31 Jul 1966
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1966
Page
1
Marines of India Company faced a sudden Viet Cong assault during Operation Hastings just below the DMZ in South Vietnam. They endured sniper and mortar fire as enemy fighters bayoneted or shot wounded men, with almost half of the company injured and some killed. Helicopters evacuated the wounded and later retrieved the dead.
U S B52s hit a border area near the demilitarized zone as ground fighting continues along the 17th parallel. Marine and South Vietnamese forces report destroying two battalions of the 324B Division in Hastings while Allied casualties are described as light. A Springfield sweep targets Binh Duong Province with no contact. A Hanoi visitor claims Russia supplied MIG21s to North Vietnam for air combat.
The Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn and the National Council of the Boy Scouts launch a joint project to recruit young men to the furniture industry. SFMA with 300 members across 123 cities in 15 states plans at least 100 new Special Interest Exploring posts within a year engaging 2,500 youths. Officials stress manpower as the top goal and aim to pair teens with industry leaders for vocational guidance and hands on experience.
Five struck carriers say planes could fly within hours of machinists union ratifying the new contract. Four airlines target near term resumption, with full service delayed by crew shortages and servicing needs amid a nationwide strike across 70 locations.
Secretary of Labor James Reynolds and Wirtz preside as Johnson assumes leadership. Charles Mason of United Airlines and William Curtin, chief airline negotiator, participate. Standing left to right are Jack Gentry and John Leslie of the Labor Department.
A wreck leaves seven injured as a major incident is reported on page 3-A with obituaries on 1-D and further notices in sections 12-C and 4-A. Authorities confirm no fatalities at this time and investigations continue.
Former president Truman age 82 was admitted to Research Hospital Kansas City after an upset stomach and will stay for his annual physical. Former president Eisenhower age 75 remained under observation for arthritis at Walter Reed in Washington with no change in condition.
The final rounds of wedding preparations occur at the White House as Luci Johnson, 19, prepares to wed Patrick J. Nugent, son of a Waukegan investor. About 300 guests are expected for events from a bachelor dinner to a Georgetown reception. Nugent, recently in Air National Guard training in Savannah, will marry Aug. 6 at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Airlines mechanics win a three year wage rise of 72 cents an hour plus fringe benefits under a White House agreement announced Friday night. The package totals six to seven percent annually and covers 35 000 workers across Eastern National Northwest Trans World and United. Forty five thousand strikers including fuelers cleaners and inspectors also receive similar percentage increases with additional 5 cent flight line differentials and up to $2 weekly company supplements. Some fear the vote Sunday to approve may keep planes grounded.
A five volume symposium for the Senate House Economic Committee finds the Soviet Union still grows but its pace has slowed. The gap to the United States did not narrow since 1958 and while citizens are better off, wants exceed available goods. The study suggests drift toward a market economy with potential political shifts not resembling a democratic system.
In Plentywood Montana a 33 year old oil worker Duane Falk shot and killed Mayor Ludvig Tande and wounded Justice of the Peace William Denikas and city policeman Ole Fiske before dying from a gun wound. Fiske and Denikas were reported in satisfactory condition. Falk had just been convicted of assault over a bar fight linked to a debt dispute with Robert Engstrom.
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