Viet Cong Harassment Flareups Rally U.S. Navy in Delta
In the Mekong Delta the Viet Cong mounted a fifth attack on waterways in eight days as U S Navy river patrol boats faced shelling from shore. Helicopters armed with rockets and guns operated by Navy crews joined the fight, while planes pounded North Viet Nam in raids that targeted oil depots and convoys. One F105 was downed with the pilot unrescued, and allied shipping suffered prior mine and bombardment incidents along Saigon channels.
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South Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
Mekong Delta
Navy
Tortuga
U.S
Co Chien
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Panhandle
Dong Hoi
Demilitarized Zone
Dong Ha
Quang Tri Province
Baton Rouge Victory
Baton Rouge
U.S. 3Rd Marine Division
da Nang
Red China
Soviet Union
India
Japan
United States
China
Peking People’s Daily
Mao Tze-tung
Hanoi
Radio
Peking
Tokyo
Ho Chi Minh
Kanejiro Tate
Viet Nam
Employment Here Drops 1000 For Mid July Figure
Total Douglas County employment fell 1,000 to an estimated 16,975 in mid July as per a Kansas State Employment Service study. Civilian workforce reached 17,275 with declines mainly in agriculture and government. Unemployment stood at 1.7 percent of the civilian workforce. The report cites drought reducing farm activity and notes gains in non agricultural wages and salary jobs. Forecasts anticipate more hiring from mid July to mid September.
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Douglas County
Kansas State Employment Service
Employment Service
Strike Over Tight Pants Ends at Oregon Plant
At International Paper Co in Gardiner Oregon a week long strike by 315 workers ended as they returned to work The dispute centered on employee Pat Morris who was sent home for wearing tight stretch jeans The union indicated Morris will likely wear different clothing next time and an ongoing company suit against the union remains unresolved with damages claimed by the company and no stated agreement on settlement
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Gardiner
Ore
International Paper Co
Pat Morris
Ralph Dickey
Coos Bay
The
Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union
Miss Morris
Dickey
Seeding Project Called Off For Hurricane Faith
Hurricane Faith drifted toward land, ending plans to seed the storm with silver iodide crystals. Gordon Dunn of the National Hurricane Center said no seeding today and unlikely in the future. Faith moves west toward the Bahamas, 500 miles east of Fort Pierce, Florida, heading NW at 10 mph. weather officials monitor potential landfall within 36 hours.
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Miami
Fla
Faith
Gordon Dunn
National Hurricane Center
Atlantic
Bahamas
Weather Bureau
Fort Peirce
U.S. Weather Bureau
Once Feared Cuban Vigilantes Take Public Roles
In Havana the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution once feared for executions now handle propaganda, health, education, and rent collection. About a quarter of Cuba's population is involved, with blocks nationwide tracking residents, guarding streets, and promoting ration books, illiteracy classes, inoculations, rent collection, Sunday farm work, and revolutionary propaganda.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Two Men Treated After Minor Injuries At Hospital
Two persons were treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Monday for minor injuries. Thomas Jackson age 18 of Baldwin sustained a lime in his left eye while Steven Wolf age 25 of 919 Conn. suffered a dog bite on his right leg.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Thomas Jackson
Baldwin
Steven Wolf
Demonstrations Renewed Around Soviet Embassy in Peking
A Peking radio report says 500000 Chinese demonstrated outside the Soviet Embassy in the Chinese capital today. The rally followed Monday’s 200000 youth march led by Red Guards, both protests described as noisy but orderly amid tensions with Moscow.
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Tokyo
Peking
Moscow
Red Guards
NHK
Japanese Broadcasting Corp
Two Americans sentenced in Hungary for poster defacement
In Budapest a court jailed Van Nuys brothers Michael Savko 23 and John Savko 25 for three months for defacing a poster that labeled the United States murderers in Vietnam. Michael was convicted of attempting to incite sedition and altered a U.S. plane to read USSR. The brothers had been detained since June 30 and will spend one additional month in prison.
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van Nuys
Calif
United States
Viet Nam
Michael Savko
John
Michael
Pittsburgh
Savkos
Yugoslavia
USS. Air Force
U.S.S.R
Two Vehicle Crashes Reported Monday With No Injuries
Two accidents occurred in the city Monday with no injuries. At 7 17 p m a collision near 6th and Mass streets involved Robert L Pierson 41 of 2101 Vt St and Neosho L Fredenburg 64 of Council Grove causing 275 and 250 in damages respectively. At 1 19 p m Ralph H Hawk 63 of Route 4 struck a parked auto owned by Larry C Bellew DeSoto on Mass St near 11th causing 150 and 50 in damages.
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Mass
Sts
Robert L. Pierson
Vt. St
Neosho L. Fredenburg
Council Grove
Pierson
Fredenburg
Ralph H. Hawk
Route 4
Larry C. Bellew
DeSoto
Bellew
Mass. St
11Th
Hawk
Treasury Says Tax Rise Looks Like Certainty
Washington reports that Treasury officials testified before Congress that a tax increase may be needed to curb inflation, against a backdrop of Democratic splits over rising interest rates. Undersecretary Joseph W. Barr argued for possible tax or spending actions if monetary policy proves insufficient.
