Christmas stamps and retailing wisdom from a bygone era
A fragmented column covers the Post Office Department issuing a religious Christmas postage stamp, debates retailing skill and mass merchandising, and quotes Sen Mark Hatfield. It also discusses Pan American World Airways Rest and Rehabilitation airlift for Vietnam troops, noting its morale impact and fleet details.
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Post Office
Jesus Christ
Pan American World Airways
Ve Nam
Tokyo
Hawaii
Viet Nam
Training Bill Advances for Mandatory Law Officer Training
A special committee led by State Police Supt. Robert O Neal tentatively approved a bill to require mandatory training for all law enforcement officers paid with public funds and to establish a state police academy. Training costs would be state funded, with existing programs allowed to continue if meeting new standards. The bill also envisions an advisory council and opens the academy to non public funded officers on a cost basis. The panel includes FBI and various state city county officers and town marshals.
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Indianapolis
API
Robert O'Neal
Evansville
Fort Wayne
South Bend
Gary
FBI
Soviets Launch Two Unmanned Space Probes
Moscow dispatch reports the Soviet Union launched Luna 13 and Cosmos No. 137, both unmanned probes. Luna 13 lifted at 1:17 p.m. Moscow time, carrying an automatic station to relay data to Earth after the Luna 12 launch last October.
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UPI
Soviet Union
Tass
Rusia
Pledges For Mental Health Unit Grow In Vincennes
Kenneth Kensler, chairman of the pledges campaign for the Good Samaritan Hospital mental health unit in Vincennes, announced the fund has reached $106,897 of $125,090. Post Office employees in Vincennes pledged $1,168.
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Kenneth Kensler
Pedges Camagn
Good Samaritan Hospital
Vincennes
U.S. Post Office
Classified Ad Deadline for Monday Edition
All classified advertisements to appear in the Monday December 26 Daily Citizen must be submitted to the office by 4 p.m. Friday December 24. The notice stresses the final posting time and day for the issue.
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Daily Citizen
Opposition to Repeal of Death Penalty Grows in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS UPI opposition from police prosecutors and other law officials to repealing the death penalty grows as a Greensburg officer is killed. The article notes political maneuvering by Gov Branigin and lawmakers over capital punishment and surplus funds for local governments amid broader legislative battles.
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Indianapolis
UPI
General Assembly
William R. Rayner
Greensburg
William Keiser
Branigin
American Gets Siberian Sentence for Statue Theft
In Leningrad the 25 year old American Buel Ray Wortham received a three year term for stealing a 45 pound bear statue from a hotel plaza and a concurrent three year term for selling dollars for rubles on the black market. His companion Craddock M. Gilmour Jr. was fined $1,111 for involved money speculation. Wortham plans to appeal to the Soviet Supreme Court.
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Leningrad
U.S.S.R
UPI
Siberian
Russia
Buel Ray Wortham
North Lathe Rock
Ark
Wortham
Soviet Supreme Court
Craddock M. Gilmour Jr
Salt Lake City
Indiana University Wins $3.8 Million Science Grant
Washington awards Indiana University 3.8 million dollars for the development of physics and chemistry under the National Science Development Agency. Sen. Vance Hartke announced the grant on Tuesday.
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Indiana University
Washington
UPI
National Science Development Agency
Vance Hartke
D-md
Indiana proposed tax relief in surplus plan
Indiana legislators move to allocate up to 100 million for property tax relief amid a projected 137.8 million surplus this year and 232.2 million by 1969. Leaders debate timing for 1967 and 1968 tax reductions while proposing 2 to 20 percent relief, with Marion County facing the highest cuts. In Vietnam, Marines repulse two Communist machinegun assaults near Hue and Da Nang as B 52s pound DMZ spaces. casualties rise on both sides.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Indiana
Indiana Budget Committee
Branigin
Senate
Jack Mankin
D-Terre Haute
Richard Bodine
D. Mishawaka
House
Mankin
Otis Bowen
Bremen
Budget Committee
Bodine
Marion County
Starke
John Hatchett
Indiana Department of Administration
Saigon
Highway Death Toll Rises in Indiana in 1966
Two deaths push Indiana 1966 traffic toll to at least 1,499. John B. Akers, 19, of rural Greenwood, died in a Shelbyville hospital from injuries after his car struck a bridge abutment on Interstate 74 east of Shelbyville. He was the 20th fatality in Shelby County this year. An elderly South Bend area man died near his hometown in the same morning.
