Freedom Inc President Attacks Whitten Bill as Kick in Face
Texarkana AP report notes Dr. Mitchell Young accusing Rep Jamie Whitten's amendment to the House Appropriations Bill of striking against freedom of choice and school desegregation. Young says HEW Secretary Robert Finch funds opposition to the amendment and allies with NAACP and unions, while others question his reading of the amendment.
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Texarkana
Tex
Freedom Inc
Jamie L. Whitten
D-Miss
Mitchell Young
Robert Finch
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Whitten
Young
Finch
Senate Appropriations Committee
NAACP
HEW
Emmet School Class Officers Elected Across Grades
Emmet School elected class officers in seventh through twelfth grades with sponsors, presidents, vice presidents, secretaries, treasurers, reporters, fire marshals, and student council leaders named for each grade. In national news, President Nixon discussed Vietnamization and plans for withdrawal while urging negotiations with Hanoi and naming Philip Habib as acting head of the Paris delegation.
Presbyterians Plan Special Service
The annual candlelight Joy Gift Service is set for December 2 at 5 p.m. in First Presbyterian Church. Hope area residents are invited to attend as the sanctuary glows with candles and the Christmas tree decorations by Youth Fellowship members symbolize aspects of early Christian faith. The program titled No Room in the Sun will be performed by church youth, with both the youth and Chancel Choirs offering Christmas music. Retired ministers are honored and the offering supports Ministerial Relief.
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First Presbyterian Church
Hope
Christman
Floyd Leverett
Lex Helms
J. W. Branch
Drug Deaths Also Claim Children
Walter Vandermeer, age 12, a heroin addict, died in Harlem after an apparent overdose in a tenement bathroom. Dr. Michael Baden notes he was one of 10 children affected by an ongoing teen heroin crisis, with a quarter of the city's heroin deaths this year involving teens.
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Elizabeth Bassett
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Walter Vandermeer
Michael Baden
Walter
Baden
Harlem
West 117Th Street
Quite a Fancy from Page One
A narrator recalls Saki Toomey being sent to Tokyo Bay three months earlier causing a tidal wave on Formosa. The ship, too large for major canals, navigates Telstar and time zones, with crew observations on ship life. The captain tours the engine room and muses on scale and distance as the voyage continues.
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Saki Toomey
Tokyo Bay
Formosa
Panama Canal
St. Lawrence Seaway
Indian ‘Ocean
Telstar
War casualties face mental toll with chemical lobotomies
Senate hearings heard Dr. Louis Jolson West allege VA hospitals have abandoned lobotomy but increasingly use tranquilizing drugs to manage mentally wounded veterans. He cited Brentwood VA Hospital in Los Angeles where patients show slowed, stiff movement and a sealed demeanor, and warned treatment levels lag decades.
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Mark Brown
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Congress
Louis Jol
Son West
University of California At Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute
Senate Veterans Affairs
West
Alan Cranston
Dcalls
Brentwood Veterans Administration Hospital
Los Angeles
Youth heroin use rises amid peer pressure claims
Walter is described as the youngest affected. Baden notes children turning to heroin and marijuana due to peer-group pressure, with a tremendous increase in the past six months.
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Walter
Baden
Pullout Plan Laid Out Last Spring
AP Military Writer reports Nixon aims for phased troop withdrawals through 1970 71 with total pullout possible up to 300000 by year end 1970 or early 1971 and 200000 remaining for support duties while 1972 would end with 20000 to 40000 advisers to train the Vietnamese The plan relies on a timetable of quarterly announcements and warns Hanoi against infiltrations and reinforcements as US forces reduce their presence.
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Freds. Hoffman
Washington
Nixon
Hanoi
U. S
Vietnam
VU. S
U.S
Catastrophic Oil Spills Raise Global Alarm
AP report notes the Marpessa sank 80 miles off West Africa after unloading offshore, highlighting spill dangers. It recalls the Torrey Canyon disaster and cites industry moves toward spill prevention, containment booms, and double hull designs amid a surge in supertanker traffic since 1968.
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Jack Lefler
NEW York (Ap
Shell Tankers Ltd
West Africa
Rotterdam
Africa
England
Britain
France
Haxby
Shell Development Co
Santa Barbara
Calif
Salid Oil and
Cmdr
Alvert G. Stirling
U.S. Coast Guard
Suez Canal
Cleaver and Group Won't Enter Algiers
Exiled Panthers leader Eldridge Cleaver and four companions in Algiers plan no return to the United States. The U.S. mission offered travel documents only for return home, not elsewhere, while Chicago and Los Angeles police actions have intensified pressure on Cleaver. Cleaver leads a depleted group including his wife and baby, with three other Panthers facing hijacking charges and others lacking travel docs. Cleaver seeks trial relief on parole while in Algeria.
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Eldridge Cleaver
Black Panthers
U.S
United States
Cleaver
Dee
Chicago
Los Angeles
Panther
Black Revolutionary
California
California Parole Board
Algeria
William Eagleton
Eagleton
Washington
Panthers
Emory Douglas
Byron Vaughn Booth
Clinton Orbert Smith
James Joseph Patterson
Vernon J. Jones Obituary Notice in Texarkana Era
Vernon J Jones age 79 died Monday in a Texarkana hospital native of McNab. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs Bertha Kennedy and Mrs Virginia Kilburn both of Texarkana two sisters Mrs Mable Milars of Calif Mrs Helen Waldsole of Texarkana a brother William Jones of Shreveport La Services at 2 pm Wednesday at McNab by Milton Peebles Burial in Memorial Gardens of Texarkana by Herndon Funeral Home of Hope
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Vernon J, Jones
Vernon J. Jones
Texarkana
McNab
Bertha Kennedy
Virginia Kilburn
Mable Milars
Calif
Helen Waldsole
William Jones
Shreveport
Milton Peebles
Memorial Gardens
Herndon Funeral Home of
Hope
Panama Ousted Leader Torrijos Seized by Troops
Troops loyal to Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos reportedly regained control of Panama Citys National Guard garrison and arrested the two colonels who had deposed him Col Ramiro Silvara and Col Amado Sanjur Torrijos, who had been in Mexico City, was said to have reached David, while Panamanian business leaders urged a civilian junta within six months to restore constitutional rights The National Assembly and political parties had been dissolved since the 1968 coup, and elections promised for 1970 were to be restricted to a constituent body with no party participation.
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Panama
Omar Torrijos
Strong Man
Aken
National Guard
Ramiro Silvera
Amado Sanjur
Torrijos
David
Mexico City
Nicaragua
National Council of
National Assembly
Military Reggime
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