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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1966
Page
5
Ann Landers offers blunt guidance on two family problems a 20 year old son dating an older girl and a wife suspecting her husband of stealing. She urges cautious talk, explains risk of statutory charges, and advises demanding receipts if purchases seem excessive. The column ends inviting readers to mail questions with return envelopes.
Francis Cardinal Spellman arrived in Vietnam and visited the 3rd Field Hospital as casualties were brought in from a Nha Be firefight. He offered blessings, spoke with patients and staff, and planned to hold Mass for troops at bases and aboard the Enterprise after staying with General Westmoreland. This marks his 16th consecutive overseas trip from St Patrick's Cathedral to be with the troops.
Glyndon Maryland ex General James P S Devereux recalls the Wake Island defense after Pearl Harbor. He describes the early US defense, Japanese air strikes and the surrender decision by Cmdr Cunningham. Devereux notes orders to destroy weapons and meeting with the Japanese under a white flag.
Patrick J. Hicken and Kenneth J. Rothman said Thursday they will co sponsor legislation to extend Missouri s non partisan court plan to St Louis County and to revise nominating retirement and disciplinary procedures. The plan would deprove the court plan and add changes to commissions and rules.
In Columbia, James F. Byrnes, once close ally to Roosevelt and Truman, is honored for founding the Byrnes Foundation which supports 270 students with $500 yearly for four years and sage guidance. The plaque and a D S M medal mark a life of public service and fatherly mentorship to missing parents’ children.
Joy Miller reports on a massive wartime Christmas meal plan for over three million U S service members assembled through wholesale buying. The Defense Personnel Support Center in Philadelphia coordinates 360000 pounds of shrimp and 24 million pounds of turkey along with other dishes, totaling 4227300 dollars and about 1.41 dollars per man, with the Army's 1st Logistical Command in Vietnam handling local requisitions and distribution to troops in remote areas.
CENTRALIA Mo AP A B Chance Co of Centralia Missouri will acquire Universal Polo Bracket Co of Houston Texas in a stock exchange valued at 4140000 Nathan A Toulson Chance president announced Thursday Missouri firm will acquire all of Universal's stock for 18001 percent shares of A B Chance common stock Chance makes equipment for electric utilities while Universal produces steel transmission equipment and street lighting standards
In Charleston West Virginia CAP during constriction work a sewer fine could not be located. A worker used a divining rod and directed digging. Twenty two feet down they unearthed a sewer pipe but not the broken one.
In Xom Hue a Vietnamese Santa and American Santa brought Christmas to 1000 villagers aided by the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. Vietnamese schoolgirls wore silver winged costumes, locals gathered for a star procession, and 3300 dollars worth of toys arrived from the States. Soldiers built local defenses while a communal Nativity and carols united Buddhist and Christian traditions in a rare holiday moment amid ongoing drone-like helicopter maneuvers and frontier tension.
On this date various historical items are noted including Washington’s 1788 resignation as commander in chief at the State House. Other entries recall desegregation bus protests in Annapolis and Tallahassee, Joseph Smith’s birth in 1805, a 1933 Strasbourg train crash killing about 200, Stalin’s 1945 Moscow talks, Tojo’s 1948 sentence context, a 1970s Italian train wreck, a 1960s papal peace appeal on Vietnam, and other dated milestones.
Five musicians from the Rising Suns were injured in a Thursday afternoon auto accident while en route from Lawrence Kane to Jefferson City. Victor Phillips, owner of Marines, said all five musicians were hospitalized.
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