U S Fleet Bolstered Off North Vietnam In Action
Task Force One powered by nuclear ships moved into Yankee Station 100 miles off North Vietnam. Enterprise Bainbridge and Long Beach joined for a second Viet Nam tour as a ground clash persisted and casualties rose. U S troop strength reached 376 000 with 109 killed and 574 wounded last week. The New Year truce was set to begin at 7 a m Saigon time.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S. Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
North Vietnam
Bainbridge
Enterprise
Long Beach
Yankee Station
North Vietnamese
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
7Th Fleet
Vietnam
Navy
U.S
1St Caval
Nam Dinh
Haiphong
Vietnamese Labor Confederation
la Ae
Binh Thuan
Phan Thiet
Proxmire Calls FTC Credit Rules Failing to Protect
Sen. William Proxmire criticized FTC staff proposed credit disclosure rules as inadequate. He pushes a Truth-in-Lending bill to require full annual percentage rate disclosure and coverage of all consumer credit including cash loans and department store accounts. He notes current rules miss auto sales and revolving credit and favor civil action over enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William Proxmire
Federal Trade Commission
Wisconsin Democrat
Admire
FTC
Proxmire
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Senate
House Economic Committee
Paul H. Douglas
D - Ir
Douglas
Snow Storm Widespread Across Midwest and West
Snow continued from page one with shovelers reported in Minnesota Illinois and Michigan. Winds up to 30 mph reduced visibility to a few yards in Indiana. Frigid air swept the interior with subzero temps in the Great Plains and lows of five below in Nebraska and New Mexico. Rain and thunderstorms hit the Southeast while the Far Northwest saw more precipitation. Saner weather overall with clear skies elsewhere and notable warmth in Florida.
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Page 1
Midwest
Minnesota
Illinois
Michigan
Indiana
Great Plains
Tucson
Ariz
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Tallahassee
Fla
Alabama
North Carolina
Rockies
Flagstaff
Grant, N.M
Mercury
Grand Island
Neb
Laramie
Wyo
Miami
Key West
No Hearing Planned In Sheriff Challenge
Monroe County Judge James W. Rice ruled there will be no hearing in the case brought by Sheriff Paul David Copperfield over alleged improper reporting of campaign contributions for Sheriff elect Dewey Reinstra. The complaint centered on Sparta and Cashton campaign committees not listing contributors of $5 or more. Copperfield may still appeal to the attorney general or governor or seek Supreme Court review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparta
Wis
Monroe
James W. Rice
Paul David Copperfield
Dewey
Cashton
Rice
Copperfield
State Supreme Court
River Readings Station toed Stese 24 hr neer rec
A clipped notice reports lacrosse results and 24 hour river readings with unclear wording and stray letters. The fragment mentions a station and a score like 43 but lacks full context or names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neer
Fotey
Lower Prices League Collects Signatures
Milwaukee Homemakers League for Lower Food Prices reports about 2500 signatures on a petition to Gov. Warren Knowles. Co chair Ruth Ann Olson says the drive aims to show discontent with food store prices and practices and requests an investigation into rising food costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Homemakers League
Warren P. Knowles
Ruth Ann Olson
Greendale
Wisconsin Food Study Committee
Wisconsin
United States of America
Brown Frees Four From Death Row San Quentin
Gov. Edmund G. Brown spared four murderers on San Quentin death row in a Wednesday act, commuting their sentences to life without parole, while eight others were made eligible for parole. The moves relate to a broader pattern of stalled executions amid court delays and the governor’s stance against capital punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Calif
Edmund G. Brown
San Quentin
Brown
Ronald Reagan
Los Angeles
Clyde Bates
Manual Chavez
Leo Carlton Lockadoo Jr
William Earl Cotter Jr
Six in Vermont Family Die in Home Blaze
Panton Vermont. a two story Lake Champlain Valley home fire killed Gerald Warren 42 his wife Dolores 38 son Gerald Jr 16 daughters Frances 17 Barbara 12 and his mother Florence Warren 74 all of Syracuse New York A guest William Stier Jr escaped and was hospitalized for shock after reporting the blaze to a neighbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panton
Lake Champlain Valley
Gerald Warren
Dolores
Gerald Jr
Frances
Barbara
Warren
Florence Warren
Syracuse
N.Y
Warrens
Vergennes
William Stier Jr
NSP Facilities To Cost 104 Million In 1967 Expansion
Northern States Power Co. announces 1967 plans totaling 104 million dollars for new facilities and improvements. Major projects include a 550000 kilowatt plant on Lake St. Croix, transmission lines, and the Monticello nuclear plant, with 1967 expansions valued at 23 million more than 1966’s 81 million record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Northern States Power Co
Earl Eward
Wisconsin
Lake St. Croix
Monticello
Market and livestock quotations from Maribor and Chicago area
National securities prices around 9:00 a.m. show inter dealer bids with local adjustments. Wisconsin dairy and fund quotations list multiple funds and La Crosse and Manitowoc items. Winona and South St. Paul livestock show hog and cattle markets steady to higher with varied carcass and feeder prices. Chicago potatoes grains and produce notes follow with butter and eggs price ranges.
