Laos War Escalates as Viet Nam Air Attacks Hit Muong Yut
Four North Vietnamese Antonov fighters bombed Muong Yut in northeast Laos, the Laotian government said, with two planes shot down. Reports tie the strikes to broader clashes near Luang Prabang and Nam Bac as Premier Souvanna Phouma travels to assess damage.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPI
Muong Yut
Noi
Southeast Asia
Luang Prabang
Nam Bac
Pathet Lao
Mekong River Valley
Plaine Des Jarres
Southietnam
Souvanna Phouma
Savang Vatthana
Vietnam
Cambodia
Soukna Champassak
Souvanna
Nam
Avang
Bers
Tha Ty
Gia Lara
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Six Million Planned for District 25 Highway Projects
The Texas Highway Commission approved a two year Consolidated Highway Program for District 25 in Childress, allocating about 6 million dollars across 13 counties. Projects include widening and resurfacing U S 287 routes, right of way purchases, and construction of two additional lanes across multiple segments in Childress Dickens Donley Hall County Hardeman Knox counties with costs ranging from tens of thousands to over one million dollars per segment.
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Childress
Childress County
Texas Highway Commission
Childress District
U. S . East
Oklahoma State Line
Carey
Hall County
Hardeman County
Crosby County
Donley County
Hedley
Halj County
Hardeman CO
U. S. Wager
Acme
Quanah
Nelson Street
Knox County
Benjamin South
Haskell
Hospital Costs Rise 17.4 Percent in 18 Months
United Press International reports Texas hospital costs rose about 17.4 percent since Medicare began 18 months ago. Doctors’ fees increased roughly 5 percent as Blue Cross Blue Shield data show patient hospital care averaging 46.66 dollars, up from 54.78 dollars in November 1967.
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Preston McGraw
United Press International
Texas
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Sim
Court Rebuffs Loyalty Oath for Texas Employees
The Supreme Court upheld a Dallas federal panel ruling that Texas loyalty oath for employees is unconstitutional. Five claimants led by Everett M. Gilmore Jr. argued the oath unlawfully disqualified them for membership, while the court cited prior rulings striking similar programs in Arizona and New York.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Texas
Dallas
Everett M. Gilmore, Jr
Dallas County Junior College
Robert Poiter
Stuart Pullen
University of Texas
Austin
Thomas Mantle
University
Michael Kahn
Kahn
Texas Atty
Crawford C. Martin
Gilmore
Arizona
New York
Instructions For Day School Aides Planned
An instruction course for those who may assist in the Day Care Program for Men tally re'arded will be held Wednesday at the old East Ward School. Jim Moody, on the sponsoring committee, urged all women who think they might help to attend. The course begins at 9 a.m. Mrs. Stanley Hazelwood will serve as instructor.
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Old East Ward
Jim Moody
Moody
Soldier Gerald Holeman Wounded in Vietnam
Mr and Mrs W C Holeman learned by telegram that their son Specialist Gerald C Holeman was wounded in Vietnam on January 7. He suffered a wound to the right ear during a mortar attack while on an aircraft landing zone. Major General Kenneth G Wickham reports he was not seriously injured and he is hospitalized in Vietnam with APO San Francisco address 9 6490.
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W. C. Holeman
Gerald C Holeman
Vietnam
Spec. Holeman
Kenneth G. Wickham
Secretary of the Army
Apo
San Francisco
Calif
Rites Today For J. D. Shutters In Wichita Falls
Funeral services for J. D. Shutters 66 of Wichita Falls were held at 2 p m in Hampton Vaughan Funeral Home chapel with Rev Ken Emerson and Richard Pectol officiating. Burial followed at Riverside Cemetery. Shutters born January 14 1902 in Franklin Indiana moved to Wichita Falls in 1940 from Breckenridge and was a member of the First Baptist Church. He died recently at his home 2103 Pawhuska. Survivors include wife Mary Bilingsly a daughter H C Stearman of Houston a son Richard of Lubbock a stenographer Don Atchley of Panhandle two sisters Mrs Melvin Heine of Bartlesville Oklahoma and Mrs
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J. D. Shutters
Wichita Falls
Mary Bilingsly
Childress
Hampton - Vaughan Funeral Home
Ken Emerson
First Baptist Church
Richard Pectol
Tenth and Broad Church of Christ
Riverside Cemetery
Mr. Shutters
Franklin
Ind
Ambushes Foiled as U S Convoys Hold in Highlands Action
U S armored forces repelled a North Vietnamese ambush on a Dak To pass in the Central Highlands, with 24 NVA killed and 13 Americans wounded as tanks fought on. A second ambush hit a South Vietnamese convoy near Quang Ngai on the Bong Son Plain.
