Plan For Saigon 100 Rockets In 100 Days
Viet Cong threats of a 100 rockets a night for 100 days unsettled Saigon as 17 people were wounded in Da Nang by a noon timebomb and an ammunition dump near Saigon was blasted. U.S. air raids increased with 135 missions on Wednesday and 137 on Tuesday amid Paris talks warnings.
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Saigon
Jack Walsh
UPI
Viet One
da Nang
U.S. Navy
United States
Panhandle
North Vietnam
Paris Vietnam
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Navy
U.S
Ployes
Paris
Tan Son Nhut
Phuoc Binh
Ca Mau
Grazing Associations Explained by Phillip Madeley
An editor's note introduces an article by Phillip Madeley of the Chil Dress Farmers Home Administration outlining grazing associations. The piece defines a member owned nonprofit to develop grazing land, notes FmHA loans up to 4 million dollars at 5 percent for up to 40 years, and describes benefits to small farmers, rural communities, and land use improvements.
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Phillip Madeley
Childress Farmers Home Administration
A Grazing Association
Association of Family Farmers and Ranchers
Farmers Home Administration
Man Woman Linked In Ray Case Pursue Extradition Hearings
Britain to hold authorized court hearings on American requests to extradite James Earl Ray for the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and for a 1967 Missouri prison break. Scotland Yard hunted a shadowy pair as U S and British officials push for Ray’s extradition to stand trial in Memphis.
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John J. Meehan
NCON
UPC
Britain
Forma
James Earl Ray
United Tes
Martin Luther King Jr
James Callaghan
London
Callaghan
Ray
Kine
Memphis
Tenn
Missouri
Scotland Yard
London International Airport
James Far Ray
U.S
Miss Childress Day Proclaimed By Jaycees
At a noon meeting the Childress Jaycees proclaimed June 13 1968 as Miss Childress Day in honor of Joan Cheatheam Miss Childress 1968 a proclamation signed by Mayor Pro Tem Don Gage noted the Miss Childress Pageant and the day’s purpose.
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Childress Jaycees
Joan Cheatheam
Don Gage
Miss Cheatheam
World to End Save for Tibet And Colorado
Boulder residents brace for an impending asteroid flyby as Icarus passed Earth every 19 years and was forecast to come within four million miles near Haight Ashbury. Hippie crowds rush to Colorado and Tibet seeking safety while scientists monitor the event and local reaction is mixed.
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Boulder
Colo
UPI
Colorado
Tibet
Mars
Jupiter
Earth
San Francisco
Haight-Asbury
Jecarus
California
Atlantis
Don
Miami
Icarus
Joyce Hales
Liquor By Drink Bill Advances In House Committee
AUSTIN UPI Gov Connallys liquor by the drink bill won 11 9 approval in a House committee after two disaffected veterans returned to support it The measure now heads toward floor action with amendments to curb legislative pay implications and require annual financial statements from permit holders.
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Roland Lindsey Austin
UPI
John Connally
Ben Barnes
James Clark
Dallas
Jake Johnson
San Antonio
Clark
Johnson
Dick McKissack
Dal
Las
House
Rep. R. H. Cory
Victoria
Texas Liquor Control Board
TLCB
Bill Clayton
Springlake
Cory
Clayton
Bill Cobb
Ben Atwell
Cobb
Connally
Guns Smuggled Through Prison Pipe To Hostage Quartet
A prison spokesman said two pistols and four hacksaw blades were smuggled to four inmates via a restroom plumbing line. The four men held 21 hostages for 28 hours before releasing them after a grievance list appeared in the Atlanta Journal.
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Henry P. Leifermann
Atlanta
UPI
FBI
Arlene Anna Granito
Ivan Daniel Neighbors
Robert W. Gorman
Ralph M. Lepiscopo
Frederick Freeman Leister Jr
Miss Granite
Lepiscope
J. W. Land
Atlanta Journal
Journal
Two Persons Hospitalized After Accident Near City
Two people were hospitalized after a two car crash at 9 p.m. on US 287 a mile west of the city. Mrs Emilie Silby Byrd of Coos Bay Oregon and James B Moore Jr of Austin were reported in good condition at Childress General Hospital. Moore drove on the wrong side causing a left front collision with Byrd's car. Each car sustained about 500 dollars in damage. Byrd's three children were in the car but uninjured.
