LBJ's Vietnam plans emerge amid 1964 campaign claims
The Pentagon papers and Times reporting link Lyndon Johnson to an October 1964 decision to bomb North Vietnam, raised by New York Times as a major disclosure. The piece contrasts Johnson's campaign insistence he would not widen the war with later notes of a preexisting advisers’ consensus on air strikes.
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South Vietnam
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Dong Hoi
United States
Barry Goldwater
International Standards Push Ends U S Technological Isolation
The article argues U S industry suffers from self imposed provincialism limiting exports. European hose standards use blue hoses while U S uses green. European adapters needed for U S appliances and color TV. A 1971 act seeks U S participation in global standards to avoid isolation as Europe plans 18 000 new standards this decade. Deputy Assistant Secretary Richard Simpson stresses immediate U S involvement.
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Shouting And The Tumult Die At The 1972 Convention
The Democratic National Convention will be short and orderly with new rules banning bands banners and spontaneous floor demonstrations. Nominating speeches will be shortened and favorite son bids curtailed. Roll calls will be decided by lot reflecting public demand for a businesslike process. Republicans may adopt reforms too.
Peking Eyes on UN As China Moves Toward Recognition
The Christian Science Monitor notes a mood shift in Communist China as Chou En-lai pursues normal relations with the outside world. Signs include new diplomacy, Western ties, and a push to seat Peking as China’s UN representative, with Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek regime threatened with exclusion. The United States faces a pivotal choice amid China’s growing influence.
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Ign
Yao Teng-shan
Forign
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Chou En-lai
Mao Tse-tung
Chou
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Chiang Kaishek
Taiwan
Als
International
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Nixon
Whiteside County votes to allow Sunday liquor sales at eateries
The Whiteside County Board of Supervisors approved a plan enabling restaurants meeting specs to sell liquor on Sundays from noon to 10 p.m. Restaurants with 2000 square feet may serve liquor with meals after buying an extra liquor license. In California, Riverside honors a notable Chinese resident by renaming a street Wong Way.
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Whiteside
Wong
Space Agency chief predicts US moon landing before 1970
James E. Webb, administrator of NASA, said the United States would beat the Soviet Union to land men on the moon using a rocket two thirds the height of the Washington Monument. He set a goal to reach the moon before 1970. Whiteside County figure Bruce Winans soloed at Whiteside County airport yesterday, with Gene Jacoby as instructor, after decades in aviation.
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Dear Ann Landers column letters on family and correspondence
A collection of reader questions to Ann Landers covers: teens seeking adult conversations with parents and balance amid material pressures, ending friendships over mental health concerns, unanswered letters and declining correspondence, slobs with writing habits, and dating lines. Each letter requests guidance along with Ann’s brief responses.
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Letters to Ann Landers Address Instructions
Send letters to Ann Landers at Publishers Hall Syndicate 30 E 42nd St New York NY 10017 Do not send to The Daily Gazette.
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Love as guiding light and peril in a 1971 poem
A poem attributed to BEN BURROUGHS speaks on love as a priceless treasure that brings contentment and happiness yet warns it can do harm as a beguiling force. It urges seeking guidance from above and choosing a righteous, loving path. Copyright 1971 Gen. Fea. Corp.
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Barbs About Bills and Busybody Neighbors
The piece jabs at modern money woes and gossip with quips about unpaid bills, delayed payments, and nosy neighbors. It notes laziness in the travel business and ends with a quip about not digging deep enough to bury mistakes.
College students told education pays then and now
Editorial Twenty years ago noted that education pays. The piece observed students now seek locations and times. Miss Joanne Brainerd left for Camp Sloane in Lakeville Connecticut to serve as girls counselor for two months while a Cornell College junior. Miss Vivian Karr hosted a Bug Club party for Miss Jane Morrow’s sixteenth birthday with Shirley Smith Margaret Lair Janet Johnson among the guests.
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Lakeville
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Camp Sloane
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Mt. Vernon
Iowa
Vivian Karr
Prairieville
Bug Club
Jane Morrow
Miss Morrow
Shirley Smith
Margaret Lair
Janet Johnson
Illinois boxing bill heads to referendum in 1922 vote
The legislature adopted a state boxing bill awaiting a public vote in 1922 to decide legalization in Illinois with both men and women eligible. Four youths arraigned for freight car theft face a judge who orders them to earn money to buy jack knives for the Children's Home as punishment. Gastroenteritis kills 185 in five eastern Cape Province towns, South Africa, in early 1971, deemed normal by authorities.
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Illinois
Petteway
Eastern Cape Province
South Africa
Highlights In History June 25 1971
On this date in 1950 North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea marking the start of the Korean War. Other notes include 1788 Virginia ratified the U S Constitution and 1876 Custer was killed at the Little Bighorn. Ten years ago Kennedy ordered staff not to interfere with departments. Five years ago Vatican Yugoslavia diplomatic ties established. One year ago US proposed a day cease fire between Israel and Arab states.
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Republic of Korea
Virginia
U.S
George Custer
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Montana
John F. Kennedy
White House
Vatican
Yugoslavia
United States
Tight Money Reflections From Earl L Douglass D D
An excerpt discusses the era of tight money stressing that ownership often remains illusory due to debt and bank control. It notes 1929 margin stocks and current home and auto ownership myths, urges prudent spending, delayed payments, and cautious living to avoid financial distress.
From Our Readers Letters to The Daily Gazette
The Daily Gazette invites reader letters limited to about 200 words. Submissions must be signed, though names may be withheld if in the writer’s best interest. The paper reserves the right to edit or delete comments that could be libelous or injurious.
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Town of Apathy reader blasts Sterling fire apathy
A Daily Gazette reader from Sterling berates locals for watching a downtown fire while a building burned. He warns the incident could have claimed a life and credits a YMCA worker with reporting the blaze. The letter contrasts local indifference with a note on Britain's vehicle growth.
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Daily Gazette
University of Tllinois
Sterling
YMCA
Criticism of Sterling Board Tuition Decision for Day Care Center
A parent urges the Sterling School Board to reconsider funding tuition for district children attending the Day Care Center. The letter argues that money tax funds can support this service, which the center uniquely offers, and that institutional care is costlier. The writer stresses the rights of children with severe retardation and asks boards to reconsider to give them a chance at education.
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