Viet Cong overcomes larger force at Ap Bac fight
In Ap Bac near Saigon Viet Cong guerrillas held a hamlet against a government force ten times larger. The clash left 65 government troops dead and 100 wounded, with three Americans killed and four wounded as helicopters were shot down and allied losses rose.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
UPI
Ap Bac
U. S
Ment
Robert H. York
Hartselle
Ala
Willard Golding
Fort Louis
Wash
Bones Found in County Rumor Stirs Quiet County
Reported bones alleged as a dead man sparked county intrigue. Sheriff Gaylon Smith announced the largest bone was from a small calf, easing fears and ending speculation about a murder.
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Childress County
Sheriff's Department
Gaylon Smith
Powell Rites Today and Carson's Set Saturday
Beverly Hills memorials mark the deaths of Dick Powell and Jack Carson from cancer. Powell’s funeral and memorials are arranged with UCLA cancer research donations requested in lieu of flowers. Carson’s cremation and private services follow his Encino residence death, with June Allyson attending the memorials.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
UPI
Dick Powell
Powell
Jack Carson
Carson
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
All Saints Episcopal Church
June Allyson
Clark Gable
Carole Lombard
Jean Harlow
Jerry Giesler
Ucla Medical Center For Cancer Research
Kermit Castellanos
All Saints
Allyson
Wee Kirk
Forest Lawn
Encino
Sandra
Fenth
Charles Laughton
Thomas Mitchell
Hollywood
Screwworm Eradication Drive Faces Shutdown Without Funds
The Southwest Screwworm Eradication Program may end March 31 unless livestock producers donate about 1 million dollars. Funds come from federal and non federal sources. no state funds after March 31. Cooperating states include Texas New Mexico Oklahoma Arkansas and Louisiana.
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Mission
Tex
Florida
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Texas Animal Health Commission
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Foundation
Price Daniel
Fidel Castro blasts missile withdrawal and hopes for wider conflict
Diplomatic sources say Fidel Castro vented anger over the Soviet removal of missiles from Cuba. In a Havana University talk last month he questioned Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policy and warned that without missiles he cannot provoke wider U S aggression. He contrasted this with a past threat to strike U S cities if attacked while missiles were present.
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Miami
UPL
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Havana
Nikita Khrushchev
U. S
Ernesto Guevara
Heias
Red China
Soviet Union
Infant Gomez Dies in Childress Hospital
Guadalupe Gomez infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Pete Gomez of Tell died at 5 30 p m Thursday in Childress General Hospital Born December 12 1962 at Childress graveside rites were held at 2 p m today at Childress cemetery conducted by Rev Richard J Neyer Holy Angels Catholic Church Survivors include parents one sister Otilia of Tell and grandparents Mr and Mrs Ed Gomez of Tell
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Guadalupe Gomez
Pete Gomez
Tell
Childress General Hospital
Childress
Childress Cemetery
Richard J. Neyer
The
Holy Angels Catholic Church
Otilia
Ed Gomez
Rainfall totals report from Childress area
Weather notes show light rainfall across the Childress area. Kirkland reported the largest amount at .30 inches, with .19 at Childress Airfield, .13 from the Index, and .15 reported by the Floyd Biddys to the south.
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Childress
Kirkland
Federal Aviation Agency
Childress Airfield
Floyd Biddys
Rule Fight Seen Opening 88th Congress
United Press International reports that John W. McCormack works to unite liberal and Southern Democrats to block a move by Rules Chairman Howard W. Smith to shrink the 15 member Rules Committee. The struggle also delays a decision on medicare for the aged as two Democratic vacancies on the Ways and Means Committee loom, with Rep. Phil Landrum among the candidates.
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United Press International
John W. McCormack
House Rules Committee
Massachusetts Democrat
Kennedy
Rules
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
House
McCormack
Phil M. Landrum
Russian Peasants Leave Moscow After Embassy Visit
A group of 32 evangelical Christians from Chernogorsk left Moscow by train for Siberia after seeking asylum at the U.S. Embassy. They claimed religious persecution and said they faced harm, imprisonment, or separation from their children. Soviet authorities then escorted them, with promises of safety, back to their homes.
