Gemini 7 Launch Set After Weather Go Ahead
Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell cleared for a Saturday launch on a 14 day mission as meteorologists called the weather satisfactory with warm temperatures and light clouds. Technician teams completed oxygen loading and prep for the 2:30 p m EST liftoff while a second pair of pilots, Schirra and Stafford, awaited medical checks for their December 13 flight.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Frank Borman
James Lovell
O.K
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Public response to Operation Christmas Star grows
Public response to Operation Christmas Star fuels gifts for service members in Asia and Viet Nam. Local women coordinate drives with Lincoln School and Johns Manville, inviting cash or wrapped gifts to be collected at the Keller home.
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Phyliss Keller
Mary Diamond
Marilyn Wolfe
Keller
Garretson Avenue
peseStaff
Asia
Viet Nam
Residents split on proposed higher freeway speed limits
Local residents and officials discuss 75 and 80 mile per hour limits to ease freeway overcrowding. Some fear faster speeds raise accidents while others see congestion relief and better flow as the solution. Corona police officer cites speed as a major accident factor.
Six Children Die In Taumbauersville Fire Tragedy
A two story Taumbauersville home burned late Tuesday night trapping six children. The mother and oldest son were burned while trying to reach them. Alonzo, 12, was pulled to safety by his mother despite burns. The family, Chester Allen and his wife Alaine, faced the deadly fire as authorities recovered five bodies and searched for the sixth.
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Taumbauersville
Alonzo
Quakertown Community Hospital
Chester Allen
Richlandtown
Chester, Jr
Chester
Alaine
Elizabeth
Wilson orders RAF radar squadron to Rhodesia border
Prime Minister Harold Wilson said a radar equipped RAF Javelin squadron will be sent to Zambia to bolster African defense against Rhodesia. He announced tougher economic measures including a near total embargo on Rhodesia, prohibiting asbestos copper iron and steel meat and other foods.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
Royal Air Force
RAF
Zambia
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Wilson
Britain
West Berliners Prepare Gifts for Americans
West Berlin began raising funds to send Christmas gifts to families of American servicemen killed in Vietnam. The eight Berlin newspapers urged contributions to finance replicas of the West Berlin freedom bell for relatives of the fallen, in defense of the free world.
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Berlin
API
West Berlin
Viet Nam
Free World
Kennedy Ends 24-Hour Caracas Stop En Route Home
Senator Robert F. Kennedy wrapped up a 20 day five nation tour of South America with stops in Argentina Brazil Chile Peru and a brief 24 hour stay in Caracas before heading back to New York.
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Caracas
Liston in Trouble Over Two-Headed Nickel Case
Sonny Liston faces police trouble in Denver over a claimed theft of a two headed nickel. Ira Martin testified Liston loaned and later threatened him to recover the coin. A restraining order was issued and a hearing set for December 10.
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Denver
UPI
Sonny Liston
Ira W. Martin
Dist
Mitchel B. Johns
Liston
Martin
Johns
William Conner
Conner
Renewal Fees Meeting Held by Urban Renewal Opponents
The Committee to Oppose Urban Renewal and House Inspection will meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Community Room of Security First National Bank Corona branch. Larry Johnson, publicity director, invites the public to attend as the group discusses its aims and referendum petitions to bring urban renewal to a vote.
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Henry Leppard
Corona
Floyd Wright
Committee Against Urban Renewal and Home Inspection
Parker
J. Harold Harris
Glenwood Wilson
Harris
Wilson
House
Security First National Bank
Larry Johnson
Model Face Kidnap Charge in L A Arraignment
Former high fashion model Dovi ma Horan surrendered to police in Los Angeles and was arraigned on a fugitive warrant charging her with kidnapping her daughter. Judge John Olson set December 30 for a hearing and bail was debated as a judicial committee weighs the bond amid scrutiny from the former husband’s attorney.
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New York
Devima Horan Murray
Los Angeles
Fugitive
Alison
UPI
Dovima Horan
Miss Horan
Superior Court
John Olson
District Attorney’s
Weather warms with sun this afternoon into Thursday
The forecast notes a slight warming with sunny afternoons today and Thursday. Today's noon temperature reached 63 following an overnight low of 35. Yesterday's high was 61.
China accuses U.S. of Attacking Fishing Boats
In a note to President Johnson, Communist China alleges U.S. jet planes bombed and strafed Chinese fishing vessels at sea, killing fishermen. The NCNA broadcast warned of stern retribution and said the account would be settled.
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Tokyo
UPI
China
United States
Johnson
Communist New China News Agency
NCNA
U.S
Peking
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Rebecca Santiago
Dave Semple
Corona Police Department
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Washburn
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Kugler
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Memory Lane Society
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