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Marshall CO
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Wis
Mtr
la Crosse Cooler
la Crosse Telephone
Co., Inc
Boston Fund
Chem. Fund
Eaton & Howard Bal
Eaton & Howard Std
Fidelity Fund
Manhattan Fund
Mass, Inv
Natl. Investors
Puritan Fund
Wisconsin Fund
Top Choice
Good & Choice
Bowers
South ST. Paul
South ST. Paul, Minn
USDA
U.S
Five Die In Separate Wisconsin State Crashes
The Associated Press reports five deaths across Wisconsin in separate crashes raising the 1966 toll to 1,114. Victims include Mrs. Mary Martine 46 Milwaukee and Mrs Antoine A Phillips 23 Evergreen Park Ill. Others were Andrew Hulstrand 58 Hibbing Minn a man found dead near Alma and Linda J Anding 26 Madison nurse after a collision near Cross Plains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Mary Martine
Frank
Janet Liever
Andrew Hulstrand
Hibbing
Minn
Neenah Hospital
Winnebago Coun
Juneau County
Antoine A. Phillips
Evergreen Park
Ill
Manston
Linda J. Anding
Madison
U.S. 14
Cross Plains
Dane County
Weather Woes Persist Amid Snow Storm Across Wisconsin
A man collapsed and died while shoveling snow at his Pewaukee home. Wisconsin towns recorded heavy totals with 11 inches in Pewaukee and widespread drifting creating hazardous highway conditions. Night brings colder, fair air, while regional lows ranged from 2 below in the Superior region to 16 in Wausau and Park Falls and up to 23 in Milwaukee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roe
Pewaukee
Waukesha
Manitowoc
Madison
Fond du Lac
Dodge
Washington
Ozaukee
Walworth
Kenosha
Racine
Superior
Eau Claire
la Crosse
Wausau
Park Falls
Lone Rock
Green Bay
Beloit
Milwaukee
Roosevelt
Utah
West Palm Beach
Fla
New LBJ Press Chief To Undergo Surgery
George Christian, 40, Johnson's new press secretary, will have back surgery today for a longtime ailment. Bill Moyers will fill in for about three weeks while Christian recovers after Moyers left the White House staff Feb 1 to become Newsday publisher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Johnson
George Christian
Christian
Bill D. Moyers
Moyers
White House
Newsday
Long Island
N.Y
Former Indiana Governor Schricker Dies at 83
Henry F. Schricker, aged 83, former Democratic governor of Indiana from 1941 to 1945 and 1949 to 1953, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Knox. He was one of the state's best known Democrats in modern times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox
Ind
Henry F.schricker
Indiana
Radio Highlights Thursday Sports and Vox Pop
WLCX at 7 p.m. offers Vox Pop while WKTY airs a 7 50 p.m. basketball clash between iCentral and Rochester Marshall. WKBH at 7 40 p.m. features i Central versus Rochester in another basketball telecast.
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WLCX
WKTY
iCentral
Rochester Marshall
WKBH
I Central
Rochester
German Churchman Heads to North Vietnam on Aid Mission
AP reports Pastor Martin Niemoeller, a World Council of Churches president, travels to Hanoi as part of Aid Action Vietnam to see how West German civilian war victim aid is used. He travels with Caritas official Georg Huessler and others. both Niemoeller and Huessler previously visited South Vietnam.
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BOM
Germany
Martin Niemoeller
World Council of Churches
North Vietnam
Niemoeller
Hanoi
Aid Action Vietnam
Georg Huessler
Caritas
Egon Lutz
Nuernberger Nachrichten
Court Orders South to Desegregate by 1967
A federal appeals court ruled that virtually all public school segregation in the South must end by the 1967 fall term. The 5th U.S. Circuit held HEW guidelines align with the court's standards, urging uniform desegregation across Louisiana and Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Bill Crider
New Orleans
South
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
HEW
Minnesota Road Deaths Total 960
A Hopkins youth was killed when a car hit a snowplow at the north junction of Highways 5 and 25 near Young America. The toll rose to 960 for 1966 with other fatalities and several hospitalized victims, including four from the same car.
