Seven MIGs Downed In Large Vietnamese Air Battle
U S Air Force pilots led by Col Robin Olds claim seven Communist MIGs were shot down in a major dogfight northwest of Hanoi. Olds, his wing including Capt John Stone, reported multiple MIG sightings and successful engagements with Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles. The strike, described as the war’s first pure fighter sweep, involved 14 Phantom flights and several F105s to suppress ground fire and SAMs.
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Red River Delta
Hanoi
America
Air Force
Col
Robin Olds
Washington, D.C
West Point
Ella Raines
Vietnam
John B. Stone
Coffeeville
Miss
Olds
William W. Momyer
7Th Air Force
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
U.S
North Vietnam
Stone
Momyer
Earth
Washington
D.C
Edward A. McCough
U.S. Air Force
Countian’s Democrat leader dies in lumber yard accident
Paul A. Fulton 506, a Cherry Tree area Democratic district chairman for eleven years, died Saturday at Altoona Hospital from injuries suffered December 22 at the J. F. Hammond Co. lumber yard in Spangler. He rode to Spangler with Robert Harkleroad and was struck by a log during unloading. Coroner cites internal bleeding. survivor list includes widow and five children. He previously worked for the State Highway Department.
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R.D
Altoona Hospital
J. F. Hammond Co
Spangler
Paul A. Fulton
Cherry Tree
Fulton
Kenneth Trout Lumber Co
Barnesboro
Cambria County
Joseph Govekar
Altoona
Spanglen
Robert Harkleroad
Govekor
Hammond Yard
Miners Hospital
State Highway Department
Weather forecast with clouds and cold spell
The report notes partly cloudy skies today with a high near 38. Tonight remains cloudy with light flurries and a low around 23. Wednesday brings partial clearing and colder temperatures.
Record Viet Cong defections hit twenty thousand in 1966
In Saigon the U S officials reported a record 20 242 Viet Cong defected in 1966 with the largest surge in the final two months. The total nearly doubled the 11 124 who left in 1965 and marked the highest in four years of the Chieu Hoi program. Combat was limited to minor skirmishes though air activity rose with two B52 bombing raids on North Vietnam and one on the DMZ.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U. S
U.S
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Podgorny to Visit Vatican in Historic Audience
Vatican sources report Pope Paul VI will receive Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny in an unprecedented audience on January 29, three days after an Italian visit, amid broader notes of diplomacy. The narrative mentions Podgorny’s Italian trip January 24–26 and references changes in the ongoing murder trial of Viollett Evans in Indiana County, with juror questions highlighting a self defense defense path.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Paul VI
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Soviet Union
Podgorhy
Italy
Podgorny
Moscow
Giovanni Gronchi
Violette Young Evans
Indiana
Evans
George
Chevy Chase
Pope Paul
Andrei A. Gromyko
Robert Earley
Walter Cope
Walter Simpson
Marion Center
R.D
Andy P. Vetula, Jr
N. Railroad St
Homer City
Mary E. Good
East Pike
Joseph C. Smith
Lucernemines
Ruth Griffith
Graceton
Pauline Gaston
Rossiter R.D
Cope
Edwin M. Clark
Vatican newspaper says pope seeks collaboration with human powers
L Osservatore Romano after an audience with Gromyko said there would be no weakening of Catholic opposition to Communist doctrine. The pope desires to collaborate with every human power to help overcome tensions in the modern world and urges Catholics to draw inspiration from charity rather than anathematising condemnations.
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FE Eee
Vatican
L’osservatore Romano
Gromyko
Indiana Bus Strike Halts Edwards Lakes-to-Sea Service
A three day bus strike against Edwards Lakes-to-Sea System shuts down Edwards routes in Indiana from Punxsutawney to Buffalo and north east toward Clymer and Clearfield. 120 drivers and mechanics of the Amalgamated Transit Union walk out over wages as mediator G. Harry Young says both sides remain deadlocked with no talks scheduled.
