U.S. Ready To Resume Missile Talks In Near Term
The United States tells the Soviet Union it is ready to begin strategic missile talks. Secretary of State Rusk discussed the matter with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin at a lunch. Nixon, kept informed, may join if a summit is held, but talks could start at a level beneath chiefs of government. Rusk noted progress and said discussions must bridge two administrations while addressing offensive and defensive missiles.
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Bernard Gwertzman
N. Y. Times News
Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Johnson
Aleksei N. Kosygin
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Dobrynin
Moscow
Nixon
Czechoslovakia
Kosygin
Chiefs of Government
Columbia Broadcasting System
Atever
Southeast Asia
Middle East
Decatur Christmas Parade Lights Up Downtown
Parade winds through Bank Street to Delano Park with 60 plus floats and bands. Santa brings joy as Mayor Gunthorp and Sheriff Sandlin ride along. First prize goes to St. Ann School for Peace Among Nations with other winners celebrated.
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Decatur
Bank St
2Nd Ave
Delano Park
Santa Claus
St. Ann School
John Birch Society
First Baptist Church
Christ
Frosty the
Charles’ Gunthorp
Morgan County
David Sandlin
Sheriff's Posse
Gary Voketz
U S Maneuvers Set Near Czech Border
The Pentagon announced the United States will deploy 15 500 personnel and 96 F4 Phantom fighter bombers to West Germany for January drills near the Czechoslovakia border. The exercises, near Grafenwehr, involve 12 000 Army troops and include extended training by four Phantom squadrons as part of NATO readiness amid Soviet tensions.
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Washington
United States
West Germany
Czechoslovakia
Pentagon
Grafenwehr
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Europe
Clark M. Clifford
NATO
U.S
Brussels
Hong Kong Flu Spreads Across 13 States and Cities
The Hong Kong flu, reported by the National Communicable Disease Center, has spread to 13 states Puerto Rico and New York City. Outbreaks include Yale University the New York Giants football team a Baltimore seminary a Chicago Veterans Hospital and an Air Force base in Grandview Missouri. Experts say a fully effective vaccine is unlikely with 60 to 70 percent effectiveness typical.
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Piet Bennett
Associated Press
Atlanta. Ga
Puerto Rico
New York City
National Communicable Disease Center
Yale University
New York Giants
Baltimore
NCDC
Chicago Veterans Hospital
Air Force Base
Grandview
Bruce Dull
Pulaski Woman Dies In Mishap
A 29 year old Pulaski Tennessee woman Mary Parker was killed on Alabama 53 about 14 miles north of Huntsville Friday night. She had stepped from her car after it struck a cow when she was hit by a vehicle driven by Eugene Floyd Hill of Laceys Spring.
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Huntsville
Pulaski. Tenn
Mary Parker
Alabama
Here
Highway Patrol
NATO to build fast reaction fleet of up to 50 warships
Washington reports the Atlantic Alliance studies a rapid response force of up to fifty warships to rush to crisis areas in the North Atlantic. The plan leverages carriers cruisers and destroyers already in member fleets as the basis for enhanced deterrence and crisis management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Beecher
N. Y. Times News Service
Washington
Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic
NATO
Educators and Press Hold One Day Conference on Communication
About 40 education administrators and newspaper executives and reporters from 13 counties attended a conference at the Decatur Inn sponsored by the Tennessee Valley Education Center. The meeting included addresses, panels, and group discussions that identified communication problems between educators and the press.
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Decatur Inn
Tennessee Valley Education Center
Milk Pricing Shakeup Sets 60 Cent Half Gallon Minimum
Alabama Milk Control Board abandons maximum prices and adopts a sliding scale with a 60 cent minimum for half gallon milk. Gov. Brewer calls the move shocking and absurd, while Chairman Miller and Agriculture Commissioner Beard dissent. Effective December 15, the plan moves to rail retailers to set prices with a possible 1 cent rise for home delivery.
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Montgomery
Wallace Miller
State Milk Control Board
Miller
Richard Beard
Auburn University
Lowell Wilson
Wilson
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Alabama
U S Destroyers Prepare to Enter Black Sea in Routine Move
Two U S Navy destroyers from the 6th Fleet will sail into the Black Sea in coming days for routine operations in international waters. Pravda denounces the move as provocative near Russian shores, while U S officials stress the mission is standard.
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Naples
Italy
U.S
Black Sea
Navy
Pravda
Soviet Union
Mediterranean
Moscow
Black—Sea
Turkey
Bosporus
Dardanelles
U.S. Navy
Dyess
Turner
Ankara
United States
Pearl Harbor memory recalls 1941 attack at Kaneohe
Jack Coker, senior quality control engineer for Monsanto in Decatur, recalls the 7:55 a.m. attack at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Pearl Harbor raid. He describes the hangar damage, improvised anti aircraft actions, and the chaos as planes were destroyed and defenders fought back.
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Jack Coker
Monsanto Company
Decatur
Coker
United States
Kaneohe Naval Air Station
Pearl Harbor
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DAILY
Rita Kittrell
4Th Ave
Bob Bates
Czech
Bob Horton
U. S
Hong Kong
Hong
Brewer
Margaret
Peggy. Coker
Dick Cooper
Paige
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