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US 287
Childress General Hospital
Emilie Silby Byrd
Coos Bay
Oregon
James __ B. Moore Jr
Austin
Moore
Byrds
Bob Richardson
Amarillo Man Guilty of Nonmalicious Murder
A 47th District Court jury found James Wise, 35, guilty of murder without malice in the January 22 shooting death of Ralph Everett Hill. Wise received the maximum five year sentence under law.
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Amarillo
UPI
47Th District Court
James Wise
Ralph Everett Hill
Wise
Rotary committees named for 1968-69 year
Robert Carter announces committees for the 1968-69 Rotary year with officers to be installed at a July meeting. A large roster lists chairs for Attendance Classification and Membership Fellowship Community Service and more along with Vice President Bill Sager and Secretary-Treasurer Kenneth Fink in key roles.
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Robert Carter
Eldon Sanders
Fay Eatherly
Jack Fox
James Ragsdale
Johnston
Tom Lemen
Joe Shirley
Joe Gruetzner
Earl Preston
Palmer Massey
Grover Fox
Perry Morren
Preston Mill
Bob Mahr
C. J. Lyons
Bulletin
Morris Higley
M. K. Wilcoxson
Floyd Gilliland
Fred Cordell
Dalton Martin
C. R. Dugan
S. H. Townsend
Clarence Carter
James Icenhower
Dub Eikmar
al Service
Neil Gage
Albert Bird
Louis Sally
Poss Smith
Glenn Buckley
Bill Hamm
H. E Newberry
W. C. Harp
International Service Magazine
Hubert Powers
Herman Smith
A. L. Harp
Rotary
Gene Blackwell
A. B Hargrave
John Forbis
Virgil McGee
Jim Vaughan
Charles Reynolds
Rotary Information and Public Relations
J. C. Randel
Willard Williams
Kenneth Fink
Bill Sager
Joe S. Allen
J. H. Johnson
Louise Bowers
Sam Carmack
Jones Named District Storekeeper at WIU
Guy Jones, longtime West Texas Utilities employee with 22 years service, is named district storekeeper replacing retiree Dewey Smith. A Ballinger native and WWII veteran, Jones previously served as commercial representative in the Panhandle District and held roles in the district meterman and commercial departments. He has been active in Childress civic groups.
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Guy Jones
West Texas
Jones
Dewey Smith
Panhandle
WTU
Ballinger
District Meter Department
Childress
District Commercial Department
Fishing Derby Date Moves to July 4
The Fishing Derby for children up to 12 is moved from June 29 to July 4. Red River Sports Club sponsor Jack Burrus says the event runs 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and features prizes for largest fish and most fish, with runners-up.
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Jack Burrus
Red River Sportsmen’s Club
Jayveees
Burrug
Higher education costs up as Texas alumni seek tuition hikes
Texas university administrators urged lawmakers to double undergraduate tuition fees reversing a long standing policy. In Berlin West German Chancellor Kiesinger called for serious counter measures against new Soviet harassment of Berlin traffic amid heightened tensions. A group of Mexican Americans clashed with officials at the State Department in Washington.
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Austin
UPI
Texas Universities
Berlin
UPD
Kurt George Kiesinger
SBA Leader to Speak in Paducah on Small Business Loans
M. T. Klein of the Small Business Administration will address four winds Industrial Foundation directors in Paducah. The 7 p.m. talk covers borrowing for small businesses seeking location in Childress Hardeman Foard and Cattle counties. Meeting at the Community Building with Ross Smith Joe Gruetzner and Sam Carmack listed as local directors.
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M. T. Klein
Lubbock
Paducah
Four Winds Industrial Foundation
Childress
Hardeman
Foard
Ross Smith
Joe Gruetzner
Sam Carmack
Officer Election Set by Childress Lodge 695 AF and AM
Childress Lodge 695 AF and AM will hold an officer election at 8 am tonight in the Masonic Building. The event invites members to participate in the election process and elect officers for the lodge.
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Childress Lodge 695
Masonic
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Jaycees
Miss Childress
Parks and Wildlife Department
Weldon Fromm
Loyd Winkley
Canyon
Richard DeArment
Wheeler
Occupational Information
WIU
Washington
State Department of
SBA
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