Vietnam raid near Hanoi and Da Nang costs rise in early January
A U S spokesman said Leathernecks and cavalrymen killed about 280 North Vietnamese in the Da Nang area and another 60 miles north of Saigon during New Year fighting, raising an early January toll to about 1,250. U S fighter bombers hit Hanoi as monsoon clouds opened, shooting down two Soviet jets. Communist claims of U S bomber waves and plane losses were unconfirmed. Ground actions damaged bases near Land Zone Leslie with mortars and counterattacks. a large Soviet rocket launcher was brought into view near Da Nang.
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da Nang
Saigon
Hanoi
U.S
da Nangi
Ameri
Cher Dana Stone
Leslie
Financial Institutions Reach All Time Highs in 1967
Childress three banks report record year end results with First National Bank deposits at 9,074,452.72 and assets at 10,398,508.04. First State Bank deposits rise to 5,035,493.49 and assets to 3,? 725.73. First Federal Savings deposits reach 8,096,828.10 and assets 8,908,777.39.
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Childress
Gan
First National Bank
First State Bank
Perry Stroud Dies at 75 with Friday Funeral Services
Perry C. Stroud, 75, died at his home on Avenue H Northwest at 5:25 a.m. He was a retired farmer and member of the First Methodist Church, Masonic Lodge 69, and Khi va Shrine. Survivors include his wife Ruby, two sons Oran and Menard, a sister, six grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Services are at 10 a.m. Friday at First Methodist Church with Masonic graveside rites at Tell Cemetery.
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Perry C. Stroud
Avenue H
Burgin Watkins
Tell
Newberry’s
Masons
Crawford
John Forbis
Ross Smith
Bill Sager
Alton Bruce
Bill Leonard
Carroll Seal
Fulton County
Ark
Stroud
Vernon
First Methodist Church
Masonic Lodge
Ruby
Oran Ofle
Menard Electra
S. W. Hunter
Superintendent Hamilton Attends Texas Education Meeting
Supt J W Hamilton left today at noon to attend the mid winter School Administrator's Conference in Austin. The annual meeting of school superintendents is sponsored by the Texas Education Agency. It begins tomorrow and ends Friday. Hamilton is accompanied by Lesly M. Boring superintendent of Quanah schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt
J. W. Hamilton
Austin
Texas Education Agency
Hamilton
Lesly M. Boring
Quanah
Gangs Of Dogs Roaming City Reported In Childress
Assistant Chief Odis Burrows announced dogs are roaming in gangs in Childress. He warned drastic measures may be used to halt the destruction and stressed they do not want to kill any pets.
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Childress
Odis Burrows
Blaiberg Heart Transplant Patient In Good Condition
Cape Town report shows Neil J. Smith noting Dr Christian Barnard's team performed a five hour heart transplant. Blaiberg spoke his first words since surgery and expressed thirst while thanking surgeons and his wife. Hoch-level details include donor Clive Haupt, a colored man, who died of a stroke.
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Neil J. Smith
Cape Town
South Africa
UPI
Philip Blaiberg
Groote Schuur Hospital
Blaiberg
Christian Barnard
Eileen
Heart Barnard
Clive
Haupt
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Barnard
John Vorster
Muriel Haupt
Dr. Blaiberg
Murray Maddox Loses Leg By Amputation
Murray Maddox of Midland remains in good condition after his right leg was amputated above the knee in a hospital surgery Tuesday morning. He broke the leg in a December 2 fall at Finn Station in west Childress. infantile paralysis on that side of his body necessitated the operation. He is cousin to Chief of Police Alvis Maddox and was en route home from Reed, Oklahoma, when the accident occurred.
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Murray Maddox
Midland
Maddox
Finn Station
West Childress
Alvis Madox
Reed
Okla
Cambodia Leader Rejects Calls to Fight U S Forces
Prince Norodom Sihanouk stated Cambodia will not deploy its 35 000 man army against U S troops pursuing Communists fleeing South Vietnam. He warned against border crossing but said neutrality would be maintained if clashes occur inside Cambodia.
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Veng Eng Phnom Penh
Cambodia
UPI
Norodom Sihanouk
Sihanouk
U.S
Red China
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Graham Purcell Speaks In Childress Friday
Graham Purcell of Wichita Falls will speak Friday at 7 p.m. in the High School Auditorium Childress. He serves as Representative of the 13th Congressional District and will discuss the reorganization of Childress County effective January 1, 1969. The audience may ask questions and share opinions.