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Treasury
Congress
Democratic Party
Joseph W. Barr
House Rules Committee
Barr
Federal Reserve Board
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Banking Committee
Patman
Rules Committee
House
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Johnson
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Fed
Pentagon
Court Fine List From Le Roy Pittet and County Court
Court records show multiple traffic fines across LeRoy Pit tet and county court dockets. Offenders include Claude Brown Tonganoxie Myrta J Anderson Marilyn K Donley and others with speeding stop sign no license excessive noise yield and other infractions. total fines range from 8 to 50 dollars. County Court notes operate without plates and drunk in a public place fines.
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LeRoy T. Pittet
Claude Brown
Tonganoxie
Myrta J. Anderson
Marilyn K. Donley
Stouffer Place
James P. Mailer
Sally A. Pickett
Learnard
Larry L. Riggs
Lowell Copp
Haskell
Henry R. Hodges
Thomas L. Catney
Maine
Anna C. Wiley
Ohio
William D. Trull
De Gaulle warns Vietnam war risks world disaster
President Charles de Gaulle, arriving in Cambodia, declared the Vietnam conflict could lead the world to misfortune. He spoke after landing from Djibouti and commented on the border war affecting the Southeast Asian kingdom.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Charles de Gaulle
Viet Nam
Djibouti
Convicts Hijack Train in Escape Bid in Arizona
Two escaped convicts Edward Schiffauer and William Henry McCallister boarded a Southern Pacific train with a loaded shotgun and held a five man crew hostage for nearly two hours along the Butterfield route. A 70 man posse and helicopter watched as the men feared capture and finally surrendered near Hayden after radio exchanges with the engineer and sheriff. Schiffauer faced a three to four year forgery term begun May 18, while McCallister had a one to two year burglary sentence begun in April.
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Florence, Ariz
Southern Pacific
Butterfield
Edward Schiffauer
William Henry McCallister
Kelvin
Mel Hardy
McCallister
Florence
Schiffauer
McGowan
Hardy
M.A. Ward
Bobby Teddy
K.E. Allen
Hayden
Coy de Arman
Farm unions vie as Di Giorgio workers vote on bargaining
Labor organizers for the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters predicted victory as Di Giorgio Corp farm workers cast ballots from 7 AM to 10 PM. About 1,800 workers in Tulare and San Diego counties chose between Teamsters or AFL-CIO representation or no union at all.
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Delano, Calif
Afl-Cio
Teamsters
di Giorgio Corp
di Giorgio
Tulare
San Diego
Rusk Seeks Little Peace Amid Viet Nam Tensions
Secretary of State Dean Rusk defended U S policy in Viet Nam before a Senate Preparedness subcommittee saying the United States seeks a measured response to aggression to avoid sliding into general war. He rejected CIA policy‑direction claims and warned of rising costs if the war continues, noting possible tax increases.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
United States
Viet Nam
Rusk
Sen
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
South Viet Nam
CIA
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
National Security Council
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Senate Armed Services Committee
Public Works: No regular trash collection on Labor Day
Lawrence George Williams announced that city sanitation crews will skip regular trash collections on Labor Day September 5. Special pickup services will also be suspended during the Labor Day week. Regular service for Monday pickup residents resumes Thursday.
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George Williams
Lawrence
Public Works
Salvation Army Red Shield Store Seeks Used Kids Clothes
Captain David Stewart reports many Lawrence families have applied for used children’s clothing at the Red Shield Store on 900 R.I. Sts. Donations are urged this week to meet needs, especially for 10 to 12 year old boys and girls. Drop off at the Red Shield store or Salvation Army HQ at 946 N.H. St.
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David Stewart
Salvation Army
Lawrence
Army
Red Shield
Stewart
Salvation Are
N.H. T
Son of Mr and Mrs Musick phones from navy hospital
Navy Hospitalman Bob Musick called his parents from the U S Navy hospital ship Repose in the Philippines after being transferred from Viet Nam where he contracted malaria. He also reached them by radio to San Diego and telephone to Lawrence. He expects to stay in the Philippine hospital about three weeks.
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George Musick
W. 3Rd St
Navy
Bob Musick
Phillipines
Bob
Viet Nam
U.S.S. Repose
San Diego
Lawrence
Phillipine Hospital
Tuareg Desert Warriors Now Work in Niger Nuclear Plant
One time Tuareg fighters from the southern Sahara are reported to be employed at the French atomic installation near In Ekker Niger. The piece notes a shift from desert warfare to industrial labor under French oversight.
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Sahara
Ekker
Niger
Card of thanks for Mary M. Grems family gratitude
The family of Mrs. Mary M. Grems expresses thanks to neighbors friends and relatives for flowers cards food visits and calls. Each expression of sympathy is gratefully acknowledged with blessings to all.
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Mary M. Grems
Thanks for Kindness During Hospital Stay
A reader expresses gratitude to those who sent cards visited and prayed during a hospitalization acknowledging their thoughtfulness.
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Rmaine
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