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Eugene V. Risher
U.S
Dak To
Saigon
ADN
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Thieu Demands U.S. Lead in Vietnam Peace Effort
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu told editors the United States must lead the drive for peace and any alternative harms the shared goal. In Palo Alto a heart transplant patient recovered after surgery to halt liver decline, receiving a donor heart from Virginia Mae White. A Texas liquor board agent faces possible charges as a grand jury weighs irregularities.
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Palo Alto
Calif
UPID
Mike Kasperak
Kasperak
Palo Alto - Stanford Medical Center
Virginia Mae White
Jasper, Tex
Texas Liquor Control Board
School Absentee Total Drops After Influenza Peak
School absentees fell by 32 to 135 today according to Supt. J. W. Hamilton. The total breakdown is 37 from high school 38 from junior high 46 from Wilson and 14 from Robert E. Lee with three teachers absent. Hamilton said the peak in influenza has likely passed.
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J. W. Hamilton
Wilson
Robert FE. Lee
Hamilton
Congress reconvenes to tackle war taxes and city woes
The 90th Congress opens an election year session facing Vietnam war policy tax reforms and urban unrest. Leaders push for faster work, housing and open housing measures, poverty funding, and a potential 10 percent income tax increase, with the fight over taxes to resume in the Ways & Means Committee.
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John A. Goldsmith
Washington
UPI
Congress
Vietnam
House
Senate
Nol
Mike Mansfield
Mont
United Press International
John Bell Williams
D-Miss
Mississippi
Mansfield
Johnson
Ways & Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
Accident Kills Grandson of A. B. Taffs
Pat Robinson of Lubbock a 12 year old grandson of Mr and Mrs A B Taff was killed instantly in a bicycle car collision at 7 p.m Sunday in Lubbock Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m Tuesday at the Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock Interment will be in a Lubbock cemetery He was the son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Robinson Other survivors are a brother Mike of Windhurst a sister Mrs David Stanley of Garland and grandmother Mrs Hudgens of Stephenville
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Pat Robinson
Lubbock
A.B. Taff
Broadway Church of Christ In Lubbock
Ralph Robinson
Mike
Windthurst
David Stanley
Garland
Mrs. Hudgens
Stephenvile
Mild Texas Weather Lingers With Night Freeze Expected
A high pressure system brings milder daytime temperatures across Texas with readings from 21 to 42 across Jasper County Airport Dalhart Lufkin and Galveston. Nights stay near freezing with a slow warming trend expected to continue early in the week.
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United Press International
Texas
Gulf Coast
U. S. Weather Bureau
Jasper County
Dalhart
Lufkin
Galveston
Gulf
West
Auto wrecks and plane crash raise Texas fatal toll
Two auto wrecks and a private plane crash near Arlington contributed to a violent death toll in Texas. In a weekend tally by United Press International, sixteen people died violently from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday, with fourteen from traffic accidents and one each from fire and the Arlington plane crash. John Lea Aitken, 29, of Fort Worth, died in a muddy field near Pylon Field southwest of Arlington.
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United Press International
Texas
Arlington
John Lea Aitken
Fort Worth
Pylon Field
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China
Com Pathet Lao
South Vietnam
Highway District
Virgil McGee
Judy Harris
Wayne Harris
Childreag
Stanley Hazelwood
Gerald Holeman
J. D
Shatter
Yen Bai
Khe San
Leatherneck
Kontum City
Dak
Aout
Muscatine
A. B. Taffs
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