War and Tension Mar Annual Christmas Observance
The Christmas season opens amid conflicts in Viet Nam India Pakistan and Rhodesia with a Christmas truce in Viet Nam and calls for peace from Pope Paul VI. Cardials Spellman visits troops in Viet Nam as bombings and unrest persist abroad while Bethlehem and West Berlin host festive observances.
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Viet Nam
United States
U.S
India
Pakistan
Kashmir
China
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Africa
Britain
Rhodesia
Pope Paul VI
Francis Cardinal Spellman
U.S. Army
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
New Zealand
Holy Land
Bethlehem
Christ
Berlin
West
Life term for murder of Kansas City steno grapher
A 21 year old TV repairman, Thomas Offutt, pleaded guilty to strangling Linda Diane Trickett, 19, a Kansas City Kansas stenographer. Judge Harry G. Miller sentenced him to life in Wyandotte County District Court. Trickett’s body was found September 13 in her apartment. Offutt was arrested October 8 in Tampa, Florida. He claimed intoxication and resistance by the victim. Trickett worked for the Missouri Division of Employment Security.
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Kansas City
Kan
Harry G. Miller
Thomas Leland Offutt
Wyandotte County
Linda Diane Trickett
Offutt
FBI
Tampa
Fla
Miss Trickett
Bruins Need Three Goaltenders For Early Season
During the first month of the hockey season the Boston Bruins require three goaltenders, Ed Johnston, Gerry Cheevers, and Bernie Parent, to cover the squad.
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Boston Bruins
Ed Johnston
Gerry Cheevers
Bernie Parent
Little Guy Wonders What Counts This Christmas
James Marlow analyzes the anxious mood of the average worker as Christmas approaches. He notes growing wealth gaps with 371 millionaires in the county and 25 million in households under $3,000 yearly, and 45 million under $20 weekly. The uneasy contrast—personal prosperity versus universal sufficiency—drives the reflection on what is enough.
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Asia
Africa
Latin America
Stormy Skies Sweep West With Snow and Flooding
A major winter storm brought heavy snow and freezing rain across the West and Great Plains, with blizzard conditions in Oklahoma and Kansas. Snow covered the Rockies and Midwest. floods swelled rivers in Arizona. temperatures plunged below zero in several states.
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Rockies
Midwest
Oklahoma
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Nevada
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma-Texas
New Mexico
Kansas
Nebraska
Guymon
Okla
Cimarron County
Mississippi Valley
Arizona
Flagstaff
Wyoming
Colorado
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Kilvin
Miss Gloria Blevins Home For Holidays In Eudora
Emporia State Teachers College student Gloria Blevins arrived home Friday evening to spend the holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Blevins. Methodist night circle met Monday evening for a Christmas dinner with Mrs. Kermit Broers assisting. Three F. S. and adults will meet Thursday evening at the Methodist Church to go Christmas.
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Mary Beem
Eudora
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Baptist Church
Francis McConkey
Donna Burkhardt
Carolyn Dodson
Phyllis Reeves
Violet Gray
Jackie Hall
Harold Massey
Nineteen Hundred and New Club
Lawrence
Oscar Westerhouse
Edgar
Jerry Harris
Alf Oleson
Kenneth von Achen
Charles Durr
Kansas
Ray Woodead
Carol
Overland Park
Gloria Blevins
Emporia State Teachers College
George Blevins
Methodist Night Circle
Carrol Gerstenberger
Kermit Broers
F. S
Hope Troupe Arrives in Saigon for Christmas Tour
Bob Hope and a 70 member group including Les Brown's band reach Saigon to entertain American troops in combat zones. Hope, 63, injured his left ankle in Thailand but jokes about sleeping on top of the bed for safety. The troupe plans a TV show and will perform for servicemen with the schedule kept secret for security.
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Formers
Saigon
Thailand
South Viet Nam
Bob Hope
Hope
Les Brown
U.S
Truck Crash Kills One in Independence Missouri
A pickup truck crashed into a milk truck killing 22 year old C G Humphrey of Independence. The milk truck was driven by William Waibel Jr 28 of Prairie Village Kansas a suburb of Kansas City.
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Independence
C. G. Humphrey
Humphrey
William Waibel Jr
Prairie Village
Kan
Kansas City
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