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Indiana
Jeurenfree
Edwards Lakes-to-Sea
Sehitece
Edwards
Punxsutawney
DuBois
Buffalo
Clymer
Clearfield
Hess Bros
Amalgamated Transit Union
G. Harry Young
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana County Road Fatalities Drop to Three Year Low
The United States recorded 446 traffic deaths over a 78 hour New Year weekend from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight, lower than last year’s 564. The National Safety Council, which estimated 460 to 540 deaths, praised the dip and cited safe driving despite scattered weather.
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Mondy
National Safety Council
Council
Associated Press
Indiana County Traffic Fatalities Rise in 1966 Report
Indiana County reports 17 fatal accidents with 22 fatalities. accidents investigated 652, hit and run 46. Criminal arrests 1901, traffic arrests 3563 with 43% drop to year low. Seventeen fatal accidents, eighteen fatalities, and 176 warning wards issued as authorities tally police data from the Indiana State Police substation.
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Indiana
Statis
Indi
Ana
Obituaries and notices from Blairsville area page two
Beaths Mrs Sarah E new house 7 percent of 104 W Chestnut Blairsville. Ch o k ie Joseph R former ly Kent Coleman William Ford 72 Penn Run formerly of Indiana. Corte Albert Dulla Sr 71 1158 Church St Indiana. Cuddy Mrs Minnie Catherine 92 Home Ditch Clyde Puss formerly of Iselin. Ferringer Murray Russell 58 Home R D Fulton Paul A 50 Cherry Tree Rd Hallman Mrs Jennie J 87 formerly of Dayton. Hamilton Charles Arthur 1321 Washington Indiana. Horvatis Mrs Theresa UL 85 1442 Philadelphia St Indiana. McKee Mrs Cora Doughty 72 formerly Salisbury. McGee Warren 79 Punxsutawney. Repine Blaine 74 Morejon Center Rd 1 Russell Mrs Anna 79 Homer City. Siverling Mrs Vera 36 Punxsutawney Wilson Gilbert C 47 Salt St Saltsburg. other fatalities were reported. Criminal complaints ingests during the year both occurring gated-543 Suars will be open until in Indiana Borough. Criminal cases cleared-114 tonight. Sex Other data concerning activi ties by state police at the Indies Miles wraveled by patrol cars Harry's Pet open tonight and substation was compiled as 240000 miles
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Murray Russel
Home
Indiana
Indies
Scranton Urges State Decentralization in Farewell Address
In his farewell to the General Assembly Gov. Scranton argues the United States is too large and complex for top down control and calls for decentralization. He asserts that state governments should provide the pattern for governing in modern times as the 1967 session opens.
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Harrisburg
Scranton
General Assembly
United States
House
Senate
State of the Commonwealth
County's First Baby In 1967 Indiana
Laurie Ann Gromley is named Miss New Year's 1967 and was the first baby born in Indiana County this year at Indiana Hospital. She arrived at 5 36 a.m. on January 1967 weighing five pounds thirteen ounces. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond F Gromley of Indiana R D 9.
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Laurie Ann Gromley
Indiana County
Indiana Hospital
Laurie Ann
Raymond F. Gromley
Indiana R.D
Jack Ruby Dies Of Cancer
Jack Ruby, who killed accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died at Parkland Hospital in Dallas after battling cancer since December 9. Doctors said cancer had spread to lymph glands, lungs, and pancreas and that X-ray and surgery would not help. deputies had issued regular bulletins on his condition.
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Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Parkland Hospital
Ruby
Sheriff's Deputies
Cuban Exile Invasion Plot Squelched in Florida Raid
Cuban exile says a vest pocket invasion plan aimed to spark war with Fidel Castro was halted by arrests of armed Latin exiles and American adventurers. Rolando Masferrer says 50 commandos were jailed in a Florida Keys raid. one escaped, hitching a ride to Miami. Codified plans included 75 Cuban, 30 Haitian and 28 American exiles with a fledgling five aircraft air force to attack Cape Haitian and seize Port au Prince to replace Duvalier with Jean Baptiste Georges.
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Key West
Fla
Haiti
Fidel Castro
Rolando Masferrer
Fulgencio Batista
Florida Keys
Miami
Aton Constanza Palau
Cape Haitian
Port Au Prince
Constanza
Francois Duvalier
Jean Baptiste Georges
U.S
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Blaine
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Russell
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Siverling
Vera
Wilson
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