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Minnesota
Associated Press
Hopkins
America
Minneapolis
Donald Phillip Wall
Waconia
Kenneth Tischer
Willmar
Bruce Michael Polchow
Ronald Blake
Daniel Hawkins
Edward Tober Jr
Young America
Andrew Weiland
Mayer
Break-In Seizes Two Safes and Pink 1957 Cadillac
Burglars forced a rear door at Borchardt and Stremer auto agency in Athens Wisconsin early today and escaped with two floor safes containing 600 dollars in cash checks and office equipment plus a 1957 pink Cadillac. A snowplowing crew discovered the battered safes on a rural road two miles from Athens.
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Athens
Wis
Borchardt & Stremer Auto Agency
Swimming Essential For Window Washer
Silver Springs Florida AP describes Ray Carpenter cleaning the underwater aquatorium’s huge glass sections. His job requires swimming and comfort with water environment above fear of heights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Springs
Fla
Ray Carpenter
Americans leave Cuba by airlift via Mexico Merida
An airlift to evacuate about 880 Americans and 1 820 relatives from Cuba proceeded via Mexico. The first group of 89 arrived in Merida on a Mexican DC6 and were to fly to New Orleans. Two more planeloads were expected from Havana.
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Merida
Mexico
Cuba
United States
New Orleans
Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
Dent Johnson
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Fernando Pamanes Escobedo
U.S
Miami
Yucatan
Mexico City
Latin America
Powell's Wife Skips Hearing In Powell Inquiry
Mrs. Adam Clayton Powell again did not appear at a congressional inquiry into her husband’s payroll and travel expenses. Rep. Wayne Hays warned of contempt and possible firing from a $20,500 a year staff post if she fails to testify Friday. The investigation notes multiple mischarged airline trips and questions over her Puerto Rico residence and pay. Powell himself faces legal trouble and potential removal from office if a separate probe advances.
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John W. Beckler
Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
Hays
Powell
Congressional
Congress
Puerto Rico
Harlem
U.S
San Juan
Lionel van Deerlin
New York
van Deerlin
House
57 Yanks Get Permission To Visit North Vietnam
The State Department on Wednesday granted travel permission to 57 Americans to visit North Vietnam, up from 53 previously. Most applicants are newsmen, though Hanoi has admitted few. Carl Bartholm said only Harrison Salisbury and Louis Lomax among listed newsmen have North Vietnamese visas.
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Washington
State Department
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Carl Barthh
Harrison Salisbury
New York Times
Louis Lomax
U.S
Electric Co Union Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
Negotiators for Wisconsin Electric Power Co and the Operating Engineers Union, which walked out ten days ago, reached a tentative contract after 212 hours of bargaining. The proposal goes to a 10 am Friday union meeting. if ratified, about 790 members return to work at five plants Saturday. Terms to be released after the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
the Electric Co
Operating Engineers
Marathon
Wisconsin Electric Power Co
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Load Of Dirt Kills Woman and 3 Children
A dump truck overturned and its load of earth crushed a woman and three children in San Antonio. Maria Douglas 25 and her children Karen 7 Kenneth 8 and Michael Smith 5 died. Jerry Smith 8 survived with injuries. Truck driver Arthur D. Cross 46 was uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Maria Douglas
Karen
Kenneth
Michael Smith
Smith
Jerry Smith
Arthur D. Cross
Play-off finishes mark early 1965 golf tour
Seven of the first 27 PGA events in 1965 were decided by a playoff. The note highlights the tour's tight finishes and rising competitive pressure among top players.
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le Crosse Tribune
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Mekong
U.S. Command
Lower Prices League
Vermont
NSP
Maribor
Winona Livestock Swift & Co
Winona, Minn
Highway 61
Winona
Mans
Chicago
Idaho
Chicago Produce
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Egos Steadier
Amer
Consolidated Foods
Eastman Koda
General Electric
General Motors
General Telephone
Great Northern Ry
Heileman
Illinois Central
International Harvest
Tel & Tel
Interstate Power
Republic Steel Rexall Drus
Royal Dutch
Sinectair
Standard Oil
N.J
Swift
Texaco
Tidewater Oil
Trane Co
U.S. Rubber
U.S. Steel
Universal Oil
We Westinghouse
Elec
White Motors
Zenith
Dow Jones Industrials
First Bank
Fabri-Tek, Inc
Gateway Trans
Giddings . L
Lincoln Natl. Life Bans McQuay, Inc
Nekoosa
Rockwell
The
Buffalo County
Highway 35
Alma
LBJ
N. Viet
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Rome
Georgia
Louisiana
Todd Schwartz
Herman Schwartz
Dean
Jay
Ernest McCoy
Granite Falls
Presi
California Democrat
Bahamas
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