Viet Mop Up Continues Harvest Moon Battle Gains
U S Marines and Vietnamese troops shift to mopping up in the Que Son sector near Da Nang as ground and air strikes reportedly kill about 1000 Viet Cong. Air power from Guam and U S fighter jets hit targets while a 22 man Viet Cong unit surrendered to the U S 173rd Airborne Brigade near Vo Dat. One Viet Cong forced ambush attempt failed with one enemy killed and three captured.
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Death Valley
Federal Reserve Chief backs early rate rise decision
Washington The Fed chairman William McChesney Martin Jr said borrowing costs should have risen two months earlier to curb inflation. He defended last week’s rate hike amid Senate House committee probes and said the administration was informed of the move. He noted the budget timing not a major factor and defended swift action to restrain consumer borrowing.
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Sherman J. Maisel
C. Canby Balderston
Charles
Henry H. Fowler
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Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve and Administration
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LBJ Prepares For Upcoming Foreign Talks
President Johnson, back in Washington after 24 days at his Texas ranch, focuses on talks with Pakistan's Ayub Khan Britain’s Harold Wilson and West Germany’s Ludwig Erhard. He plans meetings at the White House, plus budget talks for the 1967 fiscal year.
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Austin
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Two Phony Draft Card Produces Held in Chicago
Northwestern University students Barry Perelgut and Robert Jans admitted using a university duplicating machine to produce about 2000 counterfeit draft cards. They were arrested after selling two cards for $20 to an 18 year old cooperating with police. They face disorderly conduct charges as FBI investigates.
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Chicago Tribune Press Service
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Robert C. Jans
Evanston
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Peoria
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Lincoln
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Urbana
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Weather Report for Jefferson City and Central Missouri
Cloudy and warmer with rain spreading by dark, highs in the 40s and rain continuing tonight. Some light snow possible Wednesday, colder by Wednesday night with lows 37 to 45. Past and current weather figures noted, including rainfall totals, wind, and sun data.
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Efferson City
Woman Wounded in Burglary at Airplane Store
Miss Pauline Price 30 of Tulsa was shot while attempting to break into an airplane store in Armstrong Missouri. Cecil Woods 32 from Tulsa was arrested. Price is in fair condition at Keller Memorial Hospital Fayette. Sheriff Wells said investigation continues with aid from the Highway Patrol.
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Pauline Price
Tulsa
Okla
Delgar Wells
Howard County
Kauffman
Lester Farris
Miss Price
Cecil Woods
Falso
Woods
Wells
Fayette
Highway Patrol
Deadline Sunday For 1965 Yale Lighting Contest
Jefferson City hosts the Jaycee Christmas Lighting contest with five classes and permanent plaques for winners. Entries must be postmarked by Sunday December 19 and located in Jefferson City or within one mile of the city limits. An official entry blank appears on page 2 of today’s paper.
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Jaycee
Jefferson City
White House Ablaze For Holiday Season
Washington AP reports the White House is decorated for Christmas with two white light trees, an 18 foot fir in the Blue Room with 960 lights, mistletoe at doorways, holly and greens on mantels, and a large wreath at the front. President Johnson and family will spend Christmas at their Texas ranch.
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White House
Johnson
Texas
Carrier Independence Home After Viet Duty
NORFOLK AP The carrier Independence returned from Viet Nam on Monday for a Christmas reunion with sailors and families after seven months apart. Rain and fog did not dampen the welcome as thousands gathered on the pier to greet the crew. Buttons of promotion and signs of welcome framed scenes of music from two high school bands and a Navy ensemble. Families, including young Lane Hart, hoped the baby would remember the homecoming. See Carrier, Page 2.
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Viet Nam
Carol Hart
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Lane
Gemini 7 Sees Rendezvous On Track After Dust CoverFinds Fix
NASA disclosed a plastic dust cover in the Titan 2 booster caused a false shutdown signal. Borman and Lovell, on their 10th day in Gemini 7, were told rendezvous with Gemini 6 would likely occur Wednesday, with launch crews preparing anew at 8:37 a.m. EST.
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Houston
Tex
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James A. Lovell Jr
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Lovell
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Titan
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Charles A. Berry
Manned Spacecraft Center
Berry
Court upholds school ban on voluntary student prayers
Supreme Court lets stand a principal’s decision banning voluntary prayers during school time and outside class, citing constitutional guidance from earlier rulings. Parents from multiple faiths challenged the rule at Public School 184 in Queens, while courts nationwide follow the 1962 and 1963 precedents.
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Supreme Court
Earl Warren
New York City
Elihu Oshinski
Queens
Associated Press
Republicans adopt resolution rejecting radicals and extremists
The Washington meeting of the coordinating committee adopted unanimously a resolution to reject extremism and radical groups. The measure named no individuals and reflects a party split since the 1964 New Hampshire primary between Barry Goldwater and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
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Chicago Tribune Press Service
Washington
New Hampshire
Barry Goldwater
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Coordinating Committee
Rusk Sets Strong Defense of U S Viet Nam Effort
U S Secretary of State Rusk prepares a firm case for backing South Vietnam as allied ministers meet in NATO. He aims to stress Western unity and the moral lead in defending Berlin and Europe, seeking moral support rather than new material aid.
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Cold War GI Bill Promised by Congress Early Next Session
Senator Henry M. Jackson in Vietnam indicated Congress will pass a Cold War GI bill early in the session starting January 10. The bill would extend veterans college expenses as earlier postwar laws did, with Senate already approving it and the House Veterans Affairs Committee set to act soon.
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Congress
Henry M. Jackson
Plei Me
Viet Nam
Senate
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Olin Teague
D-Tex
House
Jackson
Senate Armed Forces Committee
Ludwig Erhard
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Johnson
Silent US stumbles over Diem era witch hunts in Viet Nam
In a retrospective on 1963 64 the United States embassy kept silent as Vietnamese anti Communist purges raged under military juntas. The silence was seen as tacit approval fueling the witch hunts and fracturing U.S. relations with friends and foes alike.
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Marguerite Higgins
United States
Diem
U.S
Space Medicine Director Missing in Private Plane Flight
Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II director of space medicine for the space agency and his wife and a pilot vanished on a private plane trip from Aspen to Albuquerque. The plane, piloted by Milton Brown, left Aspen Sunday afternoon with no flight plan filed. Bad weather and lack of signals prompted an ongoing search coordinated by Civil Air Patrol and rescue aircraft.
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N.M
W. Randolph Lovelace II
Space Agency
Space Medicine
Aspen
Colo
Lovelace Foundation
Lovelace
Milton Brown
Central Air Rescue Center
Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base
Kansas City
Robert Halsworth
Civil Air Patrol
Colorado
New Mexico
Federal Aviation Agency At
Six Missourians Inducted as New Squires at Academy
Six Missourians including Gen. Omar N. Bradley were inducted into the Missouri Academy of Squires on Monday. Others honored were Howard Adams Blue Springs Lester Cox Springfield Mrs Holton Price Jr LaDue Homer Wadsworth Kansas City and William Massey Bonne Terre bringing total members to 60. The academy founded in 1960 by the late Gov James Blair Jr honors Missourians for service to community state and nation.
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Omar N. Bradley
Missouri Academy of Squires
Howard Adams
Blue Springs
Lester Cox
Springfield
Holton Price Jr
LaDue
Homer Wadsworth
Kansas City
William Massey
Bonne Terre
Academy
James Blair Jr
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