Christmas Reflections and Local Holiday News
A Christmas meditation notes how the season blends reverence with gift giving while urging peace. The paper shares reader letters, a Viet Nam serviceman’s message, a citizen subscription idea, a sandborn star on a water tower, and Indiana traffic safety data linking holiday deaths to driving behavior across five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Shake
Sandborn
John Hancock
Floyd A. Kline
Indiana Office of Traffic Safety
Indiana
World Hopes and Peace Theme Shapes Christmas News
United Press International reports Christmas preparations worldwide with Peace efforts in Vietnam and Bethlehem crowds. Santa plans surprise visits to needy children while families across the United States prepare for last minute shopping and charity.
Justice Department to Rule on Deferments
Senator Hart asks Attorney General Katzenbach to decide on the legality of canceling draft deferments for student demonstrators. The move follows the sit in at the Ann Arbor Draft Board offices Oct. 15 and Aligns with Gen. Hershey who defends the policy as essential to the draft.
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Washington
UPI
Selective Service System
Justice Department
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Nicholas Deb. Katsenbach
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
University of Michigan
U.S
Viet Nam
Ann Arbor
Draft Board
Gen. Hershey
Hart
Katzenbach
Vietnam Soldier Thanks Home Folks For Treasured Mail
Sgt Levon Holland of Co B 1st Supply and Transport Bn thanks Linton and surrounding communities for cards and letters from home. He praises service members for their work in Vietnam, criticizes protests, and wishes readers a Merry Christmas and a prospering new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USA
Co. B_ 1st Supply and Transport Bn
Marches Planned at Natchez and Fayette in Black Christmas Boycott
Natchez Mississippi and Fayette prepare for planned marches to dramatize a civil rights boycott. Charles Evers of the NAACP predicts about 2000 demonstrators as state troopers stand by after a belligerent picket clash. Evers vows to resume civil rights action if officers accused of beating demonstrators are not fired.
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Natchez
Miss
UPI
Fayette
Charles Evers
Mississippi
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Evers
Jefferson County
FCC orders AT&T to provide rate data by April 4
The FCC, in a 5-1 vote, initiates the first full scale probe of AT&T rates and operations. Public hearings will likely occur next spring with potential rate changes for Bell System services. Three commissioners will preside. Loevinger dissented, citing unfair process.
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Washington
UPI
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Federal Communications Commission
Bell System
FCC
At&t
Rosel H. Hyde
Robert T. Bartley
Kenneth A. Cox
Lee Loevinger
Justice Department
Antitrust Division
Loevinger
Congress
Night Before Christmas in LBJ Land
A humorous verse pretends Santa rides a Senate sleigh with names of lawmakers. It imagines Congress delivering equal rights, tax cuts, and Medicare, with lines invoking Mansfield Dirksen Fulbright and others, ending with a Christmas dash.
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Lbj
Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Mansfield
Dirksen
Fulbright and Fong
McCormack
Johnson Family Hosts Christmas Caroling in Johnson City
In Johnson City Texas President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife shared a porch caroling moment with about 100 locals from Baptist Methodist and Christian churches. The first family greeted singers and passed out candy to youngsters while Lynda Bird and Luci joined the carolers. In Saigon 30 hour Christmas truce begins with U S and South Vietnamese troops observing. Western forces report Viet Cong killed in several clashes as truce holds watchfully.
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Bethlehem
Jesus
Saigon
Johnson City
Tex
UPI
Johnson
Carl Taylor
First Methodist Church
Carlyn Taylor
Carlyn
Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Radio
da Nang Air Base
United States
da Nang
Vung Tau
U.S. Army Air Mobile Companies
Quang Nam
Quang Tri City
Qui Nhon
1St Air Cavalry
Phu Cat
Mekong
Yule Decorations Winners Announced in Local Contest
More than forty entries took part in the Christmas lighting contest judged Thursday night by Linton Jaycees. Awards were given in large small and nativity categories to homes and public buildings with several businesses earning top places.
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Linton Jaycees
John Corbin
Fifth St. Northwest
Joe Poe
Hwy
Lester LaDuke
A.M. Risher
North Main
John Wilson
Robert Bradford
Owen Fulford
Price Road
Bill Poe
Northwest
Butler Rhodenback
Edith Turley
First
Glenburn
Freeman- Greene County Hospital
Guy Richards
Insurance Exchange
Home Loan
Citizen's Bank
Coudret Accepts Editor Post at Brazil Daily Times
James L. Coudret, long serving managing editor of the Linton Daily Citizen since January 23, 1963, will assume duties as editor of the Brazil Indiana Daily Times on December 27. He will relocate his family after housing is arranged and has been active in Kiwanis and local civic work. Ann Toney, longtime society editor, will become news editor and has earned Woman of the Year honors for 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Coudret
Linton Daily Citizen
Brazil
Indiana
Daily Times
Linton
Coudret
Linton Kiwanis Club
Linton Aeronautics Commission
Salvation Army Board
Ann Toney
Borman Set For Gary Celebration
Frank Borman, the record shattering astronaut born in Gary Indiana, will be guest of honor January 14 in Gary with plans for his wife to accompany him. Mayor A Martin Katz announced the event and said NASA details were not yet finalized. The city of about 180 000 hosts the gala.
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Gary, Ind
UPI
America
Frank Borman
Lake County
A. Martin Katz
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Borman
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