty to stealing was taken by his father from the Children's Court in Adelaide and spanked in a police cell after the magistrate allowed a punishment approved by the Social Welfare Act. The charge was dismissed.
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