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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1967
Page
3
The postal system weighs a FAST plan merging five cent first class and eight cent air mail to deliver next day nationwide. Officials note magazine and newspaper use of ZIP codes from 1967, and parcel post rates rise eight cents. Mail handling reductions aim to cut delays though sorting mistakes still occur.
The shooter, Bowling, failed to unload a shotgun brought into a house. He leaned to pick up the gun, it bumped a chair and fired, striking the girl about five feet away and grazing another. Gillespie called it strictly an accident and said the father had never before brought a loaded gun home. Five other children were unharmed. Reynolds Funeral Home to announce arrangements.
The President voiced regret that 18 months into efforts peace remains elusive as talks at the United Nations press for a New Year cease fire. In Vietnam, multiple incidents disrupted the two day truce opening amid weather that kept motorists off the roads and lowered traffic fatalities from last weekend.
In Saigon, five hours of fighting with mortars and small arms ends at dusk after U S forces defend a break in hostilities. Casualties in the American company, about 150 men, are described as light. President Johnson backs Britain's three power peace proposal and Thant at the United Nations urges an unconditional North Vietnam bombing halt and a longer New Year truce to aid negotiations.
London papers valued the three Rembrandts at 5.6 million while other paintings could fetch 1.4 million. Detectives said burglars ignored alarms, struck during holidays, and carried away a mixed set including a Rubens and works by Elshiemer and Gerard Dou. Motive unknown, ransom suggested by some officials.
US briefing notes officers declined to label Red cease-fire violations and cited Christmas incidents as similar. No signed formal truce existed though both sides stated intent to observe it. Three troopships anchored off Vung Tau bringing 6 800 troops of the 9th Infantry Division, lifting total U S forces in Vietnam to 380 000.
In 1940 Polish students were killed in Warsaw after staging an anti Nazi demonstration. The event marked a brutal suppression of dissent in occupied Poland by German forces.
L. Denton Cole Jr Assistant Vice-President Lloyd S Jones Winston W Legge Jr Assistant Cashier Betty Stewart John A Caddell William B Eyster A L Johnson E W McLeod Henon W Pearce John B Sewell Barrett C Shelton Lester H Smith John F Smither Jr Rutledge S Thomas Bayne J Vaughan Robert H Tweedy Jr Honorary
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