Three Americans Safe After Viet Cong Battle Near Can Tho
Captain Samuel Lemmon Jr. and two U.S. advisers survived a heavy engagement as the 2nd Battalion of the South Vietnamese Government Regiment fought a Viet Cong force of 500 to 700. The unit suffered 60 killed, 95 wounded, 18 missing, while more than 150 Viet Cong were reportedly killed. The Americans were evacuated with Vietnamese survivors after a brutal day and night of fighting.
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Can Tho
Viet Nam
Samuel Lemmon Jr
Conway
D.C
3Ard
Jack
Lemmon
U.S
Finest Mine
Hot Springs
Joseph Sellers
Uavre de Grace
Chief Remembers Warranty Tag in Anderson TV Theft
Anderson police report a thief who broke into a furniture store Wednesday and stole an 11 inch portable TV set a hair dryer and a small radio. The thief left a TV warranty tag filled with a fake name and address later found by store manager Elmer Jewell. The bogus details suggest the thief intended to claim the warranty.
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Anderson
Elmer Jewell
Jewell
House Committee Approves Measure To Ban Right-To-Work
The Education and Labor Committee backed repeal of Taft Hartley Act section 14B to bar state right to work laws. Passage seems unlikely this session as civil rights priorities and a rules decision loom. Chairman Powell signals a cautious approach, linking action to broader civil rights reforms.
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House
Washington
House Education and Labor Committee
Congress
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
Powell
Labor Committee
William H. Ayres
Ohio
Ogden R. Reid
New York
Ralph J. Scott
North Carolina
Sam Gibbons
Florida
Rules Committee
Senate
Senate Defeats Move To Make Direct Slash In Aid Bill
The Senate defeated a move to cut military aid in a $3.44 billion foreign aid bill and sped action toward final passage. Senators Morse Clark and Gruening led amendments on reducing or restricting aid to Indonesia, the UAR, and other partners, with most changes defeated. An added provision approved would fund $2 million for international benevolent hospitals, possibly for Krakow and Jerusalem centers.
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Senate
Washington
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Morse
Southeast Asia
United States
Pakistan-India
Greece
Turkey
Sen
Joseph
Clark
D-Pa
India
International Development Association
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Fred R
Claiborne Pell
D-R.j
U.S
Pell
U.S. Children’s Hospital
Krakow
Poland
Hadassah Hebrew University Medital Center
Jerusalem
Man Crushed In Accident Near Fairmont North Carolina
A 62 year old Orrum resident Raymond D Barnes was killed when his car struck a wooden bridge on a Robeson County rural road eight miles from Fairmont at 6 am He was alone in the vehicle and the bridge fragment crushed him PMID: None. Six lines of the block show a second item about Hungary urging children to participate in an antimouse drive due to crop damage and rising mouse populations.
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Fairmont
N.C
Robeson County
Raymond D. Barnes
Orrum
Barnes
Budapest
Ministry of Agriculture
Hungary
Janos Keseru
Hungarian Communist Party
Nenszabadsag
Expelled Soviet Diplomat Kirsa Nov Ordered Out
Expelled Stefen Mikhaylovich Kirsa nov, first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, was ordered expelled from the United States for activities incompatible with his diplomatic status.
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Stefen Mikhaylovich Kirsanov
Washington
Lynda Johnson in Arizona with Apache Indians
Lynda Bird Johnson arrives in Arizona for nearly two weeks with Apache Indians as a guest student in the University of Arizona archaeology field school at Grasshopper. She plans a tribal welcome and a future canoe trip with Secretary Freeman, with magazine articles to follow.
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Lynda Bird Johnson
Arizona
Grasshopper
Ariz
Lynda Bird
Johnson
Phoenix
Globe
Here
Secret Service
Lynida Bird
Gabe
Cibecue
Miss Johnson
White Mountain
Laramie
Wyo
Ely
Minn
Orville L. Freeman
Baltimore
Wyoming
Minnesota
White House
Charlotte Firm Wins Major New Plant Contract
New Orleans AP reports Times Picayune Publishing Corp and J A Jones Construction Co of Charlotte N C won a 5 131 000 bid for a new plant near S Broad and Howard Ave foundation work already underway. Site costs machinery and equipment not included.
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New Orleans
Times Picayune Publishing Corp
J. A. Jones Construction Co
Fof
Charlotte
N.C
S. Broad and
Howard Ave
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J.W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Harris
Indonesia
Garden Club
Greendroe
Prila
Forest Hills School
William Y. Mutt
Corning Glass Works
Dibrell Bros. Inc
Belk-Leggett
Downtown
Norman
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Security Bank & Trust Company
Virginia Bank & Trust Co
American National Bank & Trust Co
Mutual Savings & Loan Association
Star Laundry & Cleaners
Barkhouser Motors Inc
Swanson Motors Inc
City of Danville
Schoolfield Bank & Trust Co
Dr. Pepper Bottling Co
Patten, Temple & Williamson
Arcade
Gene McCain
Danville
Piney Forest Road
eRet
Clyde Moody
Glenn Thompson
Jim Eanes
Jackie Dee
Joe Eanes
Corrall County Boys
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