Tet Cease-fire Ends Amid Fresh Allied Attacks
The 24 hour allied Tet cease-fire ended with reports of at least 91 enemy attacks. 117 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, three Americans and four South Vietnamese were killed. Reports cite heavy fighting near the DMZ and an attack at Ba Xoai. The US Army will take over command in the five northern provinces March 9 in a shift of field forces.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
North Vienamese
Associated Press
Michael Putzel
da Nang
1St Infantry
Dong Ha
Ba Xoai
Seven Mountains
Mekong
U.S
South Viettnamese
US. Army
South Vietnam
1St Corps
3Rd Marine Amphibious Force
24Th Corps
Phu Bai
Hue
3Rd Marine Division
26Th Marine
Vietnam
Nixon
Four Southern Governors To Meet On School Issue
Four Southern governors led by Mississippi's John Bell Williams plan a Sunday meeting in Alabama to discuss challenges to U S Supreme Court school integration orders. The report notes protests, bus desegregation fights, and lawsuits across Florida Louisiana Georgia North Carolina and Virginia in the wake of the integration deadline.
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John Bell Williams
Mississippi
U.S. Supreme Court
Williams
Jackson, Miss
Freedom of Choice
United States
Albert Brewer
Alabama
John McKeithen
Louisiana
Lester Maddox
Georgia
Manatee High School
Bradenton
Fla
U.S. Dist
Ben Krentzhan
Washington
Florida
Claude Kirk
Charles R. Scott
Jacksonville
Manatee
Volusia
New Orleans
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
W. A. Bootle
Bootle
Bibb
Houston
Bib Board of Education
Washington County
W. B. Outts
Madison
Concordia
Burlington Plans Rapid Expansion
Burlington Industries plans 1970 capital spending of 120 to 140 million for plant and equipment, aiming to sustain earnings around the prior two quarters. Last year’s modernization and expansion totaled 133.7 million. The firm also eyed acquiring Gladbacher Wollindustrie A G to broaden Western European markets and projects international sales of 150 to 160 million for 1970.
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Burlington Industries, Inc
Charles F. Myers Jr
Burlington
Myers
Toyota Sets All Time Production Record
Toyota factory output reached a new all time record of 134,804 vehicles produced in September, up 54.3 percent from a year earlier. The previous high was 132,363 units produced last June.
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Toyota
Free Listening Device Offered By Miracle Ear Center
A High Point North Carolina advertisement offers a free electronic listening device from Central Hearing Aid Center for those with faded hearing. The device helps with radio and TV, promises no obligation, and requests one per person with name and address to be sent at no cost.
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Central Hearing Aid Center
Miracle Ear
N. Main St
High Point
North Carolina
Burger Urges Hearings For Prisoners
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger urged states to adopt simple procedures to give prisoners prompt fair hearings for grievances and to provide staffs of lawyers to help prepare appeals. He contrasted U S practice with Europe noting Holland Sweden Norway and Denmark provide direct grievance channels and trained counselors in prisons.
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Washington
Warren E. Burger
Burger
National Association of Attorneys General
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Holland
Ministry of Justice
Busing Ordered In Charlotte Schools
Federal judge orders desegregation in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools with massive bus routes. Elementary schools to desegregate by April 1, high schools by May 4, seniors may finish at current schools. Finger plan favored for elementary clustering and busing. board plan rejected for elementary schools but approved for juniors and seniors with cautions.
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North Carolina
U.S. Dist
James B. McMillan
Charlotte-Mecklen‘burg
Charlotte
McMillan
U. S. Supreme Court
4Th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
John Finger
Providence
R. I
Stay of execution granted for teen killer Roseboro
Chief Justice William H. Bobbitt signed a stay of execution for Robert Louis Roseboro, 16, of Shelby to allow an appeal to the U S Supreme Court. Roseboro was to die February 20 after conviction in Cleveland Superior Court for stabbing Mary Helen Kendrick Williams whose nude body was found in her Shelby towel shop on June 22, 1968.
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Raleigh
William H. Bobbitt
State Supreme Court
Robert Louis Roseboro
Shelby
U. S. Supreme Court
Roseboro
Cleveland Superior Court
Mary Helen Kendrick Williams
Deadly Road Rank Highlights Mountain Parkway Fatalities
In Frankfort Kentucky the Mountain Parkway in Eastern Kentucky ranks as the deadliest road among 21 high traffic routes with 20.6 deaths per 100 million miles and prompts safety concerns nationwide.
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Frankfort
Mountain Parkway
Kentucky
Wife Charged With Murder In Tex tile Mill Shooting
In Gastonia North Carolina AP report 24 year old Nancy Thompson is charged with murder after she allegedly shot her husband Robert Lewis Thompson 24 in the spinning room of Pinkney Mill early Wednesday Witnesses saw the couple fleeing through the mill with the husband armed Thompson was found dead shortly after in the spinning room
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Gastonia
N. C
Nancy Thompson
Robert Lewis Thompson
Pinkney Mill
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