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Moscow
UPI
U.S
Siberia
Chernogorsk
Foreign Ministry
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
UN Forces Hold Jadotville as Katanga Crisis Deepens
UN troops maintain positions at Jadotville amid questions whether to strike Kolwezi next. Bunche heads to Leopoldville to probe a communications breakdown after Jadotville’s rapid capture and acclaim for the operation.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
UPI
United Nations
Jadotville
Kolwezi
Katanga
Moise
New York
U.N
Ralph Bunche
Congo
Bulgarian Pilot Cleared Of Spy Charges In Italy
Rome welcomed 23 year old Milose Solakov who was freed in Bari after an examining magistrate ruled no ground for trial. He said he would return to Bulgaria immediately and denied spying, claiming asylum in the West.
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Rome
UPI
Milose Solakov
Bari
Italy
Legation
Bulgaria
Solakov
NATO
Acquaviva
Ferninando Alterio
West
Adriatic
Alterio
United States
U.S. Chamber unveils 10 point labor program
The U S Chamber of Commerce announced a ten point labor legislation program supporting right to work laws and opposing a shorter work week. President Ladd Plumley argued freedoms erode when workers must join unions. In Beverly Hills Mrs Helen Schwartz mother of actor Tony Curtis rests in Doctors Hospital for several days.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Ladd Plumley
Chamber
Plumley
West Los Angeles
Helen Schwartz
Actor Tony Curtis
Beverly Hills Doctors Hospital
Schwartz
Entries for Greenbelt Junior Breeders Show Projected
Entries received for the annual Greenbelt Junior Breeders Show on Saturday January 12 under the CofC-BCD Agricultural Committee. Dr. Bob Jones leads arrangements with judging teams from Childress FFA Tru man Kidwell Memphis FFA Neal Hindman Hall County 4 H W B Hooser Ochiltree 4 H. Livestock entries include Kelly Miller Allison Johnny Fuston Turkey Kelly Hutchins Estelline Kim Hutchins Estelline and others from Quail Quanah. Judge Dr Charles Smallwood to head West Texas State agriculture livestock judging at Bill Bradley Ranch.
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Greenbelt
Cofc-Bcd Agricultural Committee
Bob Jones
Childress Ffa
Truman Kidwell
Memphis Ffa
Neal Hindman
Hall County
W. B. Hooser
Ochiltree County
Douglas Smith
Angus
Kelly Miller
Allison
Johnny Fuston
Turkey
Kelly Hutchins
Kim Hutchins
Quail
Quanah
Bill Bradley
Charles Smallwood
West Texas State Agriculture Department
Labor Survey Planned for Childress County
The Labor Department will conduct a labor survey of Childress County at the request of Walter Rogers representative of the 18th District to determine eligibility for the Area Redevelopment Program. The survey will take several weeks but be expedited as much as possible with limited additional information available.
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Labor Department
Childress County
Walter Rogers
Rogers
Teen Canteen Meeting After Ball Game Tonight
Tonight after the ball game Teen Canteen will meet in the City Auditorium to plan the next activities. The event invites all local youths and aims to encourage social recreation and community involvement.
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Teen Canteen
Auditoriwn
ADA urges $10 billion federal tax cut and education spend
Americans for Democratic Action calls for a ten billion plus federal tax cut and higher education and urban program spending. The group urges President Kennedy to join in ending the Senate filibuster and reforming the House Rules. John P. Roche and Edward D. Hollander outlined the ADA program for the 80th Congress at a news conference.
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Washington
UPI
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Kennedy
Senate
House Rules Committee
John P. Roche
Edward D. Hollander
Polish aide Boniecki seeks asylum in Australia
Sydney authorities granted political asylum to Gerzyv Boniecki a commercial aide at the Polish consulate general who moved to the post two years ago after his predecessor defected. Tass reports Russia has sealed direct air links to Syria and Iraq with flights from Moscow likely beginning next month to Damascus and Baghdad.
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Sydney
Australia
UPI
Gerzyv Boniecki
Boniecki
Moscow
UPL
Russia
Syria
Iraq
Tass
Damascus
Baghdad
Bourguiba Near Full Recovery From Facial Infection
President Habib Bourguiba is almost recovered from a facial infection that kept him at his summer palace, an official spokesman said Thursday in Tunis.
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Tunis
Tunisia
UPI
Habib Bourguiba
Brother-In-Law To City Man Dies in Memphis
John Dennis of Memphis age 80 and brother in law to Jim Martindale of Childress died of a heart attack Thursday in Memphis. Funeral services are planned for 2 p m Saturday at First Christian Church in Memphis. Dennis was a frequent visitor to Childress and has a niece Mrs Gravley residing there.
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John Dennis
Memphis
Jim Martindale
Childress
First Christian Church
Dennis
Martin Gravley
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U. N
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