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United Press International
Indiana
John B. Akers
Greenwood
Shelbyville
Interstate 74
Akers
Shelby County
South Bend
Permanent Closing Of School Ordered For New Lebanon Element
The Southwest School District board votes to abandon New Lebanon Elementary at end of the year due to infeasible renovation. State Fire Marshal and insurer deem the building unfit. 174 students to be reassigned within the district with possible transfers to Graysville or Carlisle based on space and transport needs.
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Southwest
Sullivan County
Earier
New Lebanon
Wayne Ader
Sil Township
Mercin
Graysvile
Carlisle
Jobless Claims Rise In Indiana Last Week
Indiana unemployment claims climbed about six percent to 17 943 last week. Director Lewis F. Nicolini cited outdoor construction weather in the southern part of the state as the main factor, keeping claims roughly 2 000 below a year ago.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Indiana
Lewis F. Nicolini
Indiana Employment Security Division
Spencer Town Board Moves to Annex West Spencer Area
Spencer Town Board announced annexation plans west of the city between Highway 46 and Hyden Road. The board instructed the city attorney to draft legal work and a new Spencer Owen Community School will be built in the annexation zone. Prospect Park undeveloped area is included and residents will receive fire police street lighting and water hydrants.
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Highway 46
Hyden Road
Spencer Town Board
U N Session Ends Without Vietnam Peace Breakthrough
The 21st General Assembly adjourned after three months with no progress toward a Vietnam ceasefire. Thant urged quiet diplomacy and a Christmas truce extension, while the Soviet Union China and Viet Cong rejected U S peace talks as a fraud. Pazhwak urged adversaries to announce readiness for talks on negotiation terms.
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United Nations
UPI
General Assembly
Vietnam
Thant
U.S
Soviet Union
China
Assembly
Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
Afghanistan
Pazhwak
Arnett Sentenced In Clay City Theft
Jasonville man Lester Thomas Arnett 28 was sentenced to one to five years in Clay Circuit Court Brazil on theft charges for a burglary at Ridley Implement Company offices in Clay City last August. The second degree burglary charge was reduced to theft on his guilty plea. He had been jailed in Brazil since August.
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Jasonville
Clay
Brazil
Clay City
Lester Thomas Arnett
Ridley Implement Company
Arnett
Clay County
Army Contract Awarded for Fort Wayne Crane Production
The Army Department awarded a $1.7 million contract to American Hoist and Derrick Corp of St. Paul Minnesota for Fort Wayne Indiana plant work. The deal calls for production of 160 wheel mounted cranes.
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Washington
API
Army Department
American Hoist and Derrick Corp
St. Paul
Agreement Seen On Publishing of Kennedy Book
An out of court settlement over Mrs. John F. Kennedy’s suit to stop publication of The Death of a President appeared likely after Richard Goodwin spent Tuesday editing disputed passages. Look magazine hopes to serialise the book starting January 10, with negotiations still ongoing but goodwill reported.
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New York
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Look Magazine
Richard N. Goodwin
Kennedy
Goodwin
Cowles Communications Inc
Look
Robert F. Kennedy
Harper & Row
Lighting Contest Judging Time Set
The Linton Civic Garden club reminds entrants that lighting and decorating judging will be conducted Thursday night from 7 to 10 p.m. Jaycees will evaluate entries including homes nativity scenes windows porches downtown displays and public locations. Call Mrs Muri Sulal at 847 4075 to register an entry.
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Linton Civic Garden Club
Linton Jaycees
Wshes
Muri Sulal
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