US Toll Past Week Among War's Low
US Command reports seventy American deaths in the past week, the lowest weekly toll in months, with 1,049 Americans wounded and total battlefield casualties rising to 300,829. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese fatalities numbered 2,177 as campaign activity eased. Cross-border air actions near Cambodia and Tuyen Binh continued amid shelling and battles.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Cambodia
Prince
Orces
Tuyen Binh
Med ia summoned on My Lai coverup probe
Army investigators questioned Capt Ernest Medina as part of a probe into possible whitewash of a brigade level inquiry. The panel seeks to determine if civilians were killed unnecessarily during the My Lai assault.
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Washington
My Lai
Ernest Medina
Medina
William L. Calley Jr
Army
Vietnam
William R. Peers
11Th Infan
Americal
WO Hugh Thompson
20Th Infantry
Oren K. Henderson
Lemon By Milton Weiss Defect Labelled In Court
In Bridgeport Connecticut a Common Pleas Court judge issued a temporary injunction restraining Arthur Harris from parking his $9,000 Lincoln Continental in front of Milton Weiss Inc with a large lemon sign reading Lemon By Milton Weiss. Judge Harold M. Missal ruled Harris failed to prove by a preponderance that the car is a lemon.
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Bridgeport
Missal
Harri
Interviewing For City Job is Completed
Lawrence screening committee finished interviews of six candidates for city manager. The group will report to the City Commission and is expected to recommend further study of two or three candidates. Final decision rests with the commission. a second interview round is unlikely. The post has been vacant since November. Dennis Kallsen is acting city manager. The 1970 salary budget is 23000, up about 3000 from 1969.
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Lawrence
Ray Wells
Muskegon
Mich
Dennis Kallsen
Boys Find Toy Heaven in Boxcar of Christmas Goods
Two San Antonio brothers aged 10 and 12 skipped school and spent nearly a day inside a boxcar packed with toys. A foreman found them crying and learning a teenage peddler had admitted breaking into the car to steal toys.
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San Antonio
Tex
Purse Stolen From Inaugural Reception at City Hall
Mrs Rich ard Burrows wife of a staff member for Mayor Wesley Uhlman reported a purse theft during the mayor's inaugural reception at Seattle City Hall.
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Seattle
Richard Burrows
Wesley Uhlman
City Hall
Hunger Conference used to press for anti poverty action
The White House hunger conference becomes a platform for demands from poor, Mexican American and black caucuses calling for a national hunger emergency, guaranteed income, and immediate free food stamps. Delegates protest low school meal funding while a 1969 Thanksgiving deadline is urged by Rev. Ralph Abernathy for a federal effort to end hunger.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Abernathy
Vandals Strike Rural Mailboxes Around Lawrence Area
More than 22 rural mailboxes on routes out of Lawrence and Overbrook were torn from posts Wednesday night or today. Damage estimates are pending as the incident is referred to the FBI and postal inspectors. Several routes and named residents are listed as victims with additional thefts including a motorcycle and a shed break-in near Eudora.
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Lawrence
Overbrook
Douglas County
Sheriff’s Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Route 5
Clinton
Charles Hodges
Floyd Torneden
Kenneth Hornberger
Alden Bradley
Jesse Sutton
Raymond Goff
Glenn Breithaupt
Douglas Breithaupt
Leonard Fletcher
Charles Topping
Herbert Werst
E. G. Collister
Eldon Statler
John Holiway
Jim Goodyear
Joe Schermer
Charles Sullivan
Baldwin
Marvin Jardon
U.S. 59
U.S. 56
Herbert H. Thoren
Rt. 1
Eudora
Thoren
Health department probes rat nests in Lawrence area
Lawrence residents report possible rat nest problem after a Journal-World story quoted County Health Officer Dr. Dale Clinton who said rats are not a major Lawrence issue. Clinton said staff is investigating and this is the first rat complaint in months.
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County Health Department
Journal-World
Wedgewood Drive
Dale Clinton
Lawrence
Holiday Truce Called in War
Saigon reports a 24 hour cease-fire for Christmas and another for New Year’s. The South Vietnamese government and the U S Command will honor the two truces as in prior years. Officials cite fear of triggering a Tet style halt to fighting in the New Year.
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Saigon
U.S
Brown to Speak at KU Friday in Hoch Auditorium
H. Rap Brown chairman of the Student National Coordinating Committee will address a public session at 7 30 p.m. Friday in Hoch Auditorium Kansas University Lawrence hosts a three day Midwest BSU conference with Brown as the keynote. Also on the program are Playbell Benjamin and Heyward Henry and tickets will be sold at the door.
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H. Rap Brown
Student National Coordinating Committee
Hoch
Kansas University
Brown
Lawrence
KU Black Students Union
Midwest Bsu
Playbell Benjamin and
Heyward Henry
Douglas County tax receipts near normal as deadlines approach
Douglas County reports about 1.055 million dollars in personal and real estate taxes paid to the county treasurer by December. The Dec. 20 deadline for the first half of taxes looms with penalties for late real estate and personal property payments. The total abstract this year is about 10.65 million with typical 98 percent collection. payments may be mailed or made in person at the courthouse.
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Douglas County
Bessie Bennett
Bennett
Auto Mishap Leaves Two Cars Damaged in Lawrence
Robert D. Conley 19 of 922 Ward struck Joyce A. Stemmerman 29 of 2683 Moundview Dr on Iowa at Peterson Rd at 4 52 p m Wednesday. Stemmerman stopped for a left turn. damage estimated 200 to 600. Five other Wednesday accidents caused only minor damage.
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Robert D. Conley
Ward
Joyce A. Stemmerman
Moundview Dr
Iowa
Peterson Rd
Lawrence
Stemmerman
Conley
Kansas Traffic Deaths Log Shows December 1969 Figures
Kansas traffic death log notes 24 hours to 9 am Thursday shows 0 deaths for December 1969, with 701 for the year and 599 for the comparable 1968 period. The report covers Topeka and statewide figures.
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Topeka
Kansas
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