Johnson Keeps New Year Pace With Four Parties
President Johnson marked New Year by visiting four Austin parties before returning to the LBJ Ranch. In Philadelphia, the Mum mers parade was postponed due to weather and threats of demonstrations, with police and civil groups coordinating to maintain nonviolent conduct.
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Frances Lewine
Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Austin
Lady Bird
LBJ
Texas
Capital
University of Texas
Lynda Bird
Frank Irwin
Texas Democratic Party
Driskill Hotel
White House
Headliners Club
Philadelphia
Louis Smith
Northeast
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Brooklyn
Committee For Freedom Now
Chester
Smith
Philadelphia Human Relations Commission
Albert J. Trimmer
Howard Leary
Leary
Monks killed in Turkish Cypriot attack on Cypriot monastery
The president palace reported three Greek Cypriot monks were killed and two wounded when Turkish Cypriots attacked the Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin Mary of Galacto forousa between Nicosia and Limassol. One monk was hospitalized with gunshot wounds as Britain rushes 700 more troops to Cyprus amid growing tensions.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
Makarios
Greece
Turkey
Britain
Cyprus
Nicosia
Soviet Union
United Nations
Pavel Yermoshin
U.N. Security Council
New York
London
British Defense Ministry
Johnson vows continued aid in Vietnam and public works clash
Johnson promises ongoing American support and materiel to South Vietnam as victory effort continues while predicting greater local capability to drive out the enemy. He lauds Minh reforms and cites McNamara’s reports on planned operations. In other news, a $4.4 billion public works bill passes with one unconstitutional provision noted. A pocket veto blocks a wood product import stamping bill.
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Johnson
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
U. S
McNamara
Minh
Panama Canal Co
Executive Branch
Canada
Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
United States Customs
Inter scholastic music meet stars two rising young musicians
Jim, an honor student from LHS, plans two summer sessions and two night courses at Cameron College to finish high school this spring and pursue music in college after taking first in state last year in flute and piccolo. Herbie, promoted to the senior band, plays trumpet drums and began lessons at age two with a summer scholarship offer later. travel and band performances excite the trio. The Southern family attends football half time shows at many games, enjoying the pageantry.
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Pueblo
Colo
Jim
Cameron College
LHS
Herbie
Eisenhower
Don Phillips
Kansas State College
Mrs. Southern
Lawton
Traffic Deaths Mount To 12
Traffic fatalities in the New Year holiday period rose above normal with 12 deaths since Tuesday 12:01 a.m. local time as heavy snow affected the South. The period ends at midnight tonight and officials expect a record 1963 toll possibly surpassing 40,900.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Death leads to Norman crash report
Officers said Davis, who was taken to Memorial hospital, began a left turn into a driveway when the collision occurred. A Norman report noted a 10-year-old Lawton girl hospitalized for possible head and internal injuries from a car truck crash on SH 9 near Norman. Injured were Karen Sue Thom as, 36, and Thomas, 41, with lacerations and an ankle injury. Peggy Ann, 14, suffered back lacerations. The Thomas car, eastbound on SH 9, collided with a truck driven onto the highway from a private drive by James Virgil Crisp, 34, who was not injured.
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Marvin Russell
S. 45Th Place
Davis
Memorial Hospital
Norman
Lawton
SH 9
Karen Sue Thomas
Glen
Norma Jean Thomas
Peggy Ann
Thomas
James Virgil Crisp
Auto Piccolo Thefts Solved
Two Lawton boys aged 15 and 16 admitted stealing three autos Sunday night and were questioned about vending rack thefts at a local hospital. A 17 year old eastside youth was arrested for a piccolo theft from Leister Music Co. and a 19 year old northwest Lawton youth was questioned in a cafe burglary. The Leister piccolo was found in a pawn shop and the mother made restitution.
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Lawton
Carl Morrow
J. B. Langford
Eastside
Leister Music Co
Northwest Lawton
Little Mexico Cafe
Piccolo
Leisters
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LBJ Ranch
Dallas
University of Texas and
Navy
RCA
Cache Road
Wem al
Victor
Dial
T. D. Nicklas and
W. F. Parrish, Jr
Oklahoma
Lawton Glass and Mirror Co
Cache Road Square
Harold Sturgess
D Ave
Carol Brent
Brent
Cape Cod
American Viscose Corp
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