Holiday toll rises as traffic deaths near seven hundred
Nationwide travel toll climbs over the Thanksgiving weekend with 690 traffic deaths recorded by midnight as delayed reports push final tallies. California tops states with 57 fatalities followed by Texas 44 and Ohio 39 amid slick roads and a fatal train collision in Harris Minnesota.
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Brown Sees Oppression of Negroes
New York based black militant H. Rap Brown warned Nixon’s election would bring oppression for Negroes and hasten preparation for a revolution. He said Nixon’s image is negative in the black community and that blacks must respond to repressive laws, though he did not urge street uprising.
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Nixon Urges Firms to Create Jobs for Unemployed
President elect Nixon pressed business leaders to expand efforts to find train and hire hard core unemployed. Robert Ellsworth met NAB leaders to learn of their program backed by 1 400 participating companies. The NAB funds training costs via Labor Department reimbursements. $200 million was allotted for year one.
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Daley Blamed Over Chicago Police Riot At Democratic Convention
National Commission on Violence flags Chicago clashes as a police riot with Mayor Daley blamed. Report notes officers faced provocation from protesters including epithets rocks and tiles and says violence favored police. Study, prepared by 90 investigators led by Daniel Walker, released despite no formal commission endorsement.
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Eight Draft Resistors Disrupt Nixon Church Service
Eight draft resisters disrupted services at the Lutheran church Nixon attends in New York while his daughter is to be married there. Richard Virgil, a 25 year old theology student, led the protest by attempting to read a statement pledging to refuse induction into the Army, before being escorted out by ushers.
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Weather Update with Cloudy Skies and Strong Northerly Winds
Partly cloudy conditions with northerly winds 19 to 24 mph. Today's high 55 and low 30. Yesterday's high 57 and low 34. Noon humidity at 27 percent. Sunrise 6 34, sunset 4 26.
Boy 9 Struck By Train Near Las Vegas Tracks
A nine year old boy named James P Moten of 1662 Cadillac Lane Las Vegas was severely injured when his foot was mangled by a train near Owens Avenue and North Main Street. Police say Mercy Ambulance lagged in responding and he was rushed to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital where doctors warned he would lose his foot.
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Six Escape Boat Blast at Las Vegas Harbor
Six people including a small child escaped serious injury after a boat exploded in flames at Las Vegas Wash Harbor. They suffered singed hair and minor burns before jumping into Lake Mead and being rescued seconds later by responders.
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Americans view Nixon as matching voters political views
The Harris Survey finds 70 percent classify as conservative or middle of the road and 67 percent see Nixon as aligned with that outlook. Johnson is seen as more liberal, Humphrey and Kennedy as even further left, while 53 percent call Wallace radical.
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