Stuntman leaps from plane without parachute in daring feat
Stuntman Rod Pack leaped from a 14 600 foot plane wearing a harness but no chute. His partner Bob Allen followed and handed him a reserve chute 4 000 feet below. They circled over a plowed field near Arvin California as photographers captured the moment. Pack credits a safe landing to the reserve chute.
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Allen
Pack
Gene
Arvin
Calif
Rod Pack
North Hollywood
Bob Allen
Battle for Binh Gia village yields heavy casualties
A Marine unit at Binh Gia in South Vietnam faced a Viet Cong attack in the rubber plantation area 40 miles east of Saigon. The battle left more than 100 enemy dead and over 500 American troops involved, with at least five Americans killed and dozens wounded. Marines reported 67 bodies at a pad and many more evacuated from the plantation.
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Peter Arnett
Binh Gia
South Viet Nam
U.S
Tral
Saigon
Nguyen Khanh
Meet Your Personal Tax Counsel Ray De Crane
The article promotes tax writer Ray De Crane and his series Cut Your Own Taxes explaining new tax law in plain terms. It invites readers to use professional assistance for tax returns and suggests potential tax savings from following his guidance.
Indonesia Threatens U.N. Exit Over Assessments
Indonesia signals withdrawal from the United Nations amid a deadlocked peacekeeping crisis and a dispute with Malaysia over a Security Council seat. Officials state no resignation provision exists, while the move could affect West Irian plebiscite and U.N. mediation.
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U.N
Sukarno
Malaysia
Indonesia
Herald
Malasia
Security Council
Missing Tar Heel Airman Sought After Flare Spotted
A flare was seen near Mt Wilson as searchers hunt for a missing C54 trainer with two Air Force men aboard. radio contact with someone on the ground was reported, raising hopes they survive. Gerald A. Henderson of Rose Hill North Carolina and Allen L. Jaeger of Crandon Wisconsin disappeared Thursday during a 65 mile flight from Edwards AFB into snow covered San Gabriel Mountains.
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Rose Hill
N.C
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Crandon
Wis
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Claremont
Calif
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Pomona
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Brackett Field
Civil Air Patrol
San Gabriel Valley
Los Angeles
Duke Power Plans 700 Million Hydroelectric Project
Duke Power Co announces a long range program to invest 700 million dollars in hydro and steam generating facilities and related recreation and water resource developments in Oconee and Pickens counties in South Carolina and Transylvania County in North Carolina. The plan includes dams on the Keowee and Little rivers creating 18,100 acres of reservoirs connected by a canal to form Lake Keowee and the Toxaway rivers join. The project features a 385 foot high dam and a 7,400 acre lake with Jocassee development planned for 160,000 kilo.
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Clemson
S.C
Duke Power Co
Duke Power
W. B. McGuire
Oconee
Pickens
South Carolina
Transylvania County
North Carolina
McGuire
Omer
Feral Power Commission
Keowee
Jocassee
Winter flood and storm lash West Coast and Idaho
Floods and heavy snow grip California Oregon and Idaho as winds gust to 8 mph and roads worsen. A year old girl died in a truck incident while a Red Cross official was fatally injured by a helicopter. The World’s Fair Hotel Ship Catalla sank southwest of Seattle. President Johnson declares Idaho disaster areas. Nevada civil defense plans a western declaration.
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Red Cross
Washington State
Tatoosh
Johnson
Idaho
Frank Church
Nevada
Civil Defense
Claude A. Shipley
Grant Sawyer
Mountain Climber Rescued After Harsh Monadnock Descent
Gary Sylvester, 22, of Watertown Massachusetts, fell 80 feet into a crevasse while climbing Mount Monadnock. A team of volunteers strapped him to a sled and lowered him through brutal conditions to a Boston hospital where doctors reported a brain injury and poor condition. Dr Grafton Burke, 46, reached him in near zero temperature with 35 mph winds and led the rescue late Friday night.
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Gary Sylvester
Watertown
Mass
Mt. Monadnock
Sylvester
Boston
Sid Hurlburt Jaffrey
N.H
Mt. Monad
Lwo
Grafton Burke
Dublin
Burke
Traffic Deaths Soar During Long New Year Weekend
National Safety Council reports 259 traffic fatalities by midmorning as a three day New Year period runs from 6 p m Thursday to midnight Sunday. The toll franks ahead of 1959 60 holiday record of 374 and is expected to reach 300 360. Last three day New Year toll was 337 in 1961 62. 578 died over a Christmas three day period.
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National Safety Council
Associated Press
Reds Claim U. S. Plane Shot Down
Peking announced Communist China shot down an unmanned U S reconnaissance aircraft over south central China. Tokyo monitors reported no further details. The claim notes a prior downing on November 15 and says eleven U S built aircraft have been shot down since February 1958, including three U2s.
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Tokyo
China
Peking
U.S
Red China
1964 in Review Look Back at High Point Year
The Sunday Enterprise presents 1964 in Review with top news events and stories on city government urban renewal police weather schools county government and the furniture industry._MEMBERS OF THE ENTERPRISE STAFF compile the year’s notable occurrences including traffic fatalities and local controversies.
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High Point
Sunday Enterprise
Enterprise News
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