Information overload and hospital visiting hints
A Nashville Banner note quips that printers boast 20 000 pages per minute yet readers cannot estimate how long to read all information. A Jackson Clarion Ledger piece urges reducing hospital visitors to ease patient stress and noise. An Anderson Independent item recalls memory training ads from an earlier newspaper and forgotten names.
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Nashville
Tenn
Banner
Jackson
Clarion «Ledger
Daily News
the People's Names
Anderson
S.C
703 Deaths Reported From Flu
The National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta reports 703 pneumonia influenza deaths for the week ended December 14, above normal by 213. The figure covers 122 locales with the national total likely higher, as NCDC uses weekly normal thresholds to declare an epidemic.
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Associated Press
National
Communicable Disease Center
Atlanta
NCNC
NCPC
NCDC
Santa
U S Brazil Problems Are Touchy
Washington faces a delicate choice over Brazil after the military backed regime led a power grab in a country long aided by nearly 1.4 billion dollars since 1961. Officials weigh four options from maintaining aid while avoiding legitimacy to terminating the program as Brazil moves through a transition period.
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George Gedda
Associated Press
Washington
Arthur da Costa E Silva
United States
Brazil
U.S
Washingon
Braezik
Allance For Progress
Latin America
Alliance For Progress
Coconut oil derivative halts insect growth say UC scientist
University of California Los Angeles entomologist Roy J. Pence reports a coconut oil derivative, dodecyl alcohol, stops insect development by preventing legs antennae and wings. Cockroaches fail to hatch eggs and carpet beetles starve. He sees no immediate pest control changes but calls it a potential new weapon in pest warfare.
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Los Angeles
University of California
Roy J. Pence
University of California In
Pence
Gunman robs blind couple during Christmas shopping
In Milwaukee a gunman robbed Kenneth and Carolyn Northup, a blind couple, of their Christmas purchases on a South Side street. The assailant pistol-whipped Northup, demanded money, and warned the family to remain quiet as officers investigated the attack and questioned witnesses.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Kere Cule
Olive Old Jess
Polives Wednanda
Kenneth Marple
Hery Visting
Kenneth Northyrop
Carolyn
James
James, 8. The gunman accosted the family on @ South Side
Northrop
Many Symbols of Christmas Tell One Story
Mary Anita Lasater notes Christmas symbols recount the Nativity story. From Saint Francis’s 13th century live manger to birds linked with the tale, ravens crow the birth, doves announce it, and nightingales sing by Mary. Today people honor birds on Christmas Eve with trees.
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Mary Anita Laseter
Clut
Saint Francis
St. Francis
Mary
Detroit Negroes gain largest housing buy in era
United Tenants for Cooperative Development buys nine Detroit apartment buildings and plans rehabilitation with Negro labor, led by Bert Goodman. The acquisition marks a major land purchase by a Black group, financed by a Metco loan to United Tenants Bene Co., amid a Christmas season masthead referencing Bethlehem and holiday warmth.
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Petroit (Ap
Detroit
Gro Group
United Tenants
Collecctive
Ae Eee
Tbert Goodman
Rio Ant
alloNegro Te Group
Nesero
United Tenstrom
Metorca Popolltap Rao Citigens
United Tengats Bene Co
Aegus
Breakfast Club Makes Farewell
The final Breakfast Club program was taped in Chicago with sentimental farewells and popcorn. Don McNeill announced the show ends after more than a third of a century, with plans to teach at universities and pursue different activities. Guests included Fran Alle son and Dick Nogl, while telegrams came from Everett M. Dicksen, Lawrence Welk, Walter Beenan, and Joay Blondel.
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Chicago
Don Mee Neill
Alurmal
McNeill
Charlotte Reid
Bell
Allerton Hotel
Fran Alleson
Fanny
Dick Nogl
Barrie
Sen
Everett M. Dicksen
Lawrence Welk
Walter Beeanan
Joay Blondel
Kidnappers Free Victim Unharmed in Georgia Rescue
Barbara Jane Mackle, 20, freed after more than 80 hours buried in a box under red clay in North Georgia woods. Her parents paid a 500000 dollar ransom. FBI said warrants issued for Gary Steve Krist and Ruth Eisemann Schier. Barbara, kept in a well-equipped confinement box, told her family she was fine and well cared for by a woman.
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Frank Murray
Associated Press
Miami (Ap
Barbara Jane Mackle
North Georgia
Frank
Barbara
Frank Mackie
Pam
Miami
Tamiami Trail
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Gary Steve Krist
California
Ruth Eisemann Schier
University of Miami
Institute of Marine Science
Hoover
Atlanta
Frank Mackle
Robert F. Mackle
Nixon
Crop Season Sets Record Production in 1968
Washington reports the 1968 crop year produced a record total despite reduced acreages for many crops. Total output rose two percent from 1967, with record highs in food grains and oilseeds. Wheat oats barley soybeans rye flaxseed hay potatoes led record yields while corn rice peanuts and tobacco fell short.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Trains Collide In Suburban Crash Killing Three
Three passengers were killed and about twenty injured when two trains crashed head on in the Chanchen area east of Sou. The collision occurred today in the eastern suburbs, with reports noting the disaster about 45 miles offshore and details still coming in.
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SEQUL
Chanchen
Sou
Wolloe
War Claims. Arkansaw War Claims. Arkansaw
Washington AP reports the Defense Department said on Thursday that Army Private Brooks M. Scetvier, son of Mr and Mrs D B Lottyner of Little Rock, was killed in action in Vietnam
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
Brooks M. Scetvier
D. BP. Lottyner
Little Rock
Vietnam
Year end crop production estimates released by Agriculture Department
The Agriculture Department’s final year report sets 1968 corn for grain at 4.375 billion bushels and wheat at 1.570 billion. Comparisons cover last month forecasts, 1967 revised totals, and 1962-66 averages, with detailed figures for soybeans, sorghum, and acreages harvested, plus yields per acre for each crop. The report also notes regional figures for Arkansas.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Zie Bay
Arkansas
Apollo 8 Rockets Toward Moon On Christmas Mission
Cape Kennedy Florida AP reports Apollo 8 astronauts Col Frank Borman Navy Lt James Lovell Jr and Maj William Anders launched aboard Saturn V to a quarter million mile voyage to orbit Earth then the Moon. The crew aims to reach a 69 mile lunar orbit after three days and 220 074 mile outbound travel. Lift off occurred at the exact planned minute last August.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
William A. Anders
Moon
Lunar
Earth
TV Executives Scored for Violent Shows
Washington hearings criticize TV violence as a steady diet for audiences including children. Rep Hale Boggs and Dr Walter Menninger urge study of effects while ABC's Leonard Goldenson defends reductions and proposes possible program shifts.
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Neil Gilbade
Associated Press
Washington
Bers
Elf
Hale Boggs
D-Law
Leonard H. Goldenson
American Broadcasting Companies Inc
Boggs
Goldenson
ABC
Martin Luther King Jr
Robert F .Kennedy
National Commission On the
Commission
Walter W. Menninger
White House
Philip A. Hart
de DeAtahy
Goledenson
Elmer St. Lowey
ABC News
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Frank Clarke
Camebridge University
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