Portland Braces as Windstorm Threatens Flood-Stricken City
Portland faces new danger from a predicted windstorm up to 45 mph as the Willamette River recedes from flood levels. Emergency dikes hold while evacuees number over 1,200 in North Portland amid widespread damage and ongoing rescue efforts by 48 helicopters.
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Portland
Ore
Willamette River
Harbor Patrol
California
Hardhit
Humboldt County
Willamette
Oregon
Mark Hatfield
Columbia River
Army
Sierra
Nevada-California
Washington State
Spokane
Idaho
Portneuf
Weather Bureau
Boise
Stefanija Rukas
Snake River
Idaho- Oregon
Reno
Truckee
Vista
Weather Outlook For Northeast Kansas Cold With Sunday Rise
Clear and cold through this afternoon and tonight with northerly winds 5 to 15 mph. Highs in the upper 20s today, lows 10 to 15, highs in the 30s Sunday. Temperature readings and historical notes follow, including yesterday’s high 29 and record highs and lows on this date.
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Kansas
Open Bowling Sat and Sun Hill crust Bowl Adv
Open bowling event scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at Hillcrest Bowl features casual play and time slots for league and nonleague bowlers. Organizers invite all ages and offer hourly practice lanes and beginner clinics throughout the weekend.
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Open Bowling
Sat
Sun
Hillcrast Bowl
Adv
Many Play Roles In Spreading Yule Joy
A roundup of Christmas goodwill across people and places. Rabbi Philip H. Weinberg filled in as Reno police chief for Christmas and urged rabbis to set an example of service. In Hartford 80 Jewish volunteers covered hospital duties, freeing Christian workers. A Louisville couple celebrate 70 years of marriage with family plans. A Long Beach baby named Christy Carole joins Christmas Day arrivals. Louis Armstrong’s wife Lucile lights up Tokyo with a Christmas tree for his hotel room.
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Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong
Tokyo
Noel
South
Viet Nam
Philip H. Weinberg
Reno, New
Elmer Briscoe
Weinberg
Hartford
Conn
James W. Thompson
Dele
Louisville
Thompsons
Mrs. Thompson
Michael Noel
Long Beach
Calif
Christy Carole
Louis
Satchmo) Armstrong
Lucile
Toyko
Armstrong
Boy speaks at Beatrice State Home after illness
Nebraska mother recalls 1964 Christmas when her 14 year old son Douglas began to speak after months of silence following tractor accident injuries. Doctors credited loving care at Beatrice State Home and patient staff efforts for the breakthrough.
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Beatrice
John Stewart
Douglas
Mrs. Stewart
Beatrice State Home
H.M. Hepperlin
Dr. Hepperlin
Hazel Gaines
Clear Skies Due Here for Sunday
A white Christmas failed to materialize for the Lawrence area Friday but icy glaze made driving conditions hazardous. Temperatures dropped near Arctic levels with no additional precipitation expected and roads generally ice free. Forecast calls for clear skies and cold weather with northerly winds 5 to 15 mph, high in the upper 20s, low tonight 10 to 15, high Sunday in the 30s. Christmas highs reached 29 with a low of 18 and overnight low 8 earlier today.
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Lawrence
U. S
Topeka
Buddhists Resume Ouster Drive in South Vietnam Crisis
Viet Buddhists announce plans to resume efforts to oust Premier Tran Van Huong after the High National Council purge. The move comes amid martial law extensions in Saigon and heightened U.S. security measures following the Christmas Eve bombing that killed two Americans.
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South Viet Nam
High National Council
Tran van Huong
Thien
U.S
U.S. Navy
Brink Hotel
James R. Hagen
Oklahoma City
Okla
David M. Agnew
Winter Park
Fla
Young Turks
United States
Engineers Chosen To Begin Surveys On Wakarusa Flood District
An engineering firm will start surveys in the Wakarusa Watershed under a Soil Conservation Service contract to produce four foot contour maps for 32 proposed flood detention reservoirs. Surveys cover Coal Creek and Washington Creek areas with completion targeted for next June. The district spans parts of Wabaunsee Osage Shawnee and Douglas Counties and is the 35th watershed organized in Kansas.
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Wakarusa
Soil Conservation Service
Coal Creek
Washington Creek
Wabaunsee
Osage
Shawnee
Douglas Counties
Kansas
Douglas County
Agriculture Department
SCS
Ohio boys chase fugitive through night in deadly game
In Painesville Ohio a group of about a dozen youths chased Alfred Oponowicz a fugitive once shot at police and sought by authorities for counterfeiting and bank robbery. The chase ended with his capture after a neighbor alerted police. The boys described the pursuit as dangerous yet exciting and would do it again if bored.
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Painesville
Ohio
FBI
Alfred Oponowicz
Arthur Bryant
John Peacock
Opanowicz
Law Offi
Cers
Peacock
Bryant
Oponowicz
Portland Christmas Flood Feels Like A Nightmare Eve
An eyewitness account from Portland on Christmas Eve describes rising Willamette River waters flooding homes and streets. evacuees scramble for essentials while Civil Defense teams reinforce dikes and neighbors aid each other amid fear of losing houses and cherished memories.
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J. W. Burris
Journal-World Circulation Department
Portland
Ore
Conrad Schmick
Phil Ringle Jr
Ringies
Willamette River
Burris
Salem
The
Journal- World
Laos Air Strikes Begin Against Viet Nam Routes
Laotian deputy premier Gen. Phoumi Nosavan told South Vietnamese officials during a visit that Laotian air strikes against Communist supply routes to South Viet Nam have begun. Sources say Laotian planes are conducting bombing flights over the Ho Chi Minh trail through southern Laos from North Vietnam.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Phoumi Nosavan
Phoumi
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
VietnNam
One Accident Reported in Douglas County During Christmas Holiday
Douglas County logged a single traffic accident since the Christmas period began at 6 p.m. Thursday. Curtis White, 42, of 941 Pa. St. hit Alice Gately’s car at 16th and Mass St. White had a facial cut but refused treatment. both vehicles sustained about 700 dollars in damage.
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Douglas County
16Th
Mass, St
Curtis White
Alice Gately
Mass
St. White
Rex Johnson
Asst
Jim Collins
KU Cage Game on Air in Big Eight Tournament
Kansas University basketball faces Iowa State in the Big Eight Tournament. The 9 30 p m game will be broadcast by WREN WIBW WDAF and the KU Sports Network.
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Kansas University
Iowa State
WREN
WIBW
WDAF
Buffalo herd near Lawrence numbers ten after calf births
The Carbaugh family on a 433 acre farm east and south of the Lawrence Turnpike service area hosts a herd of ten buffalo, down from a peak of sixty. Calves born in October bring hope for two more by May, as the animals graze with cattle along the wooded pike corridors near mile 26.
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Don Carbaugh
Lawrence
Linwood
Carbaugh
Hallmark Cards
Kansas Turnpike
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