Lodge Calls Mutual Withdrawal of Forces from Vietnam
Paris AP reports U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge urged mutual withdrawal of all foreign troops from South Vietnam and the immediate restoration of a DMZ as a first peace step. He outlined a DMZ free of forces and equipment, verifiable by international inspection, alongside reunification through popular will.
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Paris
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Vietnam
Dmz
North
Lot
Butane Blast Injures 19 in Laurel Mississippi
Eighteen tank cars loaded with butane gas exploded in a four block area near Laurel’s business district. At least 19 people were injured and dozens of homes destroyed. One car was blown two blocks by the blast. Police feared eight more cars could ignite. Each car carried 30,000 gallons of gas. Residents in Jackson could see the fiery sky. Windows shattered within a four mile radius and phone service disrupted.
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Laurel
Miss
Mississippi
Jackson
Plane forced to land in rail yard near Kansas City
A Cessna 150 piloted by Bill Brady a Kansas University student left Lawrence Airport shortly after noon Friday but ran out of gas and was forced to land in a North Kansas City railroad yard. Both the pilot and the lone passenger were uninjured.
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Bill Brady
Kansas University
Lawrence
Kansas City
Budget Message Delays Stall 1969 Legislature
House Speaker Calvin Strowig says budget message from Gov Docking due February 4 will shape legislative priorities. Committees seek specifics as 119 bills already filed, covering criminal law overhaul, highway policy, property taxes, and fair housing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Calvin Strowig
Abilene
Strowig
Governor’s Tax Reform Committee
Joint Legislative Tax Study Committee
Citizen’s Committee
Docking
House
Senate
Gov. Docking
State and Local Affairs Committee
TV Cartoons Now Funniest Change Sat Morning Lineup
New York AP reports public pressure reshapes children's TV as networks drop monster and superhero cartoons. NBC trimmed Birdman and Super President for Bananc Splits style fare. CBS shifted to animated comedies like Archie. ABC keeps Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four while adding cartoon comedies and Bandstand style Happening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bud Grant
NBC
Ed Vane
ABC
CBS
Paratroop Bloc Moves to Bar Enemies Near Saigon
U S paratroopers reassigned from Saigon perimeter to block Viet Cong forces along the Song Be corridor 60 miles north. About 800 troops from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Airborne Division, joined along with two sapper battalions in the area threatening Long Binh and Bien Hoa. U S commanders warned the Viet Cong may pivot to strike other outlying bases as new helicopter losses mount. In Tay Ninh, the 1st Air Cavalry Division encountered enemy forces 55 miles northwest of Saigon during a sweep.
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Saigon
U.S
2Nd Airborne
Song Be
Cambodia
South Vietnam
U.S. Army
Long Binh
Bien Hoa
Tay Ninh
Binh Long
Phuoc Long
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Slight warming trend forecast for weekend remains on tap
The weather bureau predicts a slight warm up this weekend with lower Sunday temperatures. Partly cloudy skies and a light northeast wind are expected, with tonight’s low around 15 degrees. Rain or snow chances are low tonight but rise to about five percent Sunday. Overnight lows were three degrees at KU station and zero on the Journal-World thermometer.
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Weather Bureau
Kansas University
Journal-World
Arctic cold grips nation as rains soak Nevada California
An Arctic air mass covers areas east of the Rockies with subzero temps across the northern Rockies and northern plains. Havre Montana records 45 below zero as heavy rains soak California with Paso Robles 1.35 inches and Point Mugu 1.10 inches while Santa Barbara sees 1.05 inches.
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Rocky Mountains
Nevada
California
Rockies
Plains
Midwest
Montana
Havre
Mont
Paso Robles
Winn Supports Vote Proposal in Presidential Election Years
Rep. Larry Winn Jr. co sponsors a bill to protect voting rights for people moving between states in election years. The measure allows a voter who relocates after Sept 1 to vote in person or by absentee ballot in their prior state.
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Washington
Larry Winn Jr
R-Kan
Winn
Kansas
United States
Liquor by the drink bill eyed in Kansas 1970 vote
State Senator Reynolds Shultz told over 200 at an Eggs and Issues breakfast in Lawrence that liquor by the drink has strong legislative and eventual statewide referendum support. He and Reps Vogel Kay discussed other bills including criminal code revisions and open housing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds Shultz
Lawrence
John Vogel
Morris Kay
Shultz
Kansas
Senate
Kay
Vogel
iGov
Robert Docking
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Reynolds Schultz
Chamber of Commerce
Journal- World Photo
Hutchinson Seaman Apprentice Dennis B. Green Killed in Action
In the Vietnam war casualty report Seaman Apprentice Dennis B. Green, son of Mr and Mrs Guy W Green of Hutchinson, was moved from missing to killed in action on Friday.
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Washington (Ap
Dennis B. Green
Guy W. Green
Hutchinson
1967 County Assessment Ratios in Douglas and Nearby Cities
State report shows County 7th with 21 percent average assessment of real estate, urban 23 percent, rural 17 percent. Lawrence ranked 9th in 1967, with a 93.08 mill levy, Coffeyville led with 28 percent and 101.14 mills, Overland Park 168.23 and Wyandotte 11 with 164.77.
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Douglas County
Kansas
Ope
Die Ter
Lawrence
Coffeyville
Johnson and Wyandotte
Douglas
Johnson County
Overland Park
Wyandotte County
Kansas City
Kansas Oy
Montgomery
Sedgwick
Wichita
Bourbon
Fort Scott
Atchison
Riley
Manhattan
Lyon
Emporia
Leavenworth
Labette
Parsons
Reno
Hutchinson
Geary
Junction City
Shawnee
Topeka
Cherokee
Pittsburg
Johnson
Wyandotte
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Tical
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Hanoi
NLF
Poli
Americans
Nixon
Charles Ise Memorial Animal Shelter
E. 19Th St
Journal-World Photo
Pendent
Raney Drugs
By Gary Burge
Kansan
By Daryl Hall
Parsons and
Levies
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