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Graham Purcell
Wichita Falls
Purcell
Childress County
Gore to seek tax on overseas profits to match domestic rates
U S Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee announced plans to introduce legislation this year taxing profits earned abroad by American companies at the same rate as domestic profits. The move aims to align tax treatment for international earnings with U S rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Albert Gore
Tenn
Johnson names Yale economist to President's Council
President Johnson announced the appointment of Merton J. Peck to chair the Yale economics department and join the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Peck will advise on national economic policy from his position at Yale.
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San Antonio, Tex
UPTI
Johnson
Merton J. Peck
Yale Economics Department
Council of
Eco- Advisers
Sole
Day School Rotary Talk Highlights New Outpatient Center
Russell White announces Satellite Day Training School opening January 18 at East Ward School Amarillo and five Panhandle sites Pampa Borger Dalhart Dimmitt Childress. Mrs Hazelwood and Amarillo and Beaumont centers to train aides with outreach for mentally retarded children aged three to six. Floyd Gililand led program. Clyde Drake and Wayne Yowell attended.
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East Ward
Russell White
State Center For —— Development
Amarila
Childress Rotary Club
Stanley Hazelwood
White
Burtis Hollis
Amarillo Center
Hazelwood
Amarillo
Beaumont
Panhandle
Pampa
Borger
Dalhart
Dimmitt and
Childress
Floyd Gililand
Clyde Drake
Wayne Yowell
New Resident Injured In Accident Near Claude
A new resident moving with his family from Amarillo was seriously hurt in a one car crash east of Claude while en route to Childress. He was thrown from the vehicle, treated at Clarendon Hospital, then transferred to the local hospital where he remains in good condition. His wife and son were uninjured and the family plans to settle in Northwest Childress.
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al Insurance Company
Claude
Childress
Clarendon Hospital
Amarillo
School Census Begins Monday in Childress system
The 1968 Scholastic Census of the Childress school system starts Monday with Jan 8 announced by Supt. J W Hamilton. census forms go home with the oldest child next Tuesday for children six by Sept 1 1968. Parents of non enrolled six year olds may pick up blanks at the School Administration or any elementary school.
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Childress
J. W. Hamilton
Temperatures to Plunge Across Area Tonight
Cold air moves in bringing light precipitation as temperatures drop to near freezing in the Panhandle overnight. Overnight lows ranged from 8 at Dalhart to 17 at Childress, with many Plains and West Texas readings in the 20s and 30s and some near 60 in the coast regions.
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Panhandle
Texas
Dalhart
Amarillo
Childress
Plains
West Texas
Fort Worth
College Station
Austin
Leseer
Alice
Bat Ny Christi
1966 1967 US gold reserve transfers and world pool
The United States used the exchange stabilization fund to move gold and participate in the London central gold pool with Britain and others. December transfers drained $450 million, part of almost $1 billion in 1967, as Britain devalued the pound. U.S. gold stocks stood at $13.04 billion through Oct 31, not counting the December moves.
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Britain
United States
Central Gold Pool
London
Netherlands
Belgium
Italy
West Germany
Switzerland
Bank of England
U.S
Treasury
Ada Hensley Dies. Rites Pending at Newberry Funeral Home
Mrs Ada B Hensley of 500 Avenue C Northwest died at 1 10 p m today in Childress General Hospital Funeral services are pending with Newberry Funeral Home no other details available at press time
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Ada B. Hensley
Avenue C Northwest
Childress General Hospital
Newberry Funeral Home
Texas cities begin first local sales tax in history
The first local sales tax in Texas history took effect Monday in 14 cities including Austin and El Paso. Merchants face two tax reports, one for state and one for city levies, due in April, with city funds returned to municipalities via the comptroller’s data system beginning in May.
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Texas
David Anderson
Austin
UPI
Ronald R. Nabors
State Comptroller’s Office
Aransas Pass
Brackettville
Corpus Christi
Elgin
el Paso Paso
Henrietta
Side
Nacogdoches
Oranigene
Port Aransas Tyler
Texarkana
Wichita Falls
Alro
Robert S. Calvert
Ment
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Wow Mee
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Archer City
There
Betty Smith
Tucson
Ariz
Baylor University Law School
89Th Judicial District
House Committee On Agriculture
House
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Communist Party
Texas Panhandle
Rio Grande Valley
Gordon McLendon
U. S
Accra
Ghana
Hubert H. Humphrey
Monrovia
Liberia
Africa
Rotary
Ada Hensley
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